Map of the Northern Span

[Samson Option 9652]

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𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮

 

Wooden protractors and all fashions of quills and inkpots littered the grotto floor where a miniature dolmen made table stood. The dolmen sheltered crumpled pieces of parchment save for one, one stretched out and delicately decorated, marked, and written on laid on the surface of the stone. The parchment, articulately fashioned into a map, has a small legend and scale drawn on the bottom-right corner reading Map of the Northern Span. The map conveyed a fascinating insight into the crystallization of both the Cingedoz language known as Sprækjom and to the growing cartography skill found developing between members of the tribe.

 

The language of the Cingedoz is one that does not resist synthesis, rather some words from Elvellyn, Rathonian, Vistulian, and other languages are adopted either as cognates or morphed. Still then, some words originally to Sprækjom are morphed to better be pronounced especially as more and more people adopt the tradition and may not have the Highlander tongue able to pristinely sound out what can be a relatively difficult language to speak. The word cairn, introduced as a funerary tomb tradition by Morag hal'Cingedoz, becomes carn. The first of the carns is beneath the lone castle of Bjornfjall south of Brigwindosdur where the Cingedoz discovered an unsettling cave system with victims lynched from the caps of great mushrooms.

 

Other geographical or civilizational nouns have changed over time. Dur, the Cingedoz word for village, becomes Dor - in the case of the ruined village of the Old Svarlings, Dor Ainaklis, this name translates as 'ruined village'. For those settlements no longer occupied, but not showing sign of ruin or siege, the Cingedoz word Lend or 'empty' is used. Lend is simplified as Len and is usually followed by the name of the old settlement - such as the case of Len Varhelm which is the abandoned capitol of the Kingdom of Norland. The term Mor, though its superlative Moiran means 'sea', is used on maps to indicate large bodies of water such as the case of Mor Allrhrim or 'Sea filled with Ice'.

 

As the Cingedoz tribe expands their travels, their trade routes, and their scouting; the map of the Northern Span takes on finer definition or wider scope.  More locations would be amended to the map or new maps would be drafted. The curiosity of the Cingedoz leads them to many nooks, niches, and no-wheres which others may overlook.

 

 

Spoiler

Learning to play with Campaign Cartographer 3 and making maps based on RP discoveries/scoutings/etc.