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Brazenthrone - The Oreworks - Ground Level
🕑 Added 2020-08-01 23:38:53 +0000 UTCThis is the first of three levels of Brazenthrone's Oreworks. This took a bit of research to draw, since-- like most people-- I wasn't all that familiar with the processes and equipment involved in pre-modern ore processing and steelmaking.
It took some reading, but I got the basic idea and there's an explanation of all the equipment depicted here in the DM notes, which I'm giving out to everyone so you don't have to spend half the day on Wikipedia just to understand this map. I'm not sure my explanation of this stuff is completely accurate, but it's accurate enough for D&D purposes. If you're a welder or a steelworker or someone else who actually knows about this stuff... I mean, I don't think you'll facepalm, but I also can't guarantee you won't facepalm.
There are a few different methods of steelmaking that I could've chosen for the dwarves of Brazenthrone, but I decided that they used a Bessemer Converter. Having been invented in the mid-1800s, this is somewhat advanced technology for a middle-ages setting, but dwarven steelmaking is meant to be advanced and, more importantly, I think it looks cool.
I've got the second and third levels of this mostly drawn and I'll have them up in the next few days. After that, I'll be drawing last month's Cartographic Congress winner: a mountaintop airship port.
Well, I'll be back with the rest of the Oreworks. There's a lot going on in this map, so if you have any questions about it, just ask!
