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Yeah, yeah, it's another damned work in progress. I swear, I'm doing my best to get everything together, and I AM slowly finishing all the stuff that I have on my plate, believe me!

I think I have a medley of maps of my Kolldrunn world that I have uploaded before. However, I kind of stopped uploading them because I was becoming frustrated with the sheer amount of time it was taking to reach the necessary level of detail where it actually felt like an honest to goodness "map", you know? If I were to continue marking the topology of each map by hand, it would have taken forever just to complete a single region. Blech.

Fortunately, I have discovered another way, thanks be to my newly found blender skills. As it turns out, I don't have to add everything by hand. Instead, I can create some general topographical regions in GIMP, then export a grayscale version of the terrain as a height map. I can load this height-map and apply it to a mesh in blender, and then do apply some quick modifiers to generate some sweet additional topographical field lines, effectively letting blender take my basic topographical outline and "flesh it out", so to speak! It's really neat!

Now then, the Opferdt Region. So here are some interesting facts:

The Altayaslandern continent is the second largest continent of the Kolldrunn, out of 3. It can be devided roughly into 4 different regions: The Russieg Peninsula and Western regions on the west. The Polniegseule Basin and Diegestagk ridge + glasglast corridor which is in the south and southeast. The VAST DESERT WASTES of the far east, and the EXTREMELY VAST DEIGENSTAGK OUTER AND INNER RIM MOUNTAIN CHAINS, which ocupies the majority of the central regions of the continent.
The Deigenstagk chains are so massive and so inhospitable that they effectively partition the various other regions of the Altayaslandern, separating each from the other. Further, the chains themselves are essentially impassable, though for those brave enough to explore there are countless curiosities to be found.
The Opferdt Region can be considered the southernmost portion of the western edge of the continent that is NOT part of the Russieg peninsula. To the immediate west of Opferdt, we can already see the influence of the mountains, as the terrain quickly becomes rocky and jagged the further to the east we go.
HOWEVER!!!
The dark green areas actually represent a beginning depression in the ground. This depression is, in fact, the beginning of the only land pass/channel through which travelers can pass from the western side of the continent, into the Southern Polniegseule Region.
In addition to the geographical significance, Opferdt is also the site of a fair number of ruins from the old cities of old Rustadt. These cities, sadly, are no more, as they were destroyed through constant warfare and neglect, and eventually abandoned. They included the old Russtadt capital.
A traveller passing through Opferdt might find themselves astonished by strange, ever present quietness that seems to always grip the land in its thrall here. One can't help but feel overcome with a need to comport oneself with a sort of humility and reverence as one travels these grounds. Though, oddly enough, no one is quite sure why, except to say that there is something about the landscape that demands quiet reverence... as if one were constantly shadowed by the presence of a dead, yet mighty god. A god which, though dead, might come back to life at the merest thought of tremulous insult...

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Yeah, yeah, it's another damned work in progress. I swear, I'm doing my best to get everything together, and I AM slowly finishing all the stuff that I have on my plate, believe me!

I think I have a medley of maps of my Kolldrunn world that I have uploaded before. However, I kind of stopped uploading them because I was becoming frustrated with the sheer amount of time it was taking to reach the necessary level of detail where it actually felt like an honest to goodness "map", you know? If I were to continue marking the topology of each map by hand, it would have taken forever just to complete a single region. Blech.

Fortunately, I have discovered another way, thanks be to my newly found blender skills. As it turns out, I don't have to add everything by hand. Instead, I can create some general topographical regions in GIMP, then export a grayscale version of the terrain as a height map. I can load this height-map and apply it to a mesh in blender, and then do apply some quick modifiers to generate some sweet additional topographical field lines, effectively letting blender take my basic topographical outline and "flesh it out", so to speak! It's really neat!

Now then, the Opferdt Region. So here are some interesting facts:

The Altayaslandern continent is the second largest continent of the Kolldrunn, out of 3. It can be devided roughly into 4 different regions: The Russieg Peninsula and Western regions on the west. The Polniegseule Basin and Diegestagk ridge + glasglast corridor which is in the south and southeast. The VAST DESERT WASTES of the far east, and the EXTREMELY VAST DEIGENSTAGK OUTER AND INNER RIM MOUNTAIN CHAINS, which ocupies the majority of the central regions of the continent.
The Deigenstagk chains are so massive and so inhospitable that they effectively partition the various other regions of the Altayaslandern, separating each from the other. Further, the chains themselves are essentially impassable, though for those brave enough to explore there are countless curiosities to be found.
The Opferdt Region can be considered the southernmost portion of the western edge of the continent that is NOT part of the Russieg peninsula. To the immediate west of Opferdt, we can already see the influence of the mountains, as the terrain quickly becomes rocky and jagged the further to the east we go.
HOWEVER!!!
The dark green areas actually represent a beginning depression in the ground. This depression is, in fact, the beginning of the only land pass/channel through which travelers can pass from the western side of the continent, into the Southern Polniegseule Region.
In addition to the geographical significance, Opferdt is also the site of a fair number of ruins from the old cities of old Rustadt. These cities, sadly, are no more, as they were destroyed through constant warfare and neglect, and eventually abandoned. They included the old Russtadt capital.
A traveller passing through Opferdt might find themselves astonished by strange, ever present quietness that seems to always grip the land in its thrall here. One can't help but feel overcome with a need to comport oneself with a sort of humility and reverence as one travels these grounds. Though, oddly enough, no one is quite sure why, except to say that there is something about the landscape that demands quiet reverence... as if one were constantly shadowed by the presence of a dead, yet mighty god. A god which, though dead, might come back to life at the merest thought of tremulous insult...