Vidarheim - The Silent Realm, a post-Ragnarök world, with a new pantheon of gods form

**Larion** · 09-30-2023, 10:46 AM

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Background

I made this map over the course of several months, spending over 100 hours on it. Made in entirely Photoshop. There's a lot of lore and worldbuilding that went into this as well, and I tried to include that in the map itself, within the city descriptions. Also, be sure to view the image at it's full size, 3840 x 3021. There's a lot of little details that are lost when viewing it fully zoomed out. If the website is compressing the full size image, here's a link below to it on my Deviant Art, along with many of my other maps if you'd like to see them as well.

https://www.deviantart.com/stoneward13/gallery

I'd love to know what you think as well, constructive criticism is always welcome.

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Lore

This isn't Asgard, or Midgard. It is none of the old Realms, and yet it is also all of them, torn apart and re-combined in strange ways after the destruction of Ragnarök. Fragments of the old can be found for those who go looking, but there are also new things, new places and new creatures. There is some trace of the Old magic, but there is New magic as well, and the two types rarely play nice with each other.

The few remaining gods live among the mortals, and the new social dynamics are still very fresh and unknown. Are the gods still worthy of worship, when their powers pale in comparison to the gods of old? The Norns/Fates themselves are seemingly gone forever. There are no prophecies to guide this new world, or at least not yet. The gods try to keep it quiet, but they are all constantly searching for any sign of a way to tell the future, like Odin of old.

If you have any lore questions, I have a *lot* and I am more than happy to share! This Reddit post also has a lot of it posted already.

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Inspirations