I'm still toying with the idea of making the legend's text look like it's engraved, but I'm not sure if it shows up well enough?

I tried it out with Marine Dungeon's brass inlay that I love so much. Here it is with both the red marble on the right side and the black marble on the left (with the original colored text as a comparison). It looks good on the dark marble but only if you're zoomed in.

And then I tried it again with a goldleaf fill. As much as I love the brass (plus it's native to Marine Dungeons, so it's not added another annual to the mix), the goldleaf may be a little easier to read because it doesn't have the reflected light effect. This one also only really works with the darkest marble.

Brass Inlay

Goldleaf

Thoughts?

Okay, the second floor is mapped and furnished!

Outside

1. Muri Magni: Inside the second floor of the outer wall in a 10-foot-wide passageway with arrow slits at regular intervals.
2. Portae Turres: The gatehouse towers
3. Turres Anguli: The corner towers
4. Scalae: Exterior staircases open on one side that lead to the second-floor entrances of the corner towers

Villa

5. Portico Roof: The roof of the covered porch

6. Scalae Graecae: Staircase from the first floor

7. Scala Spiralis: Spiral stairs leading to the third floor

8. Cenaculum: The dining room on an upper floor of Roman houses

9. Heating Caliduct: Hot air from the hypocaust in the basement of the balneae flows through this shaft to heat the floors

10. Puteus & Puteal: An interior well with unheated water

11. Lavatrina: Lavatories

12. Cubiculum: Bedroom

Balneae

13. Colonnade Roof: The roof of the colonnade that connects the main villa to the bathhouse

14. Scalae Graecae: Staircase from the first floor and up to the third floor

15. Hypocaust Chimney: Exhaust vent for the vast amounts of smoke generated by the hypocaust in the basement

16. Armorium: Closets

17. Bibliotheca: The library, including a reading area overlooking the tepidarium pool

18. Palaestra: An exercise area and prominade

19. Gymnasium: Exercise equipment

They are absolutely stunning! These will be a great to have available for map styles that don't come with cartouches (and as a supplement for others that do).

As a jog for inspiration, if you're open to ideas: sinister/evil (evil sorcerer, lich king/vampire/undead, etc.), fairy tale, swashbuckler/pirates, maybe demihuman-inspired ones (elven, dwarven, halfling, orc, draconic)? Maybe seasonal -- your top one is great for spring and summer vibes, but it would be cool to have autumn and winter options.

Okay, I have furnished the first floor. Couple of other changes, too:

1. I reduced the size of the label numbers and mostly moved them outside the room (and the villa) that's being labeled. I hope it's clear enough what the number is labeling.
2. I added a semi-transparent parchment sheet to semi-0bscure the exterior areas, similar to what I did when I mapped the interior of the wizard's tower. (It's a different parchment than that map, though -- the original was from the Beaumaris Castle annual and I didn't want to have the parchment be the only thing from that annual.)
3. I split the Legend in half, and because they weren't showing up very well on the parchment, I placed them on a marble background. I tried different effects to really make them look etched in stone (like removing the drop shadow and changing the glow from inner to outer), but it made it harder to read, imo.

Okay, I made some tweaks. The Alae (#16) have been moved up to be more central in the Peristylium courtyard. Now they are going to be strictly for honoring the household's ancestors, because next to the Exhedra (#19) I have added two shrines to honor the gods, the Lararia (#20, or singularly, Lararium). It's amazing what you can learn from Google if you just ask the right questions. I thought I can gotten down the rooms for Roman villas, but when I asked Google whether Roman villas had chapels, it told me about these shrines to gods. Plus, that gave me another excuse to use the brass inlays that I love so much. (Added some inlaid shells next to the pool in the bathhouse, too.)

Also added a shaft (#22) for hot air from the basement hypocaust to reach the top floor. Across the hall, there's a shaft (puteus) for water to be piped up into a little room with a tap for the water (puteal) -- that came from Googling "what did ancient Romans call a 'well'?"

Still have to add windows and doors, and furniture. Wish we had some Roman couch symbols!