The Autumn Lands – Hex Map E

The Autumn Lands lie to the south of the Midsummer Lands. This map sits to the left of map C (and eventually above map F). The goal of the Autumn Lands is to produce a series of commercial-use hexmaps that can be used in their entirety, or just one map for a specific adventure. There’s no set scale for these maps, and the items on the maps are not to scale with each other so we can see points of interest like towers, cities, and caves. If you really need a scale for this and don’t want to pick one yourself, go with six miles to the hex.

For this series, I’ve been working with the style I started putting together a couple of years ago where the rivers run along the hex borders – this allows for river travel to be great for exploration as you can see the hexes on each side of the river as you go.

This region is the head of the main valley that we’ve explored in three of the maps so far. Much of this area is at the top of a long series of cliffs with no easy way to climb them. There is a city on the upper valley lake which looks across the lake at the ruins that remain where the original city once stood. Based on the size of these ruins, the original city was much larger than the current one. The ruins don’t give any hints as to why the city was abandoned, but it was many generations ago based on how much the ruins have decayed…

Other points of interest around this map include a ring of massive pillars in a secluded mountain valley, a pair of weirdly towering cities built on hilltops on each side of the mountain pass out of the valley, some sort of evil fortification overlooking a massive sinkhole, the northwestern edge of the fungal forest (or fungle as no one calls it), some geysers and fumeroles, and of course a pair of majestic waterfalls coming down the immense cliff faces of the valley.

I’ll release a compiled map once again next month when the sixth map is released.

https://dysonlogos.blog/2024/12/13/the-autumn-lands-hex-map-e/