The contested barony of Teab

[Abu Lafia]

Fellow cartographers,

the last days i was working on a map for a pen-and-paper setting in the world of "The Dark Eye". It depicts the contested barony of Teab on the island of Maraskan, where the exiled Dschunkar Perjin of Mahanobab claims the title of the Baruun Kalurajin "the patient one". The old Baruun is incapable of ruling his lands, due to a trauma, caused by the demons in the north some years ago. So his quarreling children have to take up the fight against the sinister Perjin, who brought bloodthirsty mercenaries to the once peaceful province of Teab to force his claim...

I experimented the first time with a more "artistic" approach. I drew the mountains by hand (mouse) and learned a whole lot about light and shadows etc. In the end they looked a bit "comicesque" to me and i tried to underline this with the tree(s), the font for the labelling and the style of the building icons.

I would love to hear your thoughts and critique on this.