{"id":2036,"date":"2020-01-12T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T11:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/so-close\/"},"modified":"2023-03-11T05:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T05:47:59","slug":"so-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/so-close\/","title":{"rendered":"So Close&#8230; (Khezvaros Map)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KhezvarosWeb3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4306 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KhezvarosWeb3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KhezvarosWeb3.png 1000w, https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KhezvarosWeb3-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KhezvarosWeb3-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KhezvarosWeb3-600x400.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting very close to finishing the City of 10,000 Daggers map. Since the last post, I&#8217;ve added some green and trees, changed the contour lines into terrain effects with some creative beveling, cleaned up the brush-painted buildings, and added effects to the named buildings. I&#8217;m tempted to add effects to the noble villas in the imperial district because they look weird with just a footprint, but right now I&#8217;ve only highlighted the points of interest, so I decided to hold off. When I start creating Imperials and need to know where they live, I&#8217;ll add effects to the weird-looking ones first. Now I just need to add labels. Notes and thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;d think fantasy cartography packs would come with an arena as one of the buildings, but they don&#8217;t. It was kind of tricky to make work, but I think it turned out fine.<\/li>\n<li>I decided the area up around Dragon Skull Hill (or whatever I called it) was tribal lands of the horse lords. There&#8217;s a ford of the river somewhere right there so it&#8217;s been their traditional camping ground when they come to the city. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s still fields and woods.<\/li>\n<li>The horse lord tent city and the market areas are not to scale because I couldn&#8217;t make the elements that small without losing what they were completely. The market took way too long even at bigger-than-scale size. (The dragon skull is also a bit bigger than it should be, for the same reason).<\/li>\n<li>The blue-green color on some of the domes is the color of Kyra the Eternal Empress (Goddess of Earth and Sky). The Imperial and Governor&#8217;s palaces include those domes as a sign of loyalty. The other buildings with a blue-green dome are temples.<\/li>\n<li>Red domes mark Imperial buildings: Palaces, administration buildings, etc.<\/li>\n<li>I hit 10,000 words for WorldEmber2019, but a bug in the system caused my last article to show up as being posted on 01\/01. I&#8217;m still waiting for a response from World Anvil tech support. You can read all the words that go with the picture above at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldanvil.com\/w\/city-of-ten-thousand-daggers-kingyak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World Anvil<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting very close to finishing the City of 10,000 Daggers map. Since the last post, I&#8217;ve added some green and trees, changed the contour lines into terrain effects with some creative beveling, cleaned up the brush-painted buildings, and added effects to the named buildings. I&#8217;m tempted to add effects to the noble villas in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2031,2009,2015],"tags":[63,244,246,2013,2017,2018],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartography","category-prompts-and-challenges","category-city-of-ten-thousand-daggers","tag-fantasy","tag-maps","tag-cartography","tag-world-anvil","tag-c10kd","tag-worldember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4307,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/4307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}