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  • [WIP] Community Atlas Competition - Artemisia - Verinress Arl - Fon'Anar

    Here's a bit more. More to come, especially fleshing out the empty spots within the village walls. Plus labeling, of course.


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  • [WIP] Community Atlas Competition - Artemisia - Verinress Arl - Fon'Anar

    I finally have a bit to show for my contribution to the Community Atlas Competition. More work is needed but it's enough to provide the gist.

    I adopted a little farming village on the edges of Verinress'Arl on Artemisia. The parent map's notes explain that Verinress'Arl is populated by Aeifa (surface dwelling drow), who are ruled by a Matriarch, where succession is by fight to the death among her female offspring. The red box here (northeast of center) shows the village in relation to the rest of the kingdom:

    The village was once the site of a military outpost, but when it was decommissioned generations ago, a village grew up and took over some of the surviving military facilities: a small fortress that became the village jail, and a tower atop a hill that was purchased by sorceress to live out her years of retirement. The tower was passed down to one of her apprentices, and so on through the generations.

    While the villagers are mostly self-sufficient, raising enough of a variety of crops to sustain the village, it's known for its fruit orchards and even more for its vineyards and the wines that are popular throughout the realm.

    Here's the village so far (I also put a copy in my gallery if you want to zoom around):

    Still more to add within the area protected by the palisades, and forests to the north/northeast.

    Here's a closer view of the hillside known locally as "the rock" (though a proper name will be provided on the map):

    In addition to the sorceress' tower on top of "the rock," there are three other buildings the dig into the hillside. On the south/southeast, a decommissioned military fort has been converted into facilities for the village watch, with jail cells built underground in the hillside. On the eastern side, the Temple also digs into the hillside where the crypts and religious records/artifacts are maintained. And on the north side, the winery (which may be a bit oversized, now that I see it) also extends into the hillside, where wine can ferment in giant vats in caverns protected from the heat of the sun.

    The government buildings include the City Clerk's office in the center, with the courthouse to the east, the mayor's office to the northeast, and the town council chambers to the northwest.

    Here's an example of treehouse housing. More smaller complexes like this will be built elsewhere within the palisades.

    Outside of the village walls on the southwest side is a large pond. There are some industries along the creek that exits the pond: a small mill, blacksmith, tanner's, and glassblowers. North of them is a hillside and field that have become an entertainment area. A large bonfire is lit most warm nights, where the villagers make music and dance. There's also a stage where traveling minstrels, troubadours, and traveling acting troupes can perform for the villagers who can sit on stone benches before the stage or on the hillside behind. The big building on the northeast side of the pond is the community baths (elves are stereotypically fastidious, after all).

    Much more to come, but since it's officially August, I wanted to post what I have to date to start getting feedback.

    QuentenAleDLoopysueRicko Hasche
  • [WIP] Viking Adventures

    I was looking for a peaceful, zen mapping project and was inspired by the expansion of Viking symbols released today. It also gave me an excuse to using some of the glacier and icy Overland symbols that I've never used.

    I didn't want to lift from Norse mythology and decided to go with Icelandic names, which I stole freely from lists on Wikipedia.

    I will also post this in my galleries if anyone wants to zoom in closer.

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  • [WIP] 1972 Travelogue (CA93 Modern Journeys)

    And here are some zoomed-in closeups:



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  • [WIP] 1972 Travelogue (CA93 Modern Journeys)

    The map is just the highlights of the trip. Here's the full itinerary. Why two weeks at Crater Lake? My extended family has a cabin a few miles outside of the park, so we were visiting family then before finally heading home.

    June 9, 1972 — San Francisco, CA

    June 9, 1972 — Big Sur

    June 10, 1972 — San Simeon

    June 10, 1972 — Los Padres National Forest

    June 11, 1972 — Los Angeles

    June 11, 1972 — Angeles National Forest

    June 12, 1972 — Disneyland

    June 13, 1972 — San Juan Capistrano

    June 13, 1972 — Chula Vista

    June 14, 1972 — Winterhaven, CA

    June 16, 1972 — Tucson

    June 16, 1972 — Chiricahua National Forest

    June 20, 1972 — Deming, NM

    June 21, 1972 — El Paso

    June 22, 1972 — Carlsbed Caverns

    June 22, 1972 — Cloudcroft, NM

    June 24, 1972 — White Sands National Park

    June 24, 1972 — Cibola National Forest

    June 25, 1972 — Petrified National Forest

    June 25, 1972 — Coconino National Forest

    June 27, 1972 — Grand Canyon

    June 28, 1972 — Glen Canyon Dam

    June 29, 1972 — Manti-Lasal National Forest

    June 30, 1972 — Price, Utah

    July 3, 1972 — Thru Utah to Colorado

    July 3, 1972 — Grand Mesa National Forest, CO

    July 4, 1972 — White River National Forest

    July 6, 1972 — Shadow Mountain Lake. Through WY to Nebraska

    July 7, 1972 — Cadron, Nebraska

    July 8, 1972 — Mt. Rushmore

    June 9, 1972 — Thru Gilette, WY

    June 9, 1972 — Big Horn National Forest

    June 9, 1972 — Shoshoni National Forest

    July 13, 1972 — Teton National Park

    July 16, 1972 — Yellowstone

    July 17, 1972 — White Sulpher Springs, MT

    July 19, 1972 — Glacier National Park, Canada

    July 20, 1972 — Waterton, Canada

    July 21, 1972 — Banff National Park

    July 23, 1972 — Mt. Baker National - Snoqualmie National Forest. Olympic National Forest

    August 2, 1972 — Mt. Ranier

    August 2, 1972 — Maple Leaf-Gifford Pinchat Natl Forest

    August 3, 1972 — Portland

    August 4, 1972 — Salem

    August 5, 1972 — Crater Lake

    August 17, 2024 — Redwood National Park

    August 19, 2024 — San Francisco, CA

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