Ormbukten

[Clercon]

So this is another map of a part of my Etrakien world. I was home sick a day this week so I decided make a map of the area around the place called Snake bay (Ormbukten in Swedish). The map is done in Photoshop and this time I even decided to make my own city icons. I must say that I'm quite pleased with them, especially the ones with a city wall (supposed to be a larger city). The style is a development of the style I used for my Armadien map, the goal is to make it look like it is painted. And I think I'm there now or at least very close. I should also mention that the whole map is "painted" on top of ones of Coyotemax's brilliant paper textures. It never would have looked this good without it, thanks a million for it!

Anyway the area is dominated by two countries named Andamar and Nib. I'm thinking of them like Germany during the Hansa age, thats why the city names are in German (for those who know German (I don't) I jut pasted some good names together and made some up. So you might get a laugh here :-) ). The area is named Snake bay because every five years the sea serpents return here to play before they mate. A lot of the trade and business in the area is concentrated around the hunt of the serpents, and the making of armor, arrows etc from their skins and teeth.

Hunting Sea serpents is a very hard and dangerous habit though and every time a lot of the boats participating are sunk. For those who survive the fame and riches are very big.

In the west you also have the Etrakien Empires most eastern city Portella, known as the shining star of knowledge with its vast library. A place to visit for everyone who seeks answers hidden in books.

I hope you like it.