Mar 26, 2024
Mostly finalized location names with notes on prominent map features!
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Mostly finalized location names with notes on prominent map features!
Started working on country names and some new continent placement, trying to make sense of climate and where things like rivers, lakes, wetlands, and mountains would be.
Countries named so far:
Cosmic: unnamed (considered "Eclipsia" because there is a lunar and a solar variant of these dragons living here.)
Water: The Sapphire Chain (tropical), Daybreak Islands (polar)
Fire: Sleeping Ash West, Sleeping Ash East, Crimson Coast
Ice: The Frozen North
Nature: The Highlands (highland), The Verdant Expanse (lowland)
Air: The Singing Peaks
Earth: Striata Canyon
Tech: Scrap Valley
Rot: The Undergrowth
Light: unnamed
Time: The Far Reach
A new map of Astria in the works. I moved some things around and added a few details. It feels so weird that there's THAT much open ocean, but apparently that can be pretty normal.
There's no color coding yet but generally everything is in the same place. The volcanic regions on the mainland are now closer to the eastern coast, since volcanoes usually form along tectonic plates. I changed the ring of islands to the east to be a water dragon region. I realized that this area used to be a volcano (given its shape), but it isn't anymore, so I didn't need to designate it to fire dragons. Rot dragons are on the west coast rather than in random pockets dotted all over the forested areas. I may shrink their region. Not sure. The Far Reach (upper left lone island) might get shrunk down as well.
I don't know how rivers and lakes work, but I sort of added some to see what it would look like. I wish I were better at understanding geography lol.
The world of Astria, named after the first dragon goddess to create the entire universe.
Each region is named after many elements and the blue names label bodies of water. Gray coloration indicates no affiliation with any elemental alignment.
The map is unfinished as of now, but I enjoy showing off the process. I've never made a map before, so this is interesting for me to explore.
Edit: This map is proof that I have no idea how to make realistic maps. Also, all the fantasy names for the elements/regions have been scrapped. I made them based on human language (namely Latin, French, Welsh, and Greek.) A yucky decision on my part. This isn't Lord of the Rings.