A World, From the Beginning...

I enjoy world building, I like to world build just for the sake of world building. I've no iron clad intents for this world building map so far, inklings like it being my sort of- "Default setting" for non-real earth/alternate history stuff. Or a possible table top rpg campaign setting. Or- just because I like world building. It's a hobby that takes me to all sorts of weird places.

Like even just this point had me googling things like wind current patterns, mineral distribution, and how Polynesian Wayfinders survived on the open seas.

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You can see the sparks of madness that come from the multiple layers of arrows and lines and colours on the first map. I generated the number of continents and their basic shapes by rolling a set of dice. Then improvising coast lines from there- then determined their position to each other also by dropping the dice.

Then figuring out the direction of winds and mountains would help determine where the deserts and rainforests are.

Then I rolled to figure out where people first appeared and how they migrated across the world. (The rainbow of arrows starting from the northwest.)

Lastly to help figure out how the wayfinders travelled- figured out the basic ocean currents.

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The second map more directly explores human history and prehistoric exploration.

Humanity appeared in the rolling prairies and thinning forests of the Northern Half of the Western Twin Continent. Their major expansion was covering the rest of the twin continent with slow but steady migration through the jungles south.

As well as across the sea during a great Ice Age onto the Polar Continent. In time the Polar Explorers adapted and spread out across the taigas of the Polar Continent, before spreading to the North Eastern Coasts right as the Ice Age ended- isolating them. Their descendants continued to expand across the North Eastern Continents, exploding outwards as they discovered more temperate and rich lands.

Meanwhile, in the South. The southern descendants found fertile oceans and regular currents, and soon their canoes turned into wayfinding ships, able to survive the journeys between tiny islands scattered across the southern seas. This would eventually lead their descendants to finding the "giant islands", including the Golden Island, a temperate rainforest continent that would have all that they would ever need. And settling on the South Eastern continent.

In time, the descendants of the Southern Wayfinders and the Polar Explorers would come into contact once again, in the winding sea linked by jungle and sand.

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Don't know if I'll keep expanding these maps. Definitely starting to think about where the "first civilizations" would have started to pop up. The equivalents to Mesopotamia and Sumer. But, we'll see! I enjoy this kinda stuff for it's own sake.

Hope y'all found this interesting! Thanks for reading!