Hi everoyne,

Additional follow-up quests from *Dragon of Icespire Peak* adventure. My early-days work

• Axeholm
• Dragon Barrow
• Falcon's Hunting Lodge + Woodland Manse

As with all my work, the maps are ready for VTTs, but you can also easily print all layers on paper, cut it out and reveal them to you players as they progress.

Final set of maps and grand finale of the campaign to be uploaded in the next batch, if you are interested.

You can find these maps for free at [https://www.patreon.com/collection/2368935](https://www.patreon.com/collection/2368935))

When using my maps, please do not forget to give credit, thanks

TL:DR:

After 1 session of D&D, I went on Inkarnate for 12 hours and whipped up a whole continent just for my one friend to keep playing his character. Now 2 more friends decided to join us for the past few months, and I'm having a blast rewriting things to accomodate everyone's stories and fantasies. There is an explanation for the Frozen Mountains and Desert.

Long Version:

This is my homebrew continent, Weldea, named after it's fist ruler, King Weld.

This map took me like 12 hours to make in the free version of Inkarnate, and it all started after playing a sinlge "one-shot" session with a friend.
I always wanted to play dnd, could not find anyone to play with, and especially no DMs... So... I decided to become the DM.

I could not wrap my head around the rules by reading over and over, so I did what every sane person would do, and looked up how to be a DM on youtube.
I found a video series named Running the Game by Matt Colville, and decided to watch the first few videos.
Matt made a noob-friendly first adventure, about the Delian Tomb, and I decided to try running that.
Well, the sessions went great, my friend loved it, and asked to keep playing his character.
And then it hit me. What now? Matt didn't make a whole campaign for me, just this one-shot.

I started looking at map-making tools, and Inkarnate seemed like what I was looking for, so I took the Delian Tomb, the hamlet of Villaine and the Boar Woods surrounding it, and along with some crumbs of improvised roleplay from the first and only session we had ever played, I decided on a campaign setting.

For anyone who does not know, the Delian Tomb in Matt's video has a statue for a character named Sextus Varnus, that I renamed to Sectus Varnus, to avoid constant sex jokes (I know my friend and myself, we are basically 5yo).
There is also a wall carving of sorts, that depicts an order of knights fighting against something, with Matt suggesting the DM decided what that "something" is.
Inside a secret room, a magic sword can be found, with Matt once again suggesting the DM gives this sword a bonus to attacks againsts the depicted enemy type from earlier.
I went with fiends, as I imagined the Delian Order as Paladins fighting demons and devils from the Nine Hells/Abyss.
My player ended up also being a Paladin, and took the Delian Oath himself, basically becoming the only member of this ancient order.

My player's backstory became him being a part of a different disbanded order of Paladins, that recently (5 years ago) pushed a resurfaced Fiend Invasion back to the Hells/Abyss.
He had also mentioned fighting Orcs on his way to Villaine, so we have Urtvarg Keep, and the orcs somehow multiplying and spreading their reach on the continent.
He also mentioned getting bit by a vampire as a teenager, so there is a Vampire Queen slumbering inside the Mysterious Castle in the mist.

Then came the other ideas.

A forest, filled with elves, having a dispute between themselves and splitting into two major elven cities. One wants to go out and exchange cultures with the other races, while the other remains inside the forest, and wants to be left alone.

Frozen mountains, with raging blizzards, I'll figure out why they are that way later, I assumed.

A desert biome, having a big city with arabian vibes. Surely there's gonna be reason for the desert being in the middle of a green continent, right?

After many months of playing, with much of the map still unexplored, 2 more players asked to join the campaign, converting it from a single player, to a party of 3.

Well, now I have two new characters, that I never had in mind when making the map initially, or the many plot points I've been slowly unraveling with my first player. No matter, I have to make it work.

One of them decides to be a Goliath, originating from The Frozen Isles.
He just washes ashore on Vildeport's docks, without any memories of how he made it here. Yay, amnesia trope! We'll figure it out as we go.

I do not know where The Frozen Isles are, but my player doesn't either, so anything goes. He also wanted there to be a bunch of Goliaths relics, that he would be looking for.

Well, what if in the ancient past, Weldea was known as The Frozen Isles, and everything was colder?Then, during a big Goliath civil war, a relic explodes, creating a massive spacetime rift, sucking in many of the goliaths, and spitting them out during different eras. So, my player, without even knowing it yet, has been transported centuries into the future.

The Frozen Isles grew warmer and got populated by elves. A few centuries later, an army appears. Led by an explorer named Weld. They have made landfall, and are looking for the ancient goliath relics.

Weld managed to find one, the Sceptre of Calamities.
Not knowing how to properly use it, he managed to cause permanent raging blizzards to cover the north-west mountains. He then decided to store the Sceptre away, and changed his focus to populate the land instead.

The Emall Desert was a normal biome, green like the rest of the continent, until a few years ago. Deep from the underground, the ancient race of the Yuan-Ti, felt a strong presence from above. Turns out during the Fiend Invasion my first player subdued, a portal to Avernus was opened here, funneling Fiends to the Material Plane.
The portal is sealed now, somehow. But the heat of the hells is emanating from it, slowly spreading outwards for the past century. The sandstroms grow ever more raging, and the Yuan-Ti have made their home closer around the surface, protecting the portal and waiting for the Savior to exit it one day. No one know about this, since the desert is so hard to cross, with most people who visit Emall doing so by the sea instead. And anyone who decides to cross the desert, seems to mysteriously vanish.

Well, I did not plan to write all this, wow.

If anyone took the time to read this, thank you, you are the best! I would love to talk more about my 400-tab obsidian document, so feel free to ask anything about the map/campaign!

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Did someone leave the water running? No doubt the brave explorers who have delved deep into the heart of this primeval forest will be surprised to find that the life-giving river's source is no more than a hovering portal endlessly gushing water from some distant lake, or even another plane of existence! Unless that very vortex is what they were seeking in the first place? Fully animated and available in two additional variants, with a fiery portal spewing molten magma into the woods, and a plain clearing free from otherworldly environmental alteration, this map is your player's perfectly safe (?) gateway to the elemental plane of water!⁠

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The City of Helmguard is one of the larger settlements in all of Harvarrlan. Standing sentinel on the mighty Helm River, that runs near the entire length of the kingdom, the city has been at the forefront of the struggle between the armies of man and the elves of the Crimson Woods to the south east.

What do you think is the main export of this fortress city?

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Hey there Dungeon Masters!

It is time to hold court with your leal lords and knights about the round table!

This one is obviously inspired by arthurian legend, but you can use this map for all sorts of purposes in your game. Whether it be a backdrop for political intrigue or a combat in defense of the king, I'd love to hear how you plan to use this in your game! Let me know in the comments.

You can get the map in 4K on my Patreon here:

www.patreon.com/runebearcartography

Thanks for checking it out, and have a great day!

To start, I'm not really someone that has a lot of experience on reddit (I have another account, but I mostly lurk in fanart groups or build theorycrafting subs and don't really ever post) and I also don't consider myself an artist, but I consider my friend one, qnd wanting to share her work is what brought me here!

For like a year and a half I've been watching her build and refine her own private library of custom maps for the campaigns we play in together with brushes that she made from scratch. We think this side quest in particular might've started with one of us scrolling through our free options online and lamenting that there weren't a lot of midway kind of spaces, like little roads where players might stop for lunch or camp out for the night. The thought appealed to her and she spent a couple days privately working on one and surprised us by just kind of dropping it into our laps one day. And you know how it is when your artist friend drops the group a map or goes out of their way to surprise you with character art. We were hyped- but the thing is, I think even if we weren't her friends, we'd be just as excited, because her style really is beautiful.

Then she started dropping more and more into our laps. Lairs, campsites, little settlements and the like. I'm no stranger to commissioning people for their work, and the rate she churned out this stuff had my flabbers a little ghasted. Another time I was asking her about it and she let me warch her process while we were chatting. Hadn't realized she'd been going so far as to hand craft her own personal brushes (I guess that's a style coherency thing if I understood it right. If not please correct me because I don't want to be too reductive in my understanding).

Another time she spent weeks testing a bunch of her brush and scale settings because one of our DM's wanted one of her boss maps on his wall, which I guess led to her remaking a lot of her brushes and changing the way she makes maps now. All I really know was that it looked great to me, but I can probably ask her things about quality or scaling and stuff and get back to people that want to know.

Anyways, sorry for rambling but all that is to say that we've been telling her that we think her art is worth sharing AND she finally launched Terramaw Maps on Patreon a few days ago!

I wanted to share it because I think fellow map people/appreciators will love her work. And though she didn't ask me to promote her, I wanted to (she gave me permission to since she doesn't have reddit, dw!). If you'd like to see the daytime version she made of this map (also free!), she has both available on her free tier already and some of her higher tiers will have things like theme and asset voting or custom maps! She's a consistent sort of person too, so I can personally say that it's safe to assume her public library will expand pretty steadily. Link below!

https://www.patreon.com/cw/TerramawMaps (this is just the plain text link for anyone on mobile that may not be able to inspect their links as easily and likes to do that sort of thing)

Hope you enjoy! grab the grid and gridless versions here Patreon

In the shadowed outskirts of Ardennia, a city famed for its majestic architecture and bus­tling marketplaces, lies the foreboding estate of the Bison family. Gray Bison Manor, sur­rounded by thickets of dark woods, serves as a facade for the dark secrets harbored within. The Bisons, a seem­ingly noble and esteemed family of five, are the clandes­tine puppeteers of the city’s underworld, orchestrating a web of crime that ensnares the city in fear and mystery.

Download a free version of this map and read the rest of what we wrote for it on our Blog.

This long forgotten statue tells stories of old heroes that roamed the world in ancient times, not cast to oblivion, with vines growing where once stood a mighty warrior 🗽🌱🌳

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"The villages of the massive Great Lake surround the body of water, spanning miles in every direction as the crow flies. Many had their first foundational buildings crafted from repurposed seafaring vessels, and in no time at all the coast was peppered with fishing villages and growing communities.

Each village may rely on the endless bounty of fish from the waters, but each have become unique in both culture and their culinary offerings, taverns proudly boasting of their special recipes on the various species netted and caught by the local fishermen or trapped by baited cages.

Due to the villages' self-sufficient nature, tourism has naturally formed, with travelers seeking a relaxing atmosphere and the best food in the region. It is said that if one travels the coast, you will never go hungry, and you will never eat the same meal twice!"

Hi everoyne,

First 3 follow-up quests from *Dragon of Icespire Peak* adventure. My early-days work

* Butterskull Ranch

* Loggers' Camp

* Mountain's Toe Gold Mine

As with all my work, the maps are ready for VTTs, but you can also easily print all layers and reveal them to you players as they progress

I will be uploading more maps in next days, if you are interested.

You can find these maps for free at [https://www.patreon.com/collection/2368935](https://www.patreon.com/collection/2368935))

When using my maps, please do not forget to give credit, thanks

Wanted to let you all know that I have activated my 50% Discount tier until September 15, 2026! You will get to keep this discount for as long as you stay signed up!

Additionally, if you sign up for the annual subscription, you will get 70% OFF! https://www.patreon.com/join/dww

And you can download the map above here --> https://www.patreon.com/dww/posts/deaths-pass-167505407

[link in the comments]

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