This was a great challenge! Thanks to everyone who participated! The variety and the detail that went into a lot of these pushed me to up my game and refine my own entry well beyond what I originally intended to do. Thanks to this challenge, I'm more proficient at working with beveling and embossing, creating some complicated relief images, and incorporating thematic textures into my work than I was before. Making these round shield templates also opens the possibility for future refinement in my map-making.

Voting-wise, I think I'll hold off for a bit and see if I can help to engineer a multi-way tie. Or is that a faux pas? There are a lot of great entries; it seems right that this month should yield more than one silver compass.

I'm looking forward seeing the topic for the next lite challenge!