World of Almaera

[Eowyn Cwper]

Nice work! The Eloria icon troubles me though, as it reminds me of an emoji. I quite like the icebergs; is there any reason for their higher concentration close to lands?

[Tiana]

With the labels and borders I can see why you prefer it without the forests. I like them, but they can be a little distracting or make it look a little too busy in spots with text. I'm glad the maelstroms are canon lol. I was really just poking fun, but I like the lore and use as a portal to another plane. Looking good, and I like the different continent/landmass labels.

Not only is it canon but it's canon only because you asked, LOL... co-creation! but it fit into the lore because there are 6 planes, and there are other points in the world that connect into some of them. I agree completely with your assessment of the text and forest interaction. Maybe this could be fixed by removing the forests around the text. Or more severe text outlines.

I quite like the shape of those landmasses.

Thanks, man, me too.

Nice work! The Eloria icon troubles me though, as it reminds me of an emoji. I quite like the icebergs; is there any reason for their higher concentration close to lands?

I also am not a big fan of Eloria's icon and was thinking of replacing it with a flaggy type icon instead.

The icebergs are 50% likely to be not actually icebergs and actually a broken collective shapeshifting hive mind species native to the planet that dominants all of its life, that spends its time being whatever they want. They are not necessarily naturally formed, but these beings preventing movement into certain areas and inconveniencing man-shaped life. There isn't a thing on this planet that can't be one of these shapeshifters, and the oceans are thick with them. Their logic varies from being indescribably close to human-like... to, well... chunks of ice that want to inconvenience one of their least favourite things, shipping routes. Iceberg Malelri have congregated where they are most likely to inconvenience and outright stop shipping routes without, well, melting and reverting to their pre-shape-shifted form. The sea's outright lousy with them, and while that often results in them living in fish and large oceanic creature forms... not all of them are even that prone to what we'd deem as sense.

This applies to other terrains, for example caves that are infested, and you can't tell, because they're rocks that want to kill you. The rocks won't come after you, but they will kill you if you show up. Thanks.