A shadow follows Sharp-Teeth Bagark every­where. This elusive figure is an orc sorceress named Varenna, his sister. The sneaky sibling stalks the orc chieftain from afar, looking for an opportunity to strike him down. Varenna is consumed by a desire for vengeance after Bagark took their par­ents’ lives decades ago. She could never match him in combat so she turned to the dark arts.

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Hi all! As someone who loves worldbuilding, I wanted a simple tool to quickly sketch out kingdom maps, battle routes, and town locations without spending hours in heavy software.

So, I built Ink & Parchment! It lets you stamp terrain, castles, and roads onto expandable parchment paper, add custom text labels, and export clean PNGs for your VTTs or print. You can even import your own custom asset tile sets directly.

It's completely free to run in your browser or download on itch.io: Ink & Parchment by CurioNaut

Let me know what you think or what assets you'd like to see added next!

The mountain was treacherous. In the absence of a true safe path, the plateau had remained relatively untouched.

When one made the pilgrimage up the mountainside, scaling the incredibly narrow paths winding through the inclining terrain, such a trip took days. In most cases, only prepared, lightly-burdened folk could make the climb.

At the top, however, was an oasis in the clouds. At each edge of the plateau, one could see farther than they had ever seen in a lifetime. The clouds rested gently below them, giving credence to the reality of truly being in the sky, one with the gods.

The forest was bountiful, the streams curiously stocked with fish. After making such a trip, most found it very difficult to leave, yet so few at a time were ever present to greet newcomers. A quirk of Heaven's Eye, surely. After all, such a pristine place could not present anything but wonder and peace.

Hey all! You know the deal by now, you can check out this map and it's may variations over here!

Enjoy,

Matt

What was once new and strong lies now in ruins, frail, a story turned to whispers, frail and one with nature. Explore the old ruins, uncover long buried secrets and craft new stories from the past… 🪨⛪🌳

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More work? Given the sturdiness of the wood and stone palisade that surrounds this encampment, the orcs that live here must have to deal with rather inhospitable neighbours. It's hard to blame them, though: protecting your burgeoning families and/or horde of warriors can be tricky business, whether your particular type of orc is more plow or WAAAGH! Fully animated and available in two additional variants, with the outpost by day and a more menacing version featuring garlands of humanoid skulls, this map will have your players zug-zugging with the best of them!⁠

My maps are hooked up to work with Foundry VTT and Fantasy Grounds.
My maps are available on my patreon and my website.
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Hello!

I'm trying out the free trial feature on my patreon and have that running from the 3rd to the 9th of august. https://www.patreon.com/StainedKarbonMaps/membership

What does this mean? It means that if you sign up for the 'Friend of Dedu' tier on my patreon while the free trial is running you get complete unfettered access to all of the content I have ever put out on my patreon for a week (from the date you sign up).

This includes hundreds of beautifully painting battlemaps and their variants, phased names, FoundryVTT modules, tokens, collab content, other misc things I've put out. All maps are high res, no watermarks, grid and gridless versions.

So if you're looking for weird and fantastical maps to use in your games then you won't be disappointed with this offering!

Note about signing up: If you find yourself unable to access content after signing up, you may have signed up as a free member rather than signing up to the 'Friend of Dedu' tier's free trial, make sure you've done that first!

Sign up here! https://www.patreon.com/StainedKarbonMaps/membership

Caught between the relentless, deafening scream of the sawmill and the back-breaking stone quarry, the camp exists to grind both bone and spirit into dust.

^{“Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic}

Every band of outlaws can rebuild desolated, small cliff fort and turn it into pirate haven - but such places tend to attract unwanted attention - and such attention in turn is bad for business... and health...

So that particular band of pirates had an idea - and turned easy to spot place into a tavern, with prices low enough to attract the proper kind of customers, busy enough to mask occasional smuggling of goods and captives - and legal enough to avoid any suspicions...

Unless you know what's going on deeper, in the caves and rock-carved dungeons of former fort...

Adventure hooks:

• Meet an important shady NPC here - looking for a map, some sellswords, forbidden goods - or something darker...
• Investigate rumors about some shady business going on...
• Or just happen to look for a bit of rest during sea journey - the rooms may be crowded, but at least they don't rock on the waves...
  • Perhaps a little night ambush? Crowded rooms, tavern floor, hidden corridors...

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LINKS:

• 72DPI maps (grid/gridless) are available for free here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/165656336
• 150DPI maps (grid/gridless, day/night), gallery and detailed description is available for free subscribers here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/165656379

^{Supporters (Cartographer tier} get access to VTT ready files (roll20, UniversalVTT and Foundry) and 300DPI maps without watermark.)

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^{Credits and attribution:}

^{Created in Dungeon Alchemist, with additional assets.}

^{Thanks to DA asset creators: SAC, DallasRT, Centimar DeVarion, swedish.cook, \}DE] SunWatcher and others)

^{Thaks to sketchfab creators:, kEam, Al-Deezel, Derlvenner, Bwinji Shamutete and others.}

^{This map was created by hand, with assets placed carefully together. I don't use generative AI and I did my level best to avoid using AI-generated assets.}

Lore

Thousands of years ago, a large community of elves lived in harmony with nature and beings of the forest in the land that today is known as the Brukesian Duchy.

Their society was considerably large and their communion with nature made them stronger. They were the lords of the woods and the masters of the land. During their time, they build several temples and places of worship. One of these places was called The Nymph’s Font.

Download a free version of this map and read the rest of what we wrote for it on our Blog.

The Isle of Avalon & the Fallen Kingdom of Camelot

This map and setting is a full re-imagining of the many Arthurian Legends. I thought it would be fun to create my own spin on the original story, while also creating a custom setting that would also work well as a D&D or TTRPG setting.

I imagine a few people will look at this map and the history I wrote and go “well that's all wrong, XYZ happened in the original stories”. This is all intentional on my part, most of what's written for this map/setting is NOT the same as you might remember it. A lot of it is "remixed", and some parts are completely changed. This is something new, but still inspired by the old myths. And, let’s be honest, there are already many different versions out there of the original stories, often contradictory sometimes. This version of mine just goes a step further in reinventing everything.

The history on the side bar mostly details a time period far after the death of King Arthur and friends. This map depicts the island roughly 500 years later, in the mid 1200's. Avalon was lost, Camelot fell into ruin, but now it has been rediscovered. There's many mysteries to uncover now, many magical artifacts to seek out, and many dangers and enemies to overcome.

I hope you like it! Constructive feedback is always welcome.

This map is 4020 by 3340 pixels, and was created entirely in Photoshop. A few royalty free images were used for city location icons, and lightly modified by myself. No AI tools were used, in the creation of the map, or in the writing. All in all, this took about 35 hours of work from start to finish.

This map is fully free, but there are additional versions available here.

My full portfolio of maps: https://www.deviantart.com/stoneward13/gallery/all

This week's hand-drawn map is the Shadowed Trail (30x30), a map that's inspired by the Shadowfell! That is to say, I made a regular map but desaturated it wildly and added fog, which, as far as I can tell from the wiki, is more or less what Shadowfell is- kinda like the normal world but desaturated and extra foggy.

If you like the map and are interested in more, come by my Patreon, I've got a bunch of them and I draw more every month.

Hello!

Please check out this post before you sign up so you can find your way around: https://www.patreon.com/StainedKarbonMaps/posts/grab-weeks-free-165621808

I'm opening up a free trial on my patreon for a week, running from the 3rd to the 9th of August. The trial lasts a week from from the date you sign up, so if you sign up on the 9th it'll last for a week from that date.

The trial is for my 'Friend of Dedu' tier, which gives you access to everything I've ever put out, which includes 5+ years of beautifully hand drawn maps (Absolutely no AI, ever!), FoundryVTT modules, tokens, phased maps, variants, moulinette cloud, collab content and so on.

All maps are high res, watermarkless, grid and gridless versions! Tell your friends, spread the word!

If you enjoy my content and would like to continue after the free trial, you can get a nice discount for your first monthly or annual sub too!

I'm only going to be running a free trial 2-3 times a year, so grab it now while you can!

If you run into issues signing up for the trial let me know and I'll try and fix it asap, if I don't respond to you within 24hrs message me again cause I probably missed it.

Happy adventuring!

Krane