Thank you so much for all the wonderful feedback! I greatly appreciate it.
@ Barek: I put a slight dark outer glow around the labels. I like them a lot more now, what's your opinion?
Notorious weakness in grasping a proper step-by-step workflow and the conceptual premiss to create a landscape loosely related to the laws of nature drove me way down south. To the plains of Duun: There it started all...
Would love to hear your honest opinion if this is not way too ... well you know... it starts with "c" and ends with "heesy"?
The Ktlaq Homelands are termite-mound-like mountains where the carnelian God-Empress resides in her gigantic palace ... like Mordor ... with insects ^^. The plateau with the bloodstone in the centre is indeed a bit "in your face", but hey, i'm going for high fantasy in a deserty setting
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The Kamaad Plateau and the plains of Duun are home to various human tribes. First they saw the coming of Yshtar as a sign of doom and turned against her. When she came back with legions of zealous Ktlaq warriors, they gave it a second thought...
Nowadays Carn is the spiritual center of Cayad and a place of pilgrimage for all beings in the realm
Not entirely sure about the idea to place some story elements on the map, but there is just so much space with this scale.
Apropos scale, cayadian cartographers tend to represent the important sites on their maps bigger than they actually are. The masters in Azuredawn are usually not very pleased by this habit, but it is common knowledge among endless generations of cayadian map-makers, that it's much better to make your colleagues laugh about you, than to incur the wrath of the God-Empress...
Cheers,
AL