u/FalseHistoryPress

Back in 2020 I ran a homebrew horror/fantasy/dark comedy RPG, set in a fictional town in Kent UK called Deadraven. Given that the setting was modern, I decided to make a map that looked a bit like a Google Maps screengrab.

The locations are a mix of real shops you might find in a typical English town (like rows of charity shops), horror references (like Midsommerfield), and silly in-jokes (we used to call the local chicken shop Favourite Pigeon).

The game was about weird cults and local gods, the style was a mixture of I guess Archive 81, the League of Gentlemen, and just personal experience of weird Kent towns (also, since then I've listened to the Magnus Archives, and wished I'd known about it at the time to steal ideas).

I hope this is the right place to post this, and hope someone gets a kick out of it. It was a fun different way to show a map, plus the fake rundown next to it let me hide a little bit of local history on the same page.

UPDATE: CLICK HERE FOR UPDATED VERSION (also in the comments). Sahrde pointed out that the circles are supposed to be circles, not rings. Truly don't know where I got rings from.

I was looking for a flag of Amn but couldn't see it anywhere online, so I bashed this together. Honestly I'm hoping this prompts someone with actual artistic skill to make a better version, I took "maw" as "spiky circle" out of sheer laziness, it's maybe more dark grey than steel grey, but eh. It's based on this description from the wiki:

Amnian battle banners usually flown in battles were cut in the shape of a golden keystone. Pennants hung atop fortresses had a long and thin shape of stretched triangles. Banners and pennants had bright red bodies and golden borders with the image of the “The Pride of Amn” – the badge that decorated the banners of city gates and worn by the civic building guards. “The Pride of Amn” remained unchanged through the century that followed the Spellplague – horizontal row of six equally-sized gold circles atop a steel-gray open fanged maw. The circles that symbolized the “coins of all” as well as the Council of Six. The coins were featureless, indicating the trade nature of Amn accepting coinage from across the Realms and stressing the anonymity of the Council. The maw was called “daerag” and symbolized Amn devouring its trade adversaries.

Hope it helps someone who needs a quick Amn flag!