I'm so happy you said that. I was facepalming pretty hardcore there for a while and was about to point out that very fact. But anyway, let us all sit back and practice a new mantra: I will not feed the Trolls.  Now that we have that settled..

The map looks plenty original to me. I mean, lets be honest..There are only so many ways you can get "creative" with a world map. You have land, and water, toss into a sphere and shake, let sit for a few billion years. Ta-dah! And yeah, no need to get scientifically literal about the processes. The landmass(s) thus far look fine to me. They are obviously only one continent, that or they're just two big islands connected by a small portion there at the top. So lets go with a small continent (by Earth standards) and focus on..Lots of ocean out there, probably some new world here and there (expansions anyone?).

Not sure I like the space elves idea though..I mean, if they're going to be space elves, then that means they'd probably sparkle right? Like Avatar..So lets see here..Fair hair, sparkling, pointy ear-s...W-wait..N-no! No!!

Oh right, there was one little thing I forgot to mention..The mysterious lake that sits at the foot of a mountain range that is draining(?) off into two different directions. Now, I'm no expertz, but is it me..or aren't the rivers actually flowing into the lake? They're wider at the sea/ocean connections, and become narrow as they approach the lake itself. I mean, I could be wrong, but I don't see the tiny stream suddenly becoming a much, much larger mass of water flowing into the ocean. Plus, we have no details on the sea-level anyway, nor do we know if that lake is even a non-man made formation. Snow melt from the mountains seem like as good a reason as any for the lake. Just my two cents, or lack their-of.

It's gonna look extra good hanging on my wall. Hell I might even put it in the hall-way or out in the living room. What size frame should I buy?

lol oops...should have seen that. That's why they call them Drugs...lol. Thanks my friend.

It's the same ocean that both rivers flow into, so the ocean can't be higher on one side and lower on the other. Yes, the lake can be below sea-level, but it can't have one river into the ocean and one out.

Lake Toba in Sumatra is such a lake and is roughly the same size as the one in Elemental. Also, lakes with no outlets can appear wherever, since there are a number of causes that could create one. The lake north of Gandru is not really that strange.

Lake Gandru is really weird however, or then the map is really unintuitive. The river through the imperial spine is clearly continuous, so it would indicate that Gandru indeed has two rivers flowing into the ocean. This would require *extremely* rare and unstable circumstances. The river would have to fill up at the exact same rate as it empties from both rivers to maintain the balance. Otherwise one of the rivers would dry up. Also, the flow rate of the two rivers would have to maintain equilibrium. If the flow rate of one of the rivers would change, it would immediately shift the distribution of water and eventually again cause one of the rivers to dry up.

It just doesn't make sense. You can't have two rivers flowing into the same ocean from one lake at opposite ends of the lake. It would make much more sense if the stream from the imperial spine was an inlet to the lake and another river would flow from the spine to the west coast. In the current map this is not the case though.

When I used to write my own fantasy, I liked to draw the maps and it was nice to give them some realistic touchs if possible, starting by things like plate tectonics. But that's all. After all, it's not about creating a whole scientifically (or religiously if it's the reader's case) plausible universe (we are talking fantasy here, no hardcore science fiction). That said, for a story I reached the point of "Let's start by the Big Bang and build the universe from there" (in a light hearted and simplfied way, mind you).

"And legend tells of a massive fire titan chained and shackled at the very bottom of the lake. Bound there in the last days of the great war, the only way to hold him was to flood the crater where he was chained. And so the mightiest wizards caused the earth to crack and shift, drawing water from the endless seas to hold down the titan. Dread the day, when the spells fade or the seas dry up."

It is a mythic world, dont you all be so dry.

Agreed, its called attention to detail...

Reagreed, the details are important...

Seems I'm one of the 0.1%, because I'm more interested in playing the campaigns than the sandbox mode. After completing the standard campaigns I'll look for user-made ones (or maybe make one myself?)

I think its Spain on the left and Ireland on the right!

Yeah I was going to go with the "Wheres Northrend?" joke at first.

Warcraft was my first throught - like a snap shot during the umm... rending? (The explosion of the well in the middle)