SF&F Picture 22 out of 47 by Rick ~SodaBeast~ Strehlow.

SciFi and Fantasy Art: Map of Yidivus

Yidivus is, to say the least, an interesting place. Not only is it home to a bunch of odd characters and critters, but the laws of physics, magic, and causality breakdown regularly. But you don't want to hear about that, so I'll tell you about who lives there. Yidivus is very roughly divided into three areas, south, north-east, and north-west, each of which has its own characteristics. In the south, there is the Noonian Alliance (all the names in blue). The alliance is, obviously, dominated by Noonia, the capital of which is, well, Noonia. The other cities of Noonia are Noonik, Noon, Noona, and Noonil. The Noonians are not mallicious per se, but they are unscrupulously beaurocratic. The large yellow question mark is in Forkawn, the forest of the Forkawn Elves. The single race of elves is evenly divided between white-skinned, raven-haired individuals and ebon-skinned, white-haired individuals. This confuses outsiders. The elves are very aloof, and secretive, so not much is known about them (except that they field some pretty heavy fire-power during wars). The central region is inhabitted by the Dale Tribes. There are three tribes, the Lake Tribe, the Wood Tribe, the River Tribe, and the Dale Druids who live on the volcanoe. All the members of the Dale Tribes are savage, brutal, vicious Hobbits. And the Dale Druids are old-school Celtic druids, the kind that use a cauldron of baby blood instead of a crystal ball. The creature in my 'Swamp Cat' picture is from the swamp just north of the Dale. Cordovan is a city of merchants and mages north of Noonia. It is officially a part of the Noonian Alliance, but unofficially it is politically neutral to promote business. The Cordovan Plains are full of all sorts of small dinosaurs and cat-like creatures.
Whew. Moving on to the north-west, we have the Nations of Galaran (the names in red). Farthest north is Fort Icus, which is home to some of the most zealously religeous warriors on the whole planet. Luckily, they follow a god of good. Unluckily, this god (Goleb) is as tolerant as the Spanish Inquisition, and as peaceful as a Viking with 'roid rage. South of Fort Icus is Ghamus, the political hub of the Nations of Galaran. The king lives here. Not much else to say. The place represented by a big, red 'X' is Ganjose, the city in which my novel, hopefully series of novels, is based. The heroes and villains live here. On the whole, the Nations are a fairly nice place to live, and roughly one quarter of the population isn't human. Most of the non-humans are Hobbits (good guys, though).
Okay, the last group is not actually a group, more like 'everybody who is left over.' North of Fort Icus are the mountains known as the Three Sisters. The blue ball between them is a huge, unsupported sphere of ice, hundreds of metres high. The Sisters are inhabitted by cave men, abominable snowmen, trolls, huge, furry, carnivorous ice lizards, and all sorts of other fun stuff. East of the Sisters is a huge, semi-dormant volcanoe - Malleei Peak. Malleei is the rather nasty, violent god of lava, plagues, and half-breeds. Needless to say, the cultists who live in the volcanoe are not nice people. In fact, they are all half-orcish assassins or slavers. Ibliblib in the north eastern corner is a settlement of much nicer half-breeds. The Ibliblibians (I don't know what I was on when I came up with these names) half-hobgoblins, but they lead a fairly unagressive life around the only oasis in the Mool Desert. Speaking of the Mool Desert, it is home to the Moolians. The Moolians are a nomadic bunch of raiders lead by a totally evil dragon anthromorph (I forget his name at the moment). They are made up of all the people who somehow 'find' Yidivus, but don't have the luck to end up somewhere even semi-civilized (think Ravenloft, but without the Dark Powers). Zimith Isle, to the east of the Nations of Galaran, is probably the nicest place in all of Yidivus. It's entire native population is composed of fairies, elves, and other nausiatingly cute and huggable creatures of magic. The incredible magical forces around Zimith have done some odd things to the wildlife there, and I hope to post some pictures of it in the near future. The one truly unusual resident of Zimith is Beezulbub. He is the most massive, mind-bendingly savage, utterly demonic incarnation of evil it would ever be your pleasure to meet. He was exiled from Hell for being TOO evil, and he is confined to Zimith Isle, land of the fairies. Poor him. He's learned to chew with his mouth closed now, though, and the fairies are working on getting him to say 'please' and 'thank you.'

There are a couple of places and things I haven't mentioned, but if you feel the need to know about them, ask me in a comment or an e-mail, and I will respond in the same way.
For the technically-minded among you, this was done on white paper with drawing utensils that aren't white.
Forgive me if I've gotten a little long-winded, I'm doing this at 3:00 AM with no sugar or caffeine in my system. I'll probably have to go back and fix it later.


	Techniques: [Pencil/Graphite Pen] [Coloured Pencils] Inspirations: [JRR Tolkien] [Lone Wolf - Fighting Fantasy]

Date	Name	Comment
6 Nov 2000	Stanton F. Fink	Loading... Very long description... But it helps to explain things.
7 Nov 2000	Kelly Turnbull	Loading... Ya know that noonian allince thing? (Duh, you wrote it konks sef on head) It made me rember one day when I just ran around yelling "NOONIE!". Wait....... that was yesterday...... Kewel map though, never have been good with them. Thats why no one knows what the isle of Allemunt looks like...Or is it? oooOOOoooOOOooohhh... cue spooky music
4 Jan 2001	John Teall	Loading... ooo but i do like to hear about that - i once visited a world that was too small to have a law of gravity so they passed a law of levity instead - (r.a.lafferty actualy came up with that one - and a lot of other cool stuffs to go with it - grand cannion in a cartrut and i must have too much sugar and caffine in mine ... ~Hmm, so you want to hear about that, eh? Well I'll give you an example of each type of breakdown. Physics-nothing is holding up the globe of ice, not even magic Magic-it's a bit difficult to explain without going into a lecture on how magic is supposed to work there Causality-the history of Mool Desert is over eight hundred years old, but it was not formed until just a little under five hundred years ago Hope this helped.
30 Dec 2001	Frodo Baggins's Princess (I wish!!! :D:D:D) <
30 Dec 2001	Frodo Baggins's Princess (I wish!!! :D:D:D) <
11 Apr 2002	Rebecca 'Bekki' Marie Kent	Loading... You did a good job with this map - it's always easier to understand stuff when you know where it is. At least, imho, it is. I like how you drew the ragged edges of the map. One time, I drew a map for my seventh grade social studies class, and I decided to give it an old feel by kinda "crisping" the edges of it up. Well, that didn't work - next thing I know, my homework is an inferno on the ground, and my dad's grabbing the fire extinguisher. Needless to say, I never did quite hear the end of that... Anyways, movign back to your work, I like it. And I want to read these stories. Are you planning on sharing with us? Or have you already shared, and I'm just missing out on it, hm? Upper right-hand corner of the gallery. There's a little box that says "stories" in it. wink (I had to do the same thing, with the map in grade seven... luckily, the teacher said the charred hole in the middle gave it "character")
31 Jul 2004	Marshin on the third floor	Loading... ^_^ Kewl! i like to do edges of old stinky maps! soz! ur map rox it aint stinky!the lil castle in the bottom right hand corner is kewl! ^_~

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