Here’s a map i’ve been working on for the last several… months. Bit over a year now. It’s a fantasy world I’ve been making for D&D. I’ve not even named the world itself, but I’ve got a campaign that’s been going in the Kingdom of Narva there on Elberria for about as long as i’ve been making the map. Naming countries and making landmasses that make sense is hard. Just doing cool shit for the sake of it is easy but then people get mad when that’s your reasoning.
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sick map!! what’s in bloatstein?
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I’ve not written much on that continent in general, but for Bloastein…
- Monarchy government. Has been trying to make a monopoly on seafaring trade for decades. Powerful naval force, but not so great land troops. Relies heavily on guerrilla tactics and overwhelming numbers. The nations general geography is mainly a heavy boreal forest. Somewhat mountainous. Spruce, Larches, Firs, Pines. Very rocky. Strong Iron ore presence.
*The People of Bloastein are hardy, build well for colder climates. Population is mostly Humans, Dwarves, and Gnomes. Wild Elves have long been rumoured to live out in the forests but have never been confirmed. Goliaths and Minotaurs occasionally come down from the mountains to trade. The citizens of Bloastein enjoy a somewhat rounded diet, plenty of fish, mutton, wild fowl, sheeps milk/cheese, mushrooms, berries, potatoes, apples, all standard fare. The strongest Religious foothold in the nation is the Church of Zeilien, the goddess of the Seas, Storms, and Wrath.
*Magic is not illegal, but is pretty much shunned here. The only magics anyone doesn’t turn their noses up to is Divine, IE Clerics and Paladins, but they’re usually treated coldly by the major population.
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How close they were to mapping is crazy to me. I read a book about one of the famous voyages(I forget the captains name) to map a route around Australia aand it was pretty even more accurate then this one but still off a bit.
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Yeah! We obviously have super accurate mapping software now, but knowing how accurate they where in the past is really cool. Especially cause we use the same ideas and techniques in today’s cartography just more advanced
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sorry to bring back this topic, but isn’t there a 2kki map? Gets updated by the wiki.
it loads veeeeery slowly though (barely loads on my machine), but that might just be a me thing.
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YUP! I was able to look at the book I was reading(haven’t finished its a bit try but neat) ‘The Reef’ By Iain McCalman which has a section about Captain James Cook and the voyage of the HMS Endeavour. It counts for them mapping the northeastern edge of Australia through the channel between the coast and the Great Barrier Reef. Captain Cook and his creek weren’t the greatest of people but its interesting hearing about their journey.
The HMS Endeavour voyage route using present maps
Oh the voyage I am talking about was before the map you have. The Voyage was from 1768-1771 so was probably the bases for that Ottoman map. They are roughly the same. I thought I remember it being closer to the true map. I was mistaken and its an older map. xD
But yes its interesting to see stuff like this to see these tools being used to slowly refine maps.
Relates back to:
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OH yeaaaaa, That map is crazy. It takes my computer a minute to cook to load it up for me too. Just looking through this map makes my head spin at the complexity of it.
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Yes, I knew it exists.
oh yeah thats awesome! In the tiny bit of research i did earlier as well, the earlier versions of that map can be dated earlier. so its entirely possible this is! especially cause it is apart of a larger one with Aotearoa/NZ
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Oh my gosh, that’s such an impressive map.
I have acepted my failure
Good king omens or anyone else practicals manor who knows
[/1st floor and gardens]
This is mainly the grand hall library and servant living quarters passageways and some comfy
[/floor 2]
This shows the balcony around the hall a museum room guest bathroom
To the left is servent sleeping quarters and the passageway to the gardeners tower who is also a powerfull wizard
and to the right guard room and sauna an bath heated by the logburner on floor 1
[/floor 3]
This is the omens personal quarters and also the telescope
The bedroom of king omen is the smallest with the doubble bed
To the left is a training room for king omens daughter
Theres a workshop / bedroom for his son (sound insulated)
And his daughters bedroom
[/all maps with code]
Arrows point in direction of stairs and are the colour of the floor they lead to
[/all floors no code]
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I actually recently used a version of this map for a project I was working on:
I flipped it upside down, threw a mosaic filter on it, reduced the colours down to like 12 homogenized the ocean to the same colour and added a drop shadow behind the continents (not necessarily in that order, this was like 2 months ago)
Then I threw it on a 3D globe:
Just realized the gif I uploaded was an earlier version, but it’s the nicest render and I can’t be bothered to convert another to gif
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i realy like the gif i want to hold it in my hands
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Undersea cable maps are absolutely insane…
Wild to think that most of the Internet’s data still passes through cables, not satellites!
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i think im underwater in this : (
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