Pre-Generated Fantasy Maps

A grim walled city drawn on scorched parchment, with blood spatters at the edges and red banners hanging from every tower. Mordrak, the Hollow Mountain, fills the top of the sheet, and its slopes are cut through with workings: the Pale Quarry, Deepdelve Mines, Raven Tunnels and the Gaping Shaft, which glows from inside. Inside the walls the streets spread out from the Grand Plaza toward named districts. The castle Highhold sits on a dark rock spur. Sorrowhallow is marked as the old quarter, close to the Gravedusk District and its domed ruin. Outside the walls are the slums, with Brackwater, Mudholt, Charhollow and Cinderway pressed against the gates. The Vorren River cuts across the south west corner. The legend is unusually complete, with mine entrances, quarries and slums each given their own symbol. The scale bar measures both paces and kilometres, and the two do not quite agree.

A tidy kingdom map in soft watercolour, and one of the most usable regional sheets in the gallery. A dotted border runs right around Fjordenhal, and the neighbours outside it are labelled with their politics: Thalgrim Principality is an ally, the Durvak Marches a rival kingdom, the Karsten Reaches neutral, and the Barrenspike Mountains belong to the Drakkar Clans. The north is a wall of ice. The Bleakspine Glaciers break into floating blocks, and the Skarddeep Fjords cut long fingers of water into the mountains past Kaldvik and Frosthelm. The capital sits in the middle near Lake Elnar, with red roads linking about twenty towns and keeps. Three sea serpents and a ship fill the western waters. The scale bar is in leagues, which suits the setting. Ravenford, Oakridge and Karsten are names the AI reuses often across this collection.

A pale archipelago drawn as an old sea chart, with rhumb lines crossing the water and small depth soundings in fathoms scattered between the islands. The cartouche even credits it to the Mariners' Guild of Highmoor. More than a dozen named islands spread across the sheet. Most are snow-covered and ringed with pine forest, and many hold a frozen lake at the centre, such as Deepfreeze Lake on Skarth or Lake Hrafn on Stormhollow. The white chalk cliffs come through strongly on Hrothgar's Whitecliff Head and along the Chalken Cliffs on Skarth's southern shore, and sea stacks dot the channels everywhere. Two sea serpents and a pair of dragon-headed beasts guard the corners, and a volcanic Cinderholm smokes in the south east. The legend marks dangerous reefs and standing stones, and the scale is in leagues. One label in the north west reads 'Grey Skerries' with a stray letter, a small slip.

Five landmasses around a central sea, painted in dusty ochre, sienna and faded teal, with an ornate gilded border that has a sun and a moon in the top corners. The wall is the thing to look at. The Eternal Wall runs diagonally across northern Thaloris, from Caer Valen to Stormgarde, with towers spaced along its length. It is drawn properly as a built structure, not just a line. Dotted ancient roads link towns across every continent, and the legend gives them their own symbol along with ruins and regional borders. The south has Morgrath, a scorched land of lava and obsidian under the smoking Cinder Crown, while Vyralen in the north west is forest, lake and snow. Two sea serpents swim in the Serpent Sea and the Sundering Ocean. Several small labels are garbled, including those under Sunspar, Sunpear and the Nordhra town names. Morgrath, Caelthas and Aeldorn echo names used elsewhere in the gallery.

A crowded dark fantasy sheet with burnt edges and red ink, showing a ring of kingdoms around one enclosed sea. Each realm carries a grim subtitle: Morgrave, Lords of the Black Coast; Kheshar, Sands of Bones; Karthen, Realm of the Red Saints. The Stonewall runs across the north between Westgate and Eastgate, with a note that it stands against what sleeps beyond. That sets up a whole campaign in one line. White chalk cliffs and sea stacks appear twice, once as the White Cliffs on the west shore and again as a long line of pale bluffs along Karthen's coast. In the middle a red kraken drags a ship under, and the water around it holds a leviathan, serpents, whirlpools and the Skull Isles. The White Cliffs label is misspelt 'Eliffs', and Valmere and Ravenford are names the AI keeps reusing in this collection. The scale is in miles.

A soft watercolour world map titled 'A Map of the Known Realms', with six landmasses spread across bright blue seas. Both requested features are easy to find. The Sundering Falls pour off a cliff-edged plateau in Valdaran, where a winding river runs to the edge and drops into a cloud of spray. To the south west, the Sunvein Delta spreads across Sythra's coast in dozens of fine channels and small islands. Lyrenth sits in the middle, ringed by turquoise shallows and reefs. The volcanic Ashenfell burns in the east, and the snowy Cloudspine runs along the top of Kaelith in the south. Four sailing ships cross the water, and two serpents swim in the Serpent Sea and the Cerulean Deep. The scale bar reads in leagues. Ravenford and Starfall have appeared on other maps here, and Aelthar is one of the most reused names in the whole gallery.

Seven small continents in a cheerful storybook style, each with its name on a parchment ribbon and its own clear climate. Frosthelm in the top left is the snowy one, covered in pine forest around the frozen Lake Thalvor, with a little waterfall dropping off the ice into the sea. Mireth in the east holds the swamp. The Gloomwade is a dense maze of dark water channels and dead trees, with towns like Murkfen, Tidehollow and Blackreed sitting on the scraps of dry ground. The other lands are easy to tell apart too: golden Tharaden, green Lyrton, rocky Karthos and Valmere with its lava-lit Firecrest Peaks. A big red kraken wraps a ship in the middle of the Azure Expanse, and a serpent and a whale swim nearby. The scale is in kilometres. Valmere, Ravenford and Kaelthar are names you will find on several other maps in this gallery.

A clean black-ink endpaper map on cream paper, the kind you would expect inside the cover of a fantasy novel. The cartouche at the bottom is held up by two rampant lions. Aurelon is the walled capital, sitting where the Rathen River comes down from Lake Mirros and crossing toward the east by a small bridge. Just below the city the river splits into the Serpent Delta, a broad fan of channels and islets that runs all the way to the Amber Expanse. It is one of the clearest deltas in the gallery. Around it the land is easy to read: the Drakefell Mountains in the west, the Eldenwood and Greenvale forests, the open Karthen Steppes, and Silvanreach in the east. Small sea monsters coil in the corners, and the scale is in miles. A short line of text beside the delta is garbled, and Valmere, Ravenford and Moonhaven are names reused across this collection.

A blood-and-ash map of lands around the Inland Sea of Vaelor, with scorched edges and a grim motto in the corner box about lands that bleed and burn. The canyon is spectacular. The Gash of Morvak tears diagonally across the north east, a deep chasm with glowing red lava at the bottom, falls spilling over its walls and Morvak's Bastion perched on the far rim. The sacred mountain is Mount Elyr, a lone white peak at the top centre with a red sun rising behind it, Elyr's Watch at its foot and the Skyreach Monastery on its flank. Around the sea are the Bloodmere, a lake of red water, the Dread Coast with skulls in the shallows, and the Kharuun Wastes and Crimson Dunes in the south. A kraken pulls a ship down near Sunken Bells. The scale bar reads 'Miles of Vaelor'. Karthen, Moonfall and Thalorim are names that show up elsewhere in this gallery.

A rich tabletop-style kingdom map with an ornate gold border, lion shields in the corners and a cartouche carrying the motto 'Fide, Terra, Gentes'. The mountains and forests stand up from the page at an angle, which gives the whole sheet real depth. The kingdom splits neatly into two climates. The north is winter: the Whitepine Forest is buried in snow around the frozen Glimmerdeep and Eldren lakes, guarded by Northgate Keep and Rimewatch. The south is warm wine country, with stepped terraces and rows of vines around Sunterrace and Goldenvale, and Hearthmere Castle standing on a terraced hill. A dashed border marks the neighbours, Bramhold Realm, the Ember Hills, the Duskwood Throne and the Selenwood Free Lands. The capital sits on a looping river at the centre. Valmere and Ravenford are among the most reused names in the gallery, and an earlier map here also has a Sunterrace with vineyards.

A sun-baked harbour city in warm ochre and sienna, drawn at an angle so you can see the drop between its two levels. The upper town sits on a cliff. Skyhold Castle guards the western edge, the domed Sunreach Palace stands at the top, and the High Gardens are laid out beside it in neat green squares, with the Crown Heights and Nobleshire filling the streets in between. A long arcaded wall and stairs lead down the cliff face to the Lower Town, where long piers and moored ships line the Docks on the Amber Reach. Fisher's Row, Marketward, the Temple District and the Brass Quarter fill the rest of the walls. Outside the East Gate, the Stonehollow Slums spread into the fields with smoke rising from them. Roads lead off to Marrowpass, Ashenridge, Redvale and the Golden Fields. The scale is in paces, which is the right choice for a city map.

Five continents in fine black pen and ink on cream paper, with careful hatching on every mountain and no colour at all. The crater city is on Thalassir in the south east. The Great Crater is a deep round pit with steep hatched walls, and Nerath-Ka fills its floor in rings of buildings around a tall central spire, with a single river draining out to the south. Ruins are everywhere, which suits the prompt. Eldren, Skael, Zul'Rath, Thessal, Ilthar, Jarin and Velasa are all marked as ruins, and dashed ancient roads such as the Pale Road, the Twin Roads and the Emerald Road link them across each landmass. The legend even has a symbol for a ruined road. In the open sea a large whale labelled the Songswhale spouts beside a pod of Silverfin Dolphins. The scale is in kilometres. 'The Starfall Islands' near the bottom is slightly garbled, and Ravenholt, Starfall and Sunmere echo names used elsewhere.

Everything here is painted in frost blue, white and silver, and the ornate border has icicles hanging from the cartouche. It is an odd mix of features, and it works. The mountains fill the top half with named peaks and three passes: Ravenscar Pass, Stormvein Pass (bridged by a fortified gate) and Whispergate Pass. Below them the Miresong Swamp spreads across the middle of the map as a frozen maze of winding channels and reed islands, with the Drowned Chapel, Moonrot Bogs and a ruined Sunken Causeway hidden inside. The vineyards are the surprise. On the western slopes the Silver Terraces and the Vellenza and Sunfrost Vineyards climb the hills in stepped rows, still dusted with snow. The White Road links Frostwell, Brineford and Wintergate along the south. The scale is in miles. Valmere Ridge, Karsten Watch and Brineford reuse names that appear on other maps in this gallery.

A gentle watercolour map of eight realms gathered around one calm inland sea, each labelled with a short epithet: Eldrath, Kingdom of the Green Hills; Carenth, Realm of Rivers; Southreach, Kingdom of the Sun. The walled capital is Aurelion, built on the north shore where the Ravenflow River runs into the sea, with a harbour full of jetties below its towers. The cold north is Frosthelm, the Northern Wilds, a band of snowy pine forest with Thalor Lake, Glimmerdeep Lake and a chain of small frozen pools called the Icewyrm Lakes. The sea itself has three sailing ships, a whirlpool in the Sighing Deep and two serpents breaking the surface. The south is warmer, with domed Sanmora and the island city of Syralis in the Jade Reaches. The scale reads in leagues. Valmere, Blackfen, Glenwatch and Glimmerdeep are names the AI has used on other maps in this collection.

An antique-style chart of the lands around one great inland sea, with faint rhumb lines radiating from a compass at the centre of the water and depth soundings scattered among the islands. The border is decorated with dragons and a banner reading 'Many Peoples, One Sea, Endless Horizons'. The dead forest is the Hollowwood, Forest of the Forgotten, on the north east shore. It is a tangle of bare black trees around a giant skull, with a red glow and a ruined tower inside, and the Red Mire beyond it. The snowy north is Frosthold and the White Marches, where pine forests surround frozen lakes like Glacermere, Helvern and Dreadice. Four sailing ships cross the sea and a serpent coils near the Serpent's Crown Islands. Fourteen realms are named with epithets, from Karadun, Halls of the Deep Earth, to Sunreach, Pearl of the Southern Realms. The scale is in leagues. Valmere, Karsten and Sunspire are reused names, and Lake Glacermere's label is slightly garbled.

A dark blue and green archipelago with fine gold-leaf linework, crescent moons and star glyphs that give it a proper elven feel. The crater island is Karsthal, the Fallen Crown. A ring of cliffs and peaks encloses a deep bowl, and Vorathil, the City in the Crater, rises in pale concentric rings around a lake on its floor, with a waterfall spilling out through a gap in the southern wall. Directly below it the Mirewold, the Endless Swamp, spreads across a huge stretch of the south as a dense mesh of waterways and mangrove islets, holding Gloomreach Bogtown, Stillfen and the Sunken Grove. Every other island carries a poetic subtitle, such as Eldren, Island of Libraries, or Morlith, the Lantern Isle. The legend covers waterfalls and sea routes, and the scale reads in leagues. Silverreach and Karsthal have been used as names on earlier maps here, and 'Mounlit' under Nyssara is a misspelling.

A bright, friendly storybook continent with green hills, red-roofed villages and a windmill on the Golden Plains. The wall is impossible to miss. The Stoneward Wall runs across the middle of the land from the Silverleaf Forest to the Redscar Wastes, a grey battlement with towers and a single gate, keeping the farmland in the south apart from the mountains in the north. Up in the Dragonspine Mountains, a red dragon curls inside a glowing cave marked Vaelthar (Dragon's Lair), and the legend gives the lair its own red dragon symbol. Highcaller Pass is the obvious way up from the wall. The rest is easy to read: the white palace of Elarion above a set of waterfalls, the Sunspear Peninsula, and harbour towns like Westmere and Brightwater. A serpent swims in the Emerald Sea. Aeldoran, Starfall, Seabright and Stormhollow are names you will see on other maps in this gallery.

A cheerful regional coastline in storybook colours, with a wind face blowing from each corner of the frame. Two of them are golden-haired and two are grey-bearded. The western shore is properly rugged, broken into headlands, sea arches, rocky islets and lighthouses, with the harbours of Dawnharbour and Seabriar tucked into Headland Bay. The Canyon of Vaelor cuts deep across the middle of the land in red rock walls, with waterfalls spilling into it, two bridges crossing it and Vaelor's Gate guarding its eastern end. North of the canyon the Redfire Peaks burn. Firethroat erupts at the top, and bright lava rivers run down past the Ashen Crown and Cinderfell toward the Scoria Waste. A green serpent swims in the Emerald Deep near the Westwind. The scale is in leagues and short, suited to a regional map. Ravenford, Starfall Isle and Thornridge reuse names from other maps in this collection.

A frozen mountain realm in blue, white and silver, with a frosty cartouche held by two wolves and icicles hanging off the frame. It is packed with detail. Peaks fill the north, from the Throne of Everwinter at the top to the Kragholm Range, and the passes are clearly marked. Ravenpass crosses on a long arched bridge, while the Blackledge Pass and Stonefang Pass each have their own bridges. The Glacial Run flows down the middle past Valemor. In the south west the Mistveil Marshes drift with fog around bare trees, and Nethrael, the Sunken City, lies half drowned in them, its domes and arches poking up out of the ice. Crowfall Lake and Mirroke Lake are frozen solid, ringed by pine forest. A kraken drags a ship down in the Whitecrown Sea beside the note 'Here Deep Things Still Hunger'. Kelthar Monastery appears twice, once with a garbled spelling. The scale is in leagues.

A cold, crisp mountain realm in frost blue and silver, and a good example of the AI blending features that rarely share a map. Peaks cover most of the sheet. Silver Crown Peak even carries a height figure, and five passes are marked with gate icons: Wyrm's Tooth, Icemaw, Stormgate, Stoneveil and Highwind. In the high country to the east the Miren Salt Flats spread out as a pale cracked plain. Beside them the Hollow Basin holds Ashen Lake, labelled as a dry bed, and the legend gives both salt flats and dry lake beds their own symbols. The western coast drops in sheer white cliffs to the Pale Sea, with tall sea stacks off the Halvren Coast. The Pale Serpent of Halvren Deep, a spiny white sea dragon, coils in the water below. The 'Three Sisters Stack Cliffs' label is misspelt, and the scale is in miles.

A painted tabletop map seen at a slight angle, so the mountains and forests stand up from the ground with real depth. Clouds drift at the edges and a gold sun compass sits in the bottom left. The inland sea fills the centre, scattered with islands, and two dark spined serpents swim through it. The wall, labelled the Stoneward, runs across the north east from the edge of the sea toward the Dalmere Highlands, cutting the Talgrim Plains off from the red Kheran Wastes. The swamp is the Miresong Fen in the east, a dense lattice of water channels and green islets with dark spires at Blackreed and Nethmarsh, draining into a delta in the corner. The south west is the opposite extreme, with the red stone towers of the Sunscar Badlands and lava in the Cinderspur Range. There is no scale bar or legend. Valmere, Karsten, Frosthold and Blackreed are names reused elsewhere, and 'Axepelt Delta' looks like a garbled label.

A faded sea chart of a cold northern shoreline, with rhumb lines fanning out from compass points across the water and depth soundings scattered over every bay. The cartouche, held by two snarling wolves, names it the Frostwind Coast and the Northern Reaches of Valmere. The coastline is properly rugged. Stormkeg Bay and Sealsreach Bay cut deep into the land, separated by rocky headlands like Pinewatch and Northhallow Head, and Deeprest Harbour sits on a peninsula with a stone pier. The sacred mountain is Mournspire, the Sacred Height, a single tall snowy peak rising above the pine forest. Inland, the Whitepine Woods surround frozen Wintermere and the small Icefen Lakes. Four sailing ships cross the Bloodwater Sea, and two small sea creatures surface near the scale cartouche, which reads 'A Scale of Common Leagues'. Valmere is one of the most reused names in this gallery, and 'Stormkeg' may be a slip for Stormkeep.

A bright atlas-style map of kingdoms around one inland sea, with tinted elevation, crisp coastlines and dashed sea routes between the ports. The sea's caption reads 'Jewel of Kingdoms, Grave of Empires'. The fjords are the strongest part. Along the whole northern shore, the Shattered Fjords cut long, narrow inlets deep into the snowy mountains of Frostwold, with Icehallow and Stormkeel at their heads. The haunted forest is the Hollowwood on the west coast, a grey stretch of bare twisted trees captioned 'Where the Dead Still Walk', with Mournkeep and Blackfen inside it. A big kraken wraps a ship in the middle of the sea, and a gold compass sits in the bottom left. The scale is in leagues. Southwatch is labelled twice, once on the shore and again at the bottom edge. Valmere, Karsten, Blackfen, Greenhollow and the Hollowwood are all names the AI reuses across this collection.

A richly painted tabletop world titled 'The Known Worlds', with four continents raised off the page and a carved border featuring lions and wolves in the corners. The haunted forest is on Nerathil in the north east. The Withered Wood is labelled '(haunted)' outright, a patch of black dead trees beside the Bleeding Wastes, with Mourngate Ruins and the dark Obsidian Spire nearby. Ruins really are everywhere: Ardwen, Vekthar, Elaris and Mourngate are all named, along with crumbling stone outlines in the Sundered Isles, and dashed old roads cross each continent. A whirlpool spins in the Hollow Deep with a kraken rising just south of it, and serpents swim in the Veiled Ocean and the Sea of Echoes. The scale is in miles. Two labels are garbled, 'Ruins' near Nerathil and the ruin under Vekthar. Valemere and Caelthar are names the AI keeps reusing in this gallery.

A fine black-ink continent on cream paper with no colour, and one of the best uses of the four wind faces in the gallery. Each corner holds a bearded head with a name and title: Boreth, Wind of Northlands; Stormwind; Zephyros; and Austron, Wind of Warm Seas. The waterfall is huge. The Sereth River crosses the Thalaron Plateau and pours off its long cliff edge as the Worldfall, landing in the cloud-like Mists of Aelthar. Below the cliff the land opens into the Kharad Salt Flats and the Bleached Expanse, drawn as a cracked pale plain, and further south lies Cindermere, labelled as a dead lake and ringed by bare trees. Around them are the Graewood Forest, the Mirefen Marshes, the Morath Badlands and the Redspine Mountains. Two sea serpents and a few ships fill the coasts, and the scale is in kilometres. The town label beside Cindermere is garbled, and an earlier map here is also titled the Worldfall.

A walled river city drawn in clean black ink on cream, with a pale blue wash on the water and a raven crest above the cartouche. The Raven River splits the city in two, crossed by three stone bridges (the High Bridge, the Stonebridge and the Harbour Bridge) before it opens into Raven Harbour. The east bank climbs. Skyhold Castle sits on top of the High Cliffs, the Upper Town or Noble Quarter fills the slope below it, and the Royal Palace stands beside the formal Sunrise Gardens with their geometric hedges. The west bank holds the Temple District and the Market Quarter. At the water's edge, the Lower Town or Dock Ward runs along long wooden piers crowded with ships. Roads leave through Westgate and Eastgate toward named towns beyond. The numbered legend lists ten landmarks, but the numbers never appear on the map itself, so you have to match them by eye. The scale is in metres.

A crisp atlas-style continent called Aelorin, the Broken Crown, with clear colour tints for lowland, hills, mountains, dry land and snow, all explained in a tidy key. The wall cuts straight across the middle. The Sunderwall runs from Westgate to Eastgate past Stonewatch and Kingsward, with round towers spaced along it, and divides the green north (the Greenreach, Mirthwood and Graemore Forest) from the dry south. Below the wall the Ashen Wastes open into the Saltspine Basin, a huge white salt pan with the Glass Flats on one side and a scatter of round, dusty Dry Lakes on the other. The key gives salt flats their own tint. Six sailing ships ring the coast, and a sea serpent swims in the Ember Sea. The scale is in kilometres, and the tiny text in the bottom margin is unreadable. Ravenford, Rivermoor, Oakridge, Starfall and Karsten are names you will find on many other maps in this gallery.

A soft watercolour kingdom map ringed by its neighbours, with a wind face in each corner. Each wind has a short motto, such as 'The West Wind Brings Change'. The kingdom border is clearly drawn, and the shield of each neighbouring realm sits outside it: Briarland Confederacy, Talgrim Dominion, the Mistwood Realms and the Thornwild Marches. The wall is the Stonewarden Wall, running diagonally across the north west from the mountains of Karsten Hold. Ruins are the real theme. The Broken Way and the Silent Road are dashed ruined roads through the east and south, and they lead past Mournstead Ruins, the Cairn of Old Kings, Blackmere Ruins, Twinspire Ruins and a chain of fallen arches. A castle sits half sunk in Duskmere Lake. The capital stands on an island between two rivers that loop around the centre of the realm. The scale is in miles. Valmere, Ravenford, Oakridge and the Stonewarden Wall all appear on other maps in this gallery.

A hand-tinted engraving of a gentle green continent framed by an ornate border, with heraldic shields in the corners and a cartouche held by winged griffins. The farmland comes through beautifully. The middle of the land is a patchwork of small tinted fields and hedgerows, dotted with villages like Willowbrook, Hearthwell, Brambleford and Kingsmead, linked by thin roads around the little lake of Oakmere. The chalk cliffs run along almost every coast. The Starfall Cliffs, Gullspire Cliffs and Brightcliff Cape drop in sheer white walls, and dozens of tall sea stacks stand offshore, especially near the area labelled the Seastacks. A turtle-shelled kraken rises in the Thalassian Ocean, and two serpents coil in the Dawnseas and the Emberdeep. Five ships sail around the coast. There is no scale bar. Starfall, Stormhollow and Sunspear are names that turn up on other maps in this gallery.

A wintry world map in frost blue and silver, with six continents scattered across a deep blue sea and pack ice drifting along the top as the Far Ice. Both requested features sit together on the western landmass. The Blackriven Canyon cuts diagonally from Frostheim to the coast as a deep red-walled gash between Valenwood and Auroria, with a waterfall dropping into it. Where its river reaches the sea, the Rivermouth Delta fans out past Deltara in dozens of pale channels. Seralis in the south east has a second, smaller delta of its own. A huge kraken drags a ship down in the middle of the Ardent Ocean, a whale swims just above it, and a sea dragon peeks in from the eastern edge. The Ember Isles in the south smoke with small volcanoes, a warm note in an otherwise frozen palette. The scale is in kilometres. Sunspire, Stonefall and Thornwatch are names reused elsewhere in this gallery.

A dark kingdom map on burnt parchment with red borders and a blood-red compass. In each corner a scowling wind face is named: Thal, Sura, Dren and Kael. The ancient forest really does cover half the land. The Elderwood fills the whole western side of the kingdom in dense dark green, with one giant gnarled tree at its heart and Raven's Hollow, Whispergrove, Oakenshade, the Black Thicket and the Weeping Trees hidden inside. The east is open and golden by contrast. Terraced vineyards step down the hills around Amberhills and Vinewatch toward white sea cliffs at Embercliff and Duskhaven. The capital, Vaelthorn, sits on the river between the two halves. A dashed red line marks the kingdom border, and the neighbours (Morgrave Kingdom, Thornvale Realm, Rathven Principalities) are named outside it. Red-sailed ships cross the Bloodmere Sea. The scale is in kilometres, and 'Amberhills' is misspelt on the map.

A soft watercolour archipelago subtitled 'An Archipelago of a Thousand Shores', with hundreds of small islands scattered across pale blue water. The two requested features each get their own island. On Stoneward Isle in the north west, the Thornwatch Wall runs right across the island from Bastion's Reach to Karthen Gate, a towered stone barrier splitting it in two. In the south east, the large island of Caldrin is ringed by the Embercrown Range, a closed circle of peaks around Lake Aurel, labelled the Heart of Caldrin, with a small fort on an islet in the middle. Mistveil Falls drain the lake out through a gap in the southern ring. A green sea serpent, Nethra the Deep Coil, rises in the Azure Expanse, and a volcano smokes over Emberholme in the west. Tidegrave Atoll is a nice ring-shaped detail. The scale is in miles. Karthen, Starfall and Embercrown echo names used on other maps in this gallery.

A clean atlas-style continent with clear colour tints and one of the more thorough legends in the gallery, which even gives chalk cliffs and ruined roads their own symbols. The ruined roads run in dashed red right across the land. The Old King's Road crosses from Lunaris toward the east coast, the Ashen Road runs past Kharzul, and the Aurelian Road follows the west. Along them sit labelled ruins: Caer Dorn, Stonewraith, Lunaris, Vorrin Deep and Moonshard. The chalk cliffs are just as strong. The Whitewall Cliffs line the whole south east coast in a long white wall, the Cindermere Cliffs guard the west, and the Pale Stacks stand off Mistvale. Mount Kraeth, the Ember Crown, erupts in the south over the red Redmere badlands. A serpent coils in the Starfall Sea. The scale is in kilometres. Valmorra has been used as a title twice already in this gallery, Ravenhold and Sunspire recur too, and the label above 'The Cindermere Cliffs' is garbled.

A detailed black-ink island kingdom on cream paper, shown at a slight angle so the cliffs and mountains have real depth. Both the wall and the canyon run east to west, one above the other, which turns the island into three bands. The Highwall crosses the north with towers and a central gate, sealing off the Frosthelm Mountains and the Eldenwood Forest. Just south of it, the Sundering Canyon splits the land in a deep, sheer-sided gorge, with two waterfalls pouring into it and a river running out to the west coast. Stonebridge is the obvious crossing. The south holds farmland around Grendale, the Wildmere Forest, the Ravenpeak Mountains and the walled port of Sunhelm. A huge whale breaches in the bottom left corner, and dolphins leap all around the coast. There is no scale bar. Ravenford, Moonwell and Starfall Capes reuse names found on other maps in this gallery.

A rich elven-style world map in deep teal and green with gold filigree corners, a crescent moon at the bottom and the motto 'Far Lands, Bright Souls, One World'. Tall white spired cities give it the elven feel, especially on Lunareth and Elyndor in the west. The volcanic range is the Cindervale Range in the north east, a block of dark peaks with bright lava rivers running down past Morgrath and Ashenhold into the Emberwastes. Right below it, the Seraphel Marsh fills a large part of the eastern continent with a maze of curling waterways around Mirehallow, Duskfen and Tidegrave, so fire and swamp sit side by side. In the central Veldarian Ocean a kraken drags a ship down in the Drowned Deep, and Nerathis, the Deep Coil, swims nearby as a green sea serpent. There is no scale bar. Morgrath, Starfall, Aelthar, Moonspire and Duskfen are names that turn up elsewhere in this gallery.

A hand-tinted engraving of kingdoms ringing an inland sea, with rhumb lines radiating from a compass at the centre and a sea god holding a trident beside the cartouche. Griffins flank the scale of leagues. The crater is in the top left corner. A huge round crater holds the city of Kaelthar, with towers and bridges built around a lake on its floor, and its water spills out over the rim as the Emberfalls, a stepped cascade down to the sea. Directly opposite, in the top right, the volcanic peaks of Karvul and the Ashen Spine smoke above bright rivers of lava that run toward the coast. Between them lie snowy Frosthelm and the dark Brinewood. Two serpents and a spouting whale swim among the ships, and the Shattered Isles and Stormneedle Isles dot the water. The sea's name, 'Serpented', is an odd invented word, and the AI also misspelt 'Shattered'. Valmere and Kaelthar are names reused across this gallery.

A vivid atlas-style kingdom with tinted terrain, small castles drawn in relief and a gold scale bar in kilometres. A glowing yellow border traces the kingdom's edge. The crater city is the centrepiece. Starfall, the Hollow City, fills a deep round crater in the middle of the land, a white spired city built around a ring of water, with waterfalls pouring over the crater walls from the rivers above. Roads lead out to every part of the kingdom from there. The volcanic range takes the whole north east corner. The Cinderpeak Range is black rock laced with bright lava, Mount Embercrown erupts at the top, and the lava ends in the Crimson Falls, which drop into the sea. Castles guard the rest of the realm, from Northwall and Eldridge to Greymoor and Sunspire, and ships sail past Westhaven and Mooncrest. 'Azurereach Sea' is misspelt, and Starfall, Ravenford and Sunspire are among the most reused names in this gallery.

A clean black pen-and-ink continent on cream paper, split neatly into two halves that each answer one part of the prompt. The west is the Vaelwood, the Ancient Forest, drawn as a dense mass of hatched trees that really does cover about half the land. Eldertree Keep, Moonfen Grove, Silthar and a ruin called the Hollow Kings are hidden inside it, and the Thalor River winds through. The east is the Mirewastes, a huge swamp of looping channels and boggy islands around Mirehold, the Drowned Reeds and the Serpent's Bogs, draining into the Saltmarsh Delta in the south. Mountains frame both halves, from the Frosthelm Mountains in the north to the Sunspire Range in the south. A sea serpent rears up in the Sundered Sea, and ships ring the coast. The scale reads in leagues. Valemere, Greenhallow and Stormgate are close to names used on other maps in this collection.

A cheerful storybook continent called Aeldoran, Realms of Green Hills and Open Skies, packed with red-roofed towns, little bridges and a stag standing in the Northmere Woods. The crater sits right in the middle. Caelmore, the Hollow City, fills a deep round bowl with streets of red roofs built in rings around a small lake, and several waterfalls pour into it over the walls. To its east, the Veldari Vineyards climb the hills in neat striped rows around Aramelle and Lunara, which gives the map a warm wine-country feel. The rest of the land moves from the snowy Frosthelm Range in the north to the red rock towers of the Amber Wastes in the south. In the sea, a spouting whale and a pod of dolphins leap in the Wandering Deep, with more dolphins off the east coast. There is no scale bar. Aeldoran, Sunspire, Starfall and Rivermere are names that turn up on other maps in this collection.

A spare black-ink continent on cream paper, the kind of clean line map you would expect in the front of a paperback. There is no title cartouche, so the land itself carries the design. The swamp is the Drowning Wilds, a broad band across the middle of the continent drawn as a honeycomb of rounded pools and islets linked by winding channels, running east into the Serpent Marshes. The cold north works just as well. The Frostwraith Glaciers spill white ice through the mountains in the north west, the open Kaldren Tundra spreads beside them, and the Shattered Ice breaks into floes along the north east coast. Further south the land warms into the Golden Fields, Brightleaf Vale and the rocky Redspine Badlands. A large whale breaches in the Sunward Sea with three dolphins leaping beside it. The scale is in leagues and goes up to 1,000, which makes this a very large continent. The label for Thornwold is slightly garbled.

A dusty world map in ochre, burnt sienna and faded teal, with five continents spread around a central sea called the Vastmere. The jungle coast is on Zephyria in the south west. The Verdant Wilds and Goldleaf Jungle run down to the turquoise Jade Coast, where small islands sit among the Coral Reefs, and a waterfall drops from the Cloudspire Mountains at Mistfall. The dragon lair is in the north east. In the Dreadspine, a red dragon spreads its wings over a glowing peak marked Vyrmhold, Dragon Lair, above the Emberwastes. Two whales and a pod of dolphins swim in the Vastmere and the Sapphire Deep, a serpent rises in the Serpent Sea, and dashed sea routes link the ports. The legend even has a coral reef symbol. There is no scale bar. The label under Emberwastes is garbled, and Aurelion, Caelthar, Sunspear and the Hollow Crown are names you will see on other maps in this gallery.

A frozen archipelago in frost blue, white and silver, with pack ice choking the channels and dashed sea routes threading between the islands. The crater city is the centrepiece. The large central island of Karsten is almost entirely one huge crater, with sheer icy walls and a walled city called Mirkholm built in rings around a frozen lake on its floor, entered through Cratergate in the south. Ruins are everywhere, just as the prompt asked. Kelthar, Starfall, Skyfell, Hollowbridge, Gloomspire, Mournspire, Runebreak and Moonfen are all labelled ruins, and old stone roads like the Old Road, the Ashen Road and the Long Road cross the islands between them. Hollowbridge Ruins is literally a broken bridge linking two islands. A serpent coils near Wyrmdeep, ships sail between the floes, and a shadowy shape lurks under the Gloaming Deep. The scale is in kilometres. Karsten, Starfall and Tidegrave are names reused on other maps in this gallery.

A large frozen island kingdom in frost blue, white and silver, with snowflakes in the corners of the frame. The north is pure ice. The Northwind Crown and the White Wastes form a band of snow and peaks across the top, and in the north east the Glacier of Eternal Silence and the Vaelglass Reach pour down in cracked blue rivers of ice toward the coast. Below that, dense snowy pine forests surround two frozen lakes, Lake Iselorn with ice floes on its surface and Mournlight Lake further east, with towns like Iselgate and Winterhallow on their shores. The south is a little milder, with pale farmland around Vaelford and Rimevale and the boggy Starfell Fen. Five sailing ships work through the icebergs, and faint sea creatures curl in the corners of the Storming Main and the Frozen Expanse. The scale reads in leagues. Thalgrim, Kelthar and Greymere are names you will find on other maps in this gallery.

A dark fantasy continent on scorched parchment with a skull compass, burnt edges and red ink, though the south breaks into bright turquoise water. The volcanic range runs right across the middle. The Bloodfire Range is a black chain of erupting cones, including Kharzun Peak, the Cinder Crown and Emberfall Caldara, with glowing lava rivers running down both slopes. It divides the cold, cruel north (Vareth Dominion, the Obsidian Moor, Duskmire) from the green south. South of the range the Namaru Wilds fill the land with jungle, waterfalls and overgrown ruins at Zanthari and Telembu. Beyond them the coast dissolves into lagoons and coral, the Sable Reef rings the Shimmering Isles, and Tidewraith Atoll sits in the corner. The legend has a reef and shallows symbol. Serpents coil in three of the four seas. There is no scale bar. Several small jungle labels are garbled, and Morgrath, Kaelthar and Ravenkeep are names reused elsewhere in this gallery.

A fine black-ink continent on cream paper with no colour, framed by a cartouche held by two winged beasts. The fjords are the most striking part. The Northmere Fjords carve the entire northern coast into long, narrow fingers of water that reach deep inland between steep hatched ridges, with Frosthavn, Skalden and Stormkirk at their heads. Right below them the Ashenwall runs across the land from west to east, a tall towered wall with gates at Stonepass and near Thornhold, sealing the fjord country off from the realm. South of the wall Veldrin spreads out with forests, small castles and the capital on a river mouth at the southern coast. Five sea serpents swim around the edges, from the Pale Deep to the Sable Sea, and ships fill every stretch of water. There is no scale bar. Ravenmoor, Sunspire, Blackhollow and Duskhaven are names that turn up elsewhere in this collection.

A painted tabletop world map, with mountains, forests and towers raised off the page so every continent has depth. The volcanic range fills the northern continent. The Ashen Spires erupt at the top of Cindermarch, and bright lava rivers run down through black rock past Draegar and Redreach into the Scorched Wastes. The walled capital is Valedorn in Eldervale, a white walled city with tall spires built across a broad river, with a bridge carrying the road over the water. The other lands each have their own feel: snowy Frosthelm, the jungle-green Viridian Expanse beside the Khalazar Dunes, and the rocky red heights of Drakarin in the south. A huge green sea serpent coils through the middle of the Myrath Sea among sailing ships, and a whirlpool spins under a ruined arch in the Wandering Depths. There is no scale bar. 'Valedorn' is labelled twice, the 'Shattered Isles' label is misspelt, and Caelthar, Moonspire and Thalorim are names reused across this gallery.

A soft watercolour coastline with three wind faces, each with its own motto, such as 'The Westwind Brings Rain, Renewal and New Journeys'. The western coast is properly rugged. Avelorn Bay cuts deep into the land past Port Eldwyn, the Sapphire Gulf opens to the south, and dozens of rocky islets and sea stacks crowd the Stormreach Sea. The two lake features sit side by side. The Selune Lakes form a chain, with Lake Miryen, Lake Caeth and Lake Theryn linked by short rivers that run south through the Elderglen Forest to the sea. To the east, the Vaelor Ring is a closed circle of snowy peaks around the deep blue Lake Erevan, which has a small fortified island in its middle and Mount Vaelor rising on its northern rim. Five ships and a dashed sea route cross the bays. The scale is in leagues. Ravenford, Starfall and Southwatch are names reused across this collection.

A gentle watercolour kingdom subtitled 'Kingdom of Rivers and High Places', with a tree shield above a tidy legend and a dotted border tracing the realm's edge. The delta is one of the best in the gallery. Below the capital, the river splits into the Nareth Delta, a huge fan of braided channels and green islands spreading across the whole southern coast, with Reedhaven sitting on the largest island near the sea. The frozen north works just as well. Frostmere is a band of snowfields and peaks along the top, with a pale ice castle at Icelorn, glaciers called the Glacier's Teeth, and pack ice breaking up in the Shattered Expanse. Castles and watchtowers dot the realm between them, from Castle Ardyn to Highcrag Keep. A blue sea serpent rears out of the Cerulean Sea while four sailing ships cross the bay. The scale is in leagues. Stonewatch, Greywatch and Eastmere echo names used on other maps in this collection.