Making an Ancient Map –Timelapse Video

Making an Ancient Map –Timelapse Video

A timelapse video of the processes involved in making an ancient map of the Tefr world. I used the Hereford Mappa Mundi as inspiration. It’s a medieval map dating from around 1300. I found the colour very appropriate for what I wanted. It seemed appropriate to...
The Mind’s Isles

The Mind’s Isles

A World Building Guide   Visitors to this site may have noticed I draw many different kinds of maps to reference the Tefr world. This guide is not about maps. I’ll do maps another time. Don’t get me wrong, maps are great, they can give many different kinds of...
A Brief History of Tefr

A Brief History of Tefr

An outline of the history of the world of Tefr as a character within that world might know it. The chronology given is sketchy and only covers important events. Much is drawn from the teachings of the Karoch, the church of the Tree of Life, as the dominant religion...
The Tefr Calendar

The Tefr Calendar

The first of two articles showing extracts from the Time Chapter of the Tefr Prelude to Rhapsody book. This article concerns how time is marked on the world of Tefr.   In the beginning the creator made the world and set it in a place of stability and order. There...
Shelis

Shelis

The Kingdom of Shelis, Gateway to the Root And its former regions of Panis, Mexota and Tukis Shelis was originally a much bigger country covering the lower half of the Sheliran continent, but was shattered into several much smaller states during the long and bloody...