Viking Town of Utvikle (commission for Stormbunny Studios)

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Last year Stormbunny Studios, the creator of the Rhune Stormpunk setting (airships and vikings) commissioned me to create a half dozen maps to support their (at the time) Kickstarter. This map is of the town of Utvikle (which is Norweigian for "progress") which represents a village of viking miners who operate as a guild with the mine located north of this map. I also created the interior plan for the Wild Breeze Inn (the largest structure in this town). For this map, I created a rough of the walls and street grid using Xara Designer Pro, then printed that out at 36 x 36 inches, and used that as a "sketch" to place vellum on top and hand-draw all the line work. I digitally scanned the linework then imported back into Xara to create beveled shapes, apply color fills and labels.

Notably, viking towns, especially the more militaristic ones featured square gridded urban layout in the town. So though "modern" was a goal in this map to support this unique setting. That said, square gridded towns are indeed a viking reality.

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