It is done. Ayreon is finished and I am happy how it turned out. The toughest part of the end was to think about names. :D

But this map is done and now I can think about which realm I will map at first. :D

"In Ayreon there are the four realms of the Queens"

I think I'm done. This is desert realm Eppi'Ka. Everything went smooth so there isn't really much to tell. But this is the result :D

Small progress was made. I did the different climate zones to seperate the different realms but I'm not sure if I'm happy with it :D I guess there will be some changes ^^

This thread will be the first part of a series of some sort. My plan is to map the greater region, the four kingsdoms of the queens, their capitals, the castles and palaces where the queens live and The Valley Of the Queens, the legendary place where the queens met for the first time. I don't know how it will turn out and it will take me a lot of time but I want to do it ?

In this first thread. I will show the progress of Ayreon, the part of the continent where the four Queens have their realms. And I hope some of you will join me for this journey. ?

This is the bare outline of the map which is 1000 km long and 800 km high.

Thank you for sharing your method. I 've added different contours of sea levels like the mapping guide of the Alyssa Faden Style suggested. In this Style there were an Edge Fade, Inner Effect for the contours already active and two glow effects for the land sheet. I just added a blur affect to the land and the lake-sheets and now it looks like this.

But in general I've learned not to bother with these coastal outline and will delete it in future. ?

What got me into cartography was much time free time due to several years of unemployment. And to keep my brain active I started to learn new things so I got into painting, tinkered around with Blender and cartography was just another thing I wanted to try and learn. I skipped the Bundle when it was available in spring but then I saw it again in November and took the opportunity and this is it. :)

And the Community Atlas seems to be a good idea. I will look at it in the next days for sure.

This is the progress so far. I've added some vegetation, hills and different terrain textures but I'm not happy how they look. I miss a certain natural feel. To me the borders of the textures are looking too symmetric, too handmade if you know what I mean. This is at the moment the greatest issue I have. But in general I think I'm on the right way :D

Slow but steady to the finish I guess. ? Not much to tell. I've added hills, mountains and vegetation to the islands. There are two more rivers now. Some parts still look empty on the other hand I don't want to clutter the whole map with stuff. This is one of the two tasks for the next day, to find the right balance and the biggest part is to play with the effects so that the texture of the land tool don't shine through as you can see between the ash area and plains are south of it. But I in general I am happy with the result so far ?

After I finished the map of Ayreon I started with mapping the first realm. I copied the particular region of the Ayreon map and pasted it to the new map that uses the scorched earth style. I changed most of the symbols and used the "Change like drawing tool" command to change the textures and this is the result so far.

Thank you very much for the advice. As it turns out the outline of the coastline caused this artifact. It was gone when I deleted the outline and came back after I simplified the coastline brought back the outline. ? But I have found out what the problem is and can think about a solution. I guess am on the right track now :D