Nilnard, around Somolo

A very unself-evident title:

This is a rework of the city of Columbus, Ohio, as it might have been if the Mound Peoples culture had survived and supported by elves, who arrived in America before humans.  In other words, a totally fantasy rendering of the area.

A few considerations have to be given thought with the above.  While appearing like a European setting, the map above doesn't give details on what a stone road might look like, or how the houses might appear, or what a city layout might be.  The various villages and towns might very differently organised, with distinct living conditions and social designs.  The map alone is just a step towards building the world here.

I have a vision of houses that are scattered over large areas, between continuous vegetable gardens growing mostly tubers rather than grain crops; the high roads, those in darker red, could be discontinuous black-and-brownstone blocks, each made to perfectly fit with the next, like the example of walls found in Inca cultures.  They might have a gutter and a low stone wall that runs on one side, to collect water for crops dug alongside the road.  The whole social culture might be organised along communal lines, without the dependence on money for trade.  It's really up to us to decide what sort of lives these people lead.

So just because the map looks like it might come from a place in Europe with unfamiliar names, this could be utterly unlike the world we know.