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The Monastery of Varlaam in Meteora, Greece
🕑 Added 2023-10-03 19:59:01 +0000 UTCWhew, this thing was a ton of work, but it's finally done! This is a place I've wanted to draw for a long time and I was really glad to see someone propose it to the Cartographic Congress and win.
There's something I didn't realize about this place until I started working on it, though. I knew there was a mountaintop monastery in Meteora, Greece, but when I started looking for floor plans of the place, it turned out there are six. And there used to be twenty-four.
Imagine something for a moment. It's the middle ages and you're Greek. But the big city lifestyle was never for you, so you and a couple other fellas go out to the middle of nowhere, climb to the top of a giant rock formation and start building a monastery. Here, you can devote your life to God, get away from the rest of the world and live in quiet peace. And then some other people show up and start covering every rock in sight with twenty-three other monasteries. I mean, the first few are probably fine, but once they start hitting double digits, you're probably ready to throw your hands up and move back to Athens.
So, here's what I've got planned: I'm going to make a small map next. It'll be something to do while I'm waiting for the last Tir Thelandira map to be decided on. If you're a patron, the runoff vote is now open. After that, I'm going to finish Tir Thelandira and get started on that giant city-ship map I was talking about in this post. That'll probably take a month or so to finish. It's absolutely a megaproject and it'll be bigger than any ship map I've ever seen by an order of magnitude or more.
Anyway. that's what's in the works. Hope it sounds good! Let me know what you think!
Wait, one last thing: if you're a patron and you use Foundry, I just started a new Foundry module. Because Patrons' Module 2 got so big that Foundry couldn't export it without crashing. Not a joke. Anyway, you can find the link to install Patrons' Module 3 on this page.
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Milby's Maps
Yeah, it's incredible to say the least. The kind of place that looks like it came off the cover of a fantasy novel.
CH
The real-life place looks cool as heck, too: https://visitmeteora.travel/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/varlaam-monastery-scaled.jpeg
