This is the next map for my personal project - it is diectly east of Skalamark, and are two Slavic nations - Kurmdiz, a Cossack hetmanate; and Forindon, a Kyivan Rus kingdom, wuth the eastern part of Skalamark in the top west corner, and the western part of Nilterurn, a Danish type kingdom, but with Ukrainian names.

Obviously just beginning - the mountains and hills are all done though, as are the political borders.

Here is an other island group in the Hardin region. Still a WIP.

It is a collection of Walloori Tribes, some civilized, some not, with Grim (orcs), Davarin (dwarves) and Aiefa (elves) also present. The names are based on the Yamatji people of the region I now live in, Geraldton, Western Australia.

Here is progress to date, plus a blow up of an area fully done (Bangarra Island). I have made extensive use of the trees from Spectrum overland - great gums, and scrub trees, better than Schley whose style this otherwise is.

The actual outline of the map is based on Groote Eylande in the Gulf of Carpentaria, part of the state of Queensland, Australia.

Here is a setting for a series of low level adventures to get a beginner D&D party on its way to fame and glory ... or grisly death.

Kalihirin Island (nowhere near complete, of course). Of course, adventure sites etc are yet to be added.

Detkhiv, the main settlement with a population of over 600.

I have made use of the draft version of the Watabou revised city annual to come later this year.

Some progress on the three main buildings in the village = Church, Inn and Store. No town hall, though - all such community gathering places have been forbidden by the monks of Holy Spiros.

Got bored! Here is the Haunted Island south-east of the main Isle of Tiresia.

Feel free to make suggestions, otherwise it is ready for the Atlas.

The Map notes for the City State of Tiresia.

Tiresia City State

Tiresia is the smallest in power, both militarily, and economically, of the five Irisian City States. However, compared to the rest of Artemisia, it still ranks highly. The mainstay of the economy is agricultural, especially the olive oil industry, with a minor tin extraction industry. Most of the tin is exported to be refined elsewhere, with the State collecting both royalties, and a newly raised resources rent tac, to bolster the faltering economy of the City-State after a few years of devastating drought wrought havoc on the agricultural economy.

The olive oil industry is by far the most lucrative for the City-State, with large government holdings in one of the main Olive Oil companies, called The Popeye Oil Consortium. The purity, and special flavour of the oil is prized throughout Artemisia and beyond. The special flavour is imparted by pollinating bees of a unique kind, and causes the subsequent oil to have a faint honey-flavoured scent.

Tiresia is ruled by a Senate composed of 25 Senators, voted into office by all property holders with over 50,000 Drachmas in value ie only the wealthy families can vote. They then elect three Magisters, who hold office for three years, staggering the elections so that one is elected each year. This staggers the office holders so that the government is unusually stable, but also more likey to fall into corruption – which it has, leading as it does to a monopolization of power and wealth into the hands of a few families, a high level of corruption, (the highest of all the City-States), and a very unequal society.

Subsequently, demands from the rest of the populace, who cannot vote in any election, and have had their needs ignored for far too long, have grown stronger, accompanied by greater and greater civil unrest. The capital of Tiresia is most affected, but the more violent acts of arson, theft, destruction of government and senators’ private property, and abductions occur in the countryside, which has suffered extensively because of the three year drought. Various groups are calling for abolition of the Senate, replacement with an Assembly of the People and universal suffrage, including both genders, and a government headed by a directly elected Tribune. Finally, they are calling for trials of all corrupt officials – the one thing that sends tremors down the backbone of most of the Senate and government, and stiffens their resolve not to give an inch to those calling for change.

The increasingly radical and tense political situation has drawn the worried attention of the other City States, some of whom are wanting to send troops to quell the increasing unrest. However, Stromphe, the largest and most powerful of the City-States, has vetoed this and insists on non-interference. It is well-known that Stromphe, the least corrupt, and most democratic of the City-Sates, has contempt for the government of Tiresia, and would happily see it fall, and so extend their direct influence over the island. The other States, especially Otykos and Arete, have thus decided to keep their aid to an increasingly beleaguered government at the clandestine level, with moles in the radical groups, passing information to the Tiresian Magisters, and financial loans to the Senate to enable them to increase the ‘bread and circuses’ policy that they hope will have effect. Cake, rather than bread, is offered!

Unknown to all is that the mysterious Purple Daffodil (a rare bloom found in western Tiresia), leader of the most influential, and violent, of the groups calling for reforms, is in fact Demetrios Kaluthenas, younger son of one of the Magisters, Gerolimeo Kaluthenas. He seems motivated by a genuine disgust of the corruption of the present system, as well as anger at his treatment as an unwanted child by his authoritarian father. He has already drawn up a list of those he wants executed for corruption – and strangely, includes leading figures of the other three reformist groups. His own group is now the largest and most influential, and calls itself the Directorate of the People. His identity is known only by his closest friend, Brutos Skipianas, who is even more in favour of violent revolution than his leader. Not even Demetrios’ wife and children know of his true identity, and he plays the role of an incompetent fop and socialite very well. After every atrocity committed by the groups, and every murder or abduction, a purple daffodil is left as a sinister calling card.

The cycle of increasing violence and harsh counter-measures has the whole City-State ready to explode in violent revolution – and perhaps get beyond the control of even the manipulative Demetrios.

The religion of Tiresia, like that of all south and western Artemisia, is that of worship of the Olympian Gods, but especially Athea, Poseidon and Demeter. The clergy are calling for peaceful negotiations between the people and the Senate, but increasingly, their pleas are falling on deaf ears, and many of the would-be revolutionaries are casting the priests as fellow-travellers of the privileged classes.

The stage is set for events which may become world-shattering!

The final map. Map notes to come, then off to the Atlas. Next island coming up.

For those (including me) who wonder how much could be reasonably fitted on such a small island, I attach this map of the Scilly Isles. the largest island, St Mary's, has many interesting prehistoric ruins, and other features, and is only a fraction the size of this island.

An update - only text to go, I think. Hope there are plenty of interesting places to explore, but I won't be doing map notes.

I have decided to give the sewer annual a go, and am using the sewer map I did for Torstan, just for the Holy Head District. Even that might be a bit much, but we will see how I go.

I will keep the buildings on the map with a solid50 bitmap between them and the sewers. It will also be for the same city in my campaign world, where it is the city of Krakatos.

So, this is what I will be doing. There will be three sewer widths - the main channels about 5-7 metres, the intermediate ones of 3 metres, and the smaller ones less than 1 metre (not shown on the map above ... yet).

Another group made up of self-sufficient settlements, but with closer development towards forming a cohesive 'nation', with regular meetings of leaders of each settlement and farmstead in something like the ancient Icelandic Althing. This has largely been motivated by the increasing threat posed by an ancient red dragon, Zelait.