r/wonderdraft

This has been quite the 200 hour adventure. First of all, you can find a full-rez png file here: Google Drive Link, and a blowup of the heraldry section here: Google Drive Link.

What is this? Well a bit of a Frankenstein really... My previous map is now 6 years old and it was time for a change, specifically towards a more historically grounded basis. My reference materials were the 17th Century maps of the Bleau Workshop in Amsterdam, considered by many to be the zenith of the Golden Age of Dutch Cartography. To the extant possible, I emulated their results with a few deviations: 1) I'm using a Mollweide (invented 1805) projection, not a Mercator or a LCC which is what they would have used, 2) The heraldry in table form is something that was not done in the 17th century, although I'm sure they would have with priors.

Tools:
Wonderdraft: coastlines, mountains, hills, rivers, trees, parchment texture, borders. All vanilla assets
Inkscape (free): Lettering. Fonts: IM FELL English and French, Cormorant Garamond. These three are very period accurate.
GProjector (free): Map projection (I started with a rectilinear and then studied several options before choosing Mollweide, as it was by far the best projection for us in my 20-60 deg latitude band.
GIMP (free): All figures and drawings not done in Wonderdraft, stack and layer control, coloring. My colors are as follows: 1) Azure blue (4a6b8a), 2) Verdigris green (5b8a72), 3) Cochineal red (a83232), 4) Yellow ochre gold (b8860b), 5) Walnut black (2d1f12), 6) Plum purple (5c3a4e), 7) Malachite green (2e6f40), 8) Smalt blue (a2bdd1), 9) Umber brown (634236)

The large heraldic beasts are tracings from line art found from online sources. The man-at-arms and the compass rose are historical tracings. The draconic priestess is original concept art previously commissioned for my setting (in traced form). The cartouche design is a period reconstruction. The blazons themselves are all original.

Truth in AI: I used Claude throughout to consult on historicity and to provide feedback, and also on the Latin translation. I also used Claude and Gemini to generate some place names based on historical language grounding. No visual assets are AI generated.

Hello everyone! this is my first map for the D&D setting I'm currently working on (Bones of the World; cozy and somewhat dark fable-fantasy vibe, think a mix of HOMM 3 + Diablo 2). I had in mind something akin to the Mediterranean region but upscaled to global level.

I've made this as a general coastline and continents draft so need your advice regarding the overall look, plus further mountain range placement / other geographical features. I would love to hear any feedback. Again, this is heavily WIP

A regional map fusion of K.M. Alexander's Ogilby assets, Gaea terrain, Wonderdraft cartography, and Clip Studio Paint. Let me know what you think of this!

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This is a work in progress map, obviously. I'd originally planned for the map to just be one hemisphere. It's scaled to about 12k miles across. I decided to make a quick mockup of the other half of the globe and combine the two and check it out on maptoglobe.com. I knew there would be some distortion, especially at the poles, but what I didn't expect was for the whole map to be incredibly squished. As if this map is too long, and if I wrap two of these around a globe it would have to squish them both to fit. Is there a way I can account for this? Or did I use the wrong proportions when starting this map? Any help would be appreciated. The idea was to make this roughly earth sized, though it doesn't have to be exact. I'd like to preserve my original plan as much as possible. Also keep in mind I didn't plan to have much going on people wise on the other hemisphere, it was just going to be there to get the map up to earth size. So I'm willing to compromise there, whatever that might mean. Again, thanks for any help.

Hello, so I opened my first ever wonderdraft map to continue working and this has happened. The strange discoloration of the beige stripes/blocky lines, and general disfigurement. It's been a couple of weeks since I last opened it (I think). Can anyone tell me what happened, and if there is a possible fix? Thanks

Here's some background lore:

Before there was anything, before there was space itself, there was the Magistrate. Her power judged the previous world’s actions as unruly, unheroic, and too chaotic. By taking the ground of the outer planets, she conjoined them into a beautiful planet called “Arenon.” Arenon was given a soul without a name, and through it, all magic could flourish, as well as all science.
Given enough time, races began to emerge. The first among these were the Fyrei, shapeshifting, elf-like creatures who lived a thousand years at a time. They created the first modern inscribings of runes, the first pages of tomes, and the first ownership over magic.
War was plummeting between two factions of the Fyrei: the Ussreign, who pledged allegiance to the Pool of Million Wishes, a demon-created wishing well that gives power at the cost of a connection to Arenon’s soul – and the Sovereign, the ones who wished to preserve the connection to Arenon. The Ussreign were defeated, but to prevent access to the demon world again, the Pool was destroyed using a collective healing spell among the remaining Fyrei, creating a cataclysmic crater to form. The Fyrei who remained centralized, and in the forest that remained after the explosion, Aetherhold was created.
The Fyrei experimented with the creation of sentient life. The first of their creations were dogs, lovable animals that can easily be domesticated. The virn were created next, as their natural affinity for “pure nature” was a revelatory discovery in the field of abiogenesis. Using the virn in an unruly experiment, they linked a virn’s soul to a spell with its target being Sim, the central star. By doing so, they created the event called the “Shimmering,” cracking the Earth in two with so much streamlined magic into one vessel. The virn who was chosen became a demigod named Rutil and was given shapeshifting abilities. However, he disappeared into the Aetherline afterwards, leaving nothing but acorns for his descendants to be infused with Sim’s soul.
Hundreds of years passed with nothing of battle or disaster happened. Natural occurences, such as plagues, earthquakes, tsunamis, and fires transformed the populace, and from the ashes, the Lefani were born. An order of Bounel shamans grew them from acorns; when they fell, they became sentient, known through telepathy. The Fyrei observed this new abiogenesis and fostered their uprising, modeling their genetics to be given humanoid form. At first, they were short, bush-like creatures, but over time were altered to have arms and legs.
The Fyrei were happy with their controlled world. Nature was in fluctuance and peace, and no pollution was happening. But the Magistrate soon became bored with her new world. She recognized that this nature she has inside herself needed a name; and thus, humans were born. However, she could not have a direct play in the creation due to it tarnishing her perfection, so seven angels (which are praised as deities to humans) were created to harness the seven qualities of humanity. These qualities are still argued in hermeneutics to this day, and the scripture which they rely on, the Golade Scrolls, are safeguarded at the base of Mount Golade, said to be the location where humans were first created. These angels are referred to as the Goladians.
From the seven angels came the twenty-one deities, called the Farther Ones, or the Gemilustres. These deities, in their differing affinities, began to create humanoid races of themselves, birthing the Theresins, Quansordians, Shroun, Ogres, and Bos. They started to inhabit Arenon at accelerating speed, soon forming civilizations across the globe. Others stayed without collectivization, preferring the smaller aspects of life, despite their large sizes.
During the siege of Groundunst, the first human civilization, a legion of enslaved Ogres commanded by a demon named Nefrilzar destroyed what little the humans had left. They went to the Fyrei next, intending on getting access to the Aetherline and reignite the Pool of Million Wishes. They were held off by all the unified races, with much of the virn being obliterated, named Nefrilzar’s Slaughter. The ruins are still draped across the continents, waiting to be resurfaced.
In the meantime, the legendary hero Yundrin marched onto the fields of the ferocious Taures to confront Maggal, the tyrannical, gargantuan leader of a growing thieves guild. After defeating him, he took stolen Aetherline Vessels (corpses with Aetherline ‘plasma’ still coursing through them) and cracked their spines open, letting the blood spill over the corpse of Maggal. Using a spell only known to others as the “Hop,” he summoned the demon torturing Taures souls known as Gruvalzir, slew him, and placed his head on a spike. Due to the functional immortality of demon blood, his head still rests there to this day, heavily safeguarded by the Theresins. It is said he can whisper and cast spells, so there is a protective shield around him, helped by the Lefani and Bos. Yundrin was later slain by the wyvern Sakrevalioc in the War of Demigods.
The War of Demigods started with Rutil coming back to Arenon and saying three of the Farther Ones were coming to lay waste to the Magistrate’s creation. The Fyrei were first responders, but were quickly defeated due to the three having mastery over Arenon’s connection to the Aetherline. They were defeated by a ragtag team of adventurers known as the Shieldbrothers with help by Rutil. Rutil then disappeared once again, never to be seen again.. Until now.
Since the War of Demigods, the world has plummeted into deep tension between the gradual expansionism of KAR and the rest of the kingdoms of Arenon. Tensions rise as nomadic life seems to be an escape from politics. The economy is booming, yet people live in poverty. Adventuring has become more of a pastime than a career. All that is left now is the ruins left by a reset world, one supposed to be perfect, but only embroiled in misery. However, Rutil has appeared once again in Hisrei-Am, giving commands supposedly straight from the Magistrate to quell these political tensions and learn how to live in harmony. 
You, a lone adventurer, have decided to act first in helping the Lefani and Rutil to liberate the people from the politics of the world, or Yenthil Sorengard to take over what is rightfully the humans. What will you do first?

This is my first Wonderdraft map, so I'd appreciate any feedback, though at the same time I'm quite proud of the final result. The map was created in around 6 hours using mostly Gogot's Hand Drawn and built-in assets.

It's a sparsly populated, frontier-ish region for one of the acts of my fantasy Daggerheart campaign. My goal was to create a map that feels like it was drawn by an in-world cartographer, but would still be clean and readable enough to be useful for the players. The lack of labels is fully intentional, as I strongly encourage my players to mark and name the places they themselves deem important.

I've been making really good progress on my map recently and thought it'd be cool to share with the world, maybe get some feedback or even inspire someone else like so many maps on this subreddit have done for me. Enjoy, let me know what you think and how I may improve!

Side Note: Ignore the Lobster and Orlando Bloom. Those are inside jokes with friends :)

Edit: I realize the resolution kinda didn't resolution when I uploaded the post, so I'm adding a link to a full res version of the map in the comments for those who are interested!

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Hey everyone! Thanks for checking out my map. 😊 It's still very much a work in progress, a lot of the locations still dont have name. So I'd love to hear any feedback or suggestions you have.

I'm a freelance cartographer and I also take map commissions if anyone happens to be looking for custom fantasy or historical-style maps. You can see more of my work here:

https://mapwrights.my.canva.site/.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Context:

For nearly two millennia, the Isles of Arlika remained isolated by the Serpent Ocean, where colossal creatures called “Nagas”, made crossing the open ocean nearly impossible. Cut off from the wider world, the continent flourished into a mosaic of kingdoms, merchant republics, temple states, and sultanates inspired by the cultures of South and East Asia. Their world was one of kings, steel, castles, and countless gods, where ancient traditions endured for centuries and few believed another civilization could exist beyond the horizon.

Everything changed with the arrival of the Castelorians, refugees from the dying Kingdom of Castelor who crossed the forbidden sea aboard colossal airships. They brought with them muskets, printing presses, constitutional government, advanced navigation, and the first signs of industry—ideas and technologies centuries ahead of anything Arlika had ever known. What followed was not simply an invasion, but the collision of two different ages: a medieval world forced to confront the dawn of an industrial revolution.

The Castelorians seized the native Kingdom of Lunao, overthrowing its native monarchy and proclaiming the Republic of Revlan, the first constitutional republic in Arlika. Settlers elected representatives, enjoyed rights protected by written law, and embraced new ideals of citizenship and progress. Yet these liberties were reserved almost entirely for the Castelorian colonists. The native population was stripped of political power, dispossessed of their lands, and reduced to a permanent underclass in their own homeland. From Revlan, the republic expanded its influence through diplomacy, trade, missionaries, and military intervention, transforming the League of Erab and the Free State of Arad into loyal satellite states.

Equally transformative was the arrival of The Word of Gratia, the faith of the Castelorians. While the peoples of Arlika worshipped countless ancestral spirits, nature deities, and local gods, Gratia proclaimed a belief that seemed almost incomprehensible: there exists only one God, creator and ruler of all existence, and all other gods are false. To many islanders, the very notion of a single, universal deity was as astonishing as the thunder of Castelorian cannons. Missionaries spread the new faith alongside colonial rule, forever reshaping the spiritual landscape of the archipelago.

Now, Arlika stands between two worlds. Ancient kingdoms struggle to preserve traditions that have endured for centuries while an industrializing colonial republic promises law, progress, and unity beneath the banner of Gratia. Some welcome the future the Castelorians offer; others see only conquest disguised as civilization. As old beliefs clash with new ideals and empires rise upon forgotten kingdoms, the fate of Arlika will be decided not merely by armies, but by whether its people choose to preserve their past—or embrace a new world.

Hey guys

I've taken the feedback from the last time I posted this map and have started adding the larger geography labels to the world. More importantly though, I researched each of the kingdoms and their provinces and created a Heraldry for each one based on the places themes and real world inspirations.

I'm eager to hear peoples' thoughts. Next up will be the smaller locations and cities. I think I'm nearing ~30 hours on this map now. Thanks for joining me on the journey.

Open for feedback :)

Cheers!

I am open to changes or advice about it , i so far like how it turned out. (P.S the archipelago in the red is not an example of badguyland it is a cross culture trading spot full of iron mines, dock towns, it's actually red because of the iron in the soil.)

Just something I've been working on for quite a while on Wonderdraft.
Here's the 8k resolution image via discord link
Feel free to use for whatever except selling and whatnot. (If you link me that's just a +)

I am quite new to worldbuilding/map making. The island *Usura* isnt fully fledged out yet, i only have a few main cities and some towns; some of them dont even have names yet lol. not much else. I am looking for feedback on how i did. Thank you :)

Its been a while since I made something with Wonderdraft (or did a World Building Project for that matter)...

Anyway, here I present to you, the world map of Deamonia!