The Mud Map

Draw this world

Artwork from readers of Book Two, 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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