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. ?

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

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.

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.