The Drow City of Vlyn'darastyl - Everyone's Edition (Patreon)

This was a slightly unusual map for me. When I say I'm drawing a "city map," it usually means something like Brazenthrone or Finbarr's Marsh. Drawing an exterior-only city had me a little worried, since the last one I did was this piece of white-hot garbage. God, that's embarrassing. But I think Vlyn'darastyl is big step up from that.

So, Vlyn'darastyl is a drow city that's accessible by airship, which isn't a characteristic shared by many other cities two miles underground. But the Great Breach-- a 300' (100m) hole in the roof of the cavern leading to the surface sea above-- makes this possible. There are more details in the DM notes above, but if you've got any other questions I didn't cover, feel free to ask.

Thanks to Senator Matt for proposing this map to the Cartographic Congress! He and I were talking about an idea I had for the future which I'd like to let you in on.

At some point, I want to make a map of a small Underdark sea. That sea is the Black Loch, which the map above shows only a small corner of. I want to make a larger, region-sized map of the whole loch with 10-12 locations marked: maybe a kuo-toa village, a duergar outpost, a few islands with some ruins, a series of caves, maybe something underwater, stuff like that. Then I'd draw maps of each of those locations at a 5' scale, so you'd have this map of a whole region and, wherever you wanted to take your players in that region, you've got a map of it ready to go.

When Matt proposed a city next to an Underdark sea, I thought that seemed like a good addition, especially since the Great Breach makes the area more accessible for DMs whose parties aren't currently below ground. But-- to be clear-- this is the only part of it I'll be making for a while. This is a big project and I'm not going to be starting on it until Brazenthrone is finished, which will be a while still. But I thought I'd share that with you and see if anyone had any thoughts.

As I said when I posted the last map, all patron content is free to everyone this month and it's attached below.

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