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Published: 2015-07-07 15:13:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 46997; Favourites: 242; Downloads: 1255
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Description This map depicts the known world (landmass) of the Witcher series, originally written by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. Due to how fantasy worlds work, some information might be missing, incomplete or completely disregarded in some versions and adaptations of the saga.

Unlike the previous Elder Scrolls-themed maps that I've made, this one was quite a challenge. My first interaction with the saga was back in 2011 when I tried The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, but the world wasn't appealing to me. In May 2015, I got The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, which gave me a completely different impression of the world of the Witcher and I became so immersed that, even after beating the game and completing most of its numerous side objectives, I decided to give the original book saga a try as well. At the time of posting this, I have just completed reading Baptism of Fire, the third in the main saga and fifth book in total. This was also my first map made partially with the Wacom Intuos tablet, so I might have gone a bit pedal to the metal, although the mountains are quite O.K. IMO. There's a massive blank area in the north-east that doesn't have any info in any of the maps and databases I've researched, so I thought it wouldn't be half bad to get some sort of a heraldry legend there.

Feedback, suggestions, opinions and critique are encouraged! Enjoy!

FONTS USED

Colwell Font by Apostrophic Labs

Cardinal by Dieter Steffmann

CREDITS

Super special thanks goes to user Mboro from The Witcher wikia. He created the majority of the coats of arms. Link

Thanks to Tear for his Saderan Tutorial . Also shoutout to Cartographers Guild!

Thanks to The Witcher Wiki for invaluable amounts of information about all the little streams, hills, lakes and cliffs that weren't mentioned anywhere else! 

Shoutout to Your Witcher map was incredible and it was my main inspiration that led to the creation of this. I also based my coastline off your map.

Shoutout to I based a few locations off your map (your map was the only one to have them mentioned)

CGTextures for various seamless patterns I used for texturing.

Thanks to I used her stock gallery for parchment textures.

Thanks to I used your Old Paper texture for coats of arms background and border fill. Link

Thanks to I used your Wear and Tear brushes. Link

Also shoutout to Reddit's Witcher community and of course

MASSIVE THANKS TO CDPROJEKT RED AND ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI FOR THE AMAZING WORLD OF THE WITCHER!

Don't kill dragons and keep it cool everyone!





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Comments: 12

DiscoJacen [2024-11-20 12:36:30 +0000 UTC]

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vectormoon [2019-10-04 19:15:16 +0000 UTC]

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Lepion [2019-03-13 05:42:08 +0000 UTC]

Cool but pity we cant see the borders lol

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Zanzibar42 [2017-11-09 00:26:52 +0000 UTC]

Excellent work! Do you have an unlabeled version? Just the terrain?

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Torrleite [2017-01-16 00:48:47 +0000 UTC]

Is there a political version of this map?

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Girdamin [2016-03-03 15:00:32 +0000 UTC]

This map is simply awesome.

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Azael17 [2015-09-25 05:10:48 +0000 UTC]

This is magnificent! Thank you for sharing it!

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SMiki55 [2015-07-08 09:44:05 +0000 UTC]

Looks really nice and well-done, but... it still contains some mistakes and errors which appeared in other maps :/
And not contains Emblonia or river Adalatte .

As far I remember, Ebbing is not province, but (officialy) an autonomous kingdom. Also, Creigiau  is a barony, not duchy. There are not separate kingdoms Rivia and Lyria; they are connected by personal union in Kingdom of Lyria and Rivia . Similarly, Kovir and Poviss .

Kingdom of Kerack have also another coat of arms according to the "Season of Storms" novel.

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MartynasB In reply to SMiki55 [2015-07-08 11:37:51 +0000 UTC]

Witcher Wiki (not Gamepedia) lists Ebbing as a Nilfgaardian province, no words about any autonomy. Hmmm

Creigiau is a dutchy in the English wiki, Polish wiki lists it as a city and names a baron in the characters section.

You're correct, Kovir and Poviss and Lyria and Rivia are both in personal union, but I wanted to separate them to have more coats of arms listed. 

And yes, Kerack seems to have an official CoA now, but at the time of making these coats of arms only the unofficial version was present. 

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SMiki55 In reply to MartynasB [2015-07-09 21:45:50 +0000 UTC]

By the way, COA of Kerack is one of these cases, when unofficial version looks IMHO much better than official one :/

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SMiki55 In reply to MartynasB [2015-07-08 12:14:27 +0000 UTC]

Creigiau is a castle and barony in Malleore, ruled by baron Bryton. Wiki seems to be incorrect in this case.

Ebbing was described as an autonomous kingdom in "The Swallow's Tower" novel. Both gamepedia and wikia were incorrect, I've corrected it today on gamepedia.

Again: there are some minor bugs, but the whole map looks great  

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PropagandaStamps [2015-07-07 20:45:30 +0000 UTC]

This is great! Good work! Looks like California.

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