I think it's hands-down fantastic. I personally like the way you combined the mountain icons with the more 'naturalistic' forests, and I think the fonts look great as is.
The only thing I'm unsure about is the rivers. Maybe make them a little darker overall, and as you said, that under-layer makes the smaller rivers look a bit too dark compared to the larger ones.
** UPDATE **
I tweaked the rivers to make them more visible, added a dark outline to the coasts and reduced the blur on the forest layer's mask. I also experimented with replacing textured forest entirely with Wag's tree brushes.
Thumbs up on the estuaries! Love it.
I think if you go with the tree icons, they need to be smaller.
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
I updated the first post with a new version of the map. In case you're wondering about scale, here's a simple world map with the boundaries of the regional map highlighted.
That's an impressive looking world sir. Kudos!
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Since it's the very first thing that caught my eye I should mention that you might want to move the word "Empire" up above "The Sea of". I was reading it as "the sea of a empire" and saying to myself that's a typo it should be "an" until I realized the word "Argyrian" up top. Otherwise, looks good.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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They're written with different font, color, size and case. Why would you interpret them as one label
Because the human brain does that when things are close together.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps