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Crypt, Doran's Skyrealm, Dungeon, Dungeons & Dragons, Fantasy, Fortification, Keep, Labyrinth Lord, Maps, Old School Essentials, OSE, OSR, RPG, Sky Island, Sky Islands, Skyrealms, Skyrealms of Jorune, Tomb
Doran’s skyrealm is a small, well-maintained floating island home to Doran the ranger and his entourage. The skyrealm wanders over Blackstream Vale east of the Blue City, seemingly constrained by the valley walls even though it remains a thousand feet above them. This map focuses on the structures under the keep on the west side of the island.
The structures under Doran’s Keep can be split into three sections all connected via the airship docking area in the centre left. When docking here, under the side of the keep, one will almost certainly note the extensive carvings of the stonework just north of the landing docking area – large reliefs that were cut into the stone a thousand or more years ago, likely back when the island was still attached to the lands below. The docking area accesses the storage rooms to the north, the tombs to the east, and the keep to the south. The storage rooms were part of the tombs at one point but were repurposed by the previous owner to hold goods shipped up from the lands below. All but one of the tombs are sealed behind heavy masonry set into their archways. The northeasternmost tomb is a symbolic tomb instead of an actual one. The sarcophagus here is a solid piece of stone and the space was used at some point as a focus for rituals of ancestor worship. The doors to the actual tomb areas to the west are locked and the keys seem to have departed along with Doran and his friends.
The southern understructures are the basements of the keep proper and contain a mix of storage and guard areas. The whole set of understructures are dark and gloomy, a strong contrast to the sky island around them.
The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 7,200 x 10,800 pixels (24 x 36 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the recommended 10′ squares that match the description) – so resizing it to either 1,680 x 2,520 or 3,360 x 5,040, respectively.
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