World-Building, Day Five

Day Five.

So, today’s exercise is to draw out the physical contours of your map, and then identify at least three places that your people might live. You don’t need names for them yet– we’ll worry about names next week, when we give our people language. Just draw a dot on the map or maybe sketch a little “house” symbol to indicate that people have settled that area.

Yeah. Here’s an hour or two of playing in Corel Painter Essentials (it is MUCH fun, and I got it for free with my Bamboo tablet which is even MORE fun–highly recommended!)

So we’ve got the tall mountains over on the long narrow continent. The bits of color there are Synto, locale of the first adventure, and the desert (yellow surrounded by mountains) and down towards the bottom the forest Flame ran away from, Lyarhalee (lork, how DID I spell that name? I should look it up.)

I know it’s not exactly what I’m supposed to be doing with this, but I know where Flame comes from. And I haven’t decided where anyone else comes from. >_>

Naturally I reserve the right to change any or all of this.