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The Elven Citadel of Oakenhold (Work-in-Progress)
🕑 Added 2023-01-24 10:55:42 +0000 UTCWhew, okay. This is all seven floors of Oakenhold. I wasn't initially planning to make it bigger than the original version, but, well... that happened.
First, let me say a quick word about beds. So, elves in D&D settings meditate rather than sleep and don't need beds (not for sleeping, anyway). But I want this map to work for other races as well, so I'm drawing the beds in a way that they can be called "meditation mats" for elves or "beds" for other races. Hopefully, that works for most people, but I know it doesn't for everyone, so I'm going to make a version without the beds as well. Just wanted to let everyone know that up front.
This map is a part of the island of Tir Thelandira and I've been thinking about the lore of the place as I've been drawing all this. The queen of the wild elves is a ranger and a famous huntress who unified the tribes of the island. Not many elven queens can kill, skin and butcher a deer, but Queen Niamh is a little different. She's fierce, pragmatic and leads from the front. And when the Dhasrans built their colony on her island and began logging her forest, she fired the first arrow in response.
There's still plenty more to figure out, but I'll have the basic lore of the island for you when the map is done.
Okay, I'm gonna start coloring this beast. Wish me luck.
Comments
Milby's Maps
Awesome! You can't let them see that black and white crap. Hold them off with some random encounters or something and they can arrive at Oakenhold next week, haha.
Bruce Ward
I introduced my party to Oakenhold recently using the black and white version as a basis for theater of the mind, but when you mentioned you'd be updating a colored version I had to hold off on putting them into a situation where I'd need the map. I'm so excited to use this when you're done. Brilliant stuff, Matt!
Milby's Maps
Elves aren't making more elves on the floor.
Joseph Carriker
Okay I'll be the one to say it - folk who think that the sole function of beds is sleeping need to work on their worldbuilding a bit ;)
Milby's Maps
This is a redrawing of an old map I made, which you can see at the link at the top of the post. It's the only time I've ever redrawn a map, but I think this idea deserves to be drawn better than I was able to four years ago. There are a few changes to the design, but it's mostly the same.
Milby's Maps
Thanks man!
Bryan
Beautiful. Is this a follow up to the other “tree forts” you engineered in the past?
Morgan Holt
That looks very nice! Great work.
