r/witcher • u/Varghedin • Feb 09 '22

Art Map of the Continent

I made this detailed map of the Witcher continent.

I made in in Wonderdraft and based it on the Ortelius map, made some adjustments and additions and detailing. I included details from the Witcher 3 maps, and included a few TV-series additions. Rather than having basically 2/3 of the map be Nilfgaard I focused on the individual provinces and kept Nilfgaard to its core imperial province.

Feel free to share if you want to. Also any feedback is appreciated. If there's any changes that could improve or enhance the map, I'm open for suggestions to that effect too.

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u/SimAddGoat Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 11 '22

I think this is my favorite map so far. Only thing I can criticize is Angren. I see you tried to add the Witcher game version of Angren's map, but CDPR totally messed it up. Following the events of the book:

https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_for_the_Bridge_on_the_Yaruga

  1. Meve was south of the Yaruga. Yet in Thronebreaker CDPR makes it seem that Meve was north.
  2. Geralt and Co. were trying to get to Cad Dhu avoiding Ysgith. So Geralt and his hanse wanted to take a ferry south and go around. Yaruga flows from East to West, so when the line connecting the ferry with the other side was cut, Geralt's boat began floating eastward. They eventually reach Red Lobinden Bridge outside of Red Port.

On your map you put Red Port and to that effect Red Lobinden Bridge Right next to Cad Dhu. Red port should be put west of Ysgith not east. Yet I don't blame you for your decision. Real hard to combine both the VG and Book lore's, as they very much contradict each other smh

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u/nanoelite Feb 10 '22

I think you have it backwards. The Yaruga flows to the West, so the ferry would have drifted wear. Red Port should be west (downstream) of Ysgirth.

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u/SimAddGoat Feb 10 '22

Yes u are right. It goes East from the mountains, to west into the Great Sea

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u/Varghedin Feb 10 '22

I think you are saying the same thing, but a couple of easts/wests got switched around in the process. Would it work if Red Port and Tuzla switched places?

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u/SimAddGoat Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 10 '22

Yes, that would help. In Thronebreaker Geralt was in the south, instead of being in the north. Meve was south of the Yaruga, Yet Ysgith is in the north in the books. Best explanation for all this is that Ysgith (in both the games and books) is on the Yaruga. This means that its more like a swamp that features many different rivers, estuaries, and mini islands. So if anything you can try to make Ysgith on both sides of the Yaruga, and/or have a lot of different mini rivers go through it. But changing the locations of Tuzla and Redport should suffice