A Hex a Week: Week 1

With 2023 coming to a close, I've decided to start a new project in the vein of Dungeon23, to make up for never finishing my megadungeon, the Pythion of the Mad Oracle. In 2024 and the last bits of this year, I plan to work up a wilderness setting at a pace of one hex per week. Generally, I will try to write and draw a page related to the week's hex each day, but busy weeks will mean sparse hexes sometimes, and inspired weeks will result in the opposite.

The setting I'll be working on is going to be the Spanish Pyrenees, sometime in the Early Modern period but with plenty of anachronisms making it impossible to really place between the late 16th and early 19th centuries. I'm going for a tone inspired by Spanish Picaresques and, probably to a greater extent, their derivative works, so the Appendix N for this project includes things like Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, the Saragossa Manuscript directed by Wojciech Has, and Puss in Boots, to name the three that are having the biggest influence on me.

Here are the pages of the first week's Hex: