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Akshardham Temple: The Interior
🕑 Added 2022-11-10 14:20:16 +0000 UTCSeveral months ago, a patron said that India was underrepresented in fantasy settings and I agreed. Take the Forgotten Realms, for example. Faerun is inspired by Europe, of course. Then you've got Zakhara, the Arabian part of the world. And then there's Kara-Tur, which is East Asia, and Maztica, which is Mesoamerica. Technically, there's an Africa, but almost nothing is written about it, so that doesn't really count. But there's no India.
Well, I can't make a whole Indian setting, but I can draw a map of something Indian and I decided to go with Akshardham Temple. I'm going to draw another map of a historical place in India next, but for a different reason. The island fortress of Murud-Janjira won last month's Cartographic Congress, so we're going to have a subcontinental doubleheader.
For a few reasons, I'm going to draw the place in ruins as it is today. The first is that I think it's more interesting that way. And it doesn't prevent it from being used as a fort, since, in FRPGs, ruins tend to be occupied by pirates, goblins, ogres, cultists, etc.
The second reason is that, after an hour of searching, the only labeled floor plan I've found of this place is in Hindi. Or possibly a different Indian language. In any case, my keyboard doesn't have those buttons on it, so I can't use Google Translate to find out what everything is. But if it's in ruins, that's not really a problem *taps forehead*.
Anyway, I'm gonna grab some coffee and get started on that. Let me know what you think of the map!
Comments
Milby's Maps
Someone was kind enough to translate it for me, but thank you! That might be helpful down the road.
PlutoHimself
Most non-Latin languages have a pen option on Google translate. If you can replicate the script, it will suggest what it thinks you're trying to write and it's slow going, but doable (for machine translation)!
Milby's Maps
I'd really appreciate that! I'd love to be able to make an annotated version of the map. I numbered the different words if that makes it easier: https://www.milbysmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/A2613-Forts-in-Maharashtra-Murud-Janjira-Map-Trekshitiz.jpg
Aditya Kumar
If you're at all interested, I could do a rough translation of the map
