Well, thanks very much for the proposal Volkmar. Your proposal is pretty close to the original concept for Gods of the North, but because I felt it seemed a bit lonely (and I agree it needed a bit more water) I decided to include a few more factions and a bigger space, since the mod's been progressing a little faster than expected. I've been using Vincent Darlage's fantastic work to build a new and (hopefully) more accurate map, where the Zaporoska River's in the right place and Stygia's a more reasonable size.

Here's the new map for GotN (sans names, settlements and other bits):



As you can see there are a heapload more factions: Zingara, Argos, Koth, Pelishtia, Stygia, Zamora, the Zuagir and Turan all get in the map now. Only a portion of Stygia and Turan's empires are on the map, but since there's no-one to really challenge Stygia from the south and the east is so vast not much is lost.

The new map for The Dreaming West:



This adds Kush, Tombalku, Iranistan, Keshan, Zembabwei, Ghulistan and Vendhya. This allows players to have some fun exploring the Black Kingdoms and a bit of the East, plus it shows the whole extent of Stygia and Turan. This is probably the "ideal" Hyborian Age map, as it shows the most major kingdoms of the saga in the most efficient way, without having too much or too little free territory for expansion. I might cut out Keshan and Zembabwei and leave them for the next mod so Kush/Tombalku/Iranistan doesn't explode into a vast southern empire.

The new map for Jewelled Thrones of the Earth:



This adds Kosala, Khitai and the Hyrkanians. In the first two mods the Hyrkanians will be a horde in the corner of the map so that they can be playable, but this "Hyrkanian Empire" is based on studies by Howardian Scholars (or just bored folk with too much time, heh). There's a pretty big expanse north of Hyrkania, which I'm still not entirely sure what to do with, but I'll think of something.