It's changed little, and what changes were made have been somewhat changed back close to the original form. The only thing to really refine it has been closer thinking to the climate zones, the major terrain features like mountains and the position of the moons and suns (never on the map in the first place). I've thought about prevailing winds and tides as well as how a flat world would work.
Though this level of detail doesn't make the War Unleashed book, a map that shows the location of cultures as well as the major climate zones does. Part of which looks like this.
It's a shame it has to be black and white, but we're an independant fledgling company and can't throw around the kind of budget that the big companiess do. As it happens the book still looks fantastic, even if we do say so ourselves.
In putting the final touches ot the map i got to thinking about compass directions. Now, while NESW appear as Westerners would expect (in playing Mah Jongg we found the compass went NWSE clockwise, which is kinda cool) i had another thought and so ended up refining an aspect of the world involving True North, the magnetic north. You'll have to read the book to see what i mean specifically, but we felt it enhances the world. It's funny how some things just slot into place as you go along.
The hardest part of making the map wasn't actually in the main map, it was in the Country illustrations where we wanted to show their location on a mini-map. I tried borders with lines to fill the area in, shades of grey and dots, but they didn't quite work. In the end i opted for something really obvious, which you can see below.
It's been fun getting into the details and when we put that detail into books later down the line i look forward to fleshing out the comprehensive notes and adding further detail to the world.
War Unleashed offers a damn good introduction.I've just finished scanning through it page by page and the depth of Edath really does shine through. I sincerely hope you get a kick out of it.
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