Fantasy and Alien Blank Basemaps Thread

[Thande]

I daresay all the whizbang technoheads who understand the voodoo mysteries of Photoshop already knew this, but it occurred to me that you can use a programme like Paint.net which allows multiple layers to trace complex fantasy maps with the good old wiggly river between the pointy mountains and produce a simpler blank map you can edit.

Anyway, thought a thread like this would be good for ASB scenarios taking place on established fantasy and alien worlds. My first attempt follows in the next post.

 

[Thande]

For a first try I think we must go back to Mr Turtledove. Videssos ahoy!

Below is the original map I traced for comparison.

And here is my rendition:

 

[Thande]

63 views and no replies...huh.

Anyway, here's the Darkness world (Derlavai and the other continents). I didn't bother with rivers and mountains this time, though I can add them if necessary, but instead put on political borders and added the UCS colours for the corresponding OTL countries.

 

[Herzogdux]

This is cool. Please continue (Id contribute but im totally unskilled at this.)

 

[Guildencrantz]

Nifty.

 

[fortyseven]

63 views and no replies...huh.

Anyway, here's the Darkness world (Derlavai and the other continents). I didn't bother with rivers and mountains this time, though I can add them if necessary, but instead put on political borders and added the UCS colours for the corresponding OTL countries.

Nice thread.

 

[thrashing_mad]

Here`s blank map I made some time ago of entire Middle Earth continent, according to MERP (old Middle Earth Role Playing game):

 

[Iserlohn]

Here is a map I made in January, originally based on the continent of Aventuria from the German pen&paper RPG "The Dark Eye". But given due to the fact that Dere (the entire world "The Dark Eye" is set in) mostly looks ass, I went on to create to additional continents from the scratch and slightly modified Aventuria.

 

[Rekjavik]

I have the blank version of my Latminis map.

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/268/1/5/Blank_Latminis_by_Magnysovich.png

 

[Kaiphranos]

One thing about the Videssos map: I'm pretty sure there should be a strait connecting the Videssian Sea with the Sailors' Sea, and separating Videssos the City from Across. (Sort of an analogue of the Bosphorus.)

 

[Thande]

Here`s blank map I made some time ago of entire Middle Earth continent, according to MERP (old Middle Earth Role Playing game):

Aaargh, my eyes bleed!

I know people had to fill in blanks for all the years before the History of Middle-earth was released in the 1990s, but to a Tolkien nut like me, looking at that map is like watching someone claim a Ptolemaic map accurately reflects OTL

One thing about the Videssos map: I'm pretty sure there should be a strait connecting the Videssian Sea with the Sailors' Sea, and separating Videssos the City from Across. (Sort of an analogue of the Bosphorus.)

Yeah you're right, I realised that after I posted it - the trouble is that the basemaps I'm working from have a gap in the middle due to being scanned from books so you have to guess the borders and I forgot there was a strait there.

 

[Communist Wizard]

Yoshi's Isles/Dinosaur Land from Mario. Specifically, Super Mario World.

 

[Nicole]

Yoshi's Isles/Dinosaur Land from Mario. Specifically, Super Mario Land.

Looks more like Super Mario World to me, noting that Land took place in Sarasaland...

 

[Communist Wizard]

Looks more like Super Mario World to me, noting that Land took place in Sarasaland...

*slaps forehead*
Yes, Super Mario World.

 

[thrashing_mad]

Aaargh, my eyes bleed!

I know people had to fill in blanks for all the years before the History of Middle-earth was released in the 1990s, but to a Tolkien nut like me, looking at that map is like watching someone claim a Ptolemaic map accurately reflects OTL

Well, it`s still best interpretation of lands beyond LOTR map that I`ve ever encountered.

 

[Thande]

Well, it`s still best interpretation of lands beyond LOTR map that I`ve ever encountered.

NO NO NO NO NO!!!! The part of Middle-earth represented in the books is the North-East of the Old World east of the sea! Middle-earth is supposed to be the Old World before the last Ice Age!

This is what the whole is supposed to look like, circa First Age:

 

[Thande]

And here is most of the world during the Second Age (OK it's in Polish; the conspiracy is spreading evidently)

 

[Thande]

Anyway, resuming the thread:

Map of Westeros from A Song of Ice and Fire, showing the Seven Kingdoms.

For those not familiar with the series, this is just one continent on which the action takes place, not the whole world - but the world has not been entirely shown through maps yet.

 

[DAv]

Any Discworld Maps about?

 

[Thande]

Any Discworld Maps about?

It's on my list.


Here's a blank version of the Polish Second Age of Arda map I posted above, minimalist with no rivers or mountains: