Rough concept map stuff of a fantasy world
So, im not too big of a map person, or at the least not on this big of a scale. For reference, getting from that mountain range on the eastern side of the big continent in the middle to the mountain range on the western side of that continent, by foot, should take between 1.5 to 2 years.
Either way, i made this... uhh... very sketch esque map to give myself an idea of the world at the very least.
As you can see in the second pic i have a very very rough idea of biomes... in certain areas at the very least. And i sketched out some land and water trade routes, just to get a very rough idea of how people would move.
\- Big fat continent in the middle:
The general outlook of cultures is that in the far west things are going to be more far east inspired, although since i already have another xianxia(fantasy ancient china) world i decided that ill probably make a japanese inspired culture the big empire like superpower in that area for the most part. Thats the only real outlook on a country i have since im a very all over the timeline kinda person, i look at very big expanses of time(relative to youknow, cultures and humans, not in the geology sense) so i havent boetherd with countries or borders, since those change too frequently.
im also thinking of adding some big south east asian inspired cultures, since its such a big map imma have place for all of 'em, but idk which ones i wanna focus the most on, ill have to do more research first.
While the east will be more vaugely europe inspired. I already know that high up in the northen east there'll be a sami inspired culture, since i have a character associated with them already. Theres also that really big inland sea up there in the north. Since its so high up north ive been thinking that maybe it was created via glaciers. and then is nowadays supported mostly by the water coming down from the two mountain ranges on either side of it. Theres probably gonna be a lot of cultures and wars and shit going around up there, but i havent really thought much about the place.
Lower down we have a super small stop in the easternmost mountain range, a closeup can be seen in pic 3, this is magical in origin, basically some big fight or whatever long long long ago cut the mountain range in half, and since then theres been new shit growing there. Basically the big black rectangle titled "magic city" where all the water drains to is the source of an extra gravitational pull, also magic in origin. This pull gets weaker the further out from the centre you go, and around the start of the mountains and the coast lines its practically nonexistent. because all the water is getting pulled towards the centre there'll be a big lake there, but also good vegitation, although no big trees since at least to my knowledge this kind of gravitational pull should make it hard for tall flora to grow. People have also built canals along the edges of the mountains to allow for sea travel(since it gets very hard to travel past the centre once youve reached it.) im actually not decided yet wheter imma have this canal be along one of the mountain edges, as to circumvent most of the magical gravitation, or have the people instead just follow the rivers down into the centre and then just rawdogging it back to the ocean. idk. like i feel like the second option is more plausible, so maybe ill go with that. Like ive mentioned, this is all still very early on in development.
Then moving on further south the mountain range continues, ive got half a mind of making this area very tropical like, but honetsly i have not thought much about it at all.
\- The lower/southern continent:
Im thinking that the coastlines are where the people are, kinda like australia is the base assumptions about the climate, so that the coastlines are lush but the middle is a desert. Well. except for when we get to the mountains. from the mountains run water, which gathers in a river that flows almost horizontally through this landmass, along this river theres more tropical stuff. and the mountains are magic and dangerous, a bunch of mist that people go missing in basically, but people still come here becasue theres very good resources to be mined here, havent decided what resources, probably magical in nature, ill have to refine this worlds magic system a bit more first though. but either way, hotspot for people to come to.
\- The easternmost continet, or group of island whatever you wanna call them:
People here have a lot of contact with mermaid folk.
yeah.
Thats all i have on that region as of yet. mermaid friends. thats literally all i have. And also like i wrote on the maps, this landmass is a lot further away from the others than shown on the map, i just ran out of space.
\- What is danger?
so the lila/purple areas of the map labeled danger are really just dangerous areas, can be for various reasons, like dangerous flora and founa, or instabilities in the world membrane. Its just my way of labeling areas that should be avoided, and a easy way for me to restrict how people travel or create fun little places where people travel despite danger.