Recent Mapping

My D&D campaign has restarted after a several month hiatus which of course means new maps! I haven't posted my previous maps, I'll try to get around to that. For now, check out the new ones!

In drawing them I wanted to support the story hook given to the players, that a researcher who has gone missing had been investigating what happened on this island (there were a couple thousand years between map renderings). I started with the coastal outline of the shattered island and lightly traced a few of the notable points to get the unified island started. Next I filled in the notable features of the unified island, then translated them to the shattered island. I'm really happy with the results -- much of style from both maps are drawn from +Michael Wenman's excellent map tutorials.

So I present the ruined island of Belthor, or, the Isle of Balance & Isle of Ruin as some players at my table have dubbed them. I rather like Balance/Ruin more than Belthor. =)
Before the Bad Thing® happened


After the Bad Thing®

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