Karkin Gulf, north coast

Moving south to the next line of sections, we begin to map the south coastline of the Kherson Sanjak:

The above has filled in the coastline, connecting the long spit to mainland, creating the whole north shore of the Karkin Gulf.  It's just left to generate the hex types and lay in the villages.

It occurs to me that during the early communist period, the collectivisation of farms would have meant the abandonment of many villages throughout Ukraine.  Thus it's very possible that there were villages in this part of the world that simply disappeared a hundred years ago.  350 years ago, who knows?

Lazurne is real, but Zharbach is made up.  Like I said, however, there may have been tiny fishing villages along the eastern spit ... the north coast, according to GoogleEarth, is little more than sand dunes with water-filled pot-holes, but the south edge is steady enough.  That said, I do know the Black Sea gets some vicious storms that could preclude any settlement in Zharbach's location.  Shrug.  I intend to keep with the hex generator, in any case.

Here's the next piece to the east, before mapping:

The coastlines are my favourite.  Their nature produces such dicontinuity in the hex generator and a textual feeling of the land and sea's contact.  Each little village offers its own story of what things are unloaded there, what contacts it has with other villages or docks, with the vision of multiple boats driving back and forth between one shore and another.  Fires my imagination.

I'll continue east tomorrow.