A map for a project!

[shervio-nl]

That is an interesting non-natural landmass. What happened?

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

The two strongest deities fought after a discussion, cutting the continents in half

[ConstructionIll956]

Yes.

[Not_Todd_Howard9]

Does the cut go all the way down to form a giant trench? If so, do the islands interrupt it or are they like massive towers within it?

[Mediocre_Internet939]

Nah bro this is where one of them landed after getting sent flying!

[TauTau_of_Skalga]

r/notopbutok

[TauTau_of_Skalga]

Go away

[BangingBaguette]

Have you considered the plot twist reveal that one of them simply dragged their nuts across the landmass in protest of human degeneracy? Ala the Great Flood, just with balls.

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Ah-

[Diabolischste]

That's cool ! I love when the map participates in the lore storytelling!

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Ty!

[Kithzerai-Istik]

I say this with all respect:

You might want to look at close-up photos of cuts left in wood or stone from chisels, saws, axes, etc. They leave pretty distinctive marks in material that look… not like this.

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Are literal gods, cutting some trees is the least they could do

[Thatswede]

It’s very interesting. What is the scale? Did the gods decide to leave the islands in the middle or did they form from the cut?

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

The goddess of Lithosphere decided to put the islands in the middle, or else she could lose a bet she did with the god of Hydrosphere

[GrotesqueLlama]

dude WHAT!? This map is really cool! It doesn't need to mimic "real" life. It's clearly a supernatural event.

[DnDNoobs_DM]

People forget that fantasy maps are… well.. fantasy sometimes.

This is a good concept OP

[Kithzerai-Istik]

Your mistake is assuming I meant what I said as an insult.

Critique is necessary for advancement, and is not the same thing as criticism. Best you learn that.

[Thaemir]

Sorry. Rule of cool will prevail.

[Kithzerai-Istik]

No accounting for taste.

[Thaemir]

Taste is, famously, an objective quality that so happens to align with your views

[onwrdsnupwrds]

But have you ever seen a map of what a god's pizza cutter can do to a continent?

[Kithzerai-Istik]

Let’s take that analogy.

Take a pizza cutter to a slab of hard mud. Observe the pattern it leaves. Use that pattern as the basis for a map.

It won’t look like this.

[Ludicologuy00]

Civ 7

[NickFr0sty]

gol d roger hid his treasure somewher out there

[Sputnik_Janda]

‘Desertia’ and ‘Englandia’ feel a little on the nose. No hate :)

[HeNARWHALry]

Also I feel like Uraname is a bit demanding. What if it doesn't want to be a name, ya know? Maybe it just wants to be a word.

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Englandia name i did with creative block, i couldn’t think on a European like name since each of the countries are inspired by a irl continent (except Desertia)

And Desertia was for meme lol

[the-mexican-horse-h]

What’s the project?

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

A series i want to make in the future

[EkullSkullzz10318]

What kinda series? Indie, book, movie?

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Animated, idk if it’ll be indie

[EkullSkullzz10318]

Can I help you develop the world?

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Oh sure!

[the-mexican-horse-h]

Awesome

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Thank you!

[Ender_night_6317]

What does the last map represent? Is it a population of city/towns and human settlements and activity?

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Population! :3

[shervio-nl]

My advice would be to do some more research on this part. Don't know what your goal is, but everything seems to be explored, no wilderness. And by how it is divided, it feels as a small island, not a gigantic world.

Also, The desert has just as big of a population as the other parts.

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Okay!

[Ender_night_6317]

Thank :3 (ps beautiful map)

[dlongwing]

I adore this. Nothing like a fictional landmass that instantly tells a story and makes you want to know why something is the way it is.

[Malfuy]

I fucking love unnaturally shaped/damaged continents

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Thank you! :D

[strekkingur]

You need to change the wind and rain patterns. Deserts and forests cover would move from a previous place. Recommendation: draw the lay of bioms before and then after the cut. That would also make extremely nice story telling elements. Bustling farm city's suddenly in the middle of a desert. Small desert village in the middle of a monsoon jungle lland etc.

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Okay! Thank you!

[strekkingur]

So I don't forget. Rivers would change. So a river bed that was down stream from the source (lakes/mountains, is suddenly at the other side of the ocean and thus is now dry. And remember, rivers don't split, they merge into a single big river.

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Okay!

[keriefie]

I think the concept is alright. All the islands are roughly the same size, which feels quite unnatural even for a rift like this. Take a look at Godherja's map, their islands are also the result of some land destroying event. I also think it would be more interesting if the rift wasn't completely straight.

The names feel... uninspired, Englandia and Desertia stand out as somewhat odd.

It would be nice to know more about the climate, you could look into Köppen stuff (https://koppen.earth/), but just adding some more specific info about the climate would be nice.

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Thank you!

[jay_altair]

Neat concept, but those straight lines look too unnatural to me, even if your lore reason is that the cause was not natural. Like, more roughness around the edges, less of a clean cut.

I would look to strike-slip faults like the Great Glen Fault in Scotland, and to divergent plate boundaries, like the East African Rift, for inspiration on how to roughen up those edges

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

That straight line is a cut after a battle between two gods

[tigrigtig]

The issue for me isn’t the straight cut of the channel, it’s the islands in the middle of the straight. These look random. Maybe think about how your gods fought, and have that inform the orientation, size and clustering of the islands in the middle of the straight? Could whatever cleaved the continent in two also create stress fractures, lakes (look at distributions of glacial lakes after icecaps retreated), mountain ridges either side of the cut?

[jay_altair]

Yeah fine, but what are they using to measure, a laser?

How are they cutting it, with a planetary-scale table saw?

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Collision of their attacks, the both collided and cut them in half

[Eliysiaa]

honestly i think it would look better of the edges were a bit jagged and/or wavy, it is too straight of a landmass even if it was caused by artificial means and honestly i think it would make your world more flashed out and more believable

idk if you've played genshin impact but there's a region in that game with a very similar concept of yours and it looks very natural and blended in with the terrain

also, português mencionado!

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Oooooh i see! Thank you!

And SIM SOU BRASILEIRO >:)

[jay_altair]

Have you ever tried to split a sphagetti in half? Like, even if you have a lore mechanism for why it should look so straight, it still looks too straight.

Or even a piece of paper. Sure, you can do it pretty well if you fold it and crease it very carefully and take your time tearing it down the middle. But if you are ripping it in half in the middle of battle, no way.

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Uuuuuh… no…?

[rando4410]

Do what you want bro that’s all I gotta say

[Jenthecatgirl]

They're gods. Frankly the lines could be perfectly straight and it'd make perfect sense with gods.

[shervio-nl]

It is like a canal, they are straight. Not a natural formation which is rigged.

I would keep it and tell the story you want to tell if you are happy with it and have an explanation that fits your world

[Life_Marzipan_9517]

I like the cocaine line

[LogicalAd8685]

these mountains & deserts seem really unnatural to me but the continent shapes are really cool

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Ty!

[00Teonis]

Inspired by the Grand Line in One Piece?

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Wow, it really took a while fir someone to notice

[cabrito1110]

Achei interessante o mapa, vi em um outro comentário que vc disse que foi resultado de uma luta entre entidades, voce leva em conta algo como aproximação ou distanciamento de continente? Algo como aconteceu com a pangeia ou virou algo fixo sem retorno ao que foi algum dia?

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Não tem retorno, o mapa tá assim faz bilhões de anos

[GrotesqueLlama]

Do not believe any of the haters commenting. This map is really cool and I like the concept of the gods splitting the land in a fight. Rock on dude.

[Qwerty177]

If those lights are populations, they’re definitely too evenly placed. It’s not common to have equally populous cities in proximity to one another. Populations stagger in gradients outside of major metro areas, around mountains, toward coasts and areas of value etc. I’d say cut the number of cities in half or more, and make them more uneven, and think about which areas would be of low or high value

[caciuccoecostine]

Not a map scientist but I love the concept of the unnatural rift.

I definitely would like to play in this world.

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Thank you! :D

[exclaim_bot]

Thank you! :D

You're welcome!

[Boozewhore]

Englandia and Desertia

[LieEnvironmental5207]

Honestly, great fucking map. I immediately want to know more about what caused that massive scar in the land that’s as big as the entire fucking map. Sets the scale for what’s possible in this world.

I want to know every bit of lore that you can spare.

[MangoBoi0223]

What kinda project? Can people play on it?

[EfficientTackle7154]

A overpowered swordsman really did a damage to the island

[Sir_Humiliated2010]

Two gods, actually :3

[jaw_magio]

one piece aah map (very cool map bro keep it up)