I barely published my map of Tandalorn in the finished section, and I'm back with a new commission. Tentivu is a large continent dominated by a culture all about cardinal directions and the four elements. There's ten countries spread over four kingdoms - one for each element. The geographic extreme points of each kingdom (north, east, south and west) are of special significance.

I'm not sure how much I can post on the backstory, however, so I'm mostly going to limit myself to the cartographic aspect of it.

The client provided me with the following sketch:
WIP Map_2.png

As you can see it's a very rich world, with tons of places and hinting at all sorts of hidden knowledge. The trick is now to turn this into a map that is as awesome as possible. This is my first sketch:

Tentivu_2_small.jpg

So! What do you think?