A spectacle of pride and glory, impregnable and a symbol of mankind’s insurmountable power, the shadow that cast across the west causing every dark thing to both cower and yearn to cast every great stone down.Īlas, this map lacked its final polish. Ten massive districts, each a city in itself, walled together side by side to form the largest city to ever grace the pages of fantasy literature. We were still in a love with its idea…a sprawling architectural wonder that could be seen from space like the Great Wall of China. A people who glowed like gods took shelter in a crystal city in dragon-infested lands.Ĭapital Doljinaar’s size was reduced to a more realistic grandeur, though admittedly it still remained too big. Bloodthirsty shark-men crawled out of the seas to drag land-dwellers back into the depths. The dragon-men now took their place in bleak tower cities atop the fiery black Bloodstorm Mountains. Sylvane had now grown to house over 15 nations, 30 races and 10 unique human nationalities. We added the Ice Marshes, the Jaded Wood, the Ruins of Garrlohan, the Rusharken Hills, the Grublands, Mizzle Drizzle and greatly inflated the sprawling brigand-infested woods of Karus Forest. And then we salted it with hides and wastelands where dark and forgotten things lurked. Their boundaries now extended to nearly one third of the western continent-an empire unequaled in our world.
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Its concept was supposed to represent the united kingdom of men at the height of their power. The kingdom of Doljinaar became far larger and grander. We replaced much of the northern mountains with a swirling, but passable desert called the Great Waste. We opened up some of the mountain passes to make war torn borders.
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Kingdoms began to feel more like kingdoms complete with roads, wilds, rivers and ruins. This was our first labeling of the cities, towns and capitals. For starters I used the original map as an underlay and then I stretched it to make the continent feel much wider.
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in 2007 on AutoREALM, a free fantasy map making program. Nevertheless, this map laid the groundwork for all Sylvane’s future renditions. Far be it from us to leave room for conflict in the beginning, which is at the heart of good story-telling. Whenever we wanted to keep nations apart we had a habit of slapping mountain ranges in between the borders. LOL! There are also far too many mountains. We did not understand the concept of snowcaps providing meltwater to feed rivers at that time, so Mount Haven had a ridiculously large lake atop it. There is not enough room for sprawling fields or untamed forests. That said the original Sylvane seems scrunched now. Just pull out a map and take a glance at the Americas, Asia and Europe for example. Far too many fantasy stories have these strangely shaped landmasses that fit conveniently in portrait format on a page when most real continents are far more landscaped in shape. One of my favorite aspects of the original map is that it actually looked like a continent. Of course, we were but a pair of dreamy-eyed high school boys back then, so every flaw is still married to the original dream. When compared to Kurn, which was basically a dot by comparison, Capital Doljinaar was astronomically too large. Looking back, Capital Doljinaar took up the entire southwestern peninsula of Sylvane, which is absurd. Doljinaar was always the name for both the nation and the capital of the united kingdom of men. The map really only had two major cities labeled back then: Doljinaar and Kurn. Our concept nations were Doljinaar, Kildore, Jui-Sae, Jui-Rae, Sssyrinya, the Blacklands and Myst Valley. Its lands were originally divided by seven races. Sylvane is a crowded continent in the lower hemisphere. This is the continent of Sylvane where the first stories take place.
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This map was first drawn in the late 90’s when we were in high school. He chose to pursue his first two loves, but this map will always possess a special place in my heart. Besides his natural born abilities in writing and music, he is also a natural born artist. This first image is the original map, as penciled by my partner, J.