Tyr Alomere Tower - Floor 2

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Description

The tower’s main dining room dominates this room. It is accessed through a staging room where the tower’s staff can plate dishes before serving them to the wizard’s guests. A small lounge off of this room includes a balcony overlooking the main stairs leading up to the tower, allowing the wizard to greet guests and direct them up to the second landing. Although there is a secure, metal door leading to the exterior stairs, this is primarily used as an emergency exit, and this floor is generally only accessed through the interior spiral staircase. That staircase leads down to the kitchen and up to the tower’s main entryway. This floor does not have proper windows, but arrow slits allow for a little light during the daytime. It is primarily illuminated with torches enchanted with a Continual Flame spell that allows for perpetual heatless, smokeless flames. 

1. Dining Room

2. Lounge

3. Balcony

4. Staging Room

5. WC

6. Emergency Exit

My personal experiences are more with desktop publishing, not design. Used to be reasonably proficient with things like PageMaker and Quark and MS Publisher — none of which is useful here. I used the Corel suite in the 90s but haven’t owned it in decades. To create the circular symbols for my Modern Journeys map, I did download GIMP and learned just enough of it to be able to crop an image to a circle. But for quite a lot of stuff, I have used (of all things)…PowerPoint!

The funny thing is: although I am not an attorney, my day job in the business side of publishing requires me to be involved in copyright permissioning on a daily basis. Fonts, however, are a new wrinkle for me.

I had another idea: Hunting Lodge Trophies.

Taxidermied wall-mounted heads of typical hunting prey (deer, bears, boars, maybe mythological creatures)

Bear-skinned rugs

Weapons display rack

Welcome, Ryan! One more thing, which you might already be planning to do: when you break it down into smaller regional maps, you can then add more details that might be too small for this map. I'm not certain what scale this map is, but for example, this map might only have the major rivers, but smaller rivers and streams might then show up on your regional maps. Or this may only have major cities, with smaller villages and hamlets being too small for this scale until you start to break it down. That gives you the freedom to follow creative inspiration as you dive in deeper.

Looking forward to seeing more!

For those who didn’t know, this is designed in the beautiful Ancient Cities style that @C.C. Charron designed for the 2024 annual.

I just assumed some ents were going swimming. 😉

I love the Tolkien font -- I use it a lot with my maps designed with Mike Schley's styles. Seems to fit really well in that style. You're right, though: doesn't work as well for small text.

But actually, I was thinking of the runes like Sue used in the brass inlays in Marine Dungeons:

I discovered that FontSpace.com has a "Commercial" filter that allows you to limit the search/browse results to just the fonts that allow for commercial re-use:

There are some pretty elvish script fonts there, too. I am a little wary, though. Some seem to be based on Tolkien's elvish script, and while the person who designed it for FontSpace may have granted permission to use what they designed, I'm not entirely convinced that Tolkien's estate would agree.

I'm pro-heathen (embrace all people!), but Unheathen Ground would be awesome.

Tyr Alomere Tower - Floor 1

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This floor is used primarily by the wizard’s staff. It included a kitchen with a dining nook. There are two rooms for food storage that are kept chilled through the use of magical crystals – one cold enough to freeze water into ice. The boiler room also includes laundry facilities. 

As this is the ground floor at the base of the stairs, there is no external access to this level of the tower. An internal spiral staircase on the northern wall allows for descending into the basement or rising to the second floor.

1. Kitchen

2. Dining Nook

3. Freezer

4. Cold Storage

5. Boiler Room & Laundry

6. WC