sleep deprived thoughts

It's finally done after so so long (at least this version; I might try to make a non-square version) because i was rewatching the Rumblecusp arc as i was drawing, and every episode I watched meant I had to change things. Initially, the island is described with no caldera, but for traveler con they all travelled up to the caldera... so l kept the no caldera and made a fissure instead because I kinda hc that the volcano wasn't a volcano until vokodo arrived and the fieryness from him sort of messed up and broke the mountain a bit.

I decided to make it like a little excerpt from some random cobalt soul book or map section as a little infographic for potential researchers. The original plan was to make it ike a destination flyer with some links to traveler con and pop con, but i don't have the imagination or graphic design skills or style to do that.

Might think about doing Kalutha or Urukayxl in this sort of style one day. Maybe Darktow or Eiselcross eventually, but they both have their challenges that I'm not sure I want to attempt just yet, but they're definitely in my mind.

I might make some physical copies of it one day because it always feels so much nicer to have a physical version of something rather than just digital but thats a ways down the road but it's definitely something l want to do

Some lil tidbits and notes as promised:

Whether Vokodo literally crashed into Rumblecusp from above or just planar shifted violently into the island, I made the giant heated pool at the base of the volcano his point of entry OR at least a place where the rocks crashed and fell down a bit, hence the steam from the torchblooms

You can see the pool entrance that Vilya would use just above that pool on a small clearing. The big pool isn't used because it's in the poisoned section of the forest, and I've made up in my head that the pool bottom is just caved-in rocks rather than actual tunnels

Because of the Winding Core's proximity to the volcano, I tried to make it seem a bit heated up by maybe some magma flow or residual torchblooms

Heaven falls, and the pools were fun to do. I sort of imagined them like oyster mushrooms to help figure them out, and it somehow worked.

The village is beneath those pools, visible only from those fires because ijust couldn't get huts to look alright at this scale.

The ruins were odd because they were always described as kind of dark and monochrome, so I had no clue how to show the ruin whilst also portraying that... hence, the purple fog. I tried to make it look like the spikes were coming out of the fog, but I'm not sure if it worked very well

Technically, north is the top left, but i forgot the compass. My uni professors would be so mad woops.

D Turts obviously had to make an appearance

The bottom half of the island literally was not explored in game (or at least not explicitly described), so it has been dubbed jurassic park bc in my head, and that's where I hc most of the dinosaurs live.

Also, before I forget, I did this by using @devenrue's original map she made for the campaign as a guide, which was super helpful for getting the perspective and features roughly correct.