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The World of Tessera

Panel 1 — The Nine Northern Seas, where icy, cold waters surge and swell, and time goes by at a glacial pace.

Panel 2 — The Nine Northern Seas, where icy, cold waters surge and swell, and time goes by at a glacial pace.

Panel 3 — The Nine Northern Seas, where icy, cold waters surge and swell, and time goes by at a glacial pace.

Panel 4 — The Nine Northern Seas, where icy, cold waters surge and swell, and time goes by at a glacial pace.

Panel 5 — The Middle Waters, where calm, temperate water lap against the shore of Tessera's largest cities. This is the first map I made for my players!

Panel 6 — The Middle Waters, where calm, temperate water lap against the shore of Tessera's largest cities. First of three "expansion maps" I made for my playgroup.

Panel 7 — The Middle Waters, where calm, temperate water lap against the shore of Tessera's largest cities. Second of three "expansion maps" I made for my playgroup.

Panel 8 —The Middle Waters, where calm, temperate water lap against the shore of Tessera's largest cities. Third of three "expansion maps" I made for my playgroup.

Panel 9 —The Torrid Drifts of the South, where warm, languid waters become sudden storms, and time accelerates the closer one gets to the Split Lands of Yttrebion.

Panel 10 — The Torrid Drifts of the South, where warm, languid waters become sudden storms, and time accelerates the closer one gets to the Split Lands of Yttrebion.

Panel 11 — The Torrid Drifts of the South, where warm, languid waters become sudden storms, and time accelerates the closer one gets to the Split Lands of Yttrebion.

Panel 12 — The Torrid Drifts of the South, where warm, languid waters become sudden storms, and time accelerates the closer one gets to the Split Lands of Yttrebion.

A close-up showing the patches process more closely. These replace some bad pen work, and I added a lagoon city in the southern patch.

Another close-up of a patch in progress. This replaces an empty desert landscape with one that is much more detailed and to my liking.

Similar to before, this patch adds many new elements to a previously dull area, while also allowing me to tackle name changes that I wanted to institute.

This canal patch is somewhat based on The Canal of the Pharaohs connecting the Nile to the Red Sea in antiquity, only on a much grander scale.