I will give here a bit of the previous work that has been put into maps from our folks:
This is the oldest map we had and a lot of the information on there has changed a bit due to the RE maps and demands of putting the empire on a larger content to allow it to grow a bit. Of course Valencia is not represented. I am not sure who the original author of this map was. When I started to work on these a bit, I think Nich still had an old copy and he got it to me.
With those in mind and the concept of us wanting to give the empire room to grow and having lots of areas for players to help create future content I began to work on this:
This was a starting point and a very sort of zoomed out view. The empire is inside the brown boarder. The goal was to get a relative idea of where the empire stood in the larger area of the world. It is a roughly 500 mile square in the northern part of the continent. The two cities are Nanthalion in the middle east of the empire and a coastal city, the empire other major city. Valencia is not on here, as this was created pre-Valencia, as are very little of the other areas of the world. I was trying to get players to help fill out the other spots a bit with stuff from their backgrounds and the like that would be allowed.
Ideally we would have laid out a rough outline of the world with a few of the racial type areas defined vaguely where they would have been at and then we would have went for a much more detailed map of the immediate area of the empire, much like the first map, but updated with the newer goings on in mind.
Anyway, there is a bit of what has been worked on abit before, mapwise. A lot of work was left unfinished as I got little input from players to help flesh it out when i was working on it, and rl drug me away for a bit. Such is the way of it.