The first topic I want to talk about in my world building series(?) is the map itself. The very first thing would be creation, but that one I am still working on. With saying this it's obvious I won't go in order of what I posted in my main post, but more in a "Today I feel like working on XYZ" if you get what I mean. I wanna keep the fun in this afterall and not get tired of it. I may or may not go back to older posts in the series along the road and update them with more info, who knows.

Either way, what I CAN say about the creation is that someone created a big dimension for one reason or another, then abandoned it(for yet again unknown reasons, this all be revealed over time in the story what exactly happened) and ultimately returning, creating land and such for people to live on. Some where even created by that someone, others fell into the dimension by accident while others purposely came here.

Continents

I played around with an online map generating tool until I found some shapes I did like. Of course I can just make em up completely but during that time I honestly didn't feel inspired at all and just clicked around it for the hell of it to be honest.
In the end I decided on 3 main continents, one of which is cut of from the other two, making it some sort of uncharted lands in the beginning of the story. My previous idea was just to go with earth's map but I somehow felt like it didn't give me enough freedom and thusly I decided that there's connection points(portals, if you will) that can be accessed by certain individuals in certain ways. Some were actually made by the creator while others are more of an illegal "hack" to forcefully enter that world.

Biomes

Obviously I am no Geography expert, but that won't stop me from creating maps and such, haha. Surely, Biomes depend on where on the map things are placed but in my case this all is a magical dimension created by someone else, not simply the earth. So I can play around with things like the biomes a bit more.

With this said, there are the following biomes: tundra, shore, upland, deep forest, badlands, mountain and peak, fog desert, vulcanic, wetland, meadow, rainforest, boreal forest and muskeg. I know that  "upland" is more of a general term but I am going with it to refer to as the typical term the people use for habitable land that is above water level but below things like mountains and such.  There are more things planned for the currently not known third continent that I will talk about another time. That continent has a bit more of a whacky biome structure for reasons that I won't tell yet.

Countries

On the know two continents are a total of 18 countries. This might sound like not a lot but the history of how people migrated and moved is a bit different here. Because of the nature of how this world was created things differ greatly from country to country. Some can be quite advanced while others are more in tune with nature and do not use highly advanced technology. As I am not done with my map yet there will probably be a more detailed post about the countries on a later time. 

I decided that there will be a veriety of constitutional forms such as monarchies, one-party states, presidential, dictatorship etc. Well, that's what I have for now! It may not be a lot but it's the groundwork for the beginning so I can go into details more a bit later.