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Atlas Elyden #31 - Venthir (High-res)

 As always, here's the High-res version of my latest map, exclusively for  patrons pledging $5 or more a month - thanks so much for your support  :)  

Atlas Elyden #31 - Venthir

There's a bit of a longer description to go with this one - it's the full entry from Vol III of the Encyclopaedia Elyden. Also, I was hoping to get this up last week but got busy and was only able to finish it this morning. this won't affect the update for this Wednesday.

You can find an updated key to the map here.

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the White Martyr

The White Martyr

The door was immense. In any other place its sheer expanse would be a thing to test a man’s sanity. The immensity of it, the impossibility of a portal so big, might have been enough to break even the most vehement of minds.

But the man just stood there atop those four-and-ninety stairs, body withered by a journey that no man should have completed, let alone bested.

He had set out at the head of a great army from the distant east, commanding cadres and legions of warriors and eli...

the Sophamyk

One of the stranger forested regions in the world, this area was partially inspired by the the Star Wars planet of Felucia, zombie fungus, Dragon Trees, and extinct Devonian plants...

Encyclopaedia Entries - Vol 1

So here's the first of my weekly updates. As it's the first week of the month I'm going to be sharing some of the more recent additions to the Encyclopaedia Elyden.  Please let me know what you think and let me know if there's any mistakes or typos as these entries are heading straight to the Encyclopaedia at the end of the month :)

SEMPITERNA: one of the 7-first born children of the Demiurge Talantehut. In many N Sammaean myt. Sempiterna escaped the fate of its kin and went...

Encyclopaedia Elyden update (Temuja)

Here are some of the Encyclopaedia entries that I came up with for Temuja (the map I posted last week). These aren’t comprehensive, as many other regions have been fleshed out for some time. These are the things added to this new detailed map as I was making it. Some things are included in the map, and others are generic worldbuilding elements that needed to be included to make other map features make sense (a monastery needs an order of monks, and the monks need a name and characteristic features, for instance). 

Italicised text below...

Atlas Elyden #30 - Temuja (Textless version 2)

you get a bonus textless map this month - it's basically the same map, but with different elevations. After finishing the map I realised that, considering Temuja is meant to be a high-elevation region, it wasn't that high, so I went back and made the basin higher. Still not too high, but better than before. 

I kept the old version of the map so thought I might as well post it here as a bonus for all patrons, to give you a taste of some of the perks that Acolytes get every month :)

Thanks for your support 

Atlas Elyden #30 - Temuja (Textless version 1)

As always, here's the Textless version of my latest map, exclusively for patrons pledging $5 or more a month - thanks so much for your support :)  _____________________________________________________________________________

 So, here I am with map #30 in the atlas Elyden project, and this brings  me full circle to where I started out in the world of Elyden, about 12 -  13 years ago now.

At that point I had only done a small amount  of worldbuilding for my DnD campaigns, fleshing out the immediate region &n...

Atlas Elyden #30 - Temuja, (High-res)

As always, here's the High-res version of my latest map, exclusively for patrons pledging $5 or more a month - thanks so much for your support :) 

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So, here I am with map #30 in the atlas Elyden project, and this brings  me full circle to where I started out in the world of Elyden, about 12 -  13 years ago now.

At that point I had only done a small amount  of worldbuilding for my DnD campaigns, fleshing out the immediate region...

Atlas Elyden #30 - Temuja

So, here I am with map #30 in the atlas Elyden project, and this brings me full circle to where I started out in the world of Elyden, about 12 - 13 years ago now. 

You can find an updated key to the map here.

This is the low-res version available to everyone.  Become a Patron at the Acolyte tier for access to my back catalogue of High-res, PSD and textless map...

What Do You Like Most About This Page?

I want to take the time to thank all my patrons - both those whose been with me for a while now, as well as the new ones. It's great knowing that there are people who like my maps and worldbuilding enough to give me some of their hard-earned money every month, no matter how small the amount - it's very much appreciated!

Now that the Atlas Elyden Inner Sea maps are finished I'll start working on random regions, continuing in the same Atlas Style. I'll be posting a new one of the coming days actually.

These maps will concentr...

Khamid (High-res)

thanks to all my patrons for for sticking it out over the rough new year and thanks to my new Patrons!

As always with new maps, here's the High-res version of my latest map - thanks for the support!

Atlas Elyden #29 - the Independancy of Khamid

So here's the latest map in the Atlas Elyden series. Khamid is one of the first regions I came up with before I  actually started working on the world of Elyden - it's a remnant of an old D&D campaign system I had come up with for 3rd edition (or possibly 3.5) that I imported into Elyden since I hate wasting a good region! I redid the map and recycled the place names and the Cataclysm  (more on this below TL,DR: a HUGE magi...

Full Test of plot generator is live!

I think I'm done with this so far, though I'd like some feedback from you guys :) 

There's currently 40 individual 'scenarios' each with loads of different random options and permutations available, so it should be VERY rare to get the same exact outcome twice in a row. 

I’m looking for small errors like problems with capitalisations and plurals (like plurals for words normally ending in -y becoming -ys rather than -ies). Some things like sex possessives and just gender in general are difficult to do...

Elyden Random plot generator

I've only just received my laptop back from repairs (only €330...) so I've unfortuantely not had much time to work on maps, and it's unlikely, with only 6 days left in January, that I'll get any cartographical work done by the end of the month.

I have been productive though, working on a plot generator for Elyden, including races, animals, and locations specific to the world.

It;s been a bit of a learning curve, with lots of struggling with square brackets within square brackets to get the random outcomes to make sense. In many ...

The Path Travelled - Part 12

12 – the Siege of Zaffre  

Part 11 

The sound of distant thunder echoed across the city. It had been like that for the past week, only Chronicler knew it wasn’t thunder. The ground rumbled beneath his feet and the sounds of distant shouting and screams reached his room upon a dread breeze. 

He rubbed his face in his hands. 

It was late, or early, he couldn’t tell. But it was still night.

Inner Sea Poster Map W.I.P - High-res

I’m sorry. I tried to get this finished and uploaded by the end of the year. I managed neither. I had a few weeks set aside towards the end of the year to get this finished off and posted though I got sick – first toothache then a cold. I slowed down and wasn’t able to get this finished off, which means there was no post for December. And for that I’m sorry.
 

I’ve uploaded what I managed to get done – the Inner Sea poster map with icons done and most of the inset text boxes done too. What’s left are the labels and the r...

WIP - Composite Poster Map of the Inner Sea

I'm working away at full-speed on the composite map of the Inner Sea. I've been busy redoing all the markers and some of the labels (due to resizing  and scaling issues I couldn't use the original labels and markers, so a 1,000+ individual labels and markers had to all be redone from scratch...).

I'm hoping to get the map done by the end of the year and posted as my map for December and am working at full pelt to get it done! 

Once that's done I'd like to get a good version done as a poster for myself and to any patrons who ar...

N'rach - (High-res)

Here I am with a new map - as always, here's the high-res map of my latest region - N'rach, exclusively for patrons - thanks again for your continued support and to my new patrons - welcome!

Thanks :)

A history of Nárthel

A nation in the northern Sammaea, divided from Llachatul by a narrow strip of water that until 3757 RM was known as the Strait of Nárthel. Nárthel, alongside its physical neighbour Lyridia, serves as a division between the Inner sea to the west and the Dark Sea to the east, and the silting of the Strait of Nárthel brought to an end millennia of traffic between the two seas.

The nation was founded in the year -403 RM as a confederacy between the states of Tamesis, Nicath and Enesh, which in -589 RM emerged as separate sta...

Atlas Elyden #27 - the Vassal State of Nárthel

the latest map in the Atlas Elyden is Nárthel. I added a little inset map detailing a very large cave-system that dominates the south-west of the state, though I'm still not 100% sold on the style - it seems a bit jarring next to the rest of the map.

I've finally finished the 12th map in the series showing the region of Jurras.

You can find an updated key to the map here.

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the Vassal State of Nárthel - high-res

Exclusively for my patrons, here's the high-res map of Nárthel.

As always, thanks so much for your continued support :)

a History of Sagittaria

The region now known as Sagittaria was first colonised by Sagittaari people who were fleeing Korachani persecution in 13 RM due to their refusal to bow to the demands of the Archpotentate Malichar who wanted them to forsake their deity, remembered now only as the Asp God, in favour of the new religion that he brought with him from captivity known as the Church of Machine. Led by the Knights-exile, they fled west across the Inner Sea, carrying the monolithic Asp Pillar with them, and settled the land to the north and south of the ...

Atlas Elyden #26 - Sagittaria & Erebeth

I've finally finished the 12th map in the series showing the region of Jurras.

You can find an updated key to the map here.

This is the low-res version available to everyone.  Become a Patron at the Acolyte tier for access to my back catalogue of High-res, PSD and textless maps.

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Sagittaria & Erebeth - (High-res)

Here's the High-res version of my latest map, exclusively for patrons. As always, thanks for your support!

Atlas Elyden #25 - Andiluth and Trakia

Thanks to Theo Jansen for the inspiration on this map :)

You can find an updated key to the map here.

This is the low-res version available to everyone.  Become a Patron at the Acolyte tier for access to my back catalogue of High-res, PSD and ...

Atlas Elyden #25 - andiluth & Trakia, (High-res)

especially for my patrons, here's the high-res version of my latest map.
Thanks for your support :)

Tartak (High-res)

as always, here's the High-res map of Tartak, for patrons only - thanks for your support :)

Atlas Elyden map #24 - the Vassal State of Tartak

You can find an updated key to the map here.

This is the low-res version available to everyone.  Become a Patron at the Acolyte tier for access to my back catalogue of High-res, PSD and textless maps.

This is available to use as per the CC licence on the image itself

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what's your favourite map?

I need your help!

I'm thinking about making prints of some of  my atlas maps and was wondering which of the 23 maps you prefer. Just like your favourite map  to let me know which is your favourite, thanks :)

Please see the numbered maps here 

note: thanks to patreon's annoying constraints (poll limit of 20 options and no hyperlinking in poll options) I've had to leave out 3 maps - i left out the two...