The Goldhunter's Sea | Downloadable Map
Welcome back, everyone! We've taken a couple of weeks break here at the Red Quills, and we're back with new maps, new tutorials - and an exciting new format. But more about that in a bit: today, we're bringing you our new treasure map, the Goldhunter's Sea!
It pairs with our tutorial released today: How to Make a Realistic Treasure Map. If you've come here from our YouTube page, you're in the right place.
You can download the A2 version of the map here:
Otherwise, if you want to check out our other downloadable maps, all free to the public, why not check out the rest of the Journal.
Okay, here comes the exciting bit. As I mentioned earlier, we’ve got a new format for our tutorials here at the Red Quills. Our videos are going to be the same, but seeing as everyone’s had such interest in the end product - you can download this map in its A2 version through the link in the description below, by the way - we thought that we would give some examples for how to incorporate worldbuilding and use the maps by making a connected story between them. This is the first of six tutorials that will be connected in the Quest for the Pirate King’s Treasure.
To that end, I’ll be releasing a lore video specifically about the Goldhunter Sea and this map in a few days time - I’ll link it when it’s released - that you can use if you want to play within this area and follow along with the maps that I’ll be making.
But this map is the beginning of the quest: your players can find it clutched in the hands of a weary and wounded sailor, desperately trying to escape. While the map itself appears to be nothing more than a merchant’s map covered in scribbles and scrawls to the uninitiated eye, on the back is a longer account: an explorer in the Goldhunter Sea was captured by the dreaded pirate Amador Smoke-Eye, the man they call the Pirate King. He was forced to make the maps and lead Amador to a stronghold that the Pirate King would be able to use to store the treasures of a lifetime of plunder, and the map that your players find contains the clues to sail directly there.
The full text of the explorer’s account will be in the lore video entitled The Goldhunter Seas, and the next video will be a tutorial about creating fantasy cities for your worldbuilding, in which we’ll explore the first stop on the way to Smoke-Eye’s treasure, the City of Ships.