Akshardham Temple: The Interior (Patreon)

Several months ago, a patron said that India was underrepresented in fantasy settings and I agreed. Take the Forgotten Realms, for example. Faerun is inspired by Europe, of course. Then you've got Zakhara, the Arabian part of the world. And then there's Kara-Tur, which is East Asia, and Maztica, which is Mesoamerica. Technically, there's an Africa, but almost nothing is written about it, so that doesn't really count. But there's no India.

Well, I can't make a whole Indian setting, but I can draw a map of something Indian and I decided to go with Akshardham Temple. I'm going to draw another map of a historical place in India next, but for a different reason. The island fortress of Murud-Janjira won last month's Cartographic Congress, so we're going to have a subcontinental doubleheader.

For a few reasons, I'm going to draw the place in ruins as it is today. The first is that I think it's more interesting that way. And it doesn't prevent it from being used as a fort, since, in FRPGs, ruins tend to be occupied by pirates, goblins, ogres, cultists, etc.

The second reason is that, after an hour of searching, the only labeled floor plan I've found of this place is in Hindi. Or possibly a different Indian language. In any case, my keyboard doesn't have those buttons on it, so I can't use Google Translate to find out what everything is. But if it's in ruins, that's not really a problem *taps forehead*.

Anyway, I'm gonna grab some coffee and get started on that. Let me know what you think of the map!