Showing my work (I have intentionally not listed several things as I am holding those cards for the time being). The Hill Cantons cosmology inspiration mix Jack Vance novels (absurdist satire of religious mores) Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword and Three Hearts, Bachman's Dragon article (the Weird and its cosmic juxtaposition to human civilization, the waxing/waning of gods being tied to the amount of human worship and the reduction of “Faerie”) Leiber's Lankhmar stories (more satire, petty gods and apotheosis) Early Renaissance Catholicism, Mediterranean hero-cults, Hellenistic and Roman sun-cults, Theosophy, Jewish neoplatinism and mystical traditions, Piper's Lord Kalvan, Early Christian theological disputes (Sun Lord) Hussites, Mormon feminism, William Blake's poetic mythology around the Triple Goddess (Celestial Lady) Slavic pagan mythology (Pahr Old Gods and a number of godlings) Hindu and Native American creation myths (World Turtle) M.A.R Barker's Creat...
so close to the horn, the awesome horn
ReplyDeleteand if we are in 10.08 now we could just cross country home to 18.14 and open up some of the map
ReplyDeleteis 18.11 the fort at the Y?
ReplyDeleteok, i will shut up now but from iron spire island it looks like you could longterm control alot of the shipping lanes
ReplyDelete18.11 is the Y.
ReplyDeleteso awesome
ReplyDeletei didn't realize the underwater city was so far east
ReplyDeletealso, what's Hakos?
ReplyDeletecole long it's one of the three Southlands petty kingdoms along with Tscho and Maarb.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't really realized how close the Feral Shore is to the Cantons proper. This helps a lot re: geography.
ReplyDeleteMy maps tend to be really small scale (2 mile hexes mostly), so ramping them up to 5 mile hexes really makes everything look a lot closer and denser.
ReplyDeleteI love these sorts of maps ...
ReplyDeleteI will add rivers, roads and some other sites of interest (both explored and not) probably tomorrow morning.
ReplyDeleteWhich direction is north? Straight up or slightly off?
ReplyDeleteSlightly off to the right.
ReplyDeleteCool. That's what I had figured to make both Corelands and Brazos fit with what we know of the big map.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is that I tried to have north be straight up but realized that I had drawn the entire HC coastline at a tilt so I just went ahead and drew the whole thing that way.
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