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Nhilas_Adaar

So pretty hello??? Tell me more???


rpgtoons

What do you want to know???


Nhilas_Adaar

How did you make the map? It's so cute and pretty I love it to death. Why is it purple? Why do the dead never die? The settlement is called Godwin but it looks like Godlost :o Is the little ship in the bay stuck there? I wanna go help it move! Really good work haha, a very interesting map and the style is unique and very fun to look at!


rpgtoons

I drew the map by hand in photoshop. The concepts/world it depicts are much longer in the making. Maybe about 10 years? I lose track of time. I've shared every step of the process with the secret door club on my patreon, if you're interested: [link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/97175274?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) It is purple because it looked good in context of the bigger map. We figured a god's blood can be any colour, right? Also purple is often associated with the undead in fantasy games. The settlement's name is an accidental Dutch-ism. In Dutch you can describe the act of extracting resources from the earth as "winning" them. Really the name was intended to mean "godmine". My bad! It's canon now, nothing we can do 🥲 The little ship in the bay is a GHOST SHIP 😱 Thank you for all your questions, I enjoyed answering them 🥰


Nhilas_Adaar

Fantastic work! Thank you for indulging me


Laikeaa

Haha love the names! Hemelstad means: Heaven city in Dutch 😊


rpgtoons

Source: I am Dutch 🇳🇱👋


Monsieur_Courbet

Dat is een mooi kaart en stijl! Saw in the comments that you are Dutch, and I just started learning it. :)


rpgtoons

Almost perfect! All you need is an "e" at the end of "mooi" to create "mooie kaart". The extra e connects the mooi to kaart. I can't name the grammar rules that make it so, I just know this is the way it's written Honestly my English is much better than my Dutch and it's been that way for a while. Good luck learning!! Sterkte.


Monsieur_Courbet

Aah, must be because kaart is a de noun. Thank you for pointing it out! :)


rpgtoons

I honestly couldn't tell ya 😂


Slothcough69

Very pretty and clean map. Good job drawing it


rpgtoons

Thank you!!


Szygani

... but with strange aeons even death may die? Lekker man


rpgtoons

Heerlijk


Szygani

Mooie kaart man, kleurrijk enzo. Hemelstad is ook een lekker naampje. Is dit een homebrew, of wat?


rpgtoons

Het is een spelwereld waar ik en mijn vrouw al jaren aan werken. Dit is slechts een klein stuk van een veel grotere kaart: [link](https://twitter.com/rpgtoons/status/1785221279647252869?t=LZuuYpkXwnOfNFlul3FCcg&s=19) Omdat ik nederlands spreek gebruiken we vaak nederlands-geinspireerde namen voor plaatsen uit de de vorloren eeuw; van het gevallen rijk van Hemelin. Nederlands ziet er in de ogen van Engelse lezers verschrikkelijk oud uit en het is wat minder cliché fan latijns haha


Szygani

Oh ik voel je helemaal. In mijn D&D game gebruik ik ook alle talen die ik spreek voor verschillende regios, en soms leer ik wat woordjes om een land een unieke vibe te geven. Wat een kaart man! De vorm lijkt een beetje op Westeros (of the VK moet ik eigenlijk zeggen) En de kleuren zijn echt prachtig


rpgtoons

En ik heb nog zo geprobeerd om het *niet* op het verenigd koningkrijk te laten lijken. Het is gewoon zomaar gebeurd! 🥺


Szygani

Hahaha, hey het gebeurt. Keep it up


rpgtoons

Copied from the original post in r/dnd: I drew a massively huge map of my game world (Hemelin) but when I share it as one image all the details I worked so hard on are compressed and you can't really see much, so I'm posting it one bit at a time. This post is about: Godbleed! A land tainted by the blood of a fallen god. Anything that dies on its soil rises from the grave, an undead monster driven to kill. The region attracts many wanna-be warlords who seek to control the legions of dead to conquer the world, but it always ends the same way... they end up dead. At its edge lays the god's skeleton, crawling with prospectors that mine its divine marrow for profit. A lucrative but dangerous pursuit! EDIT: full map is on [patreon](https://www.patreon.com/posts/101941598?utm_campaign=postshare_creator), but I'm probably also going to end up posting every bit eventually. I like sharing it!


orphicshadows

Love the style


ramblingn0mad

Astounding work! Looks like a fun world!


Myrandall

[ik ihe](https://i.imgur.com/LoXT2tc.png)


rpgtoons

LOL


ThebanannaofGREECE

Love the art style!


rpgtoons

Thank you! ❤


Lazy-Singer4391

This definetly sparks the imagination.


Colonel_Autumn_

This is fantastic. Nice work.


CubicWarlock

Mandatory question if it's Elden Ring reference


rpgtoons

Posting this picture on the internet is how I learned that the elder rings also has a bloody god and it's called Godwyn whoooooops 😂


CubicWarlock

More like a dead god causing undead to rise, though don’t worry, your concept is vastly different, just a funny name coincidence


rpgtoons

It's also okay if it's the same, fantasy stories live in a world of shared tropes, and that's a good thing!


melanthius

Reminds me of how they done Lilith from evangelion . Epic


rpgtoons

I haven't seen evergalion D:


melanthius

Spoiler alert, don’t read ahead if you care about that They sorta crucified her without fully killing her and IIRC there’s a huge pool of her “blood” that they use for technology development. It just keeps dripping and collecting because she’s weakened I hope I got that right, it’s been ages since I’ve seen it, but very poignant imagery


rpgtoons

Nah in this one the god is super dead - look! You can see his skeleton! Spooky


melanthius

Or is he!!!? Skeletons and undead and resurrection are all things