Yes, things are a bit minimal at the moment, but you are largely correct. This will be more of a large region scale... I think.

However, the suggestions made do still shape the decisions I have to make about what to try for ;)

I still think the castles idea would be much better done as a city style, where you can see such details as differences between 2 castles. However, since this is a top view style there's no reason you can't combine structure symbols to make mega cities.

At the moment I'm working on the textures. They always come first, no matter what style I'm working on.

This is a prototype grassland fill. The trick is to get it textured enough to look like what it's supposed to be, but not so detailed that it becomes a fizzing mash of dots. It has to be a suggestion of grass, rather than the grass itself.

Remember the test mountain is the size of a mountain.

I took a break from compasses and scale bars for DD4 to hunt down a very rough untextured test mapped mountain I did back in 2022. Found it, and tried it out.

This is the map file and graphic in Affinity.

And this is what it looks like in CC3.

Obviously, this is just a very basic test, but it's a start.

LOL! Don't worry. That exact same thing had me too when I first started.

Of course :)

It probably won't, Ricko, because all my previous overland styles are isometric. This one is going to be seen from above - seen as if you are flying over it like a bird.