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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malanath" data-source="post: 2861617" data-attributes="member: 25538">Thank you for your responses everyone.  I apologize for not explaining myself better in my original post.  Hopefully I can clear up any confusion.The maps scale is the size of the entire world, you are looking at every major continent and its larger islands.  The landmass is slightly less than that found on Earth.  The large North Western Continent, the largest, is slightly smaller than Asia.  The large islands, such as the one next to the North Western Continent are slightly smaller than the UK.  This planet is roughly 75% Water and 25% Land compared to the Earth's 70% Water and 30% Land.  This would mean that the planet has roughly 54,443,302 square miles of land, including any uninhabitable regions.As for some of the anomalies mentioned, a couple of them are there on purpose.  The large ocean in the middle of the map was placed there to make traveling to the other side of the world extremely difficult.  The western half of the map is the equivalent of the "New World", and most who live within the world probably believe the world to be flat.  Traveling the oceans is dangerous, as the waves are much higher, violent and more deadly.  This is caused by a moon that is closer than our own.     However, the above directly ties into the reason for the land placement around the large island roughly the size of the UK near the North Western Continent.  You see, there are many more islands around that larger island; the ones you see on the map are just the largest of them.  The island is very difficult to get to as there are many coral wreaths that cause problems for anyone who isn't a master sailor. There are also many highly active volcanoes around the island that make the area equivalent to the ring of fire.That island will be the home of the Elves; a place that they were forced to flee to after their Empire collapsed, or face total extinction by their vengeful slaves, the Humans.  Nearly 12,000 years of slavery does tend to leave some folks bitter.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Anyway, the point is that the Elves are now the leading seafaring civilization.  So if or when the "New World" is discovered it will be by them.  Also, I should mention that I created this map using sections of our own world.  I've always had a horrible time with fractal map generation programs, so I literally took <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Map-Chinese_World.png/800px-Map-Chinese_World.png" target="_blank">this image of our world</a>, and began taking several lumps of it and cobbling it together.  I just flipped, mirrored and rotated stuff until I got something that looked like it could fit.  I liked the way it turned out, it is hands down the best map I've ever made, although I do agree with Conaill about the lower south western continent seeming too similar to the one on the south eastern side of the map.  In all honesty, I only wanted the one continent (North Western), its small UK sized island, and the large continent on the Eastern side of the map.  I just added the others to balance things out as the map didn't look right without more landmasses.  I've created the tectonic plates for the world, which should help me decide where to place the mountains, rivers, and then all I will have to do is decide the tilt of the planets axis and its distance from its star.  Once I have all this information I can (hopefully) begin determining the climate for the various regions.  Below is the map of the tectonic plates, the arrows show which direction the plate is moving.  Each individual plate is color coded for easy identification.  The planet has fifteen major plates.<img src="http://img272.imageshack.us/img272/9969/keltecplate4qu.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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