Daggerheart Battlemaps for Journey to Horizon

Written by Annie S.

Journey to Horizon is a Daggerheart campaign frame that sends players across New Valloren, a continent transformed by a thousand years of magical catastrophe. Tasked with gathering the scattered Soul Echoes of the goddess Aurelia, the party must travel between isolated sanctuaries, ancient ruins, and strange new environments on a pilgrimage toward the distant Cliffs of Horizon.

Unlike some of Daggerheart’s other campaign frames, Journey to Horizon leaves much of its world unmapped. Exploration is a core pillar, and the book encourages GMs to fill New Valloren with wildly different biomes, natural wonders, and mysterious remnants. As such, this list below brings together some of the frame’s named and suggested locations, along with a few of our favorite ideas for filling in the unknown spaces in between.

1. Shrine of Aurelia (Marrogate) — Candlestair Shrine

Top-down battlemap of a beautiful pale stone shrine nestled among dense green foliage. Symmetrical stone staircases and terraces lead through an open courtyard and between two turquoise fountains, as warm golden sunlight illuminates the carved stonework.

The campaign begins in Marrogate, where High Priestess Saraya Rinn discovers the first Soul Echo while praying at the sanctuary. When her planned pilgrimage falls apart through betrayal, Saraya entrusts the Vessel to the party and sends them fleeing toward Cinteri.

The bright stone terraces and lush greenery of this Candlestair Shrine map make a fitting backdrop for a campaign centered on discovering the world’s strange beauty. With Aurelia’s magic and the resurgence of terrana transforming the natural world, all this greenery also feels right at home.

Top-down battlemap of a beautiful white stone shrine amid dense foliage. An immense wave of shadow has begun to overtake the structure, with creeping black tendrils crawling across its stonework and courtyard. The lighting is dim and ominous.

There’s also a shadow-covered version of the map if you want Tolren’s betrayal to have left a darker mark on the shrine itself. While Marrogate doesn’t canonically fall to shadowblight in the frame, the campaign’s escalating threats can cause sanctuaries to fall as the journey continues.

To that end, many of the map packs below also include shadowed, bloodied, or ruined variants, giving you an easy way to visually raise the stakes as the adventure progresses.

2. Cinteri — Celestial Chapel

Top-down battlemap of a dark-roofed chapel set beside a winding, fast-flowing river amidst a dense green forest. A stone path leads over the river towards the building, crossing over a small rocky islet. Several crates and a small garden sit outside the chapel.

Before the party escapes Marrogate, Saraya tells them to seek out Abbot Kensington in the nearby sanctuary of Cinteri. Whether they head straight there or take a “scenic” route to shake off their pursuers, Cinteri is one of the first major destinations of their journey.

The frame leaves Cinteri’s appearance open-ended, so this Celestial Chapel map makes for a lovely interpretation of the sanctuary. Tucked away among dense forest, it has a peaceful storybook feel that makes Cinteri a welcome place to catch your breath—while the chapel itself still looks suitably important for the first stop of the adventure.

Top-down battlemap of a large chapel interior. Labyrinthine dark-wood bookshelves line a gold-and-blue floor depicting a mosaic of a huge mountain. Lecterns and research tables ring a circular apse flanked by angel statues.

There’s also a detailed interior map version, with labyrinthine bookshelves, research tables, and mystical decor giving you plenty of space for the party’s arrival in Cinteri and whatever meeting or investigation follows.

3. Cliffs of Horizon / Aurelia’s Remains — Sacred Grove

A top-down battlemap of a massive ancient tree rising from a forest clearing. At the foot of its gnarled trunk is a small circular stone henge. Dense green foliage fills the clearing while a broad canopy of deep red leaves hangs overhead.

The party’s journey eventually leads to the Cliffs of Horizon, where Aurelia performed her final ritual and where her Soul Echoes must be brought together. The frame deliberately leaves the form of her remains up to the table, suggesting a twisting tree as one possibility.

This Sacred Grove map is an especially breathtaking interpretation of the location. The enormous ancient tree feels right at home in a campaign so closely tied to terrana and the natural world, while the stone henge tucked beneath its roots gives the party a striking final destination after crossing all of Valloren.

4. Cyntix — Overground Dwarven City Center

Top-down battlemap of a gold-trimmed stone city plaza with a giant anvil at its center. Small squat stone buildings are built into the hillsides encompassing the city center. A small river runs beside the plaza, powering a water wheel connected to an enormous glowing forge mechanism.

Cyntix is one of the sample sanctuaries in the frame, built above a seemingly inexhaustible vein of iron ore. Over generations, its people have become renowned blacksmiths and tinkerers, developing steam-powered technology and a minecart rail system around the thriving mining culture.

This Overground Dwarven City Center map fits Cyntix’s industrious character perfectly, with a huge anvil at the heart of the plaza and a nearby water wheel and glowing forge mechanism that make Cyntix truly feel like a city where metalworking shapes daily life.

5. Polwood — Gnome City Center

Top-down battlemap of a village composed entirely of houses built from huge mushrooms. Round mushroom-cap roofs in orange, pink, green, and yellow cluster along dirt paths, lit by bioluminescent fungi. In the village square is a mass of glowing green crystals.

Polwood, known as the Sleeping Sanctuary, survived the Long Sorrow through a rather unusual approach: a specially brewed herbal tea that puts its entire population into a trance-like sleep, leaving a single caretaker awake at a time.

The book doesn’t prescribe what Polwood looks like, giving you plenty of room to make the Sleeping Sanctuary your own. This Gnome City Center leans into the settlement’s herbal side, with enormous mushroom homes and glowing fungi that give Polwood a whimsical look in line with its strange brews.

6. Harthaven — Annis Hag Lair (Natural)

Top-down battlemap of a lair formed from colossal skeletal remains along a deep brown ravine. A gigantic skull with gaping jaws forms an entrance, while enormous ribs arc across the chasm before it. Dead leafless trees and tangled black branches cluster around the skull.

Harthaven is perhaps the strangest of the sample sanctuaries, encased within the colossal ribcage of a long-dead beast. Its inhabitants draw warmth from the life force still lingering within the bones, while bonewrights carve protective relics from within its marrow halls.

The natural variant of this Annis Hag Lair map is a wonderful match for this eerie premise. Its enormous ribs and gaping skull could depict a grand entrance to Harthaven, giving your travelers a sense of the impossible creature whose remains have sheltered an entire community for generations.

7. Emberhold — Underground Dwarven City Center

Top-down battlemap of a subterranean dwarven city hub. Heavy, geometric stone architecture and tiered staircases lead up to a large statue of a warlike dwarven figure. Around the statue and between walkways are canals of bright, molten lava.

Emberhold sits inside the caldera of a dormant volcano, where its forges never fully cooled throughout the Long Sorrow. Its people learned to channel that geothermal heat into radiant energy, powering the city from the fire beneath their feet.

This Underground Dwarven City Center map is a fantastic fit for that setup, with heavy stone architecture built directly around channels of molten lava. The glowing waterways and its monumental scale show how the whole city has grown around its unusual source of power.

Illustrated scene of a vast, underground city lit by canals of molten lava. Towering stone structures rise amidst waterfalls of lava cascading down from the cavern ceiling.

This map also comes with an animated illustrated scene for showing off the scale of the place, dropping the players among towering stone structures and lava falls.

8. New Valloren Sanctuary — Yggdrasil Village

Top-down battlemap of a lush village built around the mossy roots of an enormous tree. Wooden buildings with green roofs cluster along winding paths beneath the tree. Part of the settlement stretches along the shore of a turquoise lake, where boats and floating boardwalks rest on the water.

When Aurelia created the sanctuaries, colossal trees erupted around each shrine, growing high enough to touch the clouds before forming an impenetrable canopy. Their inner branches produced magical fruit and luminous flowers, providing the isolated communities with sunlight and rainwater throughout the Long Sorrow.

Yggdrasil Village isn’t a literal recreation of that ring of cloud-high trees, but its enormous roots and buildings tucked beneath the canopy make it a lovely interpretation of a sanctuary whose entire culture and architecture have blossomed under Aurelia’s miraculous growth.

9. Ruins of Old Valloren — Flooded Fey Ruins (Spirit)

Top-down battlemap of flooded stone ruins glowing with bright blue light at night. A stone bridge splits into three causeways, crossing the dark water towards a vine-covered entrance. Hundreds of small luminous motes and glowing fish float in the water, tracing the walkways.

The wilds of New Valloren are scattered with ruins left behind from before the Long Sorrow, some still holding ancient relics or haunted by lingering specters. With so much of the continent transformed beyond recognition, stumbling across one of these places can offer the travelers a rare glimpse of the world that existed a thousand years ago.

This spirit variant of the Flooded Fey Ruins is a hard map to beat at that sense of mystery and melancholy, with broken causeways disappearing into glowing water and strange will-o-wisps drifting through the darkness.

Illustrated scene of flooded stone ruins at night, viewed from across a causeway crossing dark water. Hooded statues and weathered stone walls tower over a red-leafed tree on a small central island, while several crimson orbs glow among the shadowy ruins in the background.

For a closer look at the ruins, this map also comes with an animated illustrated scene that offers a nighttime view of the looming statues and dark water.

10. Scars of the Long Sorrow — Shadow & Corruption Maps

Five top-down battlemaps shown together in a diagonal collage, each depicting a different environment under shadowy or heavily desaturated lighting. From left to right are a pale moorland crossed by ghostly gray water, a city divided from a dark astral void by a massive wall, a monumental East-Asian-inspired city gate and surrounding rooftops drained of color, an underwater marina beneath almost black water, and a small woodland cottage surrounded by a dark red haze.

Despite the return of terrana, the Long Sorrow left deep scars across New Valloren, ranging from abandoned fortifications inhabited by twisted beasts to sprawling marshes teeming with undead. As these scars can take so many different forms, filling the landscape with places that are strange and memorable is a great way to keep the frame’s iconic sense of wonder alive even when the journey takes a dark turn.

Since there’s no single look for these shadowblighted lands, try combining the Shadow, Darkness, Pollution, Sickness, and Ruin tags in the search bar to find lightless or blighted versions of all sorts of environments, letting you turn an otherwise warm or familiar map into an unsettling corner of Valloren.

Didn’t find what you were looking for?

These ten maps only scratch the surface of New Valloren. Much of Journey to Horizon is left uncharted for your table to discover, giving you plenty of freedom to fill the adventure with strange, impossible, and wonderful landscapes.

With more than 9,000 battlemaps and variants in the Czepeku Fantasy Maps library, there are plenty more places to explore. Try searching by the terrain you want your party to encounter next, or browse each map’s variants for different weather, lighting, or situations.

We’ve also put together a guide to help you navigate the collection if you want a more thorough walkthrough of how to get the most out of the library.

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