The Land of Rhusagos - My First Fantasy Map

[HolyFlapjacks]

Hello all, I've been ghosting on this forum for at least six months now, and only recently actually decided to make an account. Looking at all of the various maps produced by you, I've been fairly intimidated. But I figured that I might as well try out what you guys do and post it. Hopefully I'll even learn something!

RhusagosPolitical.jpg

[Diamond]

Pretty good map. I like the layout and the names hint at some cool RPG opportunities. Just offhand, I'd say the things that seem suspect to me are:

1) The River Aegis. I feel like it wouldn't run all the way west like that over the top of that inland sea; it'd be much more likely to run right into that sea.
2) The Five Fingers lake/sea. Why no outlet river?
3) That lake between Tyranth and Seposia - same thing.
4) Maris Regimen - same thing.

What you could do is split the River Aegis into two separate river systems - a western one that originates in Maris Regimen and acts as its outgoing river, and an eastern one that winds up in Maris Regimen.

[MistyBeee]

Hi Holy, and welcome to the Guild ! It's a big step to post a first map, so congrats for this

I love your work and it's a nice one for a fresh start. Clean and easy to read, with great colors : really pleasant to see.
Have a look to Diamond's comments (I would add the Twin Lakes on the "no outlet" group ^^) because map making is not only aesthetic, but the combination with geography and other knowlege (and be warned : a river police is lurking around and you don't want to deal with those guys ! ).
The thing you could enhance to make really better maps would be to find a way to draw your elements with smoother lines : your mountains, coastlines and rivers are really aliased for now, which is a bit sad, but easy to do better on your next project

[HolyFlapjacks]

I appreciate the advice guys!

Looking at it now, I do agree that it really wouldn't make a large amount of sense with some of these rivers. I think I'd read somewhere that outlet rivers weren't very common, and kind of avoided them. Although now that I'm actually looking into the subject myself, I have no idea if I'd just misread that or what. I'll be sure to look out for those things next time.
I also messed around with the aliasing today, and completely agree. It definitely looks better when anti-aliased. The reason it was aliased in the first place is because it makes it easier to use the fill function and stuff like that, you don't have to account for faded parts of the lines (this often will screw me up on various projects).

Once again, thanks for all of the kind words and advice

[ChickPea]

Very attractive map, and belated welcome to the Guild!