Hi all!

Below you will find the finished Twin Kingdoms map (or for those who like their map titles more elaborate: "A Comprehensive Map of the Kingdoms and Principalities of Aran & Ilan"). Not my first map of this region, but I believe it's the best yet. Took me a beastly amount of time too!

The terrain was created in the form of a hand-drawn DEM file with 16 grey levels, which I then eroded and smoothed down in GeoControl (with innumerable tweaks in Wilbur) to 256 grey levels. This in itself took a tremendous amount of time, but I got the result I wanted so that's something 😁.

All the other work - the gradients and the rivers, the borders and the icons, the labeling and the sidebar - were done in Photoshop with the help of my sturdy little Bamboo tablet.

The last tool I used, and by far the most important, is ... well... you guys! While the map is still far from perfect, it would have been far worse off if I hadn't listened to your constructive critique and suggestions. Far more than any other tool it were those that helped me get to this point - modest as it is. So, a sincere thank you, to every one of you that helped get this map from start to finish.

The text in the sidebar is Dutch-only, but if you're really curious, you can always check out the WIP thread, where I kept the text in English until the one-but-last update.

Nothing more to say I guess, so here it is:

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