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The Elven Tree Fortress of Oakenhold
🕑 Added 2023-02-03 20:32:20 +0000 UTCAfter an absolutely enormous amount of work, the new and highly improved Oakenhold is finished. Moreover, I've written the history and lore of the island of Tir Thelandira. The TL;DR is this:
The elves of Tir Thelandira were nomadic tribes, but giant bears appeared and a lady killed them, unifying the tribes and becoming the queen. Then, humans showed up to mine gold, which was fine because the elves were pretty cool people. But the humans started logging the forest and the elves killed them all because they're not actually all that cool. Later, the humans came back. People are probably going to die soon.
That's the gist of it, anyway. I like settings where there isn't a clear bad guy and I tried to write it that way. I mean, the Dhasrans did intrude on the elves' land, but they weren't there for conquest. They just wanted gold, which the elves didn't really care about. And yeah, they shouldn't have logged the elves' forest, but the when the elves responded by going full-on North Sentinel Island on them, that may have been a slight overreaction.
There are a lot of angles to see things from and different kinds of adventures to run here depending on how you want to present the situation. Or you could just ignore my story and do something else entirely. That's frequently the best option.
Anyway, I'll have an updated map of Tir Thelandira for everybody tomorrow, as well as DM notes for Oakenhold for patrons. After that, I'll be working on the map chosen by last month's Cartographic Congress. This will be a palace in a Venetian-style canal city, drawn in a gothic/dark fantasy style. Prepare your eyeliner.
So, what do you all think of the new Oakenhold? I certainly think it turned out better than the original version and I hope you agree (I mean, I really do. That's not a high bar to jump over). Anyway, let me know what you think!
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Milby's Maps
I don't believe it does. I usually just annotate the gridless version.
Bryan
I can't seem to find an annotated version of this map that is also on a grid (as in graph paper), does that exist?
