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To explain; I’ve generally switched over to Inkscape from paint.net over the last six months to great effect in terms of map-making, but unfortunately a lot of my old projects, especially the ever-ongoing Nationstates world, are still in paint.net format.

So I decided to manually trace over and work on bringing my old Nationstates map into the Inkscape era, which took ages but I think it looks great in the end. there have been some actual minor tweaks, mostly with names, but other than that it’s just a  patch-up.

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Finally doing justice to the area labelled on my main Nationstates map just as ‘Duchies of Terezondia’, this map shows the full extent of the absolute HRE-inspired mess that is the remains of what was once the heartland of the world’s mightiest power.

Terezondia reigned pretty much all of the mapped world with the exception of the Tyregian Peninsula, Laurentia and Bucovena; however it collapsed after decades of ethnic strife, regional uprisings and internal power feuding boiled over. The peninsula that was the starting-point of the force that conquered the world is now home to over a dozen squabbling rump-states, often in conflict and frequently switching their allegiances between the four or five self-declared ‘Emperors’ which hold little power or legitimacy.

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Just a quick map of a neat and obscure Italian ultranationalist plan; after WW1 and the ‘Mutilated Victory’ where Wilsonianism denied Italy the Dalmatian territories they were promised for joining the war, there were a lot of conspiracies swirling in the army and nationalist circles; one of these was to establish a revolutionary ‘Republic of the Three Venices’ out of Venice, Fiume and Split.

The details are hazy, and of course this never came close to being realised (the Fiume Endeavour stole the show instead), but this is a rough projection of what it would have looked like based on where Italian troops were stationed, and also the Italian population centres throughout Dalmatia.

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A map done for the MFAH (Maps, Flags, and Alternate History) discord server’s November competition – the theme being Underdog Victory, whereby a country that lost its civil war OTL wins in a different timeline.

My pick was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which fought the Qing Dynasty in the Taiping Rebellion from 1850-1864.  The Rebellion was motivated by discontent at the Qing Dynasty and lead by a man who believed himself to be the brother of Jesus, preaching a peculiar form of Christianity (yes, really). Over 20 million people died in the conflict.

In this timeline they succeed (don’t ask me how), toppling the Qing Dynasty – for the most part. In the aftermath, the various other rebellions happening in China in the period succeed, and the Middle Kingdom finds itself shattered. Since then, the Heavenly Kingdom has persevered on in seclusion and secrecy to 1875, when this map is set.

I really enjoyed the more ‘earthy’ style here in comparison to the flat, geography-textbook sort of thing I normally do. Also the ‘meta-cartographic’ elements such as the scribbling, stamps, in-universe publication details were really neat to include, I think I’ll make a habit of it.

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A project I am exceedingly proud of, both for its crisp style and how well the topography turned out, this depicts an alternate-history independent Virginia – much of the lore is inlaid in the map, which can be read at the full resolution.

My most expansive mapping project to date, this is based on a Nationstates region made by some friends and I in late 2017, though since it has grown into an independent worldbuilding project. Due to the worldbuilding nature I’ll also include some flags at the bottom, even if it’s a bit off-theme for this blog.

Political Map

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Linguistic Map

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A topographic map is in the works, though it will take a while due to the sheer scale of the map and tedium of doing original topography.

Flags

From left to right; Apicinia, Elsatil, Culseca, Laurentia, Kucharia.

As a bonus, here are the flags of Laurentia’s internal divisions. Again, left-to-right; Athabaska Territory, South Athabaska, Lukoteia, Kincolith, North Dechero, Cascadia, Virden, Rachua, Madawaska & Sekanah.

 

This is a catalogue of the maps I made over 2016-2017 that I’m still proud of enough to post. There’s a lot more I’m not.

Grailt is the setting in a friend’s homebrew tabletop game. This was my first real experiment in topography, one that put me off of doing it again for a long while because it was so tedious.

Based off of a Victoria 2 game where I played an independent Texas.

An alt-history ethnopluralist Crimea arising from the Russian Civil War. This was mostly an exercise in a new style, many elements of which I’ve continued to utilise.