As bloody usual, my final map isn't. I was never thrilled with the water fill at this scale. Even scaling it up, it looked unsatisfactory. So, as I'm creating my 'own style' based on this annual, which takes its fills from the Jonathon Roberts, dungeon and city styles, I thought I'd import his overland and Midgard fills to see how they looked. Below is the result, this is The Midgard version and I'm much happier with its overall appearance.

Hi Folks,

After my recent Dhakos Map I thought I'd create my 'own style' by modifying the Watabou style.

The aim is basically to create a more visually appealing, modern 'Fantasy Cities' style using the Watabou style (which is in turn a modified Jonathon Roberts style) as the base.

To that end, I've copied the Watabou style templates and fill styles as per the blog article, Creating Your Own style and have modified the 10ft road tool to 'cut-out' the City Blocks by giving it an extra entity, a 1ft wider line in colour 6 going on the Buildings layer and City Block sheet. The City Block sheet has a colour key effect on it. See below for a test.

I also need to change the current water fill style for larger maps, the current one looks fairly ordinary on a big map. I might try adding some Overland water fill styles...

Thoughts?

@hsv216 Disregard my previous post. That was something I came up with in the spare of the moment and TBH did not give it a lot of thought. @taustinoc You were on the money...

The map represents Dhakos in Elric’s time not when it was first built during the Bright Empire's reign. When the native Jharkorians , along with the other upstart human nations, rose up and overthrew the remnants of the Bright Empire (it had been in gradual decline for centuries) the Melnibonean’s, in a fit of pique, unleashed the dragons on Dhakos and other key cities across what is now known as the Young Kingdoms, their venom raising the city. One small section near the western gate remained relatively unscathed. As the city was rebuilt during the time of Queen Yishana’s Great-great Grandfather, that section became known as Old Town and the rebuilt portion New Town.

The above fits in much better with world of the Young Kingdoms than my other ill-thought gibberish.

Rightio. Another quiet-ish day at the office. I think I'm calling this done!

When the city was first built, the King of Jharkor lived in Sequaloris, a city further inland on a river. He thought it would be better to move his Capital to the coast so he had his Royal Cartographer locate a suitable area on the Eastern coast. Where the river that Sequaloris was built on entered the sea was all swamp and not suitable but they did find a suitable spot several miles south of the river mouth. The Cartographer and Engineers, drew up plans for the Castle, and the wall. The quarried stone was shipped overland, Oldtown is where the labourers, masons and a company of soldiers were housed and the stone landed. They built the wall first, then the keep. Once this was done the breakwalls and docks were built and the rest flowed outward from there, eventually expanding beyond the walls.

Does that work? It's the best I can come up with😉