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A personal project I made some days ago.

I've always struggled with the idea of making an Egyptian-based setting for Dungeons & Dragons, but I've never achieved to do so. I'm an archaeologist, so any Egyptian world is either too intellectual or too pulp for me to enjoy. But, for once, I think I managed to create a world I feel interesting.

Iteraa is the name of the Land of the Five Rivers ("Iteru"*), a land of long forgotten dynasties, pyramids, magic and gods, that lives under the blissful light of the Ra-Desher, the Red Sun, king of the good gods, and under the woeful light of Ra-Kem, the Black Sun, king of the evil gods. Long ago, it was a land full of riches and fertile, but then, the Pharaoh Sirisekh accomplished a ritual of dark magic so powerful that it created a new sun on the horizon: the Black Sun. Since then, the dead hardly found rest, the land is sterile, and the monsters of the Netherworlds roam the wastelands of Iteraa.

Will you venture into Iteraa to plunder its riches, to defend the will of the Pharaohs as a medjai, or will you succumb to the promises of eternity of Sirisekh, the Undying Pharaoh?

The look of the map is so because Iteraa is located in a world where the axial tilt is so close to horizontal, that one part of it always faces the binary sun of its solar system, while the opposite part is always under night. People in this world live around the Equator, in which they experience an almost eternal dawn/dusk.

I made the map manually, and then I scanned it and I added some color and effects in Photoshop. The icons of the cities (those pairs of pylons) and the pyramids of the pharaohs of old (those triangles) were made in photoshop. The fonts used are Weiss Lapidar and Zatanna Misdirection

Hit download to enjoy its locations in full resolution!!

*: "Iteru" is the name of the Nyle River in Ancient Egyptian

Description

(Buscas la versión en español? Mira AQUÍ: sta.sh/01ham5un2lt3 )

A personal project I made some days ago.

I've always struggled with the idea of making an Egyptian-based setting for Dungeons & Dragons, but I've never achieved to do so. I'm an archaeologist, so any Egyptian world is either too intellectual or too pulp for me to enjoy. But, for once, I think I managed to create a world I feel interesting.

Iteraa is the name of the Land of the Five Rivers ("Iteru"*), a land of long forgotten dynasties, pyramids, magic and gods, that lives under the blissful light of the Ra-Desher, the Red Sun, king of the good gods, and under the woeful light of Ra-Kem, the Black Sun, king of the evil gods. Long ago, it was a land full of riches and fertile, but then, the Pharaoh Sirisekh accomplished a ritual of dark magic so powerful that it created a new sun on the horizon: the Black Sun. Since then, the dead hardly found rest, the land is sterile, and the monsters of the Netherworlds roam the wastelands of Iteraa.

Will you venture into Iteraa to plunder its riches, to defend the will of the Pharaohs as a medjai, or will you succumb to the promises of eternity of Sirisekh, the Undying Pharaoh?

The look of the map is so because Iteraa is located in a world where the axial tilt is so close to horizontal, that one part of it always faces the binary sun of its solar system, while the opposite part is always under night. People in this world live around the Equator, in which they experience an almost eternal dawn/dusk.

I made the map manually, and then I scanned it and I added some color and effects in Photoshop. The icons of the cities (those pairs of pylons) and the pyramids of the pharaohs of old (those triangles) were made in photoshop. The fonts used are Weiss Lapidar and Zatanna Misdirection

Hit download to enjoy its locations in full resolution!!

*: "Iteru" is the name of the Nyle River in Ancient Egyptian