Elyden Blog
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A blog where I talk about my adventures in worldbuilding and all aspects of it in the fictional world of Elyden - expect ramblings, lots of maps, sporadic bursts of talk about getting published that don't last long, and randomness. I'm a writer, worldbuilder and cartographer. When I'm not working on stuff for my own world I'm working on map commissions for other writers.
Elyden Blog
2y ago
To anyone wondering, I',m not really posting over here anymore - I do have a website - www.worldofelyden.com, as well as muy patreon, where all my stuff is available to view. Please feel free to check them out. My site also has a mailing list (scroll to the bottom of any page for the form to enter your email), and I occasionally send an email when I have enough new stuff to share :)  ..read more
Elyden Blog
2y ago
I've been working on a new site where I can collect all my writing, commissioned art, and maps in an easily-accessible format, which is just not possible on blogger or Patreon. I also hope to add a store to the site in the near future where I can sell map prints and probably other items.
The site is called www.worldofelyden.com and I've added a blog to it that I will hopefully keep more updated than this, including things not to do with Elyden. If there's anyone still following me here (Hi!) please head on over there and subscribe to the blog to keep up-to-date with my posts. Have a look arou ..read more
Elyden Blog
2y ago
As always, if you're interested in the world and my worldbuilding, you can get me a virtual coffee here, or support me on Patreon or my FB page. Even $1 a month makes a huge difference!
A key/legend to the map can be found here.
So here's the latest map in the Atlas Elyden series. Khamid is one of the first regions I came up with, before I actually started working on the world of Elyden - it's a remnant of an old D&D campaign system I had come up with for 3rd edition (or possibly 3.5) that I imported into Elyden since I hate wasting a good region! I redid the map and recycled the place na ..read more
Elyden Blog
2y ago
As always, if you're interested in the world and my worldbuilding, you can get me a virtual coffee here, or support me on Patreon or my FB page. Even $1 a month makes a huge difference!
A key/legend to the map can be found here.
Probably the strangest region detailed so far, this one has been a long time coming. Were it not for the magical corruption that pervades the world, most regions would be pretty realistic, comparable to alt-earth post-industrial societies. This is one of the more fantastical regions - it's home to spider-men who construct buildings from a resinous silk that they secre ..read more
Elyden Blog
2y ago
As always, if you're interested in the world and my worldbuilding, you can get me a virtual coffee here, or support me on Patreon or my FB page. Even $1 a month makes a huge difference!
A key/legend to the map can be found here.
The latest map in the Atlas Elyden is Nárthel. I added a little inset map detailing a very large cave-system that dominates the south-west of the state, though I'm still not 100% sold on the style - it seems a bit jarring next to the rest of the map. I'm open to any suggestions as to how this can be improved!
A key/legend to the map can be found here
Atlas Ely ..read more
Elyden Blog
2y ago
As always, if you're interested in the world and my worldbuilding, you can get me a virtual coffee here, or support me on Patreon or my FB page. Even $1 a month makes a huge difference!
A key/legend to the map can be found here
Thanks to Theo Jansen for the inspiration on this map
A key/legend to the map can be found here
Atlas Elyden #26 - Andiluth & Trakia
ANDILUTH
Not so much a nation, but a loose collection of people between other nations, Andiluth is a relatively recent land, having been submerged beneath the Sea of Byssos until around 1,000 years ago and exposed only t ..read more
Elyden Blog
2y ago
As always, if you're interested in the world and my worldbuilding, you can get me a virtual coffee here, or support me on Patreon or my FB page. Even $1 a month makes a huge difference!
A key/legend to the map can be found here
So, as I work on recreating the labels on the Inner Sea poster map, I'm still working on fleshing out the individual regions that will be visible in it. Tartak is such a place. I actually finished this a week-ago though wasn't able to edit its write-up into a presentable form until today. So here it is:
(A key to the map and others in the series can be found here ..read more
Elyden Blog
2y ago
As always, if you're interested in the world and my worldbuilding, you can get me a virtual coffee here, or support me on Patreon or my FB page. Even $1 a month makes a huge difference!
A key/legend to the map can be found here
I was able to get another map done (3 in a month - certainly a record!). Again, most of this map was already finished thanks to me having already worked on surrounding regions earlier on in the year, so I just had to update the parts I haven't touched on before.
A key to the map and others in the series can be found here
Atlas Elyden #23 - Mharokk
Li ..read more
Elyden Blog
2y ago
Atlas Elyden#22 - Lidea
Atlas Elyden #22 - Lidea
Lidea is a relic nation, bearing fragments of earlier nations, such as the Naahi empire and the City state of Conth, both of which were descended from the older and far greater Thym, which dominated northern Sammaea in the Fourth Age. Ruins and abandoned monuments of the Thymi empire can still be seen in the Jaellan plains and Atugur, though they are half-buried and eroded, their names unknown to most. More recent in the collective memories of Lideans are the ruins of the Korachani empire, which, following its sundering in 3705 RM aba ..read more
Elyden Blog
2y ago
So, there’s been a bit of a radio silence on my blog over the past year. For those who are unaware, I’ve basically switched over to my Patreon page – don’t worry, all the content you used to see on here – maps, lore, history, etc. – will still be available there free-of-charge, but there is bonus content to those who become paying patrons, such as access to map PSDs, higher-res files, textless maps, more detailed lore etc.
however, I thought I’d upload some of the maps I made over the past year here, more for completeness than anything else,
So please find various regional maps here over the ..read more