The Mud Map

Draw this world

Artwork from readers of Ashfall, and the reference anyone needs to draw something that looks like it belongs here.

Canon plates

The reference set — the chart, the cast, the places. Published before submissions open, so there is something to draw from rather than a blank page to guess at.

Start with the chart — The Umber · The Scatter

Reader gallery

Not open yet.

Submissions open once the canon plates are up. The first pieces in a gallery set the look of every piece after them, so this one opens with references rather than without.

Draw any of these

The canon roster, straight from the story bible — 19 creatures and 19 plants. Pick one when you submit and your piece files itself under that entry, so anyone curious about a stiltjaw can see every stiltjaw anyone has drawn.

Fauna

  • Stiltjaw the apex ambusher Altipredator
  • Tarwader the seep scavenger Bituminctus
  • Chitterflock · chitters the small terror Voliteswarm
  • Bellowing · fen-bulls the fen herd Paludibos
  • Glasswings the pollinators Vitripenna
  • Nettle-drift the water hazard Cnidonatans
  • Rockback · sillscuttle the upland fat-crab Saxidorsum
  • Bog-leech · mireworm the fen bloodsucker Sanguisuga paludis
  • Reach-strider · windskater the grass runner Gracilipes
  • Sink-lurker · tar-jaw the flats ambusher Bituminsidior
  • Glimmer-gnat · sparkmidge the light swarm Scintillula
  • Stone-tick · cling-mite the burrowing pest Cutivorax
  • Wraithwing · nightglider the silent hunter Solavolans
  • Ashmoth · marrow-moth the fire-drawn flyer Pyrophaena
  • Fen-eel · silt-serpent the channel swimmer Anguilimus
  • Vergecrab · tide-walker the tidal bounty Lunapagurus
  • Floodmoth · the shimmer the spring hatch Vernavolans
  • Murrow the maybe-milk browser no true name yet
  • Sailer · dragon the apex flyer Velivolans

Flora

  • Blackwood the dark-canopy trees Melanofolium spp.
  • Clutch-lily the carnivorous snare Voracanthus
  • Emberthorn the fire-bush Rubrospina
  • Chokevine the strangler Cruorvitis
  • Gloamberry the sweet-looking poison Cyanobacca
  • Quillgrass the plains cover Aciculaherba
  • Weepwillow · Sweetweep a convergent exception Dulcirrhiza
  • Mudroot the marginal safe starch Pallidotuber
  • Lantern-cap the night fungus Bioluminis
  • Rimeberry the frost-sweetened berry Gelupruna
  • Tallow-nut the fat kernel Sebonux
  • Cindergrass · ashgrain the wild grain Cinerosativa
  • Glasswort the salt succulent Halophyta
  • Cleftmoss · bloodmoss the wound moss Vulnomuscus
  • Weepwater cup · cistern-lily the water plant Aquacaptus
  • Huskgourd the empty belly-filler Vacuicucumis
  • Sporecap · ghostpuff the choke fungus Pulverboletus
  • Ironroot · lodestone-creeper the prospector's plant Ferrivinca
  • Nightbloom · moonthroat the Verge flower Noctiflora

The brief

  • Anything goes except passing off someone else's work. Traced, AI-laundered, or reposted art gets declined — not because it is bad, but because the credit line has to be true.
  • You keep your copyright. Submitting grants permission to show the piece here with your name on it, and you can withdraw it whenever you like.
  • Under 16 needs a guardian's say-so. There is a consent step on the form, and a guardian can pull a piece at any time.
  • Everything is read by a person before it appears. Nothing goes up automatically.

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