Velravin & Ossentia

Velravin & Ossentia is a fictional map created by Dreadnought, the game's creator, for the 1880 Quikbyrn Ocean Game.

The map's final dimensions are approximately 12,700 kilometers by 10,380 kilometers, amounting to 131,826,000 square kilometers. However, this includes inaccessible land on the west side of the map.

Design History
Velravin and Ossentia started off as a quick sketch using Microsoft Paint. The first sketch included the continent of Velravin, which was kept mostly intact except for the addition of many small islands surrounding the continent. The island of Adumar was also present, as well as Cas-a-Cwryn and Krykarr. The seminal feature of this very early sketch was a large eastern continent which was quite close to the island of Adumar, leaving almost no open ocean in the map at all.

The first revision of this rough sketch was to remove the eastern continent entirely and move Adumar to the east and slightly north of its original location. This map was utilized for a period of time while players were being found for the game. It included 10 nations in total. An unnamed yellow nation was quickly thrown out due to its location, leaving 9 nations on the original small-format map. Later, the map was expanded considerably in size to include the Liandric Principality to the south, as well as the new continent of Ossentia and the island of Bak-Kanhan. This was done to allow the game to feature an open ocean, which it had not previously, as well as to allow colonization mechanics.

After this point, several players discontinued their interest in the game and precipitated a reformatting of the map. The large format was kept, but the nation of Ironblood was absorbed by its neighbors. Heian was kept in place but switched over to non-player control.