Ok so I had a little play around with this idea.
My initial concern when I saw Gad's map was that I initially believed pixel wise that the map he was proposing and the map I presently update were the same in terms of size (approx 1500x1500 pixels) this meant I thought what he'd done was shrink the continents down however:
That is a full size base of the current map against a shrunk down version of Gad's proposal, this made things easier from my point of view in terms of practicality because it would mean for me as cartographer that the continent sizes and therefore territory sizes if we retain the plot system for claims much easier but I do believe that that is a separate discussion we need to have.
Now when I applied the full scale Gad background to my full scale base I got the following:
What's Different?1) I have distanced Albion further east on this map - it could go to the west of Ardia but given what I say below there are reasons not to do this.
2) Ardia has been distanced slightly from Aranye but the continent has been angled (by moving the horn clockwise) to maintain the positions of the Illumic and the Mhorish as there are canon reasons for that MICA, COIN etc. This therefore lessens the impact of the distancing
I have kept the distances between Aranye and Alba Karinya the same for canon purposes again.
What do the circles mean?I would suggest a small continent about the size of Alba Karinya go in the red circle and that we dot island chains along the lines of Foxtrove in the green ones.