January/February 2025 Challenge: Nor-Medul revisited

[J.Edward]

I saw this challenge and thought I should try to join, as it's been a long time since the last one.
I haven't worked on much of any personal work in a few years, for a number of reasons, but have lately been wanting to get back into some non-work related stuff.
I've missed the Guild activity, so I'll just enjoy the time i can spend.

I decided to revisit Nor-Medul, which was originally just a quick hand drawn sketch map for a mapvember challenge, if I recall.
I don't think it was originally envisoned as part of the world of Nhyn, but got turned into such. Back then, and even to some degree now, I don't have a full fleshed out version of the world, but I have been slowly working on one.
As I did that I realised that making maps and then fitting them into a world can cause some serious challenges. Nor-Medul was an odd fit, partly because another mapped referred to it, which was the Cragspers map.

I really needed to get a grip on size and scale so this will prove a helpful venture.
Here's the original map for reference.
Nor-Medul by jstevenson.jpg

[J.Edward]

Here's some reference for how it fits to the local region and how I plan to lay it out.

Nor-Medul region.jpg

I probably should have turned off that larger image so you could see the region better, but it's already done, so...
Here's the area I'll focus on this time, plus a second with the grid, scale, and some coasts sketched in.

Nor-Medul region 2025 x01.jpg - - - Nor-Medul region 2025 x02.jpg

The first wip image will come in a bit. I can't recall if I need to label the image something particular. I feel like it needs some wip tag, but I'll have to check for that. I can't recall.

[J.Edward]

Here's where I will probably stop for today. Still just laying things out.

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Nor-Medul region 2025 x03.jpg

[Turambar]

Here's where I will probably stop for today. Still just laying things out.

### Latest WIP ###
Nor-Medul region 2025 x03.jpg

Nice start! Very excited to see how this turns out.

[Kellerica]

Great to see you taking part in a challenge again! Off to a nice start already.

[Diamond]

It's been eons since you were in one of these, J Ed! Thanks for playing!

[The Elderly Cartographer]

I haven't seen you posting in a while. Great to have you join us!

[J.Edward]

Nice start! Very excited to see how this turns out.

Thanks Turambar
As the first comment, I named a river after you, the river Turam, which will be the big one on the right.

Great to see you taking part in a challenge again! Off to a nice start already.

Thanks Kell It is nice to be able to join in again. I've spent a long while being very burnt out, so it's good to even feel like mapping for fun.
I'll try to fit a Kell named location in there.

It's been eons since you were in one of these, J Ed! Thanks for playing!

Yeah, it has been a really long time. Longer too since I've managed to finish one on time as well. So here's hoping I might.
I'm not sure what you should be... a mountain, town, island... we will see.

I haven't seen you posting in a while. Great to have you join us!

It has been a while. Nods. Glad to be part of a challenge again. Thanks Josiah.
We'll get you in here as well, as Elder or a Josiah variant.

Edit - Kell, your homepage link from your profile looks like it isn't working. The one in your signature is though.

[J.Edward]

Here's the current progress.
I'm not entirely sure where this is going to go, but it will be an interesting upgrade to the original map. It definitely fleshes out the are more, which is helpful.

### Latest WIP ###
Nor-Medul region 2025 x05.jpg

[Turambar]

Thanks Turambar
As the first comment, I named a river after you, the river Turam, which will be the big one on the right.

I am honored!

Great progress so far!