A Map Thread

[Hapsburg]

Hapsburg are there any pegasi or winged unicorns?

Hmmm. I dunno whether I should have those or not. I'm trying to keep the fantasy elements as rational as possible. So, the question I must ask myself is: why would a horse develop wings? I mean, it'd be very light, frail, and have big lungs; that'd kinda be a weird setup for an equine, almost a total evolutional backstep.
A more viable winged animal would be like a Griffin or a Hippogriff. Feline bodies are quite slender and lithe, thin enough and light enough to have a flight-capable creature, even when it comes to lion or leopard-sized cats. It'd still have to have really strong shoulder and back muscles and ligaments to allow for the wings to work, but with a feline it could work.
So, no pegasi, but there are griffins, and of course, dragons, drakes, and sea serpents (drakes are like wingless dragons).

Now, the demon army is a bit different. They screw the laws of physics right in the ass, metaphorically speaking, and have a lot of really large and physically bizarre creatures in their employ, like minotaurs, talos-esque colossi, castle-sized fleshy spheroids with many eyes and mouths, etc.

 

[Spacedragonblue]

Hey, these fantasy range maps are fun!

 

[Nicole]

Just jumping into the trend, I guess...

Prevalence of the Vampiric Genetic Mutation. Also, blue striped areas show a number of magic users- magic users form no majority anywhere. (Also note that in TTL the magic users are often supporters of the Catholic Church- one of the popes decides that it's better to have them on his side than against him- though it results in many of the more anti-Catholic Protestant sects demanding the expulsion of magic-users as "agents of the Anti-Christ"- the Papal States became a major refuge.)

 

[Diamond]

Just jumping into the trend, I guess...

Prevalence of the Vampiric Genetic Mutation. Also, blue striped areas show a number of magic users- magic users form no majority anywhere. (Also note that in TTL the magic users are often supporters of the Catholic Church- one of the popes decides that it's better to have them on his side than against him- though it results in many of the more anti-Catholic Protestant sects demanding the expulsion of magic-users as "agents of the Anti-Christ"- the Papal States became a major refuge.)

Now that's an interesting and very different idea!

 

[Nekromans]

The Sudetenland seems to be quite magical.

 

[EvolvedSaurian]

No vampires in Santorini?

 

[G.Bone]

a continuance of the Goblinography...

 

[Highlander]

An alternate Europe-Geography map I was tinkering with ... Gonna draw in some borders next.

Comments?

 

[David bar Elias]

I like the gigantic Malta.......

 

[Nicole]

Corsica-Sardinia looks like a boot...

 

[Thande]

Let's see, southern England is directly connected to the Continent, and separated from the North by a yawning chasm...

...

Sorry, what's the difference from OTL again?

 

[Highlander]

Fantasy map I did with the alternate Europe map.

 

[Doeth]

Sexyland!

 

[Floid]

Germani-stan?

-stan is a Persian suffix.

 

[Doeth]

The Purple is contested, Humans are Terranoids. The 2 superpowers are The UNI and COAW

 

[Floid]

Nice star map Doeth.

Where did you get the base from?

 

[Doeth]

Did an image search for Milky Way Galaxy on Large.

Linky-the-link-monster

I used the GIMP to remove the sun thingy, I'll post that in the Base Map thread.

You need to post in JPEG becuase even PING is too large

 

[Hapsburg]

That's the same basemap I used for my CGU map. Except I...resized it to something smaller before adding text.

 

[Doeth]

But these are nations, most borders are a straight wall, from star alpha to star beta.

BTW The POD is that Syria Declares war on Israel in the recent conflict.

 

[EvolvedSaurian]

I'm guessing Fmlaor is Welsh.