The Dragon's Backbone

[Caenwyr]

Hi all!

With my Faltorn city map finished, it's time I move on to a different part of my fantasy world. And to make sure I don't get bored, I went for a regional map again. Hah! I love this freedom!

This one will depict the most important region in my novel, the mountain ridge between two political power blocks where much of the action will take place. It's called the Dragon's Backbone, for if you look carefully on the larger scale map of the Twin Kingdoms, you should see the contours of a humongous dragon in the distribution of the mountain ridges: its back in the middle, its tail pointed towards the south, its head in the northwest, its claws below that and its wings outstretched throughout the entire eastern half of the subcontinent. Whether or not these are the remains of an actual dragon or just a happy coincidence will remain a mystery - especially for my readers, because everyone in the story has their own idea of course!

I might use this one as the seed of a higher-resolution Twin Kingdoms map if I ever find the time and the motivation - which isn't very likely

work my way outward, eventually piecing the Twin Kingdoms together in this hand-drawn style - map by map. I'm not sure if I'll ever get to that though: large parts of the subcontinent are completely irrelevant for the story, so I probably won't need most of them in this amount of detail

Alright, enough jibber jabber. Time to show you what I got!

dragonsbackbone2.jpg

(don't mind the frame and the title, those are just place fillers for the time being!)

Already done at this point:

• part of the mountains (there's more of them hiding in the white on either side), and
• the entire coastline with some terrain squigglies. Yes - I keep using that silly word!

Still to do:

• so much I don't even dare to write up a list just yet!

So, what do you guys think?