More than 10 years ago, I had created a setting, started to at least, for a game that I never played (I was so hyped, I created the map and the universe even before i got the book home).
All those ideas have been sitting on a blog ever since, taking internet dust in eternal lack of interest.
Lately i've started a new role-playing writing project and I needed a universe, a setting for the game and since my interest were aligned to this old project, i decided to revive it, at least to recycle stuff.

Back then, I had made an ugly map with hexographer but it was enough to trigger my imagination.

Since then, i've gotten better at map making and drawing in general, and gained a punkish "**** them all" attitude towards my art, killing my impostor syndrome in that action and regaining the pleasure of doing stuff, no matter how good it is, and being proud of it afterwards, however ****ty it might be (and it's never ****ty, it's just "special" at times )

Anyway, i'll post here the developpment of the map concerning "the Fall of the Massilian Empire" (even that empire changed name since then )

The original hexographer map:
Ile_sulfureuse.png

Then the first step, making a more plausible regional map, with a bigger sea (what was i thinking, back then?)


Then making the sea pop out and creating more terrain and geographical data, like realm names etc.


now some color for terrain, and towns and forests


And from there, it's just filling the map, adding colors and details



As you can see, i'm not finished yet.
If you have seen my other works, you'll remark that my style is different. I had never done a map on a "continental" scale and got myself some help from Jared Blando (known in these parts as @theredepic), using his book "How to Draw Fantasy Art and RPG Maps: Step by Step Cartography for Gamers and Fans".
Credit to whom is credit due

When the map's done, i'll post it here... Just need to add some details, like entry to dwarf fortress in the mountain, color in the Barbagne Realm and field/desert/rocklands icons on those terrain colors...