January 2020 - The Inhabited Lands of Arlis

[Tiana]

My first map, done in October/November 2006 Nanowrimo.


The 2020 revision.
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I would say I definitely had many Tolkien influences still present in my creativity at this time, though I was beginning to make the push towards my own thing I was only just beginning to write non-fanfiction when I sketched this map to write my novel that year. It was about the last survivor from Dawn making his way through the elf lands with the aid of a compassionate elf (most of the rest were racist xenophobes) to the shore where he could potentially find others of his people and defeat Midnight with the aid of an enormous mechanism which was never fully explained but may have been a buried space ship. There was a definite technological decline and there was an entire race of dwarves which basically no longer existed.

I have not processed it yet but I did screen record the creation of this map, except for the last few tooling around photoshoppy type layers I did. Most of the rest of the work was done in Other World Mapper.