This is the view I gave Jennifer (the artist) for the background of the Yelm’s Footstool picture. Lots of information there!
And here’s the explanation of the letters:
Lunar Heartlands from Raibanth
Our perspective is looking north from Raibanth. We can see beyond the city of Raibanth endless flat fields of wheat and corn, like you’d see in Kansas or Nebraska or the Ukraine, something like:
The air above the fields shimmer with the summer heat (also meaning that we can’t see forever, because there is dust and heat in the air). However, a few important features need to be pointed out, since they are NOT like Kansas.
A. Oslir River: This is the mightiest river in Glorantha. Think the Mississippi or Missouri rivers. Something like:
or
The river is blueish-brown with silt, with golden glints from the sun. There is lots of river traffic. Let’s save ourselves a lot of work and only show the river north of the city – otherwise it is probably too much work.
B. Gods Wall: This sheer rock cliff (about 35 meters high) runs for over 30 km parallel to the Oslir River (around 3 or 4 km west of the river). At the point marked with a dot has been carved the Gods Wall, an ancient stone bas-relief about 30 m long and 75m wide (similar to the Behistun Inscription in Iran but twice as tall and three times as long):
C. The Crater: This immense wall of rock rises 2 to 3 miles high. This is where the Red Moon was torn out of the earth to be placed in the sky. It is sheer rock and impossible to climb. Its upper reaches are jagged and resemble a crown. The Red Moon is directly above the Crater (but can’t be seen in this picture).
D. Glamour: The capital of the Lunar Empire, this metropolis is some 100,000 people, and sits on the south-east side of the Crater. It is walled by a semi-circle, with its rear being the Crater walls (the attached picture Glamour.jpg shows the semi-circle, but the Crater walls are WAAAAAAY too small in the picture, and certain buildings are WAAAAY to big). It is too distant to make out any details except that there is a gleaming arch of silver rising from the center of the city to the rim of the Crater.
E. Yuthuppa: Way in the north is another metropolis of about 30,000 people. This city is golden in appearance from this distance, if we can even see it at all.
