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First in pool
The Sands of Tahamasset - 1
November 2024: Probably the final "significant" round of updates and improvements. My map of Asantrea has been an ongoing task for several years now; I drew the first 'version' of this way back in about 2014, a simple pencil and ink drawing in a sketchbook. I digitised it for the first time in 2018, and have redrawn it twice since then; this latest iteration has been ongoing since 2020 and has expanded over and over again until it captured the whole world of Asantrea.

In this latest iteration, I've redrawn every waterway on the whole planet, reworked national borders and introduced several dozen entirely new nations - broadly, taking previously monolithic and under-developed regions and giving them a roughly uniform level of complexity and detail. There are comfortably hundreds of new locations in this update; rivers, nations, regions, cities, towns, navigation features.

This has been a *huge* undertaking. Everything on this map has been created from scratch and drawn by hand; nothing is generated automatically or using any assistance tool. Base layers drawn in Procreate, then exported and compiled in Affinity Designer, where the thousands of labels were added.

Actual size is 16000 x 9900 px, or 1355 mm x 841 mm. I am intending for this to be printed at actual size and mounted as a wall hanging.

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March 2024: More updates! The map has grown! It's now larger than the maximum file dimension of 144 MP on this site, so the latest update is slightly downsized... Major changes are; the islands off of southern Ambriel have been reversed east-west and now extend out into the Mare Viridium, there are a bunch of new island chains and I've started drawing in The Veil - which is a mid-ocean volcanic ridge at the tectonic boundary, which causes the ocean to steam and be virtually impassable in most areas. This has been made possible through levelling up my skillset - I now use Procreate mostly for primary drawing only, and do all of the arrangement, choreography, labelling and post-production in the Affinity desktop suite, which enables many many layers and easy image replacement.

I have also redrawn EVERY RIVER in the western half of Asantrea, most of the mountains, made some alterations to the coastlines, added probably 250 new towns/cities/places, several entirely new nations, redrawn most national borders, and begun to add 'navigation notes' on the map like your might find on an 18th-Century mariners' map.

I've also added another file at the very end of the submission (see slot 12) which shows where all this began, back in 2014, as an ink-and-marker drawing on a sheet of printer paper.

It's come a damned long way. Natural page size now is 16,000 x 10,000 pixels, at 300 dpi, meaning it's now larger than any standard paper size.

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June 2023: Exciting new updates! After spending some time hand-drawing the eastern half of Asantrea on a separate Procreate canvas, I finally worked out the best way to stitch the two halves of the map together on my desktop computer. That precipitated a re-working of the map to make it resemble an old maritime chart, rather than a full colour piece (which proved impossible to stitch together at such a large size!)

This is the first time I've ever seen Asantrea in its entirety on one screen, and I'm very excited.

The native size of this map is A0. 47x33 inches / 1189x841 mm. It's immense. The idea with that is that I'll get it printed and mounted to hang on the wall in my house. I'm also hoping to digitise it and include some overlays, like real-world GIS mapping, to explore various historical and cultural elements of the world like species distribution, empires, religion, trade and commerce, etc.

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November 2021: Expanding on the below, I maxed out the dimensions of my Procreate canvas to extend the coastline of Ambriel all the way to the south. I've also detailed The Rift, a huge spine of geological uplift running North-South at the eastern extent of Doregal which separates this western portion of Asantrea from the east. Finally, I've reworked a lot of the texturing and deepened some colours, redone a lot of labels and added a whole slew of new towns and cities around the place, particularly in countries where no city was previously marked (such as Sabarin, Tironia, Erialin and Viania). There's a bunch of new countries, and I'm thinking very strongly about naming conventions, cultural similarities and geography.

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Early 2021: I have spent the last few months prodding away at my tablet screen, creating pixel-by-pixel a 6K resolution map of Asantrea. This is the REGION of Asantrea (I know, it's like a quarter of the whole planet) in which most of my stories take place. Y'all should recognise Stillwater Cove, at the very least! I'm super proud of the detail in this map now, and hope eventually to make an interactive version on my own website which allows a far deeper dive into this complex realm :3

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It occurs to me that I’ve never uploaded this on its own before! This is a map of Asantrea, my fantasy world, with borders marked as they would’ve been at around the time of Sands of Tahamasset (https://inkbunny.net/s/2062223). Obviously I’ve taken on a lot, to create a believable fantasy AU with a complete and engaging geopolitical history and everything, but I can’t help myself!

Asantrea is an earth-like planet, orbited by three moons; Seilyr, the largest, is just like a miniature Asantrea, teeming with life and shrouded in a rich atmosphere. Saliel resembles Earth’s moon; bright, but lifeless. And Hadriel, representative of the Void, is a small, dark moon.

The Asantrean planetary system orbits a binary star system; Kesh, the brighter, is a Sol-like G2 star, while Aror is a far smaller, cooler M-Dwarf. Conveniently, in January 2020 NASA found just such a system, known as a circumbinary system, lending credibility to my wild musings! https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-s-tess-m...

*takes off giga-nerd glasses* :B

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Furlips
4 years, 2 months ago
Well done dear.

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toothy337
3 years, 12 months ago
>Temeria
wait a sec
BrunoHirschkoff
3 years, 12 months ago
Pardon me?
BrunoHirschkoff
3 years, 7 months ago
Right, I see - Temeria is the name of a place in a video game or something?

For what it's worth, I came up with the name independently, that's just coincidence. But since it's a commercially successful use of the word, I've removed it from my AU.

In future, if you see something like that from me, assume I have no idea what you're talking about, and enlighten me! :3
CowboyBboy
3 years, 7 months ago
This is very good looking, very neat.
What program did you use to create your map?
The attention to detail is very high, looks like an actual, honest to goodness map of a world, or at least, a section of it.
BrunoHirschkoff
3 years, 7 months ago
Thankyou!! I'm super proud of how it's coming together. A lot of it is literally pixel by pixel, especially when it came to filling in the base land colour.

I use Procreate on a Gen-3 iPad to generate the graphics; initially I was using that to add labels too but on a file of this size layers are very restricted. So I focused instead on just making the graphics, and brought the file into Affinity Publisher (like a cheaper, non-Adobe version of InDesign) to add typographic elements. SO much easier, I'm annoyed I didn't think of it sooner!
JacobTheOtter
3 years, 7 months ago
Damn, those are really sick coast coastlines for all hand drawn. I've done a little bit if mapping for d&d games, but to get good looking coasts I've always run photoshop cloud renders through a threshold effect to get really good irregular lines. Keep up the good work!
CowboyBboy
3 years, 7 months ago
Pretty insightful.
Though, I don't have any of those tools, hah.
Thank you for replying!
BrunoHirschkoff
3 years, 7 months ago
Any time :3

I'm glad people appreciate what I post enough to comment and ask questions!

I'm also a massive geology nerd, so I love making fjords, mountains, glacial plains and areas of uplift believable - the 'Rift Valley' you can see in the northeast quadrant of the map, running up the Heladian Gulf through Ithenor, is the northern extent of a tectonic boundary that extends all the way south, off the eastern edge of this map, forming a nigh-impenetrable barrier to the lands to the east. Its northerly extent can be seen as a row of cliffs crossing the isthmus on the eastern side of Irgalskali. This map does, ultimately, only show about a quarter of Asantrea. ;3
CowboyBboy
3 years, 7 months ago
I've been getting slightly more into geographical stuff lately as well, since I've been trying to design the map of my world.
My method is a bit odd, though.
I definitely super appreciate your method.

And no problem, man. I'm glad that you're glad, lol.
Feryl
1 year, 11 months ago
Wow...I've not taken a close look at this until now. Your creativity is staggering. I've been working on a world I started for my D&D campaigns in the early 00's & it's nowhere near this involved!
BrunoHirschkoff
1 year, 11 months ago
That means a lot to hear, thank you! There’s a lot of depth and detail to Asantrea that I feel I don’t often convey in ways that people necessarily want to put effort into engaging with. If you haven’t already, download the full-size map and zoom around in it for a bit - there’s detail there in places that isn’t really visible at display resolution.

My intention is to make an interactive map at some stage with regional zoom levels, and expandable detail cards about history, political structure, demography etc of the particular region.
Feryl
1 year, 11 months ago
Oh trust me, I have. That's why I commented. I kept finding little nooks & crannies of detail that no one would notice. Even so, I noticed and am impressed! One day I'll finish digitizing Aterra & post it somewhere. As of now it's on a sheaf of 8.5x11 typing paper I could scrounge while in college & doodling during long boring classes.
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