Kingdom of Kenland

[Edward II of Kenland]

Hello, just a quick little extra thing I worked up. I have changed up the horse caparison, shield, and surcoat of the knight to fit different coat of arms to see how they look. I certainly think my shading looks better on darker colors, as the folds on the knight with the white base and red owls looks less deep. I chose the checkered Coat of arms just to see how much detail still shows up in a very busy coat of arms. I think it still remains readable! The blue one looks like its the best though. As of now I am still unsure how I will place them on the map. I may not place them on the map as I have yet to think of a good way of placing them, and instead may make a Roll of Arms as reference to the map. We shall see though.

Credit to Wappenwiki for the owls.

[Edward II of Kenland]

Hello, I have done a few things since my last post that I think has tied a few things together.

I have done my oceans again. I certainly like it zoomed out all the way, however I am more skeptical about it when zoomed in properly. Any advice on this would be appreciated!


I have also named every single one of my rivers which took quite a while, but it was certainly something that needed to be done. I also made symbols with the coat of arms for the large cities in the kingdom. I do hesitate on them, as I had to make them smaller in certain areas to make them fit in decently. Somehow though I can't shake the feeling that they don't 100% mesh with the map. Perhaps a second set of eyes would be more useful at this point! (Credit to wappenwiki again for many of the COA assets)







I am personally feeling like I am coming towards the finish line on Kenland proper. I still have to figure out a way to make the little drawings of knights, people, and animals I did fit in. I also have to finish making the interior political divisions of counties and duchies which shouldn't take long. Making a border for the map is perhaps something I will scrap and just not do as the map is 21.2 ft x 20.6 ft. Obviously this map will never be printed out in full because it is so large.

After that I suppose I will finally be done with Kenland itself, and then I'll move on to the other areas which you can see that haven't been filled in on the map.

Thank you!

Edit: I want to apologize for my images being blurry. I tried using snipping tool this time as it makes things quicker, however it obviously degrades the quality of the image.

[Azélor]

I like that. There aren't a lot of maps at this scale that go into such details. Also, the heraldry is well made.

[Edward II of Kenland]

I like that. There aren't a lot of maps at this scale that go into such details. Also, the heraldry is well made.

Thank you! This project was originally inspired by looking at a lot of RPG maps and realizing that often times only the mega cities are on the map. I wanted people to realize that you would encounter tons of small settlements and manors while traveling through the rural areas of a medieval world. Unfortunately, that meant that about 3/4 of the time spent on this project was adding thousands of places and then naming them. Thankfully I made a random name generator using names from the Domesday book. I don't think I'm ever going to go into this detail on such a scale on another project again!

[Edward II of Kenland]

Hello everyone! I have finished 3 additional duchies for Kenland. Please see this thread to view them in the finished maps section!
Thank you again for everyone who was helped me or given me critiques, encouragements or compliments.