Errispa

[BlindBlake]

Very nice work so far, can't wait to see the final map!

[Mouse]

This is shaping up so nicely Mouse. I feel lots of REPs in the air...

Thanks Voolf

Very nice work so far, can't wait to see the final map!

Thank you BlindBlake - I will try not to disappoint!

Before I start to really get down to it I have to sort out my entry to the Draw a Battleship Challenge. I also need to seriously consider what I'm going to draw around the margin as the decoration before I make a commitment to a drawing that could take a couple of weeks to complete from start to finish. I've seen some very impressive vintage maps - all of them very different in style. The classical themes seem to incorporate pastoral or biblical scenes, but since this is a map drawn by someone from an alien culture who has never heard of any of our deities, I may just have to illustrate with themes from the Ruzarian belief system, which involves a stream of the dead spiralling up from Ethran to Errispa - their version of heaven. Domar would only be drawing this to pacify the Sayers, however, because he doesn't believe in any of that silly rot. They are, however, the all-powerful guardians of the Ruzarian faith and quite likely to subject him to some kind of inquisition if he depicts anything other than the stories contained in the Holy Scripture. They also pay him for his services as an astronomer.

On the other hand... if he gives it a theme that is overly religious they might just take it away and claim it as their own which would never do, since Domar intends the Book of Errispa (to which this is merely the cover design), to be his grandson's 'ticket to ride' with whoever seems to stand the best chance of making it across the void.