Atlas Map: the World of Helevos

[Robulous]

After my last post I realised I never actually posted this world map of Helevos as finished!

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Helevos is the setting for a collection of stories I've written over the years called The Virid & the Green. They're set in the "Civilised World", consisting of the island continent and surrounding archipelagoes. It is populated with human civilisation and the "green kingdom", the ecology of human-friendly plants and animals which make human life possible. The rest of the world, and much of the wilder regions of the Civilised World, is "virid" - so called because of the noxious plantlife with its sickly green hue. Human history has always been a struggle between the virid and the green.

Helevos is also subject to a cycle of dramatic rise and fall in sea level, over a period of tens of thousands of years, which either swamps coastal civilisations or leaves them stranded inland. The world is currently at the high-water mark, a period of flourishing civilisation following the drowning of successive earlier societies. Earliest of these was the Godmen, a mythic society said to have descended from the stars and created all the wonders of creation.

The world has two Great Powers - Harthera, an early-industrial maritime empire with a powerful navy, and the vast nation of Orror, a theocracy defended by its priest-sorcerors who wield seemingly divine powers, largely benevolent but considered decadent by the aggressively progressive Hartherans.

Based on hand drawn maps, further developed in Fractal Terrains and Photoshop.

See also:
- original WIP thread
- a more historic, Renaissance style map of the world
- more detailed map of Anasthias
- album of all my published Helevos maps