Welcome to Lay's Isle, a small island in the Aurora Ocean that is a common stopping point for many trade ships. It hosts three ports: Flore's Port, Senn's Port, and Gale's Port, named for the captains that originally found and colonized the island.
This island has often provided a safe harbor during storms, fresh food and water to replenish stores, and lumber for repairs.
Be wary though, there are dangerous rocks and reefs off the shoreline along the north and south eastern sides of the island. The Gathyn Rocks are named after Admiral Gathyn, who ran his ship onto them. No sailors were lost, but his shame lives on forever.
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With a week off, MMM is back on track!
I have a new scanner/printer now, but don't have my computer hooked up to it. So please bear with me a little longer with the phone camera. Until then, enjoy the map.
As always, these maps are free to use in your own campaign setting.
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Mini-Map Monday #3
Keeping up with the project, here is the third installment. Unfortunately, I have not bought a new printer/scanner yet so you'll have to survive on my phone's camera for a little longer.
I decided to connect this map to the last 2 weeks maps. You'll notice the same Aurora Ocean and Killvain Jungle popping up.
No, this wasn't originally planned, but it looks like I'm making another world lol.
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Today's MMM features the small Baronry of Vinar at the southern tip of Aetherir. They too border the dangerous Killvain Jungle.
This area oversees the Strait of Sorrow. High cliffs on the western bank and impassible mountains on the eastern, there is no safe harbor until the Straits are passed. Just one port, the Waveshear Port, is available to those who sail this way.
The Capitol is Vinar's Crossing, named of course for the Vinar River, which flows over the cliffside. This area is known primarily for its iron mines.
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Welcome to the 2nd installment of Mini-Map Monday. This is where I create small maps, add a little setting info, and present it to you for use in your games if you need it.
The map was drawn by hand.
The other images were generated with Midjourney.
Unfortunately, my scanner/printer has finally died, so the map image is a picture taken from my phone. Once I have a new scanner, I'll get a better image up, but until then enjoy the map!
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Seabreeze Coast
The Seabreeze Coast is a small territory of the larger country, Eldoria. It holds just three cities: the Capitol, St. Elara's Port, which sits at the end of the Darkwater River where it meets the Aurora Ocean in the Azure Bay, The North Gate, which sits on the southern end of the Stonefall Canyon, and Ravenford.
While small, it has vital importance to Eldoria as one of the few areas Eldoria can access the Coast and provide shipping. The only way to reach The Seabreeze Coast is by boat along the Darkwater River, though the Stonefall Canyon. Travel by foot, through the Killvain Jungle, is nearly impossible.
What makes the Jungle so dangerous? It is home to the Forest Dwarves, a sub race of Dwarves that are vicious in nature, extremely territorial, and completely xenophobic. They allow none to pass through their boarders without a fight.
But Eldoria cannot afford to lose this route, so they have invested in a powerful naval force to be stationed at St. Elara's Port and North Gate is more military base than city. Vital shipping goods flow into the country at this point.
If you'd like to know more about this setting, find me on:
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This is a WiP on a world map I use for my own campaigns. If it looks pretty rough, that's cause I'm using only steel nib pens and a small paint brush.
I went to the Ren Faire today and it made me want to break out the calligraphy set again.
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Finished the map.
This is Kobold's Cradle, a mountain valley in the greater Sunderpeak Mountains. It's known best for its silver mines, for which there are 3 active mines. Kobolds are the primary race here, but some dwarves and goliath can be found.
This small map will be used in a d&d game I am running in 5e and this particular arc is filled with undead.
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Another hand drawn map. I merged the styles of 1 and 2 a bit and I came out pretty good, though I'm not too fond of the hills I drew.
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Another practice map done by hand. I went with a more simplistic style seen in older fantasy books, like The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E Feist.
There was a lot of open white space in the North where the Celestial Sea is, so I decides to make the map an Isthmus, which worked out nicely. My handwriting could use some work 😆
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