Thanks for the nice remarks.
The name plate in the corner was done in paintshop. The "fantasy alphabet" was made freehand with calligraqphy brushes done at different angles. No rhyme or reason, I just made shapes that looked nice. However, I just noticed that the top and bottom runes are identical. I should probably change them around a bit.
As far as the uniformity of the image, I would agree and I am OK with it. I spliced together little bits of images from an old map I had done in Campaign Cartographer (most notably the trees) and just did a lot of pasting. The end result works for me.