Worldbuilding
The map of Aurenhold is finally coming together
Long before this becomes a real map, it starts like this: a spiral notebook, a pencil, and a lot of scratched-out street names. I'm finalizing every detail of Aurenhold against the book right now — where the high nobles sit versus the lesser nobles, how the market and temple rings cascade down toward the docks, which roads are old and which were cut through more recently, and where exactly the underside streets go dark. Once the geography actually matches the story instead of just my head, I'll be handing this off to someone with real fantasy-map skills, because — as you can see below — that is very much not me. If you're a cartographer/illustrator who works on fantasy maps (or know one), I'd genuinely love an introduction.
July 24, 2026