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Original, imaginative and beautiful.
Three of the greatest compliments I can pay to a map and its maker.
A new WIP pic, at this moment I'm only doing decorations and populating the whole area of the map. Need to do some ships and seamonsters.
Here's done:
- correction to graticule numbering
- the Sealer and Former figures are now done
- some maze texture at the bottom
- a small picture of the origin of the map
Original, imaginative and beautiful.
Three of the greatest compliments I can pay to a map and its maker.
Added some more images to the map: A guy with a hammer (just some random mythology, I don't even *know* yet what it is. But I needed something interesting for the middlemost Moon, and the only suggestion was "it's shattered/fractured", so there you have it, a huge guy with a hammer"), a tree representing summer and winter (the orbit of the the third moon is quite elliptical. its apogee during full moons is in the southern summer, and perigee in the southern winter: thus, it looks larger in the winter than in the summer (because when it's at its perigee, it's in its new moon phase and can't be seen at its smallest)), sea serpent (with flippers -- this is an order of snake-like animals who haven't lost their front limbs like our snakes have. Call them "lamia" or something. There's handed lamia, flippered lamia, legged lamia, and maybe winged lamia, etc. We'll see), and a ship.
I also decided that there's a bit more diversity in Ysi shipcraft than our own had: giant catamaran designs are common. Here's an example I whipped up in Sketchup. Also a temple design I made earlier this week, nothing special, but I've only been learning Sketchup.
That houseboat catamaran looks nice...get me some fine ladies and go sailin in that.
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I was more thinking of a trading ship, not a "house"boat. Do I need to scale the design up even more? :p Though now that I've looked around, I found these sweet Keralan designs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:House_boat_1.JPGOriginally Posted by Ascension
This is such a beautiful map. Your figures are much better now, too; they fit the overall style.
Added a guy with his dogs.
There is a kind of magical profession whose imagery and symbolism stems from the image of a herder, because the magic they use is mainly tied to semi-sentient spirits that the magician controls to do simple tasks, a bit like an animal trainer (there's other kinds that do that same, except they look different, it's a subculture thing).
Anyhow, this is a sky-god or something. Clouds are sheep, the four winds are the herder's dogs, thunder and lightning is his gonne, his whistle the sound of the wind; when the clouds grow old, they turn gray and black, and when they rain down they finally die, shedding their waters on the Earth.
I don't have the power to make these sorts of predictions, but if I did I would predict that when the final version of this gets posted in the finished Maps section, it would earn a Featured scroll.
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Pimping my worldmap here. Still WIP... long way to go, but I'm pretty proud of what I've done so far...
Added the catamaran and... I think I'm done. This map is done.
I like them very much.
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