The Continent of Vindarten

[buzzgunner]

For some reason, I've always be fascinated by Runequest's Questworld map. In particular, their focal continent of Kanos holds a particularly strong appeal to me. When Questworld was published in 1982, I grabbed a copy, "filed the serial numbers off" (so-to-speak) and started using Kanos as my own D&D campaign continent (renamed to "Vindarten".) I've used it, in parts, ever since.

However, the original maps provided with the official product were little more than black line drawings on a white background and I've always wished that they could have been much, much more. Since I've doing a lot of other mapping for my D&D campaign world (in Photoshop CS4), I decided to take a stab at fleshing out Kanos/Vindarten. Here's my finished result.

Vindarten.jpg

My thanks goes out to Tear for his "Saderan" tutorial. It was instrumental in the creation of my oceans for this map!