A journey through a land of fantasy…

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while.  This is the map of Chorenn that I created in Campaign Cartographer 2 and have been using for my campaign.  I plan to move this into a page in the right sidebar, so that it is easy reference.

There’s not much to comment about it.  I wanted to have varied terrain (no volcanoes, though; I’m not fond of the large-pools-of-molten-lava thing, since that really only happens very rarely – only in one place on this planet, for example) with at least some rhyme and reason to the layout of the land. 

I probably spent most time designing Valuria, since I wanted it to be very isolated, even from the sea.  It is surrounded by sea cliffs, though it really has no reason to, geologically.  I also imagine that the Great Barrier Peaks are formed much like the Himalayas were, from the subcontinent smashing into the main continent.

One thing that isn’t pictured here is a bit of dryland/desert in the south of Japrilis.  This is because it wasn’t there in when I created the map.  Mac wrote, in his background, that Mahdi was part of a small tribe of Japrilians that lived in a desert called the Gul.  Since there wasn’t a desert there but certainly could be, I decided there is one; Mahdi’s tribe (centuries before he was born) chose to live there since its climate was much more like what they lived in before they traveled to Chorenn.