WIP- Personal map, detail
As some of you know, i've been working on a huge scale map of a fantasy world for myself. I work on it in spurts, as I'm a professional illustrator, and client work comes first, which means often there's no creative energy left to work on my own stuff.
I'm not sure I've posted this update before, but here is the Kingdom of Gyles. It's a small kingdom, somewhat isolated by difficult terrain surrounding it. This gives it some protection from larger kingdoms, but it's location makes it where trade ships don't often feel a need to call to port when traveling the East/West sea trade routes. So Gyles has never been a prosperous kingdom. It has no major export or wealth. The land is decent for farming and produces plenty for the people of Gyles, but not enough to make it worth any serious Merchants time.
To the west are several mountain ranges, with a large valley between them. Kobolds infest the mountains, and lead raids into the towns of Gyles. Wyverns also are common in the valley, which is why it is named after them. Sometimes kobolds will steal the eggs of the wyverns and raise them as steeds. There is a guild of assassins that also uses wyverns from this area as steeds.
There is rumor of a dragon living in Firedrake peak, but there haven't been any such sightings in over a decade. To east, are the haunted lands of the Ghoulbone hills. Legend has it to be the site of a battle that a battle from ancient history took place. It's also said the land is cursed. Any who dwell too long in the hills, are cursed to become ghouls, scouring the land to find bones of the fallen soldiers to survive on. There seems to be some truth to this, as next to the hills are old barrow mounds so old the carvings on the entrances are long worn away. But there are plenty of stories of ghostly funeral processions about the area.
To the north is a dry barren area, called the Razorrock Wastes. Large sharp jagged rocks create a maze like effect, that is very difficult to travel through. Not to mention that this is the breeding ground for bulettes, or land sharks.
All in all, Gyles is actually a peaceful quite kingdom. They do well for themselves, and other then the raids from Kobolds, people live well with each other. The population consists mostly of humans and halflings, with several gnome communities.
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