I’m building out a full wiki for The Embers, and one element in the Infobox I’ve been leaving blank is Area (square miles). Counting hexes and estimating seems laborious and ineffective, but there wasn’t a good way to measure the exact area of nations, baronies, tribal reaches, and free cities of Eilarûn.

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One major issue in making the map of the Embers was creating transparent layers. I wanted my map to have borders reminiscent of John Speed‘s wonderful maps, but the process of OpenSeadragon-ing with transparent pngs can be tricky.

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After posting the first map in my campaign setting to r/worldbuilding, I had a few PMs asking after a more detailed guide to publishing maps that exceed the 8192px² limit in Photoshop and Illustrator.

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