The Twin Empires
Here's something I've been working on here and there for the last month or two. It's not for any particular game, setting, or commission, just for fun. (To be honest, it's what distracted me from finishing my Annual Challenge map.) I picture the land as a magic-fuelled Bronze Age setting, where the mighty inland sea has given rise to two competing empires, whose cultures are probably a Greek/Egyptian/Indian fusion. The Jezerene Theocracy is the 'holy peacekeeper' - the seat of the region's religion, while the Iron Cities were founded by colonists from one empire or the other who broke away and were reinforced by settlers from other lands beyond the deserts and mountains of the south. The Doshai Hordes are of course a Hun/Avar/Mongol type society. In the northern forests are primitive Celtic-like tribes.
Many, many thanks to Abu Lafia. Without his fantastic Customizable Banners, this map would be far poorer.
The mystic symbols are from Obsidian Dawn, and the little dudes on the title banner are from a Dark Souls 2 wallpaper I found online.
The fonts are Six Feet Under and Treasure Map Deadhand, both found on dafont.com
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). Screams RPG to me...again 
I normally like my maps with a bigger scale (more zoomed out, if you will, so that we see more of the world) but this regional map has real charm. I could very well see this as a regional map for a Hundred Kingdoms game in the world of Exalted, for example.
