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EDIT: Added RL locations for rough scale.From Cartographybird/ Rachel Ward, here is the current work in progress map of the Crimson Phoenix continent.Please note its extremely WIP nature, most of the names are placeholders.

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Cyrus McEnnis

Just a really quick note of no consequence whatsoever - Ayers Rock is more properly called Uluru these days.

Ham

Love it! The scale and size of the empire is staggering

Michael W

Very cool! Is there a canon scale yet? I think you've posted before that the Azure Hills were roughly the size of the continental US, but I'm not sure if that's still the case.

Rake1810

Even as a published (to your Patreon) first pass that’s really well done. Thanks!

K1NG_CHIMP

Let's go! Love the world building

Khress

From the telling of the big phoenix empire, this should be one province of like 50, right?

Adam Boshcoff

Thanks for sharing before it’s done! Appreciate seeing the draft/work in progress stuff :)

leopard eye

Ah world building. Gotta love it

Ormus Von Orbulon

Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. I've been agonizing over a crude version of this map for ages now. WIP or not, this feels hugely relieving and satisfying.

Emily Gurnavage

I like it so far. Love me a good map to go with a story. Since its a heavy WIP still - is the current scale at all accurate-ish? I knew the Azure Hills was a smaller out of the way place, but that is SO small compared to the rest lol. And it takes weeks for a mortal to travel just the AHs, let alone the rest of that massive kingdom? Goddamn. I suppose Xixania worlds are always either mind bogglingly huge or head scratchingly tiny (in which case it turns out to be a cage/nursery/etc usually). Whats-her-face with the whats-their-face-trading-company gonna have their work cut out for em on that exploratory journey south.

Benji

Ooh! Aah!! This is so cool to see your notes too! Is there another continent to the north? Love how you have so much world building and we've seen such a tiny part! Can't see Jin traveling much, but feel like we could see a lot through Bi De's eyes if you keep going long enough. Thanks for sharing!

Inky

Yay!! My A.D.D is jumping for joy. Love visual’s!!

Arlano

Agreed with you wanting more forest and little river, because as it is, the continent looke quite small.

Wingless

I love maps! I love them!!!

Kt-x

Oh wow! 😮That map is massive!

Ligeia

Fabulous! Maps are the BEST!!!

this will work

Love the dedication but dang bro enjoy your break you paused the patreon and uploaded twice enjoy the holidays

Npad11111

How big is the planet CF? usually xianxia planets are huge. Cradle's planet is as big a jupiter iirc.

Rake1810

Thanks for adding the continents for scale. Now we need 5 specific points on that map, Crimson Crucible City, the Capital of the Empire (can't remember the name), Pale Moon Lake City, Grass Sea City and Verdant Hill

Meh

I'm sorry to say but while your story writing is amazing... map making is not a strong point. I think if you handmade one, or maybe made a list of locations and geographical points of interest, then fed it to chat GPT to generate loads of images and picked the best one?

jord

It's clear that this came from a map maker program, and that's fine, it's a way to get a rough first draft that can be corrected and brought up to snuff. Don't be afraid to futz around with stuff like this and have fun. Can't wait to see what this turns into!

Daniel Barnhizer

Feed the files for books 3-5 into ChatGPT and ask it to generate a map based on the text. Add a prompt with the 5 specific points mentioned by @Rake1810. Then handdraw what you really wanted.

Amadhe

Map is cool. The biomes are all over the place though, lmao. Though it’s a map of a magical world of fantasy almost gods, so biome fuckery is to be expected. In fact, it makes it even better Worldbuilding imo. (Make mistakes into canon lmao!!!) P.S. Unless it was intentional, then your Worldbuilding skill is over 9000!!!

Satanael Adyx

How am i supposed to know scale without a banana?

Lane J. LaVanaway

I lov e the maps the scla is useful. I played a 6perks that let you tellaport to maps that exist and back. I might have chosen this map. But not first because the location is semi random. A little dangerous for me with out powers

StarBat

So the crimson phoenix empire is the whole world? Where are it's borders?

Jahith_Voice

Will there be more detailed map of the area of interest? farm location, grass sea, dual peaks, dragon vein formation. etc

Travis Holley

Don't forget that you once said there are places that are bordered in fog and on the other side of that fog is the land where the demons come from. I know that was when you were talking about the expansion of the empire to the entire continent, but weren't there still places that bordered the demon lands? I thought that was where Shen Yu went to fight that one imperial level demon before he got to go see Jin....

Angel

What a labor of love this is! But I hope you also get to take a real break!! 🫣🤗

Valadius

There is big and hen there is unreasonably big. Yes xanxia worlds are ofthen bigger but that right there just strains suspension of disbelief. A country that size would collapse under the strain of inefficent burocracy. Make the whole thing the size of africa that would be big enough

Inky

So question for ya. We have had two big tournaments. Are we going to possibly have a Ha Qi tournament at dueling peaks? Because I believe that would be amazing. And Jin teaching them “we will rock you” would be beautiful.

Late Night Decaf

I notice that Veiled Moon Moor is next to Black White Grove. Sounds a lot like Pale Moon before the Mist Wall fell.

Sivartius .

That's really cool! Thank you! Bigger than Eurasia + Africa. Where exactly in Raging Waterfall Gorge is the Cloudy Sword Mountain? Given the size you've mentioned it should be visible on the map

Aune

Im confused about the Phoenix Empire and the mention of the memory crystal of verdant Hill containing the secrets of their arrays, valuable enough that a coup is possible. Was under the impression that each province(self contained realm) before the mist separating them failed.

Alan McBrayer

According to the crystal lore Azure Hills should be a lot bigger than that. It was mentioned that when the empire came accross it after the demons were driven back that the area was the biggest self contained area ever seen and they were excited to see what wonders laid in store, but then it was an qi void.

Alex Ingraham

I was super happy to get audiobook 4 today!

Truedragon5374

Minor quibble: when the Soaring Heavenly Isles airship was flying to help Gramps, it was described as flying across the Howling Fang Mountains, then over Pale Moon Lake ... then was ordered to CONTINUE North to Verdant Hill. But thr HFM is East of the Azure Hills. I understand that even with flying they might not fly straight there, they need landmarks and there are air currents. But when the ship flys of PML City, shouldn't it TURN North?

Anghwrtais

Where is the Imperial Capital located?

Guy L.

I can't see anyone else making this comment, so I'll just let you know, "Ayer's Rock" is the wrong name for the massive rock formation in Australia, it's correct name is Uluru (oo-la-roo).

Jeff

The map really doesn't show where are all the cities are, just forest.

KyoDaDungeon!!

Ducking Awesome cant wait to ponder the finished product whenever a place is named or gone too