Oh Sue... These are gorgeous!

Thank you! Glad you like the completed bits.

For future reference, when I put WIP in the thread title, it means that it is a Work In Progress. I do this for a couple of reasons. When it is a complex map it gives the opportunity to get input as the map progresses and before it gets too far along for easy changes. It also lets new users see the steps taken to create a map and to ask questions along the way. I almost always do a WIP thread if I'm posting a map here on the forums. I'm a slow mapper and really only finish a couple of maps a year for the community since I'm also making maps for my game world at the same time. Posting a WIP lets me participate in the forums rather than just showing up two or three times a year to add a map.

I managed to find a bit of time to begin work on this. I decided that the farming in this region is predominantly olive groves and vineyards so am designing with that thought in mind.

I'm still pretty early in the layout so I'll probably change my mind a million times before I'm done but as always I'm willing to take input as I go.

And yes, I'm aware of the transparency acne on the eastern bank of the small river. It won't show once I begin developing that area.

Open the sheets and effects dialog (S: on the status bar at the top.)

Scroll down to the Map Border Sheets and click the right check box to hide (H) these sheets.

To honor my promise to Quenten, I've started the town of Shessaria in his Kentoria Mid-West map. I'm just laying out the terrain to start, so have a long, long way to go.