Jörðgarð Map of the Week #294 - Valbjörn's Stead Ruins

[Mark Oliva]

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The 294th Map of the Week is the last from the Jörðgarð Trails adventure "Draug Hunters." Itshows what now can be found in the ruins of the Æsir village of Valbjörn's Stead.

There is new construction in the ruins. It's enclosed in a wooden palisade wall 20 feet/6 meters high that's about 80 or 90 feet/24 to 27 meters long on one side and roughly 70 feet/21 meters wide. The shape is irregular, so these dimensions vary. There are a few wooden watch towers in the wall but they appear to be empty. Reaching upward from inside the wall is a badly deteriorated stone tower with a tile roof that is collapsing slowly. It's 60 feet/18 meters high. There are holes broken into the tower wall and some windows that have no panes.

You can get this map in two versions:

1. The Fractal Mapper (TM) 8 version in FMP format, fully editable (9 MB), from the Jörðgarð website.

2. As a JPG flat map of 3000 x 2250 Pixels (2 MB), available above.

Both versions are released for personal and commercial use under the Open Game License Version 1.0a, which you can read on the Jörðgarð website at:

http://www.vintyri.org/joerdhgardh/

Next week: The Salt Mine Region from the forthcoming adventure "In the Salt Mine"

[Blaidd Drwg]

Nice work! Repped

If I may nitpick a little bit: the cast shadows on the wall don't quite touch the base of it, which makes the wall seem to float. If you did this in photoshop, you can easily tweak this in the drop shadow layer effects dialogue. At the same time, the forest has no cast shadow. Since trees are often a good bit taller than buildings, those shadow should probably be longer than the ones on the walls.