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Cardophil Straits

Hello again! This is a completely fictional map in a fictional region and takes inspiration from a bunch of real-life places. It is a pretty small map in-terms of build space and is only meant for small-medium scaled cities,

This is also an upgrade as you build kinda map, so as you progress through your city, you would upgrade the current highways and make use of the other rail and road access by connecting bridges. Or you could do these when you start the map, whichever works for you.

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41% Building Area, although the actual buildable space on the main island is much smaller. You’d be able to fit a decently sized city within, but don’t expect to build a massive metropolis.
There are ore, oil and farming resources, although they are primarily used for painting/detailing.

Around 263,000 trees used (just above the tree limit). Thus, Tree control is required.
Forest Brush:

• Coconut tree (vanilla)
  
• Palm tree
  
• LP tree set
  
• Semi bare tree (green)
  
• Rainforest cluster (1-5)
  

• Highway - 3 connections
  
• Rail - 1 connections
  
• Ship - 4 connections
  
• Plane - 4 connections

Road and rail connections from the west do not reach the main island and are meant for the player to connect them.

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• All the assets and mods used to create this map and are pretty much essential. So do subscribe to the collections above.
  
• Highways and roads have markings on them. If you don’t subscribe to Intersection marking tool mod, they won't show up.
  
• I also highly recommend the 81 tiles 2 mod to be able to access the entire map. I have made it playable within 25 tiles, although a bit limiting

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Theme – Custom theme mix
LUT – Realistic_Final by Reaper + Relight settings provided in theme mix screenshot.
Render it – Settings in Theme mix collection.
I have also used Hide it! (to hide Shore effects) and Cubemap replacer for the above screenshots.
Cubemaps – Sunflowers and Cloud Layers

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Nestled in one of the most geopolitically advantageous places on the continent of Terrath, the Cardophil Straights are the chokepoint between the inland Sapphire Sea, where a number of Khincshas, Feronese, Andlian, and Odreshi ports are located, and the greater Seris Ocean, the largest in the world. It is here where the second largest city in Odresh is located, the Sapphire Jewel, Auckton.

Geography

Around 380 million years ago, a small continental fragment crashed into the Eastern Terrath plate, forming much of the southern Odreshi plain and creating the Cardophil Mountains. However, this cut off what, at the time, was a large bay. The orogeny that created the Cardophil Mountains turned the primordial Sapphire Sea into an endorheic basin with a massive catchment area. As a result, the water level of the Sapphire Sea began to rise, and eventually overtopped the Cardophils. With time, the mountains were eroded down and a number of channels were carved connecting the Sapphire Sea and Seris Ocean.

Within the Cardophils are a number of coastal plains and valleys where sediment has been deposited over millions of years to create valuable space to develop cities. Auckton Island features one of the largest, where sediment has largely filled in an ancient channel where water used to rush out of the Sapphire Sea. As a result of the continuous deposition, the Cardophil Straights (and the smaller Auckton Straights) are rich with hydrocarbons and minerals, ready to be exploited.

History

The Cardophil Straights are one of the most geopolitically advantageous locations on the continent of Terrath. It acts as a bridge between East and West Terrath. The second largest continent in the world, Terrath is home to both the Unified Provinces of Andlia and the People's Council of Khincshas, both extremely powerful nations, along with a number of other, smaller nations. The Cardophil Straights themselves were discovered by Terlan states in 399 AL (Ante Laurentium) by Frostockian explorer Aethelbert Cardophil, who explored much of southern Terrath.

As the Frostock Empire grew, it sought control over the Cardophil Straights. With the explosion in population after the Draconian Wars, Frostock Colonies in Terrath boomed as citizens flocked to leave the overcrowded home isles. To keep control over its burgeoning colonies, a citadel was founded in 19 PD (Post Dracones) on Auckton Island (named for colonial governor James Auckton), in order to guard over the Cardophil Straights and the smaller Auckton Straights. While smaller villages existed in the area before, communites around the citadel grew larger and larger as merchants on their way to and from the Sapphire Sea stopped over to restock on provisions and sell their wares.

After the Terrath Spring in 213 PD, Auckton was left to the Andlians to administer in their newly created nation. However, Odresh asserted its naval dominance over the region and routed the Andlians and their much smaller fleet, laying a naval seige to Auckton Island. Since then, Auckton Island and many of the islands in the Cardophil Straight have been administered by Odresh, and the two nations have rekindled relations as brotherly post-Frostock countries.

In the modern day, Auckton is the richest city in Odresh, though only the second largest in population. With a massive port servicing thousands of ships every year, and the only border crossing by land into Andlia, Auckton is a jewel in Odresh's crown.

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Thanks to all the assets creators and modders for their works used in this map.
This map was requested and commissioned by Cortwade.

Let me know of your thoughts on this map and if there are any issues. Lastly don’t forget to like it ;)

Thanks everyone.

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