Crusade world map: routes, nodes and army pawns on the parchment

About this game

Developer: Owlcat Games · Publisher: META Publishing, Owlcat Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

Wrath of the Righteous runs two games at once, a party RPG and a crusade, and this parchment is the crusade's whole board. It refuses every convention of the strategy map: no grid, no panel, no chrome in frame, just a war-table map where movement is a dashed line you can trace with a finger and armies are pieces you could pick up. The design work is in the vocabulary of marks. Nodes are gold rings, routes are dashes, the one route that matters right now goes solid and changes colour as it crosses the yellow front line, and ignorance is given a symbol of its own, the lit '?', instead of being left as blank parchment. Territory is a tint and a border, not a tooltip. The trailer stages the shot as a candlelit table map and zooms into the surface, so no HUD surrounds it; what is being studied here is the map itself, which in play is the screen the crusade is actually commanded from. Frame at about 0:59 in the Enhanced Edition Release trailer (Steam; manual extraction, the map is a single held zoom inside a cinematic trailer, so the scene-change pass never fired on it).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

map-nodes route-planning world-map

Components

Parts on screen.

Banner Chart Map

Screen inventory

• the region name is engraved in the parchment itself, 'THE LAKE LOST TO THE SUN' lettered across the purple northern wastes, geography is labelled in the map's own hand, not in a UI font laid over it
• travel is drawn as a graph: black dashed routes link gold-ring location nodes across both territories, and the selected army's planned path is drawn solid, shifting from gold to purple as it crosses into enemy ground, the route, not just the destination, carries the state
• a glowing '?' medallion sits on the western route where a location is still undiscovered: unknown places get their own token, so the map displays what the player does not know yet, not only what they do
• armies and strongholds are physical pawns stood on the parchment: a green banner pawn mid-route on the solid path, a blue mounted pawn on a dashed route below it, small green tower pieces for forts, and one large glowing fortress piece anchoring the south-east
• a single thick yellow border divides the tan crusader-held south from the purple demon-held north, the front line is one painted line, readable at a glance before any node is read

Top 3 colors

#534034 19%#473138 18%#31212a 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Owlcat Games / META Publishing, Owlcat Games, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous screenshot: Enhanced Edition Release trailer (Steam), Owlcat Games / META Publishing, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by META Publishing, Owlcat Games.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-25. verified 2026-10-25: manual extraction manual-map-59.png @ ~59s in the Enhanced Edition Release trailer, MD5 0880e20552d00e2ff701a57e7190f771, from the pipeline's Steam HLS stream-copy download (88,284,461 B, MD5 d89c2e6787fe7c6788b58ba78782b54b; the fetch log shows intermittent HLS segment errors through the proxy, but the file probed at 119.27s and this frame decoded clean), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the 'THE LAKE LOST TO THE SUN' lettering, dashed routes, gold-ring nodes, the '?' marker, the green and blue pawns, the fortress pieces and the yellow border all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame; disclosed: no HUD chrome is visible, the trailer zooms into the map surface itself, and the map is the subject

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