There are 3 Laws that your rivers MUST follow if they exist on an Earth like planet. You won’t find a river on Earth that breaks any of the following laws follow the below laws and your maps will look …
Introducing The Authors Guide To Drawing Maps
This is a quick article to introduce The Authors Guide To Drawing Maps. The guide currently features 4 of the tutorials on drawing maps that can be found on The World Building School, however they …
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How To Weather The Storm Of Prevailing Winds and Oceanic Currents
The worlds weather is driven by both the Earth’s rotation and the seasonal variation in solar energy that each hemisphere absorbs. However patterns do form in the weather and they will play an …
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Landscaping Your World Map
Continuing on from last week’s tutorial on Tectonic plates we’re looking at how the plates affect the landscape of your world and so the environment your characters will see and experience. If you’re …
Adding Tectonic Plates To Your World Map
Tectonic Plates are sections of a planet’s lithosphere (the crust and mantle of a planet) that your world continent will then sit upon. They are what separate the land from the molten lava below. …
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World Building Geography by Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson (the writer of Mistborn and the final 3 books of Robert Jordan's "The Wheel Of Time" series) gives a lecture on basic geography for world building maps. He covers some very basic …
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