good to see you are alive and well❤️
Anthos for the following reasons:
* interesting and diverse map, everything spaced apart in a way that can easily be traveled on foot and it being worthwhile. fast travel only for far off islands etc.
* every city was on point for their race, human cities vastly different between one another too. these cities had a true dynamic feel to them and you could actually lose everything. (salvus → gronkkston, abresi → new abresi, haelun’or → helf underground stronghold)
* criminal roleplay wasn’t limited to banditry & murder. Even though lockpicking required a GM, it never took too long. no chests were safe either.
* guilds and organisations, a lot of them. militaries, levymen, bandits, mages, wizards, hunters, thieves, smithing, alchemy, auctioning, paladins, necromancers.. you name it, it was there and with an active playerbase
so with all these points together, Anthos had a certain kind of feel of danger & diverse dynamic roleplay.
second best map was Athera, where the worldbuilding was great and settlement system in my opinion, at its peak