Royal Scribe
Royal Scribe
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[WIP] Kingdom of Gongodûr
Well, I was going to make a twist of Hanlon's Razor ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity") phrased more like Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"):
A secret grand design is indistinguishable from stupidity.
The truth is...just a clumsy attempt to recreate from a much bigger parent map that was itself derived from a much, much bigger parent map.
This is the parent map I took it from (Gongodûr is in the lower right):
And this is the section parent map that this whole 1,000 x 1,000 mile section comes from:
When I downloaded the FCW for the parent map, it said there were green mountains there, which I took to mean vegetation-covered hills and small mountains.
So no real grand design, just an over-exuberance in trying to add more detail from the parent map and slip in some mapping/adventure hooks.
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[WIP] Kingdom of Gongodûr
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[WIP] Kingdom of Gongodûr
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[WIP] Kingdom of Gongodûr
Okay, the first thing I did was back another backup of the FCW in case I didn't like the fractalization and couldn't undo it. ;-)
The fractal command isn't something I've used that much, and when I tried it on this map earlier, I wasn't sure of which settings to play with. While I think the smoother map works for a map of this scale, I rather like the Depth 2, Strength 40, smooth result on the rivers. Fractalized a few of the roads but not all -- there were some where it just made the road look overly-caffeinated.
With the place names: I added names for the settlements and rivers that were missing them (let me know if I missed anything important). I've played with the Glow settings a bit. I'll post the FCW, too, if anything has adjustments to recommend.
Here it is without the borders:
And again with the redrawn borders:
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Donut-shaped buildings?