Community Atlas: Du Wylderune (The Wild Lands) region, Malajuri (Complete)
LadieStorm
🖼️ 50 images Surveyor
I started working on the region where Voud Califf can be found on Lorelei's Malajuri. I've created the landmass, by tracing what was already there, based on the screen shot I took of the area. Unfortunately, I had to increase the size of the screenshot, which gave me a LOT of pixilation, so I sort of had to wing it a bit.
I haven't done much... but I have gotten to a good start. Now, Lorelei mentioned that she had planned for this area to be mostly wild lands, so there won't be much in the way of settlements. I do, however, plan to have many natural areas that will be great for exploration... caves, maybe some ancient ruins, perhaps a long abandoned tower, that type of thing.
I do need some input from Lorelei, however. My traceable map is so pixelated, that I can't tell what some of the images are from the main map. Lorelei, what I need to know is this:
1. Just south east of the mountains in the top left corner, those 4 images... are the hills? settlements? I can't make out what they are.
2. The forested area, is it conifer? Deciduous? or Jungle? I do get the impression that further south east, as you get to where I'm putting Voud Califf, those trees are palm trees, yes?
3. That secondary river, does it go all the way to the second lake? I can't tell from what I'm seeing.
Anyway, as soon as I get those questions answered, I can continue on this map. Like I said, not so much at the moment, but still a decent beginning.
I haven't done much... but I have gotten to a good start. Now, Lorelei mentioned that she had planned for this area to be mostly wild lands, so there won't be much in the way of settlements. I do, however, plan to have many natural areas that will be great for exploration... caves, maybe some ancient ruins, perhaps a long abandoned tower, that type of thing.
I do need some input from Lorelei, however. My traceable map is so pixelated, that I can't tell what some of the images are from the main map. Lorelei, what I need to know is this:
1. Just south east of the mountains in the top left corner, those 4 images... are the hills? settlements? I can't make out what they are.
2. The forested area, is it conifer? Deciduous? or Jungle? I do get the impression that further south east, as you get to where I'm putting Voud Califf, those trees are palm trees, yes?
3. That secondary river, does it go all the way to the second lake? I can't tell from what I'm seeing.
Anyway, as soon as I get those questions answered, I can continue on this map. Like I said, not so much at the moment, but still a decent beginning.
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I don't have a problem with apostrophes. Its just that images with filenames that contain them don't show on the forum and you have to download and open them to see what they look like. (Right now I have "North gate 1" through to "North gate 8" open simultaneously to make sure it looks like the same building when I've finished all 8 views)
This is looking good already.
2. For the most part, it is a tropical environment, so lots of palms and jungle vegetation
3. Yes the river goes to the lake which feeds into an underground river cave exiting in the bay
I do, however, plan to add maybe some ancient ruins, to show that there might have been a civilization here at one point. I havent' decided, yet.
This is just a point to ponder. Attractive though it may seem to have no roads, Storm, a city is hardly likely to survive without any kind of transport into and out of the hinterland. There is very little reason for it to exist without any kind of trade, and importing everything the residents need, including stuff like grain and cloth would be very much more expensive than having an apron of reasonably large farming communities in the immediate vicinity at least - from which the basics of civilised life can be sourced.
As for roads, I noticed on Lorelei's original map that there is also a settlement a bit south of the river (probably a bit larger than yours, since that showed up on the continent map), wouldn't it be natural that there is a road going down there at least, even if there isn't a large road network in the location (And with road I usually mean a somewhat maintained dirt trail, good enough to pull wagons and carriages along with some effort)
But some of these settlements can be 'nomadic' in which case, they move to where the food is, when they hunt, they use all of the animals, fur, skins, hides... and create their own woven goods, much like the Native American's in North/South America.
Besides, these are like the first settlements... so roads just haven't been established yet.
Also note that you can also grab the high-resolution image, which show the map in great detail.
Part of my problem, is that there are buttons across the tops of the maps. But they are hidden by the drop down header, so I can only see the edge. And I don't want to download the full atlas at this point, just the Malajuri map, so I can see what Lorelei has there.
Is that part of your browser?
If it is, then you could use a different browser that doesn't hide the buttons?
I'll update the css of the site to fix this in a moment.
In the mean time, the button to download the .fcw on the Malajuri map is the second to last one.
It is a common name used for the website/program menus as they appear on mobile devices. Instead of having the menu visible, it is usually hidden until you click the menu button, which is usually 3 horizontal lines in a box. Someone obviously thought it looked like a hamburger.
Well, I guess I just let the whole world know I don't have and never have had any of those "i" things the rest of the world tend to live by! LOL!
But now that I can see what I'm supposed to be looking at, I can do a much better job with this region, although it may not be exact... but then, what you see in a regional map, is always more detailed then a continental map.
Lorelei's jungle is MASSIVE, and it took me a while to get that all done... but I did add a few things along the way. I have one more area to detail, that massive area to the south of the small hills I added. I'm not quite sure what I want to do there, yet, which is why it's still fairly blank. But, we're getting there.
I went ahead and put in roads, despite my original intentions... I guess traveling between these settlements, early pioneers may have cut roads through...
I've also started on the labeling. Now my main concern here, is if it's readable, so please let me know if the colors are too dark/bright, or what not.
Maybe the coastline could be a little stronger, but that's just a personal thing
But I added a glow to my landmass to help it stand out more, and I did end up reducing the size of my text labels. I forgot that this is actually a small map by my standards... 600x650.
Once I have the scale in place, I will submit the fcw.
By the way, if anyone is looking for dungeons to map, I have 3 cave in this region, plus some castle ruins, and an ancient pyramid. Not to mention there is a MASSIVE jungle that could hide a lot of things!