Reply With QuoteWell, you should simply get the next Award.
It is amazing.
a Map of the Inner Sea (BIG)
So, after having to upgrade my RAM to be able to work on this map, and still having to wait for ages every time i opened the map or did anything, the Inner Sea map I started a few years ago is finally done.
I had stopped a while ago after flattening the image with no backup by mistake and had to practically start over from scratch, so gave up. Since then I'd made a lot of changes to the topography anyway so it would have been outdated by now anyway!
The map focuses on the main region of my conworld, where more of the atlas maps I've made are located. For a list of all the maps you can check here.
The map is HUGE so i had to reduce the map in size by 50% and divide it into 6 parts to be able to upload it here. As a result they are INCREDIBLY compressed, so for the full size image, check out here
I'm really glad this is done as it was such a slog to get through. Photoshop stopped numbering the layers when i exceeded 3000 text layers so I have no idea how many layers there were before I rasterised them...
To anyone interested, this is a redesign of an old map I did that won the Cartographers choice award, over SEVEN years ago! I feel old now
Inner Sea- top left.jpginner sea - top middle.jpginner sea - top right.jpg
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Last edited by vorropohaiah; 04-20-2020 at 06:32 AM.
Well, you should simply get the next Award.
It is amazing.
ThanksOriginally Posted by Schwarzkreuz
Well, you should simply get the next Award.
It is amazing.hope you're doing well, as it's been a while.
More or less ok, indeed it was a long time. I am now working as a game publisher and its been some interesting years. Your maps still are a blast, Nate. How is the writing come along? And are you actually playing in the world half as much as you map it?
very rarely. I played one short-lived campaign (maybe 3/4 sessions) some years back and that was it. My group has big difficulties meeting and keeping focused on one thing as we are all DMs with big ideas for adventures. some of my patrons DM in the world, but they mostly only use the maps, but its something
If you ever run an online session let me know. Also I doubt there is any publisher existing with a world as great deteailed as yours out there. Maybe Glorantha but the Runequest Maps are inconsistent through the editions. I am tasked to make a coherent version of that. Which would be still less detailed than Elyden.
This is an amazing map, both in sheer size, the detail, the bits of world building, and clear and consistent style of presentation.
Just one question: is crime considered an industry or a resource?
If you're referring to the map key, crime is listed under miscellaneous:
atlas key low-res.jpg
Last edited by vorropohaiah; 04-21-2020 at 02:32 AM.
Definitely agree here. Watching this one unfold over the last two years has been awe inspiring. Seeing the whole map here.... Not sure I have a mind leftWell, you should simply get the next Award.
It is amazing.. Everything here is amazing!
BIG still seems like the understatement of the millenia. I have no idea how you can find the patience for these. Amazing stuff.
