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Castle, Dungeons & Dragons, Fantasy, Fortress, Labyrinth Lord, Maps, OSR, RPG
The Citadel (with grid)
Cinolth Citadel started as a lone spire on a barren chunk of rock overlooking the Ironflow river as it headed out to sea. To the tower, others were attached and then a hall between them forming the basis of the heart of the citadel. Over decades extended walls were built producing a large bailey that was later split into halves by the construction of a church in the midst by Patriarch Barayin when he was the lord of Cinolth.
The citadel sits on a chunk of generally unprofitable land surrounded by poor farming land, making it unappealing for most nobles. It generally sits quiet and cold, manned by a small garrison at most, a skeleton staff of four to six men and a single priest out of favour with the church at worst.
Cinolth Citadel was drawn with a pair of Sakura Microns on plain white paper. It is made available for your (non-commercial) use thanks to the awesome support of the patrons of my Patreon Campaign. For more information on the campaign, Patreon, and how you can help the continued flow of maps like this, head on over to www.Patreon.com/dysonlogos
Why the tendency to not make a second level of fortresses/castles/keeps?
In a lot of cases the issue is that there wouldn’t be a lot to map. In this case it would be the towers and that’s it. Since I didn’t do a lot of internal mapping in the towers to begin with, I thought it would be boring.
Reblogged this on 7milkshakes and commented:
Another amazing map from Dyson!
Fantastic Ground floor! Gives me something to expand both up and down 🙂
was this based on a real Castle? Looks very much like the layout for Warkworth Castle in Northumberland U.K.
Parts are distinctly taken from that source, yes.