Here's the current version of
Yantas:
The dark blue and blue-grey areas mark out the areas of the ocean greater than 500m below sea level while the light blue areas are the regions of water that lie above 500m below sea level. The green areas then mark basically all the major land masses on the continental plates above sea level with the dark brown lines indicating where mountain ranges resulting from current convergent boundaries would exist.
So far the map is missing anything in the way of greater detail referring to the varying height of the continents, any indication of islands or island chains resulting from subduction zones, but I thought it might be nice to finally give some surface character to
Yantas, rather than just looking at what lies under the surface
We now have the continents of
Sirden,
Mistaya,
Hungas and
Velkasta, formed upon what were originally plate J, the continental plate carved out of plate H and plates B and L respectively.
Arenda is more complex, emerging from the collision of plates F, D and E.
We then also have the four oceans, the
Central Ocean (formally Plate G), the
Eastern Ocean (Plate K and the "eastern" portion of plate H), the
Western Ocean (the "western" half of Plate H) and the
Northern Ocean (Plate A). There are then the
Southern Sea, covering the deeper areas of Plate L, and the Northern Strait, covering the deeper regions of Plate E.
The Northern Ocean and the Western Ocean will likely be divided by a volcanic island chain curving off from
Mistaya slightly north of the equator while the division between the Western, Eastern and Central oceans are largely arbitrary at the current time, although, as you may have gathered, the distinction between "east" and "west" has been drawn around
Sirden.
However, it looks like two island chains will form along the old H-K boundary, so there is a chance that I might rename the Central and Eastern oceans, possibly to the Eastern and Southern oceans (if I do that, I'll likely get rid of the Southern Sea as a term and merge it into the Southern Ocean). This then means that all four of the world's oceans are divided by more visual means in the form of either intermediate continents or island groups, which is a bit neater I think.
Either way, here's a world with some names
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