The Lionburgh - fortress guarding the ancient city of Ostwyc

[Caenwyr]

Hi all!

So a while back I created a map for the city of Ostwyc. It was a veritable monster of a map, and took me months to complete. I didn't mind, it was a fun experience, and since it was a personal project, I could take all the time I wanted to explore side tracks and loose myself in them.

One of these side tracks that didn't make the cut was an ISO view of the fortress straddling the city wall: the Lionburgh. At the time I was quite pleased with it, and it was mostly lack of map real estate that made me decide to leave it off. Now I'm glad I didn't use it. Man was that a crude bit of mapping!



Since I'm currently between maps for a certain commission (and since that particular fortress/palace kept popping up in my mind), I decided to take another go at it. So here it goes.

This is a section of the original map, conveniently warped for ISO-ification:


On which I then started drawing the different levels. Getting them all aligned was the biggest challenge, but this way I can be confident that the ISO castle and the one on the map are indeed identical.

This is what I have for the moment:


I'm now asking myself if I should do all the houses around it as well. Well, actually I feel like I should, but I errr... don' wanna. Lots of pain-in-the-ass tedious linework that will just be overlooked... Or will it? What is your opinion?