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Μηδίζω! THE WORLD OF ACHAEMENID HELLAS CHAPTER 8: KAKIA or ZURA Against Xerxes by Pseudo-Agathetykhos, c.*450s BCE ‘The Great Despoiler of Asia’ That in your seized dominion not only have poleis been victim to rapacious seizure and desolation but also tribes, cultures, peoples, entire...

I made a map for a contest on reddit, where the theme was a relocated people/nation from their OTL location. For the content I borrowed from the World of Achaemenid Hellas. There's a lot of displaced-compared-to-OTL peoples in there, but I decided on the Goths of the Balkans, partially cause I...

This is the result of attempting to change up the formula of the isometric islands I've been making, along with trying to push myself further. As opposed to the summery Greek feel of the original trio this is meant to have a more tropical Caribbean/insular South American feel with inspiration...

Alas, tis the result of trying to keep these from being too cluttered and being kind of stylised. You would not believe the number of things I tried to put on these maps that just didn't look right no matter what I did, usually because it jarred against the heavily stylised form of the...

The third entry in what's become a little trilogy of summery, Greekish islands. Though these still remain style experiments as much as anything Encheleia has slowly been accruing a more solid imagery in my mind, strongly Greek/Mediterranean with a somewhat peaceable feeling akin to someone out...

After a request from a friend, I've tried to adapt my recent isometric style to a Caribbean island, specifically St Lucia. I had to adapt the palette a little bit because of the number of elevation layers I used, and also went for attempting pixel art plants rather than buildings because it...

Made another one of these. Tried to be a bit more ambitious about multiple elevations and a bit more in the way of pixel art type bits.

This ended up turning into another style experiment.

It's amazing how much of an asshole toothache can be when it wants to. I'd planned on making even more variants of this map than I have here already and a substantial backstory written up. Once I can string more than an hour of being able to think clearly in a row hopefully that can happen. To...

First map unrelated at all to the Crumpleverse in a while. It began as more of a general visual concept, and it remains something with less worldbuilding than my usual standard if I'm honest. In a nutshell I'd imagined this to be some sort of ASB additional Atlantic archipelago first discovered...

All of the pink is land, and the paler pink is meant to be topographical/showing mountainous bits.

I'm glad you liked it! Qualambvar is a mutated form of Gualamba, as in Chaco Gualamba.

And now for something completely different... Wamapu is a moon orbiting a brilliantly coloured gas giant, possessing a breathable atmosphere and gravity below even a Mars norm. Whilst these are habitable conditions for humans there are very few landmasses above sea level. The largest of these is...

Oh whoops, I forgot to post this in here.

Just to double check, do you mean what script these languages use when you say characters? As for a trade language, by the 28th century live translation technology is sophisticated enough that you don't actually need a commonly spoken language for that purpose. The etiquette of when to use that...

Most of what you're noticing is related to linguistic change- in Tabijanese what was modern Japanese ch has shifted to j, and sh has shifted to zh, along with ō shifting to u and u shifting to o (Gontu would have been Guntō in modern Japanese). There's also several examples of metathesis at work...

This is a slightly more quickfire map compared to the multi-day Crumpleverse things I've been making recently. Tabijana Prefecture is an administrative division on the world of New Tokyo, centred on the island of Tabijana. It's part of the wider Gontu region, which is made up of most of the...

I've finished the second of the Galilean Republics series for the Crumpleverse. I have to admit I found it a little trickier to think up points of interest for Ganymede because of its lower population than Callisto whilst still being similar to Callisto in many ways, but I think I got there in...

Thanks very much! The Crumpleverse is many things, but it wouldn't be quite the same without ventures into food and linguistics, at least I think so.