SHALHAVAR MAP (2026 update)
-added a few more locations and info
-fixed typos
-extra visuals
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lake syla and the zakhara highland, painted
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#mapposting - the real size of shalhavar projected on google earth, i may have underestimated how big the place actually is
i thought this “narrow” lake would be neatly sized, but at around 30km (~18 miles) on its narrow points, this thing could stretch over the horizon!
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i feel like i'd enjoy making my cities in cities skylines if i had a good enough computer for it :p
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this is seriously one of the best fantasy mapping resources i have ever seen, still need to work on figuring out plate tectonics to get the topography correct, (and finish the continents) but other than that this is a godsend
and it is still in development!!
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tried making an older-looking map, probably 1000 years old? what you'll notice is that the map faces to the southeast rather than north, this is because they'd use the sunrise as a point of reference
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new map thing, Zre'sa topography + the three cerneves
this mountain valley nests Shalhavar's third largest city, Zre'sa, once the Ziran empire's grand capital, this city has kept a certain medieval mystique around it, even til the modern age and +8 million population
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found a new site where you can actually project maps into a globe and tweak a bunch of different features it's actually really cool
tcpoole.com/maps/maptogl...
(not sponsored, just spreading the word for anyone who may need to use it)
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ok maybe my world is kind of just a mirrored and slightly different shaped earth, but uuu.... ok i dont really have anything to defend this but who cares
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demographic map of the 6 *male* archetypes of shalhavar (made back in august)
(striped regions represent areas of coexistence, “transition immediately” option is not present because those who chose it already transitioned)
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i found a cool online 3d visualizer and you can toggle the colors and a bunch of stuff procgenesis.com it also has language stuff ouuuuhhh.!!!!
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my fav part is making a shaded texture and then overlaying it on top of the other map and then it looks 3d
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shoutouts to joe slayton and his "wilbur" software, always a great terrain resource to make more realistic height maps with erosion simulations
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i also still have the more detailed satellite map but i haven't touched it in a WHILE
the texturing/detail is very good but you can just imagine how tedious it got...
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so the western portion of shalhavar (the first place i began worldbuilding in), was pretty much directly inspired by the pacific northwest and it really shows, the map's changed a bit since then but it is still very similar
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#mapposting new map but it's hometown from deltarune
spoilers... maybe? doesnt really have anything spoilery
i always felt there's more to the town than what the game lets you explore, so i made this thingy! i also wanted to make it more "realistic" instead of the very blocky design it has in-game
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new map, still a WIP, but way more finished than any other map has ever been tbh
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zoom out (plus apple maps color palette)
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bit of a tangent but i thought i'd share because it's cool, i figured i could clip real satellite images into the picture to make them look like an actual google earth picture, even made a night version
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HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SHOULD BE DRAWING FAT FURRY BITCHES RIGHT NOW INSTEAD OF THIS SHITTTTTTT!!!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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mountaiiins,,,,,,,,
(there's probably some kind of tectonic activity going on here but i've ultimately decided that obsessing over tectonics will probably make me discover a bunch of map inconsistencies and im like in no mood to start all over again...)
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this whole section is finished!! super happy with it
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you can see my geography obsession get more and more severe each height map iteration, i love geography :D
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i kinda stopped at it but i revisited it just now and its p cool
some parts are more detailed than others and non coincidentally its the regions that actually have the more worldbuilding concentration
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#loreposting #mapposting new art? no! more map stuff
western region once again, i think about ~98% finished, needs very few modifications so i can finally move on from it and actually develop the areas outside it :P
i like the coloring in the autumn valley area i think it blends well
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#loreposting #mapposting topographic and bathymetric map (+mountain/valley/ocean names)
really happy with this! looks like an actual atlas :)
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and of course the little bit of fun fact that upside down it looks like a dragon and it was a total coincidence #loreposting #mapposting
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