I'm in on this one... my first map battle xD
This map was inspired by the edge chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell.
wikipedia wrote:The final part of the Edge is the Stone Gardens, at the very eastern area of the Edge. The Gardens are where buoyant rocks slowly "grow" from the surface, and eventually float away into the sky. The Garden is guarded by the white ravens, which keep an eye on the cultivation of the strange stones. These stones are used to build great flying boats known as sky-ships; without the stones, transport on the Edge would be a very limited affair. Later in the series, the Stone Gardens are infected with "stone-sickness" - a degenerative disease that brought to an end the "First Age of Flight", (some believed that it occurred because Cloud Wolf had some how infected the Mother Storm) which in turn brought about many other changes to the Edge.
wikipedia wrote:Sanctaphrax is replaced by New Sanctaphrax, a second giant rock, which in later books has given in to stone sickness, causing it to sink and almost rot away. It was supported by a forest of support beams, maintained by thousands of slaves. Its only building, as too many buildings could fall off the gradually crumbling rock, is the Tower of Night, originally intended by Vox and Amberfuce to be for everyone, but the sinister Guardians of night used it as their headquarters instead.
The Sanctaphrax Forest the enormous ongoing construction of support beams that holds up New Sanctaphrax. The Forest is inhabited by many dangerous creatures.
In case you haven't figured, my juxtapose is between nature and mankind: Nature, pushing the rock down, man: keeping the rock aloft.
EDIT:
I no longer know how to put images in my post, so click the links for the images.
A few pics of my work so far:
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii10 ... se0000.jpg^part of my map (side view #1)
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii10 ... se0001.jpg^side view #2 (darker shot)
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii10 ... se0003.jpg^showing the underside of my "floating rock"