Pre-Generated Fantasy Maps

A soft watercolour mountain realm subtitled Realm of Stone and Sky. The northeast corner is the dragon country the prompt asked for: the Dragonspine glows red with lava in its peaks, and a red dragon perches beside a marked point labelled Vharagor's Lair, with the Emberteeth and Ashen Col below it. Just south of the dragon peaks lies the haunted forest, the Withered Wood, a grey mass of dead twisted trees and ruined towers captioned where the dead still dream, the same line used on map 184. The rest of the realm is high valleys and passes (Highwind, Grimwolf, Stoneveil Valley), with the Skyfall River tumbling down waterfalls through Ravenford and Stonebridge to the coast. Lake Duskmirror and the castle of Mournhold sit in the east. Sea serpents coil through the Serpent Deep and rocky islets called the Drowning Teeth guard the south. Ravenford shows up again.

A painted tabletop island with raised mountains, forests and towns, running the full range of climates from top to bottom. The north is ice: the Frosthollow Expanse and the Silverwind Tundra, with the huge blue wall of the Thalgrin Glacier spilling toward the sea and the fortress of Glacierwatch on the snowfield. The middle is temperate, with the Stonehelm Mountains, Mistral Vale, the Oakheart Plains and the Elderwood, a dense forest hiding a waterfall and a white-spired elven-looking palace. The east turns volcanic at the Emberpeak Range and the dark keep of Blackspire. Then the south goes fully tropical: the Verdant Expanse is a palm jungle, the Golden Dunes hold the desert city of Zafirah, and the coast is fringed with bright pink and turquoise coral reefs around the harbour of Tidehaven. Galleons circle the island. The names are clean and easy to read, though Aerindor itself was used on an earlier island map here.

A clean, colourful atlas-style island framed by gold scrollwork and lions. The defining feature is the Emberdeep Canyon, a deep red-walled gorge that cuts diagonally across the whole island from the west coast near Sunhaven to Brindle Pass in the east, with waterfalls spilling down its sides and only a couple of arched bridges crossing it. North of the canyon are the snowy Highspine Mountains, the Stormfen Moor, Eldermere lake with its island castle and the Greenharth Forest. South of it lie the golden Goldvein Peaks, the farmland of the Mournfield Plains and harbour towns like Karthall and Starfall. In the southeast corner the Hollowwood, subtitled the Haunting Trees, is a grey patch of dead twisted trees wrapped in fog beside the clifftop fortress of Grimshore, with a dark tower on the Tidewraith Isles offshore. Valmorren, Eldermere, Oakridge and the Hollowwood are all names reused from earlier maps.

A frost-blue archipelago in silver ink and snow, which makes its warm centre all the more striking. Most islands are icy and mountainous, scattered across the Silver Deep and the Veiled Sea among floating icebergs, with towers and towns like Glacierrun, Northwake, Caelith and Stormrest. The large central island breaks the pattern: its western half is the Sulzar Desert, pale sand crossed by dotted caravan routes linking the Zafira Oasis, Miraj Wells, Dunespire and the Saffel Caravanserai, while its eastern half is the Keldan Steppe, open grassland with herds of horses, round yurts and named nomad camps (Orun Camps, Sairuun, Baytar). The snowy Starfall Range divides them. A silver sea serpent, Nivvarath the Longcoil, rears in the west, and a whale called the Wandering White swims with a pod of dolphins in the southeast. A couple of small island labels are garbled.

A frost-blue mountain realm in silver ink that splits sharply in two. The upper two thirds are winter: snowy peaks named the Velthar Spires, Stonefangs and Embercrest Range, the Glimmerpine Forest and the Mirkwood of Snows, a frozen lake called Ithren, and fortresses at Karvul, Drakhel Hold and Morgrath linked by passes (Skaer, Karsten, Thalgrim, Skyreach) through the High Valleys. Frozen waterfalls tumble off the mountains' southern edge where an arched viaduct crosses a gorge. Below that, the land drops straight into the Sunscar Desert, warm sand dunes crossed by the Amber Way, a dotted caravan route with camel trains linking the Ashir, Zareth, Velaan and Khamir oases to the domed cities of Naruq and Sulhaar. Each of the four wind faces has a line about its weather. Valmere appears here as a frozen lake, and Morgrath, Kaelmere and Thalgrim repeat earlier maps.

A painted tabletop world map with raised peaks and forests and a gold border with dragons and a tree emblem. The showpiece sits in the north centre: a river crosses the green Skyfall Plateau and pours off its sheer edge in a wide waterfall straight into the open sea of the Great Deep, with spray rising at the bottom. Behind it the Frostwastes cover the top of the map with the Icecrown Peaks and the Glacierfangs, a great blue glacier wall. Five other lands surround the central sea. Valemoor mixes the Evershade Forest with the Sunspire Expanse desert, Thaloria holds the Everwood, Ravenhold and the smoking volcano of the Emberwilds, Zyphara is red hills and the Velkar Dunes, Aurindor is green jungle with the waterfall town of Silverfall, and the small island Aelthar sits alone in the middle. Valemoor, Aelthar and Aurindor are all names close to ones used before.

A soft watercolour continent with two big features side by side. The centre is the Searing Vast, a sandy desert crossed by dotted caravan routes with little camel trains moving between the Zarim, Qadresh and Talas oases and the walled desert city of Nehar, with the Dunes of Jal to the east. Right beside the desert, the whole northeast is on fire: Kharaz Vul is a volcanic range topped by an erupting peak, with bright orange lava rivers running down past the dark towns of Ashenreach and Emberdeep. The rest of the continent wraps around these two: the snowy Frosthame Peaks and Eldrenwood in the north, the Sunmeadow Vale with Rathiel, the jungle Serpentwilds with hidden ruins in the south, and the Kethros Delta beside the harbour city of Varilon. A huge kraken pulls down a galleon in the Azure Deep. The scale runs to a thousand leagues.

A sepia parchment world map with five landmasses around the Aerian Ocean and the Sundered Sea, crossed by faint rhumb lines. Two continents carry the prompt's themes. In the southwest, Zaharan is almost entirely the Great Sands, a desert crossed by a web of dotted caravan routes that link palm oases and walled towns such as Azrim, Nerakh, Kharuun and Mizran, with the Dunes of Serekh in the south. In the east, the Eternal Wilde is an ancient forest that fills nearly the whole continent with dense trees, leaving only a ring of coast for towns like Araleth, Silvaris and Myrewood. The north holds forested Valmor with the Deepwood and the Karsten Peaks, and Drakar with its snowy Frostspine and red Bloodheath. A volcanic island group, Serathi, smokes in the middle. Sea serpents and a whale swim the oceans. The scale bar's unit is misspelled as Kilomires.

A minimalist black-ink map in the style of a novel's endpapers, centred on a great inland sea called the Inner Sea, where a whale spouts with dolphins beside it, a whirlpool turns near the Serpent Islets, and small island groups like the Sailmere Isles and Mistcove sit offshore. Every shore has its own region: forests and rivers in Bramhar, the Verdant Reach and Eldenwood to the west and north, mountains at Stonewold, Greyfell and the Black Heights to the east. The south is the interesting part. Sundune is a desert crossed by dotted caravan routes linking the Talar, Mizran and Serat oases, and running beneath it is the Fallen Road, a ruined route lined with broken pillars and arches that leads to the great ruin of Uldaran and on to the Shattered Coast. A tidy legend separates roads, ruined roads and caravan routes. Valmere appears again on the north shore.

A sun-faded city plan in golden ochre and burnt sienna, framed by griffins and sun medallions. Varoshal is a many-sided walled city laid out like a wheel: streets radiate from a round central plaza where seven tall spires stand together, giving the city its subtitle. The Royal Palace with its formal gardens sits on the High Terrace to the north, and the Temple District glitters with gold domes, fountains and cypress trees to the northeast. The Merchant Quarter, the Artisans' Reach and the Dockward fill the middle and south, where the Sorrow River curves through the walls with bridges, piers and boats, and Southshore lies across the water. The west third is Old Varoshal, a grey field of ruins still inside the walls, with a broken aqueduct running out into the Ashen Wastes. Gates lead to the Pilgrim Road and other towns. The subtitle City of the Seven Spires repeats map 205.

A dark fantasy coast on scorched, black-edged parchment with blood-red ink, where the land is almost all desert. The Ember Wastes fill the middle, crossed by red-dotted caravan routes with names (the Dune Road, the Silktooth Route, the Red Line) and camel trains moving between oases like Sunspire Oasis, Serpent Well, Dryleaf, Mirage Oasis and the Golden Pool. To the east, a near-perfect ring of jagged peaks called the Iron Crown encloses Lake Vesper, with a dark spired castle on an island in its centre and a single river escaping south through Whisper Pass. The coast is ragged and hostile, with headlands named Bloodwatch Head and Redclaw Point, harbours at Velmora and Starfall, and seas called the Crimson Sea and the Bleeding Expanse. A huge red kraken drags a ship under in the Kraken's Maw. One route label is misspelled as Roste and a mountain label is garbled.

A bright storybook kingdom with a dashed red border and its neighbours labelled by politics: the Stormcairn Highlands (independent clans) to the west, and the Dreadmere Marches and Kelthar Dominion (both rival kingdoms) to the east. The top edge is frozen: the Shiverwaste, the long blue wall of the Frostspine Glacier and the Icerend Peaks, guarded by Frostwatch Keep. Below, everything is cheerful green countryside with red-roofed villages, windmills and castles like Highgrove Castle and Mosswall Keep. Rivers converge on the walled capital, Greenhollow High City, then fan out into the Verdant Delta, dozens of channels and islets reaching the sea beside the Mirewillow Marshes. A big red kraken wrecks a ship in the Kraken's Maw, and a whale named Thalorin, the Wandering Whale, swims past the Silverfin Pod of dolphins. The scale gives miles and kilometres. Ravenford and Oakridge appear again.

An engraved coast with hand-tinted colour, subtitled Lands of Stone, Water and Forgotten Kings, with four named wind faces in the corners and mermen holding up the cartouche. In the north, the Crownguard Peaks and the Ashen Ring circle Lake Aeldrim, with Ilyrion Isle in its middle and a river spilling south over a waterfall. That river runs into the Drowned Marches, a wide grey-green wetland of reeds and mist that slowly sinks into the sea, and at its edge lies Vyrmara, the Sunken City, a crowd of drowned towers, domes and broken aqueducts half under water. The Weeping Fen and the Blackreed Marshes spread beside it. The western coast is dramatic and busy, with cliffs at Greyhorn and Stormhollow, harbours at Ravenwick and Tidefall, and the walled city of Eldenthor. Islets like Thalassa's Teeth and the Serpent's Gullet guard the southern waters. The scale is in miles.

A frost-blue archipelago in silver ink, subtitled islands of ice, legends of the deep, kingdoms that endure. The centre island, Karldur, is a ring of snowy peaks around Mirrordeep Lake, its cliffs ringed with frozen waterfalls, and holds Stonecrown, the Helmspire Monastery and Cairnwatch on its rim. The haunted forest sits on the island to the east: the Mournwood, subtitled the Hollow Trees, is a dark grey tangle of dead branches with crows overhead, the Gravewind Barrow and Silentmere hidden inside. Other islands carry Norse-sounding names like Skardholm, Nivengard, Thalvorn, Solgrimm and Hrafnskar, linked by dotted sea lanes through the Glass Sea, the White Reach and the Bone Current, while pack ice fills the Long Ice along the bottom. A great kraken pulls a ship into the Deepwrath and wrecks litter the Wyrmtooth Shoals. A legend separates trade routes from sea lanes, and the scale is in miles.

A black-and-white pen-and-ink realm with fine hatching inside an ornate border of vines, goats and birds, subtitled a realm of peaks, lakes and the white coast. Across the high north a chain of lakes, Thalwen, Merrow, Cairn and Duskheath, steps from one to the next over short falls like Brightwater Falls, with a fifth, Lake Starfall, set apart in the southwest. The mountains between them are crossed by named passes: Hearth, Riven, Blackthorn and Eaglewand, plus a stair of terraces called the Seven Steps. The south coast is the showpiece. The White Cliffs drop straight into the Pale Sea in a long white wall cut with arches and caves, and tall sea stacks stand offshore at the Selden Stacks and Sable Spire, with a lighthouse on Whitemere Head. A full legend covers passes, roads, lakes and cliffs, and the scale is in leagues. One small town label near the Seven Steps is garbled.

A minimalist black-ink continent in the style of a novel's endpapers, with a cartouche promising realms, peoples, wilds, rivers, cities and all between. Its centrepiece is the Starfall Crater, a perfectly round pit with steep shaded walls, and inside it the walled city of Kaelmor fills the crater floor with towers and a tall central spire. Rivers run out of the crater south toward Rivendale. The north is frozen: the Glacial Waste and the Shattered Ice cover the top edge with ice cliffs and floes, and the Frostgar Range and Hailspine Mountains run below them past Bjornheim and Morgrim Keep. The rest of the continent is varied: the forests of Valdene, the Green Marches and Traewood in the west, the volcanic Emberlands in the east, and the Sundered Wastes, a ruin-dotted desert with the Dunes of Zephir, in the south. Vyralon, Caelthar, Rivendale and the Starfall Crater all repeat names from earlier maps.

A wide frost-blue world map in snow, ice and silver ink, with six snowbound continents spread around the Howling Ocean, the Cerulean Deep and the Sea of Mirrors. In the south centre, Uldrak holds the Starfall Crater, a deep round bowl with the crystal city of Aurorith glittering on its floor and a frozen waterfall spilling out toward Sunglade. In the northeast, the jagged continent of Vragonfearr is home to the dragon: a red dragon spreads its wings above a peak marked Krytharax's Lair, with the Stormspine Range and Gloompine Forest below it. A huge kraken drags a ship down in the Kraken's Maw, and a sea serpent called the Coil Below rises in the east. Other lands (Frostheim, Thalassar, Keldoran, Velgrim) are all ice, pine and spired castles. The continent name Vragonfearr is partly garbled, Caer Nysw looks like a typo for Caer Nyss, and Starfall Crater, Morgrath and Kaelthar repeat earlier maps.

A wide engraved archipelago with hand-tinted colour, a Latin motto in the cartouche and a note that it was charted by the Company of the Wandering Star circa 871 A.E. The large central island, Valemere, holds the walled capital Rivermark, labelled capital of the isles, where the Ardenflow River runs through the city and out through a harbour full of piers. Around it are the Greenmantle and Oakenshield forests, the patchwork farmland of Goldenmead and the snowy peak of Elderfell, whose height is given as 1,842 paces. The northeast coast is the white chalk part of the brief: the Moonspire Crests form tall white cliffs, and the White Spires and Dragon's Tooth stand offshore as a cluster of sea stacks. Dozens of smaller islands surround it, from snowy Frostholm to the smoking volcano of Emberholme and tropical Pearlstrand. Sea serpents swim in the Sapphire Sea. Valemere is a name used many times in this gallery.

A painted tabletop coast with raised peaks and forests and four named wind faces, one of them glowing orange as the Breath of Summer. Two landmarks dominate. In the north the Crownspine Mountains form a snowy ring around Moonfell Lake, with an island castle in the middle and a waterfall pouring in from the peaks. Just below the ring, the Redmaw Canyon slices across the whole land from Talon Bay in the west to the fortress of Kharzuld in the east, a deep red-walled gorge with waterfalls spilling into it and only a few bridges and viaducts crossing over. South of the canyon lie the Thornwood, the Mistvein Marshes and the Goldhart Plains, with a volcano smouldering at Emberheight. The coast is rugged and busy, with Eldertide Harbour, lighthouses at Serpent's Watch and Sunspire Point, and island clusters like the Glassmere and Brightheel Isles. Sea serpents and a whale swim offshore.

A dark fantasy continent on scorched parchment with skulls and blood-red banners in the border. The north is the Kargrim Wastes, subtitled the Frozen Crown, a white sheet of glaciers and ice shelves with the Thrice-Broken Fjords cutting into its edge. Below the ice, the Hrothgar Steppes and Khaldur Plains are open grassland with red nomad tents and horse herds, the prompt's steppe theme. The south is where the menace sits: the Bloodmarch is a glowing red lava wasteland under a black sun, crowned by the spiked fortress city of Vorzul, with the Withered Expanse of dead trees beside it and the Ashenpeak Mountains streaked with lava. Between them lie the Dreadwood and Eldergloom forests, Lake Morgrath and the Duskfen Marshes. Sea serpents and dragons lurk along the coasts. A clear legend covers nomad camps, ruins and region boundaries. Morgrath, Kaelthar and Valemere all repeat earlier names.

A dark fantasy city plan on scorched, blood-spattered parchment, and one of the richest city maps here. Vorhalgrad sits in a ring of walls around a rocky hill crowned by Karsten Keep, the Seat of the Iron Crown, with Crown Plaza and its fountain at the foot. Every district has a short motto: the Crimson Ward (wine, pleasure, secrets), the Citizen's Ring (guilds, law, prosperity), the Talon District (arms, steel, obedience) and the Ashen Quarter (where all return). The Sunward Temples fill the east with golden domes and named shrines such as the Temple of Seven Flames and the Temple of the Veiled Moon. Below the walls the Blacktide Harbor is packed with piers, red-sailed warships at the Red Sail Naval Yard, the Foreign Docks and Fisherman's Quay, guarded by Tidewatch Fort. Gates carry names like Westgate of the Dead. The scale is in imperial miles.

A sepia parchment kingdom with a lion crest and the motto River, Crown, People, bordered by a red line with arrows pointing toward neighbours like the Rhaegar Principality, the Thornwald Marches and the Kraelen Wastes. The walled capital Thaldor, the Crown City, sits where the great river splits around it before flowing south past Rivermouth into the Caelthar Sea. Around it the kingdom is classic farmland: dozens of villages joined by roads, castles like Grimholt, Greystone and Suncrest, and lakes at Crowsmere and Ashenmere. The northeast is the haunted part. The Weptwood, subtitled a forest of the dead, is a dark mass of twisted bare trees around a skull, set apart from everything else. A great sea serpent rises in the bay, and ships with lion sails head out to sea. The scale is in leagues. Ravenford and Oakridge appear again, and one village label near the river is garbled.

A sun-faded continent in golden ochre and burnt sienna, with the haunted forest and the swamp sitting right next to each other in the middle. The Withered Forest is a dark patch of grey, dead trees below the Dragonspine Mountains with the ruined Ashen Keep at its heart. Directly south, the land breaks into the Drowned Marches and the Blackfen Swamp, a huge maze of winding channels, islets and green pools around the tower of Mirehold. Around these two, the continent splits into clear regions: green Eldenwood and Greenhollow Vale in the west, the snowy Frosthelm Peaks and Icewind Tundra in the north, the Sunscar Wastes and Amber Dunes desert in the east with the smoking Ember Peaks, and the red Redstone Highlands in the south. Ships, sea serpents and a kraken fill the seas. The scale is in kilometres, and Valemere, Rivermoor, Thalgrim and Kharzul all repeat names used before, as does Aerethia itself.

A dark fantasy city plan on scorched parchment splashed with blood-red stains, its cartouche framed by bat wings and skulls. A dark river, the Redveil Run, cuts the walled city in two, crossed by four named bridges (Ravenbridge, Highbridge, Bloodstone and Sages' Bridge), with a small walled cemetery island, Barrow Isle, in the middle of the stream. North of the river, Vharos Castle rises on a rocky hill at the centre, and to its east the Arcane Quarter glows violet around the Spire of Sable Stars, a tall wizard tower, with the Aetherium Collegium, Scrollwrights' Halls and an Orrery beside it. The Cinder Ward smoulders in the northwest next to the gallows of the Gallow's Field. South of the river lie Ashmarket and the Black Bazaar, Bridgehall, Gravenshade and the Drowning Docks on Blacktide Harbor. Outside the walls sit the Hollow Necropolis and the Bonefields. The Withered Wood and Blacktide repeat earlier names.

An antique sea chart of a continent, with rhumb lines and depth soundings over the water and four named wind faces whose captions say what each wind brings. The north coast is shredded into a long row of deep, narrow fjords called the Skjarnfjords, cutting between snowy peaks past Norse-sounding towns like Gullspire, Vargard and Skeld. Below the Karstenreach Mountains the land opens into the Sunsteppe and the Endless Grass, wide pale-green grassland with herds of horses, the Sair Nomads, and the great tented camp of Ordukhan on the Khan's Road. The rest of the continent is varied: Eldengrove Forest and Blackwood in the west, the red Redspine Range, the Keshar Desert in the southeast, and the farmland of the Greenward and the Golden Coast in the south. A legend covers nomad camps, caravan routes and passes, and the scale runs to a thousand leagues. The continent is named Aeldoran, a name used on an earlier map here.

A black-and-white pen-and-ink map with fine hatching, titled the Inner Sea and the lands that ring it. The east side of the sea is the reason to pick this one. A vast wetland spreads from the Morgrave Fens and the Silt Lands down through the Green Drown and the Sanguar Delta, a tangle of winding channels and reed beds, and in the middle of it sits the Drowning City of Velmara, a huge ruined city of towers, domes and arched bridges half sunk in the marsh, with the Lost Causeway, the Sunken Palaces, the Hollow Spires and the Serpent Channels labelled around it. The other shores are more settled: the Iron Spine and Silvercastle in the west, the Sunward Kingdoms and the Golden Fields in the south, the cliff fortress of Caelthor in the north, and the smoking Mount Halcyr. A sea serpent swims in the sea, and the legend covers marsh, ruins and sea routes. Valmere and the Starfall Isles repeat earlier names.

A painted tabletop island with raised peaks and forests inside a gold border of griffins and tridents. The north is volcanic: the Ember Spires rise in a dark jagged mass topped by the erupting Flamepeak, with glowing orange lava rivers running down past Cinderholme and Redspire. A river flows south from the volcano through Stoneford and then fans out across the whole southern half of the island as the Elaran Delta, dozens of branching blue channels and small green islets, with the walled city of Thaloren sitting right in the middle of them. The rest of the island is classic kingdom country: the dark Mournwood Forest, the golden Gilded Woods, clifftop castles like Highwatch and Eldrim Keep, and Stormhaven harbour. A huge kraken with glowing eyes drags a galleon down in the Kraken's Maw. Oakridge is labelled twice, and the delta's own name is slightly misspelled on the map.

An elven city plan in deep blue and green with flowing gold-leaf vines around the border and the motto where rivers remember and beauty endures. Lythalas is a ring-walled city split by a wide river called the Blue Canals, which forks around a rocky island holding Castle Aelthorn, then runs south under the great arched Starbridge and out through Southgate. Every ward is laced with smaller canals and footbridges instead of streets, with boats moored along them. East of the river stands the many-spired High Cathedral of Elaris above Moonmarket Square, a round plaza full of coloured market stalls, with the Artisan's Reach and Sylvan Quay beside it. West of the river lie the Westwater Ward and the Garden District, and outside the walls the Moonfall Cascades pour down a cliff in the southwest. A key covers walls, canals, bridges and quays, and the scale is in paces.

An elven continent in deep blue and green with gold-leaf vines in the border and a closing motto about land and water in balance. Down the centre runs the prompt's chain of lakes: Lake Caelwere, Lake Myrillion, Lake Thalos and Lake Seraphine step south one after another, joined by the Lyran River, which carries on past Valemoor to a final lake, Lake Ilyndra, where a gleaming white palace sits on an island. To the east, the Sundering Canyon slices across the land as a deep red-walled gorge with waterfalls spilling into it, from the Whispering Woods down to the fortress of Kharadun. The rest is lush and green: the Moonwood with its glowing eldertrees, the Sunlit Wilds and golden Gilded Peaks in the southwest, the snowy Frosthelm and Aurelian Range in the north, and white elven towns like Illyrion, Sunspire and Elaris on the coasts. Valemoor, Vaelthar and Elaris repeat earlier names.

A soft watercolour kingdom with a tree crest and the motto Roots Endure, Vines Flourish, People Stand. The whole western half is one ancient forest, the Eldermere Forest, subtitled the Oldwood, a dense mass of tall dark trees wrapped in mist with hidden sites inside it: Moonfen Glade, the Whispering Trees, Silvarn Keep, Faeholt and the ruins of Blackroot Cairn. The eastern half is wine country. The Suncrest Hills, the Golden Terraces, Emberwine Vale and the Terramont Hills are striped with stepped terraces and rows of vines, dotted with castles like Highvine and Ravenstone. The walled capital Valdren sits in the middle on the Silverbranch River beside Lake Myraleth, whose island holds the ruined Isle of the Fallen Crown. Neighbouring kingdoms, Briarhold, Selvaris and the Ardent Marches, sit beyond the yellow border, and a sea serpent coils in the Cerulean Sea. The map has a full legend including vineyards and terraced fields.

A minimalist black-ink coast in the style of a novel's endpapers, framed by a border with heraldic beasts in the corners. Through the middle, three lakes step down from the Stonehelm Mountains in a chain: Lake Seren spills over a waterfall called Moonfall into Lake Eldor, which flows by the Thalen River into Lake Gwen, with a fourth, Lake Keld, off in the northeast. From there the Sorrowmere River runs southeast and splits into the Greenwater Delta, a beautifully drawn fan of branching channels and reedy islets reaching the Tidal Expanse. The west coast is properly rugged, with cliffs, headlands and lighthouses at Northreach Head, Windward Point, Bronze Cape and Starfall Head, and harbours at Ravenport and Tidefall. A whale spouts in the Clouded Sea and dolphins leap near Maren's Deep. Oakridge appears again, and the scale is in leagues.

A sun-faded island kingdom in ochre and sienna, subtitled peoples, lands, seas, in faith and horizons we endure, and split by dashed borders into named regions. The west is dry: the Ember Coast, Dryreach, the Sunward Hills and the white Saltmear, with the red Redspine Ridge running through them. The capital Valemere sits in the green Heartlands at the centre. The east is the reason to choose this map. The whole northeast drowns in the Blackfen, subtitled the Drowning Lands, a dense web of winding blue channels and dark islets around Mireholt and Reedspire. Below it, the Jade Coast, the Verdant Reach, is tropical jungle with waterfalls, domed towns at Lunthara and Khazul, and bright turquoise water ringed with coral reefs at the Emerald Atoll and the Pearlspine Isles. Sea serpents coil in the Serpent's Maw. The scale gives miles and kilometres, and Valemere and Karsten repeat earlier names.

A frost-blue city plan in snow, ice and silver ink, with every rooftop dusted white and the river half frozen. Frosthold is a big walled city with an icy river looping through it. The Royal Palace crowns the north on a terraced hill, with the formal Royal Gardens of hedges and fountains beside it. In the centre, the Great Market Square and the many-spired Cathedral of Dawnlight face each other across a plaza, and in the west the Arcane Quarter glows blue around a tall Wizard Tower near the West Gate. South of the river, bridges lead to the Riverside District, the Old Quarter, Crimsongate and the Dockward, where piers reach into SilverBay Harbour, a frozen bay clogged with ice floes around a glowing lighthouse. Outside the walls lie snowy cliffs and the Frostwood Forest. A key covers walls, gates, bridges and gardens, and the scale is in metres. Frosthold is a city name the AI has used on earlier maps here too.

A bright storybook continent titled Eldermere, the Shattered Crown, with cheerful green hills and red-roofed towns. The two set pieces sit side by side at the top. Stormspire, labelled the Sacred Mountain, rises alone and snow-capped in the north centre with a golden starburst shining from its summit. Right beside it to the east, the Deadwood is a big grey patch of dead, twisted trees and drifting fog, with the ruined fortress of Mournkeep inside and the dark Duskmoor and the Blackfen Marsh at its edges. The rest of the land is varied and friendly: the Frosthelm Peaks and Iceborn Fjord in the northwest, Ravenwood and Greenhollow in the middle, the red Redcliff Range and the sandy Emberwaste in the southwest, and the golden Highsun Fields in the east. A volcano smokes on the Ember Isles and a green sea serpent rears in the Azure Deep. Eldermere, Rivermoor and the Deadwood all repeat earlier names.

A black-ink city plan in the style of a novel's endpapers, drawn at an angle so the great cliff through the middle of the city really stands out, and subtitled Gateway to the Deep. The upper town sits on top of the cliff behind a towered wall: Highreach Castle crowns the summit, Saint Alaric's Cathedral rises beside the Grand Market, and to the east the Arcane Quarter gathers around the Sable Tower, a tall spiralled wizard tower with a star on top. The Citadel Quarter, Sunward Ward, the Noble Ward and the High Terrace fill the rest. Two routes climb the cliff, the zigzag Cliffway and the Raven Stair. Below, the lower town spreads along Deepwater Harbor with the Fisher's Quarter, the Lower Market, the Harbor Ward and four sets of docks, guarded by a lighthouse called the Iron Beacon. The scale is in paces, and Caelmere is a city name the AI has used several times before.

A black-and-white pen-and-ink island with fine hatching, subtitled the Land of Fjords, Fields and Faithful Folk, with a lion and a stag holding up the crest. The north is cut into a row of deep, narrow fjords between sharp peaks, the Hrafnskar Fjords, Gullrend Fjord and others, under the Northspine Mountains and Icehelm Peak, with Norse-flavoured towns like Frosthavn, Vargstead and Eldvik tucked at their heads. South of the mountains the whole island opens into farmland. The Glasswold Fields are drawn as a neat patchwork of hedged fields and roads, scattered with small villages such as Highgrove, Millfield, Greenhollow and Eastbrook, around the walled capital Aldermere beside Lake Eldene. Woods break it up at Eldenwood and Kingswood, and the Moonfen Marshes fill the southeast. A sea serpent swims in the Verdant Sea. Ravenford and Oakridge appear again, and Aldermere was used as a town on map 234.

A dark fantasy continent on scorched, blood-stained parchment with the motto Kingdoms Fall, the Land Remains, and grim captions in each sea (the Howling Deep, many kingdoms lie beneath her waves). The north is ice: Skardrim, the Broken Glaciers, and the Frostgard Fjords, a row of deep frozen inlets between snowy peaks, with Norse-sounding towns like Hrafnspire and Vellskar. Below them the Mournpeaks, the Ashen Crown, smoulder red around the dark fortress of Tharvulg. The coasts carry the other half of the brief: the Chalken Cliffs in the southwest and the Whitecliff Coast in the east are long white chalk walls with tall sea stacks standing offshore. Inland lie Lake Dreadmere with its island ruin, the Red Mire, the Weeping Woods, the skull-topped Graebone Mountains and Karsthal, the Bone Wastes. A huge black sea serpent coils in the Onyx Sea. Valemoor, Blackfen and Karthen repeat earlier names.

A sun-faded city plan in golden ochre and burnt sienna with a numbered key of twelve landmarks. Karastel is a walled city on the north bank of the River Calen. The Sunhold, the royal castle, sits on a rocky rise in the northwest, with the stepped High Terrace below it. In the centre the round Grand Square holds the market around a fountain, and right beside it the many-spired Dawnspire Cathedral climbs above a flight of steps. The northeast is the Temple District, packed with golden domes and crowned by a cluster called the Seven Domes. The east is the Arcane Quarter, with darker purple roofs and the tall Starward Tower, ringed by brass armillary bands, standing by the wall. The Merchant Ward, the Old City and the smoky Artisans' Quarter fill the south, and the Docks line the river at Rivergate. The scale is in paces.

A clean, colourful atlas-style kingdom, subtitled the Kingdom of Rivers, Stones and Skies, with a dashed red border separating it from the Thalgrim Marches, the Durnholm Principality and the Veltha Moors. In the north the Starfall Crater is a deep round bowl with steep reddish walls, and at its bottom the white-towered city of Nightwell stands on an island in a blue crater lake, with a waterfall spilling out of the rim to feed the River Ael. The whole eastern third of the kingdom is the Serpentmarsh, a huge maze of winding blue channels and green islets with towers at Siltspire and Gloomreach and the bridge town of Fenbridge. The rest is cheerful farmland and forest around the castle of Kingsrest and the Faldrin Wood. A huge blue whale and a pod of dolphins swim in the Wandering Sea and Dolphin Bay. Starfall Crater, Ravenford and Karsten all repeat earlier names.

A frost-blue city plan in snow and silver ink, subtitled Gateway to a Brighter North, and one of the most detailed city maps here. Frosthaven is split by the Whitecliffs, a tall icy cliff with frozen waterfalls pouring down its face. On top sit Skyhold, the royal castle, and the Highgrove royal palace with formal snowy gardens, the Sunward District of nobles, embassies and manors, and in the west the Arcane Quarter of schools, libraries and observatories, with the Astral Spire, a tall wizard tower, on its own crag across a stone bridge. Below the cliffs, the Lower Town spreads around a harbour full of ice floes: the Stormgate for traders and craftsmen, the Stoneward for markets and guilds, the Riverward for fishers and warehouses, and the Docks for shipyards and a free port. Emberwatch, a lighthouse fort, guards the bay. A numbered key covers fourteen features, the scale is in paces, and Frosthaven is a name used on two earlier maps here.

An antique sea chart of a tropical coast, with rhumb lines and depth soundings across the water, titled the Emerald Coast and the River Velaris, Realms of the Sunward Marches. The walled capital Talamar, Crown of the River, sits right where the River Velaris reaches the sea and fans out into the Velaris Delta, a cluster of green islets and channels. Behind it the Greenwild, subtitled the Jungle without End, fills the land with palms and waterfalls (Serpent Falls, Moonflower Falls), and old temple ruins hide at the Temples of Kalluun and the Ruins of Zaharin. Offshore, the sea is full of coral: the Pearl Reefs, Sunspear Reef, the Coral Teeth and Starfish Atoll are painted as pink and turquoise reef patches around small islands. A sea serpent rears in the Sunspice Sea. The legend marks reefs, depth soundings, anchorages and hazardous rocks, and the scale is in leagues.

A frost-blue archipelago in silver ink, subtitled islands of ice, seas of dreams, lands beyond, and a second map here to carry the Frostfall Archipelago name. The big central island is a ring of snowy mountains called the Circlepeaks, enclosing Mirror Lake with a small castle on an island and a waterfall pouring in from the peaks. Southeast of it lies the surprise: the Silvertide Jungle, a frozen-blue tropical island of palms and waterfalls, edged by the Coralspine Reef and the Sapphire Reefs, with towns at Lunara, Mistbloom and Tideharbor. Dozens of icy islands surround them, each with a town and subtitle, such as Skardal Frostspire, Caelthryn Sunken Halls and Nivora the Last Watch. The seas hold named monsters: the Glasswhale, the Pale Leviathan, the Drowned Crown and a kraken called the Shattered One. Map 254 also used the Frostfall Archipelago title.

A dark fantasy archipelago on scorched, blood-spattered parchment with the grim motto Many Islands, One Ending. The centrepiece is the Worldfall, captioned where the rivers leave the sky: the Thalor River winds across the flat Starfall Plateau on the island of Kaelthar and pours off its sheer cliff edge as a huge white waterfall straight into the sea, with sea stacks rising out of the spray. Around the plateau's foot, the Jadewild Coast is a tropical jungle with turquoise lagoons, and the Coralspine Reefs spread offshore as bright pink and teal coral rings. Elsewhere the islands turn grim: the Drowned Crown, a spired ruin rising from the water, the red-forested Veilblood Islands, the dark fortress of Nyxholt, and volcanic islands like the Vyrmcoil Isles and the Ember Keys. Red-sailed ships cross the Bloodtide Sea and a kraken lurks in the Howling Deep. Kaelthar, Talanor and the title Shattered Reaches all repeat earlier maps.

A black-and-white pen-and-ink world map with fine hatching, with seven landmasses around the Aelyric Ocean and a whirlpool called the Maelstrom Deep in the middle. On Eldramor in the northwest, the Rivenholt River crosses a high plateau and pours off its cliff edge in a great waterfall, labelled the Worldfall, into a bank of cloud below. On Velmir in the east, the river called the Serpent's Reach fans out into the Golden Delta, a wide tree-like spread of branching channels reaching the sea at Thalassar. A large kraken wraps a galleon in the middle of the ocean, and sea serpents and dragons swim in every sea. The other lands each have character: icy Frostheim and Northreach, the Red Wastes of Karthen, forested Thalassia with the Ivory Kingdoms, and volcanic Auranor with Mount Vyrn. A few labels are garbled, including the Kingdom of Highenfel. Frostheim, Karthen and the Worldfall all repeat earlier maps.

A black-and-white pen-and-ink archipelago with fine hatching and the closing motto many realms once whole, now scattered, still endure. The far north is frozen: Glacierthrone is a massive block of ice cliffs, and Kaldrinn and its Skarvath Glacier sit beside it, with Icewind Keep. Ruins are everywhere else, and old roads link them. The Pale Causeway, a long line of broken arches, crosses the sea from Thrymgard to Draugrin, the Drowned Road runs from Mournwatch on Blacktide Isle, and the Fallen Road crosses Nymra. Central Caelmere holds the Lost City of Vaelth, a cluster of roofless towers, and other ruins appear at Solvik, Stonebreak, Eastruin and the Twin Spires. A kraken rises in the Stormward Sea, a sea serpent coils in the Cloven Deeps, and a wreck lies at Thalassa's Grave. The scale is in leagues. The Shattered Isles, Caelmere, Morgrath and Blacktide all repeat earlier names.

An antique sea chart of an archipelago, subtitled charted lands and uncharted waters, with rhumb lines, depth soundings and an ornate border of shells, tridents and mermaids. The largest island is split by the Emberfault, labelled the Greatspan Canyon, a deep red-walled gorge running right across it with cliffs dropping straight into the sea. Above the canyon rise the snowy Dragon Peaks, where a red dragon perches beside a spot marked Vyrmthal, Dragon Lair. Dozens of smaller islands fill the rest of the chart, from the volcanic Ember Isle and the Ashen Isles to the icy Frostmaw Isles, with towns and ruins at Bleakmere, Seabreak, Thalor's Rest and Moonfall Isle. The seas are crowded with monsters: a kraken in the Sundered Sea, sea serpents near Ember Isle and Serpent's Grave, and a drowned ruin called the Drowned Crown. Stormhollow, Ravencrest and the Drowned Crown repeat earlier names.

A sun-faded map in golden ochre and burnt sienna, built around an inland sea called the Amber Sea, Jewel of a Thousand Lands, with sea serpents, ships and the Isles of Dawn in its waters. A ring of named regions surrounds it, each with a subtitle: Karvul, Highland Clans, Khaldur, Stone Kings, Thalor, Red Marches, Nembria, Land of Fields, Pelagar, the Olive Coast, and Myrathon, City of Seven Spires. The prompt's two features sit at opposite corners. In the northeast, the Silverlakes are a chain of lakes (Moonlake, Starfall Lake, Ravenmere, Lake Seline) stepping down to the sea. In the southwest, Korvash, the Sunken Circle, is a huge crater in the Scorched Wastes, and the walled city of Zir-Kael fills its floor, with a waterfall escaping through the rim. Two lake labels are garbled, and Vaelthar, Ravenscar and the City of Seven Spires subtitle repeat earlier maps.

A dark fantasy island kingdom on scorched parchment splashed with blood, with the motto Stone, Blood, Sea, Forever. The whole north is one wall of jagged peaks, the Dragon Peaks, slashed by a row of deep fjords (Skarth, Vargnir, Gloomreach, Blackspine and Ravenblood Fjords) with Frosthallow and Ironspine Keep tucked between them. In the east, a red dragon coils around a glowing cave marked Vyroth's Lair, the Red Maw, above a region called Where Heaven Burns. South of the mountains lies the kingdom proper: the walled capital Ravenhall on its river, the dark Dreadwood and Grimwood forests, the misty Veiled Moor, Lake Eldenmere and the Sundered Plains, with ports at Blackfen Harbor and Duskport. A huge kraken pulls a galleon down in the Dread Deep, captioned where even the waves remember. Blackfen and Dreadwood repeat names used on earlier maps.