My world - The Everlandias

[Steel General]

The compass fits in greatly with the insignias. That's what I think

Agreed, and I'll have to check out that tutorial you used for the insignia's. Don't remember seeing that before.

[LonewandererD]

First Kingdom done, the south-eastern territory of New Demora. I'm on a roll.

It doesn't feel finished yet, what else should i add to it. I don't need a legend because the map is pretty map self explanatory and a legend would take up too much room.

My naming system for New Demora was a little sketchy, i din't really have a plan for naming towns, cities were named after past Emperors, with the capital being named after the first Emperor of the Old Demoran Empire, Emperor Dalsheid the First.

Do the greyed out areas work, i wanted to try and draw attention away from the other countries and focus on New Demora.

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[LonewandererD]

I know i shouldn't be posting this much but here is a copy of the map without the grey areas. Which one is better?

-D-

[Flaterectomy]

I have done some amateur texturing for 3D shooters and what I very quickly learned was that a good grey texture requires a fair amount of colour.

Here's an example.

That stone texture is full of different colours (the use-many-different-colours principle works with any single-tone texture, really), and I think it would work very well for your greyed-out areas. They'd stand out because they're not as green as the kingdom that you're focusing on, but they'd not look as desaturated.

Hope this makes sense and is of use to you.

[Gandwarf]

Nice work so far. The last two maps are looking pretty! Good job on the insignias, they look great on the maps and give it a little extra.

[LonewandererD]

Thnx Gandwarf

Suddenly me and photoshop are getting along very well, here are four more maps: Trant, Ilhea, New Demora (redone) and The Darsen Isles. Six down, seven to go; I should have all of Adallia completed in no time.

Just to clarrify, the maximum dimension size is 30 megapixels correct, is that 3000x3000?

-D-

[Karro]

Looking very spectacular!

[LonewandererD]

Thnx . Just for the record, i've added a new bevel to the place symbols to give some extra pop and I've added a red triangle to city symbol , the white ring, the make it look more impressive than the fort and town symbols.

But alas, me and indecision are constant companions. Moments after setting down the naming conventions i found myself questioning them. For the most part the culture of Adallia is the same from country to country; the culture is known as High Style Everlandian and has been spread across about a quarter of the Everlandias by the Zephyrn Empire.

I like the idea i had with the Doumr and Myr naming conventions and is inclined to have a singular word in front of a title to represent something about the place, like "Laer" and "Dann" meaning town or its equivelant. This also helps to break from the European feel which i really want; its not that i hate europe, hell i have a strong european background, its just that a lot of fantasy places have done a European-esque medieval world and i want to break from that.

So I'm asking, does anyone have any suggestion on how i can create a coherent and effective, and maybe exotic/flavourable, naming convention that i can apply elsewhere in the Everlandias, or does anyone know of a place i can go that could help me. If it helps i can elaborate on some of the other customs/conventions of High Style Everlandian culture.

Any help would be appreciated.

-D-

[Karro]

Thnx . Just for the record, i've added a new bevel to the place symbols to give some extra pop and I've added a red triangle to city symbol , the white ring, the make it look more impressive than the fort and town symbols.

But alas, me and indecision are constant companions. Moments after setting down the naming conventions i found myself questioning them. For the most part the culture of Adallia is the same from country to country; the culture is known as High Style Everlandian and has been spread across about a quarter of the Everlandias by the Zephyrn Empire.

I like the idea i had with the Doumr and Myr naming conventions and is inclined to have a singular word in front of a title to represent something about the place, like "Laer" and "Dann" meaning town or its equivelant. This also helps to break from the European feel which i really want; its not that i hate europe, hell i have a strong european background, its just that a lot of fantasy places have done a European-esque medieval world and i want to break from that.

So I'm asking, does anyone have any suggestion on how i can create a coherent and effective, and maybe exotic/flavourable, naming convention that i can apply elsewhere in the Everlandias, or does anyone know of a place i can go that could help me. If it helps i can elaborate on some of the other customs/conventions of High Style Everlandian culture.

Any help would be appreciated.

-D-

Check some of the Toponomy threads. There's not many, but a few good ideas bandied about there. A couple options: (1) "steal" names from real-world cultures that mirror the flavors you are trying to evoke. (2) try and figure out the linguistic/phonological structure of the languages of your source cultures and use one of the "word generators" posted in those threads to make up a series of words that follows a similar, consistent phonological structure.

[Steel General]

Always good to have a basic idea of what you want, all to often I just kind of 'wing-it' in my maps.