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These look familiar. I imagine it is because I just reviewed the full map. The full map is a huge PDF that is around nine by seven feet or there about if viewed at full size. The atlas covers the same area but divides it up in easier to view sections oddly enough like an atlas. Only Kenzer has been so bold to do this for a setting, and the Atlas of Kalamar is a magnificent book. This one though is a PDF so not quite as impressive. Full color maps like these just need to be printed. They just seem to look a lot better to me when that is done.
The Atlas of the Kyngdoms is a PDF that is in full color. The book is ninety one pages long and is mostly maps. The cartography on them is good though and easy to read. There are no book marks in the PDF but they would not be as useful in this type of books as they are in other books. The maps absolutely will consume color ink when printed but hey they look good.
The book starts with a nice introduction. It is not long and just explains things. There is also a key on the introduction page and at the very least I found printing that out made it a lot easier read the maps. Flipping through the PDF back to the key is not the easiest of things to do. There is a full map with the page numbers of sections of the map as they break it down. Links to the individual maps would have been nice but scrolling there is not that much of a problem.
After the maps there is some simple information about all the nations. There are lots of nations in the setting too. Each nation has area in square miles, population and population density, racial balance i.e. the percent of the population each race makes up, the capital city with its population, the type of government the nation has, the nations world view and basic alignment, regions, languages spoken there, and the basic climate. And all sixty one nations of this world have all that information listed for it.
The Kyngdoms is a very complete setting and to prove it to everyone they have all the information on their website. There is a PDF of the setting that makes the information a bit easier to read and locate, but the same information is all on their website. And it is all free on the web site. The maps are there to, but not as big as one will find here and not narrowed in on so many different areas. The website is simple to check out and easy to navigate to determine if this setting is of interest to the reader.
