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The Drow City of Vlyn'darastyl - Everyone's Edition
🕑 Added 2020-04-10 19:58:41 +0000 UTCThis was a slightly unusual map for me. When I say I'm drawing a "city map," it usually means something like Brazenthrone or Finbarr's Marsh. Drawing an exterior-only city had me a little worried, since the last one I did was this piece of white-hot garbage. God, that's embarrassing. But I think Vlyn'darastyl is big step up from that.
So, Vlyn'darastyl is a drow city that's accessible by airship, which isn't a characteristic shared by many other cities two miles underground. But the Great Breach-- a 300' (100m) hole in the roof of the cavern leading to the surface sea above-- makes this possible. There are more details in the DM notes above, but if you've got any other questions I didn't cover, feel free to ask.
Thanks to Senator Matt for proposing this map to the Cartographic Congress! He and I were talking about an idea I had for the future which I'd like to let you in on.
At some point, I want to make a map of a small Underdark sea. That sea is the Black Loch, which the map above shows only a small corner of. I want to make a larger, region-sized map of the whole loch with 10-12 locations marked: maybe a kuo-toa village, a duergar outpost, a few islands with some ruins, a series of caves, maybe something underwater, stuff like that. Then I'd draw maps of each of those locations at a 5' scale, so you'd have this map of a whole region and, wherever you wanted to take your players in that region, you've got a map of it ready to go.
When Matt proposed a city next to an Underdark sea, I thought that seemed like a good addition, especially since the Great Breach makes the area more accessible for DMs whose parties aren't currently below ground. But-- to be clear-- this is the only part of it I'll be making for a while. This is a big project and I'm not going to be starting on it until Brazenthrone is finished, which will be a while still. But I thought I'd share that with you and see if anyone had any thoughts.
As I said when I posted the last map, all patron content is free to everyone this month and it's attached below.
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Comments
Ian H.
There are a couple other ways down (in my world the underground ocean is vast), but they might get tricked and fall down there sooner than they expect!
Milby's Maps
Thanks! You gonna send your players down the hole?
Ian H.
I have a drow city at the bottom of a breach created hundreds of years ago like this!! I was struggling for a map and such, I can't believe this is here! flawless!
Jeff Monahan
Very nice! thank you Matt!
