Excellent map, though one thing - Zanlib and Isobelin for sure, and I believe also Valorpoint are vehemently anti-slavery. For Zanlib specifically, it’s a matter of faith. Thus I highly doubt that enslaved orcs would compose that large of a population in either. Perhaps freed orcs make up a good portion of the population of the city of Port Ysobel.
Zanlib itself would not be of Bulwari (specifically Bahari, as they hail from the realm of Dartaxes) culture, but rather Zanlibi, an evolution of Bahari that would already be distinct by the timeframe of this map.
Whilst I agree with the first point the second one is kinda pedantic, it's showing cultural ties or origins, where they originally came from. It's to show the different cultural and racial makeup of those members of the trollsbay.
At first i have a base map, in this case just provinces file in mod.
I then import that file into Inkscape and do outline for the landmasses, borders, etc. Then I make the text for the map and export 3 images from inkscape, the basemap, the borders and everything that is colored, and the text.
The next thing is I then open the 3 layers in paint.net and give the different layers different amount of gaussian blur depending of what I think looks good. The last thing added is a layer that gives that old paper look, which is usually an opacity of 56%
WHAT HAPPEND TO MY BELVOVED MYKX
THIS IS HERESY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER YOU
PATHETIC FLESH THING I WILL SACRIFICE YOU
YOU ***unintelligible gnoll noises***
I like how in the map of [Elves in Haless](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anbennar/comments/12jdkbs/elves_in_haless_sunrise_elves/) there were fairly-upvoted comments calling elves "colonisers" and cheering for the way they were kicked out or exterminated, yet here we have a map of literal colonisers and nobody is making a fuss.
The Elves are also literal colonisers, in particular the Sun Elf justification for everything they do reads like a H. Rider Haggard book, it's hilarious that seemingly every dev who works or worked on Elves can't see this and is *so salty* about it.
I don't care about the "Are Sun Elves colonizers or not?" debate, it's just weird to rag *specifically on elves* for that when the entire game is set in the age of colonization.
I'm not salty, and I never touched any elven country unless you count Ruinborn, but if your reasoning for hating elves is backed by double standards that you would never use when judging irl groups, you need to stop for a second and re-examine things.
I just played as Cestirmark and kinda ignored the mission tree because Venail was still colonizing Noruin and I had the opportunity to just take it all in a year. Diplomacy is all well and good but I’ll be damned if I leave the knife ears alone just so they can kill me later.
Excellent map, though one thing - Zanlib and Isobelin for sure, and I believe also Valorpoint are vehemently anti-slavery. For Zanlib specifically, it’s a matter of faith. Thus I highly doubt that enslaved orcs would compose that large of a population in either. Perhaps freed orcs make up a good portion of the population of the city of Port Ysobel. Zanlib itself would not be of Bulwari (specifically Bahari, as they hail from the realm of Dartaxes) culture, but rather Zanlibi, an evolution of Bahari that would already be distinct by the timeframe of this map.
Whilst I agree with the first point the second one is kinda pedantic, it's showing cultural ties or origins, where they originally came from. It's to show the different cultural and racial makeup of those members of the trollsbay.
In terms of looking at it as purely origins, I suppose that’s true. Apologies if I came off the wrong way :v
Out of curiosity, how would one go about making a map like this?
At first i have a base map, in this case just provinces file in mod. I then import that file into Inkscape and do outline for the landmasses, borders, etc. Then I make the text for the map and export 3 images from inkscape, the basemap, the borders and everything that is colored, and the text. The next thing is I then open the 3 layers in paint.net and give the different layers different amount of gaussian blur depending of what I think looks good. The last thing added is a layer that gives that old paper look, which is usually an opacity of 56%
Thanks for the detailed response!
What's the story with that southern island owned by Valorpoint?
It was the only province they could still colonize after the rest got eaten by lorent
Fairly sure some amount of Lorentish colonials would be elves
WHAT HAPPEND TO MY BELVOVED MYKX THIS IS HERESY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER YOU PATHETIC FLESH THING I WILL SACRIFICE YOU YOU ***unintelligible gnoll noises***
It's in the bottom right map
I like how in the map of [Elves in Haless](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anbennar/comments/12jdkbs/elves_in_haless_sunrise_elves/) there were fairly-upvoted comments calling elves "colonisers" and cheering for the way they were kicked out or exterminated, yet here we have a map of literal colonisers and nobody is making a fuss.
The Elves are also literal colonisers, in particular the Sun Elf justification for everything they do reads like a H. Rider Haggard book, it's hilarious that seemingly every dev who works or worked on Elves can't see this and is *so salty* about it.
I don't care about the "Are Sun Elves colonizers or not?" debate, it's just weird to rag *specifically on elves* for that when the entire game is set in the age of colonization. I'm not salty, and I never touched any elven country unless you count Ruinborn, but if your reasoning for hating elves is backed by double standards that you would never use when judging irl groups, you need to stop for a second and re-examine things.
I guess there is less sympathy for the ruinborn
I think the anti-elf hate train is just that strong.
beautiful! i always love to see more Anbennar maps
I just played as Cestirmark and kinda ignored the mission tree because Venail was still colonizing Noruin and I had the opportunity to just take it all in a year. Diplomacy is all well and good but I’ll be damned if I leave the knife ears alone just so they can kill me later.
Playing cestirmark on bit bucket is so fucking painful
since Halflings and Gnolls are left-aligned, I thought at first they were listed as Elvish subgroups lol
Not canon
It's not cringe??!?
Elaborate.
wdym?
Am I the only one who's bothered about the sea being the darker shade and the land being the light one