You added this human village Virag. It means flower in hungarian. I can imagine this to be a cozy little village with lot of friendly folks, and one fighter or ranger guarding the village from danger, like a bee protecting her favorite flower.
Rather than using regular pencil, use a non-photo blue pencil to do all of your original drawings. Then you can ink over and scan/photocopy, etc and the blue will not show through. I am a landscape designer and this is a technique used heavily when doing renderings by hand.
I've used random name generators before, but I really don't like them. I prefer to have names actually mean something, as they do in real life. Historically, when some people founded a new city or nation, or needed to name a river or a mountain, etc., they didn't just make up a nonsense word. They called it something that was appropriate, in their language. Portuguese explorers discovered a river in South America during the month of January, so they called it "River of January". The desert in northern Africa is called "Desert" in Arabic. Tribes and nations are often named after their founders. Fred goes off into the wilderness with his wife and sons and settles somewhere, and over the generations, that tribe/city is called "Sons of Fred" or just "Fred" or something like that. New "discovered" lands are often named after the person who discovered them, or the sponsor of the expedition. Or they are sometimes named after a small section of the land that the natives called it. The entire continent of Africa is named after one small area in north Africa. People from Europe sailed around the Mediterranean and found some land on the south side, and asked the natives, "What do you call this place?" They said something like "Africa", and the Europeans took that as the name of the entire landmass south of the Mediterranean, even though it was really just the name of the small section of land where those particular people lived. And many places are given some simple descriptive name, such as "New City" (Napoli, Naples, Neapolis), "Middle of the land" (Mediterranean), "South" (Negev), "Arid Zone" (Arizona), "Grand Tetons" (a mountain range that looked like big boobs to someone who obviously hadn't seen a woman in a while). When naming cities, rivers, mountain ranges, etc., in a fantasy world, start from the meaning of the words that would describe that place. Then decide what those words would be in the native language of the people who live there. If they speak "the common tongue", then go ahead and use English words. Maybe alter them, as words often change somewhat - maybe even a great deal over a long period of time - especially among societies that don't have printing presses or more modern record-keeping technology, which would otherwise keep spelling consistent and standardized. And of course, many places are named after the gods, as appropriate. A few examples from my fantasy RPG world: Middlebeach - a coastal town about half-way between two larger coastal cities Trap Cove - a town at an inlet where the seafood is plentiful thanks to the use of traps by the local fishermen Ansoria - capitol city founded by legendary hero Answaru. Over the centuries the pronunciation and spelling has changed Fardawn - the farthest east village in the halfling region Neralf - a region of one of the major kingdoms that is located near elf territory. Over time "Near Elf" became "Neralf". Kaloknusfi - a mountain range that houses the largest dwarven nation in the world. Dwarvish for "Snake Peaks" - there are snakes there, mostly harmless ones, but not all. Boo-Wa-Doki - a primitive land to the far south, where the people do not speak the common tongue. In their language, it means "Land-Us-Much" or "Our Plentiful Land". Rossiobyn - in some long-dead language, this meant "Long Water Road". It is a major river, and the most important transportation corridor in Virbenland. Tolkien was kind of a nut for this stuff. You can call him crazy for inventing six languages, just so he could write his book, but when it was done, every single name of a person, place, or thing fit and made sense, and actually meant something.
That's pretty useful info. I might try and do the same from now on, or at least more than I did. When you come up with names based on other languages, do you base it on an actual language (from somewhere online or something) or do you just make up the specific words of it when they're relevant? I'm just asking in aid of my own attempts to make a credibly named world
My thoughts exactly on this. Name generator can make you save some time, but you got to not abuse it or your fantasy world will tend to be soulless and meaningless.
The font/writing style your using is very effective dude. It makes it look like a map straight out of a fantasy book. Especially the inked West Reach Sea, it stands out when I look at it.
Your videos on world building is refreshing in that you can break things down so that anybody who is or wants to be a dm has the control of where they wish to go with there said campaign even if it's a one shot!!! thank you
I really love the way your map looks. Your videos for how to create a (fantasy) map were really helpful for me, because i was going to create a map for my own fantasy continent in my books. Your videos are really helpful and i'm also following you now. Thanks for the great videos!
Generally I just type a word into a translator and just use the translation for my names. But I saw this video, and decided to take a word and alter it and I loved the result. Thanks for this!
One thing about names - depending on what you're building a world for, you may wanna invest time into making the names not random-based. There are things to consider, like whose point of view (race or faction) is the map drawn from, but all in all names in an area usually should be unified through local or global language. Shooting random syllables or letters will make the names look, well, random, and unrealistic. Which is okay for a map for a D&D gameplay or just your personal world, but not so much if you're thinking of selling it in some way. It's a stretch, but you may consider making a base line for a language - nothing crazy, just to make some basic list of phonemes to base the names on and then you can e.g. tweak the random names to match your phonemes and unify everything that way. If you wanna take it even further, you may wanna consider not making the phonemes random, too, because at some point, the hypotetical language could look all crazy and jumbled when it comes to its sounds. In that case, you should probably watch a vid on making a conlang and look into IPA, but that's only as much as you need/want.
The single "towers" that you designate as smaller cities, I usually like to reserve for strategic bastions or fortifications along the coastlines as small military installations. -- Love the videos too! Thank you for doing these!
Things like brothers grimm and any fantasy book are great for random names. Open a random page, and use the first name. Also, the history of your world can make names. Something like Cambridge, means a bridge over the river cam. Most places called "mouth" are on the sea front, and would be where the river meets the sea. Or kings landing is where the king first stepped foot onto a new contient, etc.
It would be interesting to hide some known names. Like Everpeak ( Karaz a Karak from Warhammer ), Lonely Ridge ( Lonely mountain from Hobbit ),.... I think it will be interesting for players to find some similarities like that, even if they are not nerds. Also, the map can have some blanks, but blanks even in the story. Like a cartographer forgot or has grudge or there wasnt anything at that time and things magically appeared for example
I have a huge pack of micron pens, I got this GIGANTIC art set for my birthday so I can store my mountain of art supplies, it’s cool to see something I have on youtube. Wonder why. Can’t wait till I feel like getting up so I can start my own map.
my favorite for Mountain ranges is to call it someone's seat, throne, or crown (such as "Memnon's crown") ^_^ depending on the shape... or using a norse troll/giant's name and calling it their road way (or more simply something like "Jötnar's trail"). I'm not good at city/town names.... much better at natural formations XD
I'm am just getting started with D&D and I am already wanting to make a world. The way I got mine for my first map was using a world atlas and breaking up names and combining the
Tip for place names: a lot of them are really just descriptions of places and can be derived from actual words in the language, so if you can find some identifiable characteristic of a place or thing and find it's name in the desired language and just conjugate it to properly work as a noun rather than an adjective, then that can be really effective in creating both interesting yet accurate fantastical place names. Keep in mind though, that because synonyms are a thing, the first result that Google translate or whatever software you use spits out may not always be the best or easiest option to use. Also, in the case of different races or species, it would make sense to use a different language for each (such as Cornish for Dwarves, Western Frisian for humans, and Welsh for elves). Btw, I'm not trying to discredit name generators, it's just that due to the massive amount of information the authors have to find in order to make convincing names often renders them a bit too generic. The above method of making up place names (even occasionally using fictional languages such as Klingon) has never failed to produce great results if you spend time and effort doing the proper research. It feels super satisfying and you get exposed to so much culture, especially when studying something as historically dense and interesting as Cornish. An example: I saw a suggestion for the bay to be called "Foot Bay" which sounds kind of boring, so I took to a Cornish dictionary and came up with "Trog Bay", translating to "Boot Bay". Similarily, the "Silver Sea" becomes "Arghans (Arhans) Sea".
I find coming up with city names can be made easy when you establish a bit of the history and lore behind the people who built the city or the people who rule the region where the city is. I began to do this and kind of got sucked into lore building but basically i would use the fantasy names generator and generate a language name, from that language name I would create the name of a race and i would use a name generator for real life languages (Moroccan, Celtic, etc.) and come up with all my city names based on what the names generated that way I could have a cohesive set of city names per each race.
I have actually made my own map based off your design but I also pre-named everything off of books I wrote. I would tell you but I really don’t want anyone stealing them
I always used google translate to come up with names. When i for example needed a name for a circular castle, i searched for circle. In finnish it said impyra so i used that as the name of the castle. I like this method because the names have actual meanings (in random languages).
You are awesome man. I looked up some other artists on drawing maps and they kind of sucked. I learned so much from you. Keep up the good work and hope much success your way
By the way, Fantasy NAme Generators continues to expand, it's got name generators for pretty much everything under the Sun by now, be it original/generic or canon.
another thing you could add is translate a word from english to another language an tweak that a bit (change spelling but keep phonetics). It could be something plot related or hints like Ular Grove (ular = indonesian for snake= alot of snakes) or you could do subliminal messaging of silly things like moon dickbutt but in another language (hehe) that way people who recognize the word might have a chuckle or two :D
I noticed there are no settlements on the south coast. Is this because it’s dangerous and if so maybe add like a Loch Ness drawing to represent monsters or a skull and floating barrels to represent poison
+Corey Wainwright -- Thanks! Something like this - fantasy-maps.com/2011/12/19/drawing-canyon-on-fantasy-map/ or this - www.fantasticmaps.com/2012/04/how-to-draw-isometric-cliffs/ might be helpful. I'll be doing a video on some of this stuff in the near future. :)
how did you become such a good artist? I've been working on my fantasy map since your last video, and my sketches are still really really rough haha. I can do vertical mountains pretty well, but horizontal still give me trouble. Any tips? Thanks, and love your channel btw
+Jacob Lefcourt -- Just look at other maps that look good and copy them. I think if you copy fairly exactly at first you will learn what looks good, and as you keep going you'll be able to switch things up and make them your own more and more, while still making them look good. It certainly takes time! The main thing is keep going. Find what you like and don't like and tweak things. I'll be re-mapping the same world over and over again I'm sure, making slight improvements every time. :) There are already things on this map I will definitely change next time.
The way I do it is I take a language translate a random word from English into that language and then switch it then I take it and translate it to Latin and to English again for the lols but use the Latin but tweak it a bit
WASD20 i would recomend taking a look at RINKWORKS.com by samuel stoddard this is if you are trying to find like hundered names all using the same sort of spelling it is alot more spesific so its not better than dojon or fantasyname generator but it alot more specific and alot more control over the out come P.S. use the quick reference guide on the left if you want to use the advanced interface otherwise its total magic P.S.S Dyq Peaks :P
Thank you for your reply :D AWESOME MAP btw But should I follow certain landmarks (i.e. rivers, mountain passes) or should I just make shorter freeflow roads (i.e. straight roads, avoid mountains)
Im almost certain no one speaks this language so ill give yall some nice words from this language. And I garentee you these are words. However this language has weird prononciation comparsd to english Chos (kus) Bothar (Bo-har) Fhada (ha-da) Eitláin (eht-lawn) Bás (Baw-s) Loch lannigh (luch-lan-ig) Tír (tear) Roth (R-uh) Dart (Dart) Bainne (boh-nye)
I found this vid which has some good ideas for coming up with place names. There is one method in particular that I have never heard before in which you pick two names or words that contain the type of sound that you want your name to have, then you mix and match the letters in a particular way to create new names. Here is the link if you are interested. m.ruclips.net/video/fsbF-BAbjxM/видео.html
I love your map series, giving me more ideas, but I found your method of coming up with names rather lazy. if you want to build your world from the inside out (as you earlier mentioned) you need to have some semblance of the peoples whom you are giving names for. if your people are humans who have a fishing based economy, maybe some names like Trout River (perhaps in another language) or Teeming. something fun like that, it adds a little bit of insight into how the world you create works.
WASD20 have you maybe considered thickening those dotted lines, adding more dotted lines or making very minute little pebbles to show how certain roads are more used/ main roads, or even varying the road styles to represent cultures within your maps? it's given me some interesting results with varying degrees of success; its all about getting that balance. Oh, and great vid! do you think you could make further maps in the future (although, obviously you have done others)
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You added this human village Virag. It means flower in hungarian. I can imagine this to be a cozy little village with lot of friendly folks, and one fighter or ranger guarding the village from danger, like a bee protecting her favorite flower.
I am using this now. What a perfect way to start off an adventure.
cool somone should make a cartoon or anime about this
sajisama24 that name is like viagra...
I'm hungarian ^^
Rather than using regular pencil, use a non-photo blue pencil to do all of your original drawings. Then you can ink over and scan/photocopy, etc and the blue will not show through. I am a landscape designer and this is a technique used heavily when doing renderings by hand.
I actually bought one a few months back! :) Thanks for the suggestion.
Dyq Peaks has to be a euphemism
Lmao
I've used random name generators before, but I really don't like them. I prefer to have names actually mean something, as they do in real life. Historically, when some people founded a new city or nation, or needed to name a river or a mountain, etc., they didn't just make up a nonsense word. They called it something that was appropriate, in their language. Portuguese explorers discovered a river in South America during the month of January, so they called it "River of January". The desert in northern Africa is called "Desert" in Arabic.
Tribes and nations are often named after their founders. Fred goes off into the wilderness with his wife and sons and settles somewhere, and over the generations, that tribe/city is called "Sons of Fred" or just "Fred" or something like that.
New "discovered" lands are often named after the person who discovered them, or the sponsor of the expedition. Or they are sometimes named after a small section of the land that the natives called it. The entire continent of Africa is named after one small area in north Africa. People from Europe sailed around the Mediterranean and found some land on the south side, and asked the natives, "What do you call this place?" They said something like "Africa", and the Europeans took that as the name of the entire landmass south of the Mediterranean, even though it was really just the name of the small section of land where those particular people lived.
And many places are given some simple descriptive name, such as "New City" (Napoli, Naples, Neapolis), "Middle of the land" (Mediterranean), "South" (Negev), "Arid Zone" (Arizona), "Grand Tetons" (a mountain range that looked like big boobs to someone who obviously hadn't seen a woman in a while).
When naming cities, rivers, mountain ranges, etc., in a fantasy world, start from the meaning of the words that would describe that place. Then decide what those words would be in the native language of the people who live there. If they speak "the common tongue", then go ahead and use English words. Maybe alter them, as words often change somewhat - maybe even a great deal over a long period of time - especially among societies that don't have printing presses or more modern record-keeping technology, which would otherwise keep spelling consistent and standardized.
And of course, many places are named after the gods, as appropriate.
A few examples from my fantasy RPG world:
Middlebeach - a coastal town about half-way between two larger coastal cities
Trap Cove - a town at an inlet where the seafood is plentiful thanks to the use of traps by the local fishermen
Ansoria - capitol city founded by legendary hero Answaru. Over the centuries the pronunciation and spelling has changed
Fardawn - the farthest east village in the halfling region
Neralf - a region of one of the major kingdoms that is located near elf territory. Over time "Near Elf" became "Neralf".
Kaloknusfi - a mountain range that houses the largest dwarven nation in the world. Dwarvish for "Snake Peaks" - there are snakes there, mostly harmless ones, but not all.
Boo-Wa-Doki - a primitive land to the far south, where the people do not speak the common tongue. In their language, it means "Land-Us-Much" or "Our Plentiful Land".
Rossiobyn - in some long-dead language, this meant "Long Water Road". It is a major river, and the most important transportation corridor in Virbenland.
Tolkien was kind of a nut for this stuff. You can call him crazy for inventing six languages, just so he could write his book, but when it was done, every single name of a person, place, or thing fit and made sense, and actually meant something.
That's pretty useful info. I might try and do the same from now on, or at least more than I did. When you come up with names based on other languages, do you base it on an actual language (from somewhere online or something) or do you just make up the specific words of it when they're relevant? I'm just asking in aid of my own attempts to make a credibly named world
My thoughts exactly on this. Name generator can make you save some time, but you got to not abuse it or your fantasy world will tend to be soulless and meaningless.
What site did you guys copy and paste this off
"dyq peaks... I don't know if I like that one" XD
サニャSanny why do you have two in kanji in your name?
*DICK*
Do yourself a favour and pause at 0:05. You're welcome.
My eyes are blessed
0:09
The font/writing style your using is very effective dude. It makes it look like a map straight out of a fantasy book. Especially the inked West Reach Sea, it stands out when I look at it.
Map's looking really nice...
+Locke Lamora -- Thanks!
Your videos on world building is refreshing in that you can break things down so that anybody who is or wants to be a dm has the control of where they wish to go with there said campaign even if it's a one shot!!! thank you
Thanks!
I absolutely LOVE Fantasy Name Generator!! It works for so much more than just names!
Try giving your names some kind of meaning rather than things from random generators.
I really love the way your map looks. Your videos for how to create a (fantasy) map were really helpful for me, because i was going to create a map for my own fantasy continent in my books. Your videos are really helpful and i'm also following you now. Thanks for the great videos!
A lot you could do from Just a can of beans!
Wasn't it a bag
Sorcery
Thought it was a Tupper Ware container
Tupperware container actually
Generally I just type a word into a translator and just use the translation for my names. But I saw this video, and decided to take a word and alter it and I loved the result. Thanks for this!
One thing about names - depending on what you're building a world for, you may wanna invest time into making the names not random-based. There are things to consider, like whose point of view (race or faction) is the map drawn from, but all in all names in an area usually should be unified through local or global language. Shooting random syllables or letters will make the names look, well, random, and unrealistic. Which is okay for a map for a D&D gameplay or just your personal world, but not so much if you're thinking of selling it in some way.
It's a stretch, but you may consider making a base line for a language - nothing crazy, just to make some basic list of phonemes to base the names on and then you can e.g. tweak the random names to match your phonemes and unify everything that way.
If you wanna take it even further, you may wanna consider not making the phonemes random, too, because at some point, the hypotetical language could look all crazy and jumbled when it comes to its sounds. In that case, you should probably watch a vid on making a conlang and look into IPA, but that's only as much as you need/want.
Absolutely agree. I mentioned Barker's video (link in vid description), in which he puts more thought into naming based on races/languages.
Having names with meaning kind of makes it feel more serious as well.
The single "towers" that you designate as smaller cities, I usually like to reserve for strategic bastions or fortifications along the coastlines as small military installations. -- Love the videos too! Thank you for doing these!
I like using people's names in my human towns as well. I used the name Topper's Hollow in my last campaign as the town the adventure started in.
Things like brothers grimm and any fantasy book are great for random names. Open a random page, and use the first name.
Also, the history of your world can make names. Something like Cambridge, means a bridge over the river cam. Most places called "mouth" are on the sea front, and would be where the river meets the sea. Or kings landing is where the king first stepped foot onto a new contient, etc.
Thank you for the link to Fantasy name generators. The site is going to help me out a lot.
Michelle Earl same! Im using it for stories too!
This video helped me quite a lot on my geography project......lol thanks WASD20
Can the Orban bay be called "Foot Lake"? It looks like a foot. x)
well, it is actually bay of foot not foot lake
It would have to be called foot bay or foot cove instead
Or what about
B U R G E R K I N G F O O T L E T T U C E
No
Aquin That’s what’s I was thinking!
It would be interesting to hide some known names. Like Everpeak ( Karaz a Karak from Warhammer ), Lonely Ridge ( Lonely mountain from Hobbit ),.... I think it will be interesting for players to find some similarities like that, even if they are not nerds.
Also, the map can have some blanks, but blanks even in the story. Like a cartographer forgot or has grudge or there wasnt anything at that time and things magically appeared for example
I have a huge pack of micron pens, I got this GIGANTIC art set for my birthday so I can store my mountain of art supplies, it’s cool to see something I have on youtube. Wonder why. Can’t wait till I feel like getting up so I can start my own map.
my favorite for Mountain ranges is to call it someone's seat, throne, or crown (such as "Memnon's crown") ^_^ depending on the shape... or using a norse troll/giant's name and calling it their road way (or more simply something like "Jötnar's trail"). I'm not good at city/town names.... much better at natural formations XD
Best one ever, thanx from arab algeria 🇩🇿❤❤
It says Orban! I'm dying! XD cheers from Hungary, bro
Haha, me too XD
I'm am just getting started with D&D and I am already wanting to make a world. The way I got mine for my first map was using a world atlas and breaking up names and combining the
can't wait for more of them videos keep.up the good work
wooo, more map series!
VideoMakerGuy Hey man I'm subscribed
Awesome man! You have good taste in videos. :D
I was fatally wounded at the mere mention of Dyq Peaks. Those ridged peaks....
Tip for place names: a lot of them are really just descriptions of places and can be derived from actual words in the language, so if you can find some identifiable characteristic of a place or thing and find it's name in the desired language and just conjugate it to properly work as a noun rather than an adjective, then that can be really effective in creating both interesting yet accurate fantastical place names. Keep in mind though, that because synonyms are a thing, the first result that Google translate or whatever software you use spits out may not always be the best or easiest option to use. Also, in the case of different races or species, it would make sense to use a different language for each (such as Cornish for Dwarves, Western Frisian for humans, and Welsh for elves). Btw, I'm not trying to discredit name generators, it's just that due to the massive amount of information the authors have to find in order to make convincing names often renders them a bit too generic. The above method of making up place names (even occasionally using fictional languages such as Klingon) has never failed to produce great results if you spend time and effort doing the proper research. It feels super satisfying and you get exposed to so much culture, especially when studying something as historically dense and interesting as Cornish.
An example: I saw a suggestion for the bay to be called "Foot Bay" which sounds kind of boring, so I took to a Cornish dictionary and came up with "Trog Bay", translating to "Boot Bay". Similarily, the "Silver Sea" becomes "Arghans (Arhans) Sea".
Subbed. I love sketching for no reason or actually create the map in 3d
I find coming up with city names can be made easy when you establish a bit of the history and lore behind the people who built the city or the people who rule the region where the city is. I began to do this and kind of got sucked into lore building but basically i would use the fantasy names generator and generate a language name, from that language name I would create the name of a race and i would use a name generator for real life languages (Moroccan, Celtic, etc.) and come up with all my city names based on what the names generated that way I could have a cohesive set of city names per each race.
These are all great suggestions! Thanks for watching.
Just finished the mini series, new sub👍🏼
Thanks!
I'm so impressed of your creativity
Thank you.
I have actually made my own map based off your design but I also pre-named everything off of books I wrote. I would tell you but I really don’t want anyone stealing them
I always used google translate to come up with names. When i for example needed a name for a circular castle, i searched for circle. In finnish it said impyra so i used that as the name of the castle. I like this method because the names have actual meanings (in random languages).
With the mountains I was like hmmm. “The silent hills”... oh wait
Your towns make me think of skyrim
I selected a lot of the names in my books by running around the world of Warcraft trade districts. People make up the best names.
You are awesome man. I looked up some other artists on drawing maps and they kind of sucked. I learned so much from you. Keep up the good work and hope much success your way
Thanks so much!
By the way, Fantasy NAme Generators continues to expand, it's got name generators for pretty much everything under the Sun by now, be it original/generic or canon.
another thing you could add is translate a word from english to another language an tweak that a bit (change spelling but keep phonetics). It could be something plot related or hints like Ular Grove (ular = indonesian for snake= alot of snakes) or you could do subliminal messaging of silly things like moon dickbutt but in another language (hehe) that way people who recognize the word might have a chuckle or two :D
Wow. Redmire. Literally one of my main towns is called redmire. Crazy.
Nice elven city name
I feel like taking the away from the front of names makes it more ominous. Like The Fractured Heights vs Fractured Heights.
Other than Oceans and Seas
Interesting point. I can see that.
Orban is the current dictator of Hungary...
For a tip on naming things take a word google translate it into a random language and modify that
I have a suggestion for a map, maybe you could do fantasy Mushroom islands.
I noticed there are no settlements on the south coast. Is this because it’s dangerous and if so maybe add like a Loch Ness drawing to represent monsters or a skull and floating barrels to represent poison
Thank you for the video tutorials. Very helpful for getting started by hand. Do you have any advice for doing a feature like the grand canyon?
+Corey Wainwright -- Thanks! Something like this - fantasy-maps.com/2011/12/19/drawing-canyon-on-fantasy-map/ or this - www.fantasticmaps.com/2012/04/how-to-draw-isometric-cliffs/ might be helpful. I'll be doing a video on some of this stuff in the near future. :)
+WASD20 -- Thank you for the links. Love the videos, they are very helpful for making my own maps. Look forward to seeing more.
@2:08, Wheel of Time, FTW!!!
how did you become such a good artist? I've been working on my fantasy map since your last video, and my sketches are still really really rough haha. I can do vertical mountains pretty well, but horizontal still give me trouble. Any tips? Thanks, and love your channel btw
+Jacob Lefcourt -- Just look at other maps that look good and copy them. I think if you copy fairly exactly at first you will learn what looks good, and as you keep going you'll be able to switch things up and make them your own more and more, while still making them look good. It certainly takes time! The main thing is keep going. Find what you like and don't like and tweak things. I'll be re-mapping the same world over and over again I'm sure, making slight improvements every time. :) There are already things on this map I will definitely change next time.
This is a role player's or a fantasy writer's wet dream
I want to make a map so bad
Do it. :)
WASD20 already at it man :)
The way I do it is I take a language translate a random word from English into that language and then switch it then I take it and translate it to Latin and to English again for the lols but use the Latin but tweak it a bit
Can you do a castle one?
What is the name of the books you are talking about?
I like this vídeos a Lot!
you rock! you do awesome work
I am really bad at naming things and this helped.
Too me. Unfortunately, I have no idea both name city and new country.
I took a lot of inspiration from lord of the rings, but added the weird pronounciations of h.p. lovecraft.
WASD20
i would recomend taking a look at
RINKWORKS.com by samuel stoddard
this is if you are trying to find like hundered names all using
the same sort of spelling it is alot more spesific so its not better
than dojon or fantasyname generator but it alot more specific and
alot more control over the out come
P.S.
use the quick reference guide on the left if you want to use the
advanced interface otherwise its total magic
P.S.S
Dyq Peaks :P
Thats a really cool shirt
I use Latin when making Kingdom and area names
Any ideas on major roads\trade routes? May not be important but I am planning on making my map more "Atlas-like" map.
I usually do a dashed or dotted line for roads.
Thank you for your reply :D AWESOME MAP btw
But should I follow certain landmarks (i.e. rivers, mountain passes) or should I just make shorter freeflow roads (i.e. straight roads, avoid mountains)
So i could mix winterhold with dawnstar to geht Dawnhold and winterstar
In your world, you can do whatever you want. I think those sound great.
You should drawn a volcano and a doc
Is that the One Ring you're wearing there? You know the ringwraiths know your exact location now right?
Do you think i could play D&D on a map like this? Kinda have a world adventure.
Sort of! Hex crawls are games that make heavy use of overland maps.
I use names from some people in my discord group. Like the town of Umbra. XD
Damora Deep, Saffi Plains (sounds safe... But..)
I used zork peaks on mine
Is Inshar a reference to Indar from Planetside 2?
Nope. :) Never heard of Indar.
WASD20 what is the fantasy book you have
Im almost certain no one speaks this language so ill give yall some nice words from this language. And I garentee you these are words. However this language has weird prononciation comparsd to english
Chos (kus)
Bothar (Bo-har)
Fhada (ha-da)
Eitláin (eht-lawn)
Bás (Baw-s)
Loch lannigh (luch-lan-ig)
Tír (tear)
Roth (R-uh)
Dart (Dart)
Bainne (boh-nye)
dose anyone know how to draw glaciers on a fantasy map?
I found this vid which has some good ideas for coming up with place names. There is one method in particular that I have never heard before in which you pick two names or words that contain the type of sound that you want your name to have, then you mix and match the letters in a particular way to create new names. Here is the link if you are interested.
m.ruclips.net/video/fsbF-BAbjxM/видео.html
it looks like a face with brictel being the nose and orban the lower lip
I bought micron pens once. They last about a month and all dried out.
Mine usually last six months to a year, and I do a fair amount of drawing.
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I love your map series, giving me more ideas, but I found your method of coming up with names rather lazy. if you want to build your world from the inside out (as you earlier mentioned) you need to have some semblance of the peoples whom you are giving names for. if your people are humans who have a fishing based economy, maybe some names like Trout River (perhaps in another language) or Teeming. something fun like that, it adds a little bit of insight into how the world you create works.
Those are great ideas. Thanks. Admittedly, world building is a weaker skill for me than drawing maps.
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Eyyy. Fel Sarin, my last name, Sarin
You didn't show how to draw bridges?
Orbán Viktor is the Hungarian prime minister.
What pen did you use?
Orban looks a little like it’s in Spain
Dude, why did you call the bay Orban? XDD
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Honestly not a fan of the forest clouds, makes it too busy and takes away from the mountains..
Dyq peaks
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Hahaha
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You never showed of drawing cliffs
You are correct. I should do that sometime!
I like your beard
rotflmao, I'm using the fantasy name generator site as you mention it lol.....
Roads?
Sometimes I do em. Sometimes I don't. :) If I do them I usually do a dotted line like in this map: imgur.com/uxL0UN8
WASD20 have you maybe considered thickening those dotted lines, adding more dotted lines or making very minute little pebbles to show how certain roads are more used/ main roads, or even varying the road styles to represent cultures within your maps? it's given me some interesting results with varying degrees of success; its all about getting that balance. Oh, and great vid! do you think you could make further maps in the future (although, obviously you have done others)
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I imagined him with acne, glasses, and orange hair in a ponytail.
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first person!!!!!!
So?