Today, we enter the cartographic traditions of the Han Dynasty - and discover how to bring elegance, precision, and hidden meaning into our fantasy maps.

When people ask me what the most important map for worldbuilding is, I always have to pause.Because the answer, really, is: any map that helps you run your game. Not a world map, not a regional map, not a city map—just the right map for the next session. And that looks different depending on where you’re at in your game and how you run it.

What better way to encourage your players to explore the world than by showing them the way. So, enjoy this map of the Tor Network.

We're revisiting that most popular of topics this week - How to Make a Megadungeon! It was the first truly popular video that we made, and there was so much more to say than Ryan got to explore the first time around. So he sat down and made a new map: the ruins of Tol Fallent.

Is your campaign really complete without the chance to hand your players something to puzzle over? Well, check out this downloadable version of the Sunderking's Mappe.

This week in the Red Quills, we've been talking about worldbuilding - and specifically the kind of worldbuilding that you can do to allow yourself as a game master to improvise new information and areas on the fly with consistency. As we did so, Ryan went ahead with a new map, a heraldry map of the Civil War.

This week, we're launching our next series - the Red Quill's Guide to World Design. And, of course, we'll be releasing a new map each week to go with the videos. Today's map is the Kingdom of Endon.

Alright, adventurers, welcome back to the Red Quills for this week's addition to the maps of Red Quill's Guide to Fantasy Lands. We've ventured to the peaceful lands of the Halflings, we've dived down to the bottom of the sea. Today, we're going to the slimy, murky tunnels of the Undercity of Eglarond.

Out in the darkness beyond the world's edge, you can find the strange expanse of the Astral Realm. Boundless and bare, the void of the Astral is filled with wonders of civilisations and gods long dead. In particular, one can make the pilgrimage to the Realm of the Dreamer, where she rests in a sleep so deep that it seems as death to mortals.

Greetings, adventurers, and well met! This week on the Red Quills, we are diving, down into the deep places of the sea, to the ruins of Pel Dothair, as we talk about sunken ruins and fallen civilisations.

Welcome, adventurers, to a new world to explore: the mystical land of Aerania, a corner of the Faerie realm. Here, the King - Auberon, the Golden King, the Leader of the Summer Hunt - keeps his prizes, his menagerie, and hunts for all eternity.

And we're finally at the end of the first season! This is the map of the Azure Throne, the end of the quest to find the Pirate King's treasure. Thank you to everyone for following along with the story of Yemoke and the Goldhunter's Sea - or, if you've missed out, check out the previous five maps and articles.

This week at the Red Quills, we're diving back into watercolours, sketches, and naturalist-style illustraitons for our exploration of the druid groves of the Ruins of Rostivale, the settlement off the coast of Firn-na-Bolg. But this is an ancient complex of crumbling towers, felled by some ancient cataclysm, and the sketches are not of beasts, but the aeons-old golems that wander the toppled spires. Enjoy this map of the Druids of Firn-na-Bolg.

This is the Map to the Vault Key, a coded map designed to be given to players or readers early on, and take several weeks to solve.

We've got a treat for you this week - if you're here for the downloadable maps part of the Red Quills, then this week we have three for you! For our video, How to Map your World, Ryan drew three maps (one in A3, one in A4, and one in A5) to show how you can create and incorporate maps as immersion tools for your players. These are the maps of the Isle of Dreams.

Greetings, adventurers! We've had another productive week here at the Red Quills - releasing just now our latest tutorial, in which we revisit how to draw a fantasy city. To go with the learnings, Ryan of the Red Quills drew his latest map, Smug Rock - also known as the City of Ships.