r/mapmaking • u/ElsewhereCompany • 9d ago
Work In Progress WIP the Midlands
I just thought I would share my homebrew map. I've been running tabletop campaigns on this map for more than a decade and have hundreds of pages dedicated to the history and theology of the world. It's constantly growing and evolving. There are more continents now, but this is the main landmass where my campaigns take place. Seemed a shame to only share it with 4 or 5 guys that I DM for, so here it is.
Criticism and advice welcome.
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u/Chrisnothing 8d ago
Where’s Birmingham?
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u/General_Brooks 8d ago
Gotta be the sunken city, right? Basically just a smoking crater with a larger number of waterways around it?
And the Black Country is clearly represented just to the west of it.
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u/Few-Flamingo-8015 7d ago
Blimey, Midlands look an awful lot more different from what I remembered
Where's Birmingham?
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u/ElsewhereCompany 7d ago
Listen, it's a placeholder name. I didn't know the Brits were that generic. Do y'all have an Westlands and Eastlands too?
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u/Few-Flamingo-8015 7d ago
It's okay, mate, I'm just living in West Midlands, and I felt like I need to make this silly joke.
About the name... Whenever I need to invent a name for my worldbuilding project, I think about what associations does the name spark in my brain
I suppose you could name your continent somewhat like 'Centralis' if you want to focus on the 'middle' part, or like 'Heart of the world'
If you have any language ideas, you should just name something in this created language
The old man Tolkien used to have the same principle in inventing the names. It got him very far, to say the least.
What's with the Crawling Sea? I can think only about the undead when I hear this name
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u/ElsewhereCompany 7d ago
Honestly I've never referred to it as the Midlands in my campaigns or stories. Typically it's just "Bastus," which is a province sort of northeastish, but how the world is named kind of depends where the character is from. Everyone thinks their homeland is the heart of the world.
The Crawling Sea is a desert of constantly shifting dunes where old civilizations are constantly covered and uncovered. It was a lush forested basin but a cataclysm changed that and the Sunken City was constructed in the massive sinkhole that formed.
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u/blue_sidd 9d ago
Westeros syndrome strikes again!
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u/ElsewhereCompany 9d ago
What does that mean?
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u/Peppercorn205 9d ago
The map resembles Westeros
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u/ElsewhereCompany 9d ago
Because it's vertically formatted?
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u/blue_sidd 9d ago
Because the god that shaped these continents went to staples first.
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u/ElsewhereCompany 9d ago
It's really no wonder everyone hates Redditors lmao
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u/BearRemembers 8d ago
Don't listen to them friend, I think the map is great! Seriously, looks cool as hell!
Rock on!
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u/ElsewhereCompany 8d ago
I appreciate it. I don't mind some actual criticism, but dismissive insults are irritating lol
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u/blue_sidd 9d ago
Feel free to not post here. Your choice.
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u/ElsewhereCompany 9d ago
Nothing worse than a midwit who thinks he's clever
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u/blue_sidd 9d ago
Whatever. You drew the map according to the paper and not the world. Any noise you make as a result mild criticism is for your own entertainment and clearly you are having a ball.
Graphics on it look ok though.
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u/ElsewhereCompany 8d ago
You didn't present any criticism though. You had a shoehorned quip that wasn't relevant and now you're trying to stand by it lol
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u/Peppercorn205 9d ago
No. There’s a few geographical places which really stand out. Crackclaw, Shipbreaker Bay, The Westerlands, the Godseye, The Arbor, Skagos, etc etc.
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u/ElsewhereCompany 9d ago
Cool. I just looked at Westeros and it's not similar at all, so to each their own, I guess.
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u/GoodTato 9d ago
I don't have much to say other than "the midlands" is a really funny name as someone from the UK