Included in this PDF (more options available than just a PDF. as of 2.7.2018, see below) are currently 7 handdrawn maps made by myself. The maps are drawn on high quality paper and have been scanned and checked carefully to ensure that they are of as good a quality as possible. Please let me know what you think about them, as that will allow me to make improvements in my techniques etc.
The cities are drawn for my own homebrew continent of Zanitar however the cities do not have name tags or something similar and can easily be used in any game setting.
A quick rundown of what you can expect:
- Mirandil, a dwarven settlement in the northern regions of the world, not very big but rather wealthy as they have precious metals in the mountain. There's also a large cavern in the mines that the dwarves have blocked of to stop enemies to enter their city
- Maedhras, a trading/military city on the banks of a small bay in the central of Zanitar, complete with protected citadel and small fishing village on the outside.
- Hargrave, a Large trading city centred in the same bay as Maedhras on the opposite side, noble quarters to the north and temple distric in the south, also small "drowned" slums to the east close to the harbour.
- Neverwinter, my take on a traditional Forgotten Realms setting, hopefully it resembles your personal view on the city.
- Mistpeak Hall, a human city build in the remains of an old mine in true dwarven style, protected lower levels that have arcane shops, worker quarters and so on. On the lower levels there's potential to create mines lower than the 3rd level, a very protected human settlement.
- A human trading settlement that has quite a few dwarves living in it, they manage the crafting guilds in the city, manning the workshops and so on. The city is plagued by orc raids that originate from further along the mountain, one of the reasons the city has a rather defendable design. However, there are those that can’t afford the protection of the walls and rely on the guards protecting them outside of the wall.
- Whilst primarily a trading town for the northern dwarven settlements, the main population in the town is human with elves being a close second. The city is often frequented by traveling dwarven merchants and the quality of craftsmanship is high. The city is however, highly divided and it is heavily regulated which part of the river that you are allowed to visit, live in and so on, starting at the top and going clockwise: Poor – Middle Class (Castle) – Nobles/government.
Of course these are just my views on what these cities represent and you are free to implement them in any way that you want.
Thank you for taking time to inspect my work!
1st Update! (3.7.2016)
I have added a page into the pdf - document that contains a quick rundown of all the different cities with some population estimations, size etc. Also some extra Context. Which provides some nice background information about the city. :)
2nd Update! (5.8.2016)
Added an Eisenheim map and updated the description to include information about the city. Cleaned up some small spelling errors and phrasing issues in this text and the document, such that I found.
Also once again, I hope you enjoy my work, please leave a review and feedback so I know what you think of my product. :)
3rd Update! (8.6.2017)
At long last, there is another update, I have updated the language in the overview part of the PDF and I have also added one more map, of the norther city Addersfield, build in a tri-river-intersection. A highly divided city, for defnesive reasons but also for class reasons (read more in the overview)
Thank you once again for your continued support and I hope that you find that this new map matches with the previous quality! As ever, please let me know what you thought of my item in the comments below, thank you very much.
4th Update! (2.7.2018)
I looked through this an thought, maybe someone would like to be able to download only one of the maps, or perhaps you would like to have the options of just downloading the maps, without the summary document. In any case, I made all of those choices available. There is now the potential to download the pdf which contains all the maps and the summary document (as usual), but now, the different city maps are included as bitmaps, so you can download them individually, further, the summary document is included as a stand alone pdf and finally there's a zip file with Everything, if you don't feel like downloading separately.
I hope you're going to enjoy this update to it, and as always, thank you very much for the interest in this product.
5th Update! (14.7.2018)
I have released another product with five new maps in it, they can be found at the following address: "Hand-Drawn-City-Maps-II" I hope you will enjoy them as much as you've enjoyed these maps.
