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Post by Krall on Apr 3, 2016 22:55:45 GMT
The BadlandsThe ChallengeMake a map showing a dangerous, sparsely populated region. The RestrictionsThere are no restrictions on when your PoD or map may be set. Fantasy, sci-fi, and future maps are allowed, but blatantly implausible (ASB) maps are not. If you're not sure whether your idea meets the criteria of this challenge, please feel free to PM me.
Please try to keep images posted in this thread a reasonable size - feel free to post a smaller version of your image and provide link to a full-size version if you want to.--- The entry period for this round has been extended. It shall now end when the voting thread is posted on Sunday the 24th of April. --- THIS THREAD IS FOR ENTRIES ONLY.Any discussion must take place in the main thread. If you post anything other than a map entry (or a description accompanying a map entry) in this thread then you will be asked to delete the post. If you refuse to delete the post, post something that is clearly disruptive or malicious, or post spam then you may be disqualified from entering in this round of MotF and you may be reported to the board's moderators. Remember to vote on the previous round of MotF!
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Post by eDGT on Apr 17, 2016 21:28:41 GMT
This map.... well it didn't turn out like I expected. I basically had to learn a bunch of image editing on the fly, which is good cause to be honest I think it turned out looking okay. Sorry for the land-water colour, I couldn't work out how to curve text so I printed it... though I think it actually improved some of the stuff. Anyway this map is an "ancient copy" showing the land of Ul’ Talam, literally meaning "The Bad Lands", an area of chaotic tribalism and petty kingdoms before the coming of missionaries from distant lands. It has been carefully and factually annotated by a disgruntled nobleman and distributed amongst his peers. He's totally not inciting insurrection, just a return to traditional values. Those traditional values may or may not have had something to do with ritual combat and human sacrifice.... Hopefully it's taken more as a piece of humour than anything serious The world is old beyond the count of any man, so claim many a seer and scholar. Mayhaps they are right in this for there is much we cannot explain, or we did once know but as seasons turn so do the memories of men. Some things remain. The shepherds bring things to the markets, strange metal and shards of dumit, and men gawp and singers will tell us of Rona with his red hair and magic bridge, or the never ending war between Muri and Cha to unmake the world. Today men laugh, but once they listened and learnt, and they knew that Rona once walked our hills and the Fer Mori fell to him, and his city on the bridge ruled all these islands. In past days teachers did come to Ul’ Talam, men and women from Sasnegyr. They told our forefathers of other lands; the icey lands where men eat their daughters and from which came the demon men of Sutlander, bastrds; and of lands beyond their own where people lay in reverence of their God King, the FUHR, who died and is reborn to lead his kingdom to blood. The teachers spoke well, and they taught our forefathers much wisdom. Were not for them I would scratch lines on a rock and pray others understood them to pass my message on. But evils hide behind fine learning. Their teaching had no respect. They spoke of peace, and godly rewards. Warriors do not wait, a true leader of men does not speak of peace when others spit on the bones of his ancestors. They drank our swally and relieved themselves on the graves of our gods! Some of you may speak of peace, and the riches of one kingdom instead of loads. Metal and swall and dumit flow from to Combra and Raer Mor, and even our own chosen king sits on the ancient stone throne in Glas-Gae. But what of our honour? When rats and worms carve burrows into our tribes and in the skulls of our rulers, who will defend our rights in the old ways? Look to the sea! Look to the Bridge of Swords and the blood of ancient Rona which once ruled our islands from the Sea of Oghi to Anga’s Bay! Cast out those who spit poison on our ways, burn them as Rona once burnt the Fer Mori!
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Apr 23, 2016 0:25:06 GMT
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