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. . . and here we have the last of the maps I needed to build before getting started on revisions of my novel, The Curse of Steel. Over the past couple of months, I've gone from maps covering two whole continents (and their history), to a map covering a major region, and now down to this local map. The entire action of the novel will take place within the territory covered by this map.

This is a map focusing on the lands held by the Revatheni clan confederation of the Tremara people. The Revatheni (the name means something like "those who dwell by the sacred grove") occupy most of the land between the Dugava and Kanta Rivers, a territory totaling about 11,500 square miles. The total population of the clan confederation is about 140,000, divided among five major clans and a dozen or so minor ones. The Revatheni are an unusually wealthy tribe, partaking in a lot of the trade coming up the rivers from the south. For the past couple of generations, their leaders have been putting on airs, claiming increased privileges and calling themselves sarai ("kings").

As with the regional map, this is a fairly finished project - I've placed and named all the settlements and terrain features that are likely to play any part in the revised novel. Next step is to get busy with the second draft! I hope to have the novel ready for release sometime this fall.

Technical Notes: I selected a small rectangular area of my regional map and scaled that up to serve as a tracing overlay. This map was produced using Wonderdraft (version 1.2) with standard symbol libraries. The final Wonderdraft product was imported into Adobe Photoshop CC, where I added all the place names.

Obligatory Self-Promotion: If you're interested in my creative process or any of my other work, feel free to subscribe to my Wordpress writing blog , or sign up as a patron on my Patreon page . The latter will get you some monthly exclusives, including big chunks of world-building material or serialized drafts of my novels.

© 2020 by Sharrukin-of-Akkad (Jon F. Zeigler). All rights reserved. You may not copy, alter, or repost this work without my express written permission, nor may you in any other way treat this work as your own.

Description
. . . and here we have the last of the maps I needed to build before getting started on revisions of my novel, The Curse of Steel. Over the past couple of months, I've gone from maps covering two whole continents (and their history), to a map covering a major region, and now down to this local map. The entire action of the novel will take place within the territory covered by this map.

This is a map focusing on the lands held by the Revatheni clan confederation of the Tremara people. The Revatheni (the name means something like "those who dwell by the sacred grove") occupy most of the land between the Dugava and Kanta Rivers, a territory totaling about 11,500 square miles. The total population of the clan confederation is about 140,000, divided among five major clans and a dozen or so minor ones. The Revatheni are an unusually wealthy tribe, partaking in a lot of the trade coming up the rivers from the south. For the past couple of generations, their leaders have been putting on airs, claiming increased privileges and calling themselves sarai ("kings").

As with the regional map, this is a fairly finished project - I've placed and named all the settlements and terrain features that are likely to play any part in the revised novel. Next step is to get busy with the second draft! I hope to have the novel ready for release sometime this fall.

Technical Notes: I selected a small rectangular area of my regional map and scaled that up to serve as a tracing overlay. This map was produced using Wonderdraft (version 1.2) with standard symbol libraries. The final Wonderdraft product was imported into Adobe Photoshop CC, where I added all the place names.

Obligatory Self-Promotion: If you're interested in my creative process or any of my other work, feel free to subscribe to my Wordpress writing blog , or sign up as a patron on my Patreon page . The latter will get you some monthly exclusives, including big chunks of world-building material or serialized drafts of my novels.

© 2020 by Sharrukin-of-Akkad (Jon F. Zeigler). All rights reserved. You may not copy, alter, or repost this work without my express written permission, nor may you in any other way treat this work as your own.