Do you know who is the author of this map?
Do you know who is the author of this map?
Or if there is a better resolution one.
Found it on pinterest, looks like it was saved from G+
Or if there is a better resolution one.
Found it on pinterest, looks like it was saved from G+
Looks like Matthew Adams
ReplyDeleteThanks Ben Milton I`ll have a look at his stuff immediately
ReplyDeleteEven if its not him, im glad to how found him, his art is quite good.
ReplyDeleteI am also VERY interested in seeing a better version of this map. Perhaps some of the non-standard placenames can clue us in - can anyone read for sample the top right caption?
ReplyDeleteGood ideaAlasdair Lawrence .Yoon suin, a ruler, and north is labeled as mountain of moon, so not much there. Rest of the names are harder to make out.
ReplyDeleteTo the west lies"the dust sea", I dont remember seeing that one.
ReplyDeleteI think top right is "the Tunnels of the Locust People"
ReplyDeleteI think it looks a fair bit like the artwork of the original Yoon-Suin illustrator
ReplyDeleteAnd that is why he was suggested by Ben. It sure looks like it.
ReplyDeleteThe G+ account linked by the Pinterest pic has the same profile ID as Matthew Adams so pretty sure it's him unless I've misunderstood how G+ works
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Matthew is the only artist I know of who uses colors like that.
ReplyDeleteBen Milton heh, yeah that might be specific trademark there.
ReplyDeleteIt's mine, done in ms paint so resolution is as is.
ReplyDeleteactually, no, I have one with better resolution
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ReplyDeleteMatthew Adams Sweet, thanks!
ReplyDeleteMatthew Adams Fascinating! Were these places not mentioned in the book ones you made up, or did you create them as part of cut materials for Yoon-Suin? Do you have any thoughts about what they were?
ReplyDeleteI made them up.
ReplyDeleteThe brightly coloured lines are glass towers from a previous much more technologically advanced society. The towers are almost indestructible, no one can break them, but some are shattered, presumably from what destroyed the ancient civilization.
The pieces of the shattered towers are sometimes still in the air, immovable and deadly.
The glassmen are my version of the halfmen in yoon suin, they ignore you, living their lives in reaction to stimuli you can't see, like people slightly out of phrase with the rest of the world.
Locust people are actually people, not humanoid grasshoppers, they wear costumes like grasshopper masks. They are isolationists and their language is very hard to learn, requiring clicks and body slaps etc.
Birdwatcher tribes are roaming tribes committed to birdwatching đ They tattoo themselves with images of the rare birds they have spotted, start knife fights at the drop of a hat, and their currency is the carefully removed tattoos of enemy tribes.
The rust sea is a desert of rust and metal
ReplyDeleteThe acid mirrors are bodies of highly polluted water, acidic and poisonous
The city itself is built in and around and on the glass towers, using the cementing spit of trained velvet worms, which makes them quite valuable.
Matthew Adams Bunch of good stuff there, I especially like the mirror men, never liked the hoping half monsters.
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw locust people, I knew thats where my version of bard comes from. Horrible chittering insect menace that has powerful pheromones, but hey, at least they dont sing.
There must be something about Yoon-Suin that makes people add extinct hyper advanced civilizations. I was thinking of adding bits of Dying Earth some Moebius in there.
Arturs Leitans I think the reason people add extinct hyper-advanced civilizations is that Yoon Suin was obviously influenced, amongst other things, by M John Harrison's Viriconium stories
ReplyDeleteMatthew Adams Thats true. The book that outvanced the Vance for me at least. I only recently discovered how post apocalyptic the appendix N for Yoon Suin is.
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