The Spiral Archipelago

[caribbeancasa]

Hello Fellow Cartographers of the World!

I have spent countless hours perusing this site, reading posts and tutorials, and, of course, enjoying the vast collection of maps.

Although this is my first true map, I feel as if this map is as much the communities as it is my own.

For without the amazing generosity of the members of this site, my map would never have been completed.

So, thanks to you all!

I hope you enjoy the map



THE SPIRAL ARCHIPELAGO

This is a map for an upcoming weekly RPG that I will be running this spring. I included a labeled and unlabeled version for your review.

Without boring everyone to tears with the backstory, basically the Spiral Archipelago was formed by a God Machine following the code of the Fibonacci Sequence. It's a steampunk setting in which clockwork guardians rule the archipelago and the various races (human and non-standard fantasy) either live as peacefully as possible under their yoke or chafe against their rule in open rebellion.

Below is a brief except from a clockwork guardian prayer...


]THE AWAKENING

- from the First Guardians Hymnal 'The Spiral Rises', Chapter 3, Verse 7[/I]

And so the God Machine, the Lord of Gears, the One Code, awoke from its electronic slumber and initiated the universe. With a maelstrom of particles, atoms and aether, the multitudinal lines of code sequenced into the Spiral and the heavens above. [reprise: It created all. Its will, instructs our function].

And so the Spiral formed. Golden in its ratio, flawless in its design. In its earth, the minerals of industry. Beneath its water, the oils of lubrication. Betwixt its air, the ether of divine magics. And at its core, the Eternal Gears that turn the Spiral and the heavens above. [reprise: it created all. Its will, instructs our function].

And then the sequences spiraled unto themselves and formed the internal chains and coils of precious life. The frail magnificance of the humans. The salt and silt wisdom of the vodyanoi. The winged-celerity of the corvus. [reprise: it created all. Its will, instructs our function].

And in the end, it created the clockwork guardians of the Golden Spiral. Beings of the purest code. A mirror-image of the creator itself wrought of metal, flesh and gears. A code within the code. Its ethereal will, wrought physical and whole [reprise: it created all. Its will, instructs our function