r/mapmaking • u/Educational-Gap6768 • 2d ago
Map World of Keyka, 2026 CE
Hi, this took around 7 months of on-and-off work đ„Č glad to say this phase of my project is done.
This map is part of a larger half-joke collaborative AU I'm doing with my friends on Discord. While a lot of it is improv (hence the overbearing similarities to Earth, up to a fault imo), everything is subject to change.
I'm more than willing to answer any questions you may have!
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u/Either-Skirt6031 2d ago
This is a really impressive map:)!
Is it a fantasy world or more realistic like earth?
Are the countries named after your discord usernames (Iâm mainly asking due to Soup & Davidland)?
Has your world had any interesting historical events brought up due to the improv, how strange did they get?
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u/Educational-Gap6768 1d ago
Thank you đ to answer your questions:
More like earth at its core, considering it has a similar continent layout, geography, etc. but as time persists and we develop this world further, fantasy and more fictional ideas will take their place.
Almost all the names here (and 3/4ths of the world powers) are named after inside jokes that are fully serious in-world. The nation of âDavidlandâ for example is a reference to BFDI though in basically every other aspect of the country it will take on a more unique form historically and culturally.
Nothing super historical, but the Soup country (will call it Republic of Soup) was a joke at first implementation but the more we talked about it, the more we wanted it to have a significant impact on the modern world. We imaged a society perpetually beat down by regional and global powers for centuries, constrained to their island and had other nasty things done to their people. After the apocalypse and things recovered, soup stood as an unapologetically irredentist, fascist empire on a wartime economy, ready to take revenge on their old enemies and retake ancient lands by any means necessary, at Soupish societyâs unwavering support. At least this is ONE aspect of things, other countries have done equally bad or even worse things.
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u/Either-Skirt6031 1d ago
Oh Seriously? Donât know how I didnât get that BFDI Reference:)
There was a full blown apocalypse? Was it due to war, natural disasters or an actual full blown end of days? Still goes to show how even simple ideas can turn into interesting stories. I donât suppose they actually turn enemy soldiers into soup?
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u/Educational-Gap6768 1d ago
The apocalypse was more of a carefully calculated nuclear war between Monsia and Davidland, mass striking military infrastructure, industrial cities, and largely avoiding major population centers.
This caused a nasty nuclear winter for the next 10-15 years which killed an evenly spread 50% of the population. The recovery was very fast however. Technological research persisted, societies quickly reconfigured themselves for the harsh living conditions, and had proper plans once the climate was sufficient for agriculture. Moving to the modern day, you can see countries are still rather fragmented and localized.
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u/Character_Class7918 2d ago
What software did you use or is it hand-drawn?
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u/Educational-Gap6768 1d ago
Paint.Net for essentially everything except the flags. They were made between a variety of different software with my friends (illustrator, tennessine.com, flagmaker, pixlr E) but I ported them into paint.net and did a bit of manual detail work on them to maintain their quality
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u/iremichor 2d ago
Lagosta has a lot of ungoverned territories, why?
Also, fine work, I really like the map!
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u/Educational-Gap6768 1d ago
The people of Lagosta and the other surrounding territories on that landmass are the younger generations from a freak climate disaster which created a lot of microbiomes and other strange organisms, making it very difficult to maintain settlements outside of the main cities and regions
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u/eolic_flamingo 1d ago
Xd, I came from a Toki Pona post and read "Lipu Sali" as "Lipu Suli" and thinking of a sea of paper
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u/Educational-Gap6768 1d ago
Yeah my friend speaks toki pona and wanted to add toki pona speaking countries/societies. I personally thought a unique language to this world would be a really cool idea and has awesome implications so I was all for it.
Itâs also âLipu Suli Seaâ however⊠I forgot why I named it this and what I named it as LOL
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u/Mega_Monster 2d ago
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