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I have presented maps of Azora before, mostly B&W pen & ink ones that I did for the books that my wife and I have written. It's been my homebrew D&D world for about 39 years, so a very long time. (Yes I was 7 when I came up with this world for those of you keeping track.) Sometime ago I lost all my digital files pertaining to Azora, so now I have to start all over. (Not totally, I have plenty of hand drawn maps.) The only thing I'm worried about is that my computer won't be able to handle the workload for this map.

Since I have this very world map hanging on my wall, I decided to do those exact dimensions for this map: 44" x 44" and since I'm not planning on printing it and I wanted to keep the file size down I only have it set for 72dpi and 16bit. I made a 1 inch grid as well as a 26 (10x7) page grid as each section is on a seperate piece of graph paper as well. I also put blue in the map so you could tell the difference between the water and the land.

I can already hear a few questions, so let me answer them for you now. No, the land doesn't match up on the sides and for a very good reason: Azora is flat (actually, more like a saucer but more shallow) and is surrounded by a ring of impenetrable mountains dubbed The Outer Mountains (catchy, right?) It also rotates around the sun in such a way as that the sun is always closer to the south pole and farther away from the north pole, which also means that the north pole is always covered in ice and the south pole is always under a blistering tropical sun. As it makes it way around the sun, it does waver in its orbit which gives Azora's mid latitudes the semblance of seasons. Yes, there is a bottom side to Azora (named Zorados, at least that is the name I think we settled on) Yes I do have it mapped out, but probably won't do anything with it in the near future. I'm trying not to take on too many projects at once because I am also a full time student.

I'm not sure if I'm going to do a full color map, or strictly black and white pen and ink style. I guess it really depends on if my little laptop can handle the workload of something this size in full color.

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