A Map?

[Sir Nichtmar]

Ok I know I'm farely new at this, but I want to help and be a part of this. I'm pretty good with graphics and such, so I want to put together a Map. So what i'm looking for is:

Locations in relations to each other (something like "location" is south of "another location", "location" is on NorthWest Tip of LBTL)

shape maybe of the land

mountains, trails, whatever

Where certain events happened


Anything would help, thought it may be cool to give us a map to help guide our stories along. Maybe bring a sketched map to practice or something.

What ya think?

[Sir Semi]

as of now, the major locations are:
The Northern Steppes (where the Dragoons reside) in NE corner
Aethenu in NW corner
Mittelmarch is fairly well centered
The Southern Reaches (Location of CrannMeigeall) is SW corner

Those are very basic and I am not entirely sure any land masses, etc.

[Sao]

A map is a good idea n_n
There is some kind of river or something and a big hill where we killed the necromancer, but I'm not sure where that is... and there are forests, yay forests! There was one forest with a cave that bore two cave trolls during that battle to kill the necromancer and get his staff...
Thats all I remember....

[Taos]

I once drew a map, but I believe it was lost in one of my many hard drive cleanings. I still remember most of it though, if you want to get together and hammer out something definite, Nichtmar.

[Alric, son of Harland]

The LBTL is roughly Indiana.

Mittelmarch is located in a mysterious clearing in the middle of the Greatwood. The Iron Mountains are just to the Northeast. The River of Flame starts in the Iron Mountains and flows west and then south.

The Northern Steppes span the land from the eastern coast to the home of the Aethenu. (Check with Furey for details regarding their homeland.)

The Eastern Shores lay along The Sea and are currently uninhabited.

The Southern Reaches is a thickly wooded area at the southern tip of The Land. CrannMeigall is located there.

Alric

[Sir Nichtmar]

Is there like a Castle, Camp, or something in mittelmarch

[Taos]

Mittelmarch is a fortified encampment in a large clearing in the woods. If you've ever seen 13th Warrior, it's like the Viking's hall, with outlying farms and homes spread throughout the woods.

[Aidan Furey]

Hurrot Hall, If any of you don't know this... I have had huge spurts of interests in civilizations and the Vikings happen to me my to[ 5 favorites :-D and I know an extensive amount of info about them... not as much as Uncle Oron I wouldn't think but.... Yes 13th Warrior is a Great movie, I'm waiting for Beowulf and Grendel :-D

also to add if you are in detail with the map Aethenu has 3 major parts, a Highland, (Mountainous area) Plains of Atherny (Speaks for itself) and a heavily wooded area :-P THe Moon Hallows.

well, it would seem you all ready have all this info but, :-P its here if you need it... yup

[Sir Nichtmar]

Been working on this for while making minor changes here and there

[Sir Rune]

looks nice.

[kiyoko sasaki]

shouldent the river of flame be red? or is it just a name and not really a flaming river? ^,-,^

[MacDimm]

I believe it's just a name...
You need some mist on there. I'm not saying baste the thing in mist, but maybe just draw a few clouds of it to represent mist...

[Alric, son of Harland]

The River of Flame is named for the way it looked during a sunset just after The Arrival.

Beautiful work. But a little squished. The Iron Mountains run from NNW of Mittelmarch to about due east. The River of Flame starts in the right place, but it should run through the Greatwood and just into the clearing. The Dragoons and Aethenu are the right distance from one another, but the entirety of the Northern Steppes should be bumped north a bit.

From what I posted today about the weather:

As to the weather of The Land...large storm are created by the sea far to the east, and these storms travel toward the populated areas of The Land. When these storms reach the Iron Mountains (which stretch from NNW to E of Mittelmarch), they begin to dump their water. Some of them travel along the range before sputtering out, but it is exceedingly rare for a storm to get around the mountains. When they do, they were HUGE to begin with, but have died down to a reasonable thundershower when they hit MM. The results of this rainfall are the River of Flame (which starts a little NE of MM and runs through the Greatwood, just into the clearing where Mittelmarch lies) and a small lake in the foothills to the north of the range. The lake drains into a river, which runs all the way back to the sea in the east.

If I were you (and I'm not, I'm prettier), I wouldn't even try to include the sea on the map. It's so far away that including it would shrink everything way too much.

I hate to sound so critical, especially since it looks like you put a lot of effort into this. I'll buy you cookies and Gatorade next time I'm in Indyville. Unless you wanna come visit me here in Funcie. ::coughineedhelpwiththistournamentcough::

Alric

[Sir Semi]

I need to send you a program Nichtmar. Anywho, It looks great, but I will send you some detailed instructions on exactly where TSR and CM are.

There is a mountain range to our west, and the River Isen flows Easterly into the River of Flame. Nestled near the Southern Edge of the Great forest, Fangorn, CrannMeigeall is a Day's march from the Dale at Derndingle (for those of you who don't know, Derndingle is the location of the Entmoot from TTT.) I will get the map online and show it to you. TSR is really the overall area represented by the Southlands. The weather here is much like our real weather. The seasons have a large difference from one another, and overall there is an oppressive feeling in the air (due to the high humidity.)

Yes our locale is based on LotR, and the map I have is a portion of a map of Middle Earth, but it will give you a good idea of our geographic locale... And yes, there is a city to our South, represented on the map by Isengard, and yes it is the enemy that holds power in said city. We have not named it yet, but have heard it called Mourna during our scouting raids.

[Sir Nichtmar]

I'll work on it, I've decided to totally scrap it and start a another one


Anything else just post

My new map is looking 100 times better than the last one

[Sir Semi]

do a google search for AutoRealm, it is an awesome free map making program

[MacDimm]

That program is awesome! I love it already!

[Aidan Furey]

We at aethenu Are working Ours from scratch.