Written By Annie S.
The Mwangi Expanse—a vast jungle continent of independent city-states, ancient ruins, and cultures forged through centuries of isolation—is one of Golarion’s most iconic regions. From the canals of Nantambu to the golden vaults beneath Osibu, it’s a land that rewards exploration with equal parts danger and discovery.
Here are our top battlemap picks for ten locations across the Expanse, plus a few general Mwangi wilderness maps for when your party is on the move across the dense canopy.
1. Nantambu — Hanging Gardens
Known as the Song-Wind City, Nantambu is built around canals and guarded by the Magaambya, the oldest arcane academy in the Inner Sea region—an institution so powerful that the city needs no walls at all.
This Hanging Gardens map is a stunner with its gold-lined stonework, cascading fountains, and terraced greenery—all practically glowing with old magic, making it a great pick for a breathtaking first look at Nantambu for a party just arriving.
2. Osibu — Dwarven Volcano Entrance (Gold)
Hidden deep in the Screaming Jungle, Osibu is a utopian city paved in gold, guarded by druidic magic and a geas that compels visitors to secrecy once they leave.
The aptly named Gold variant of this Dwarven Volcano Entrance map’s dramatic scale and spectacle, with its tiered golden platforms and a waterfall of molten gold pouring straight out of the cliffside, makes for an unforgettable reveal for the moment your party finally locates the golden city.
3. Ruins of Kho — Ancient Tech Treasury
The first Shory flying city to take to the air, Kho was also the first to fall—swatted from the sky by the Tarrasque long ago. Its ruins still hum with old magic, drawing treasure hunters to brave the morlocks now living in the wreckage.
This Ancient Tech Treasury map is a fantasy payoff room for a climactic discovery at the heart of Kho, whether that turns out to be a puzzle to solve, a guardian to face, or forbidden knowledge from the archives of Shory magic.
This map comes with an animated illustrated scene that brings the ancient ruin’s lingering magic to life.
4. Bloodcove — Secret Sailor Lair
Bloodcove has only gotten more and more dangerous as its ill-gotten wealth piles up, with the Aspis Consortium and Free Captains locked in a constant struggle for control—which they’re making everyone’s problem.
This Secret Sailor Lair map hides supplies and stocked ships inside a covered warehouse, and is perfect for a smuggler’s meet-up gone sideways, or a moment where your party finally tracks a faction’s hidden supply line back to its source.
This map also comes with an animated illustrated scene that captures the full scale of the hidden lair as your players stumble upon it.
5. Senghor — Templar Sea Fort
Senghor’s defensive fortifications and dozens of navy ships have long kept pirates from reaching the city proper, protecting one of Mwangi’s few remaining safe trade hubs and home to its powerful navy.
This Templar Sea Fort map paints the picture of exactly the kind of outpost that keeps Free Captain raiders at bay, with walled courtyards and mounted cannons—a great setting for a tense council with Senghor’s leadership, or a defence mission against a full-on assault from pirates.
6. Sodden Lands — Smuggler’s Fen
When the hurricane called the Eye of Abendego formed after Aroden’s death, it drowned Lirgen and Yamasa beneath it, creating the lawless, storm-wracked swamp now known as the Sodden Lands.
This Smuggler’s Fen map captures the feel of a melancholy, half-drowned settlement, with its half-collapsed buildings sinking deeper into the overgrowth. It’s a great fit for the survivalist scavenger gangs described living in the Sodden Lands—use it as one of their camps, or a ruin they’re in the middle of picking clean.
This map also comes with an animated illustrated scene that really brings the region’s storm-swept desolation to life.
7. Mwangi Jungle — Jungle Village
The Mwangi Expanse holds countless smaller communities beyond its named cities, some cut off from the wider region for centuries.
This Jungle Village map is a lovely, lived-in slice of that world, with its small boats and fish baskets bobbing along a lazy river where a community has made their home. This is a great map for a peaceful rest stop as your players explore the jungle, and a place they’ll want to protect if trouble ever finds its way downriver.
This map also comes with an animated illustrated scene that captures the village’s peaceful, communal rhythm.
8. Mwangi Jungle — Jungle Temple Entrance (Original Closed Day)
Like any good fantasy jungle, the Mwangi Expanse is also scattered with buried ruins, and shrines swallowed whole by the jungle, most unnamed and undocumented even by the region’s own scholars.
This Jungle Temple Entrance map is a great moody and atmospheric pick for one of them—its doors are tightly sealed for now, but the altar out front hints at rituals, sacrifices, or a puzzle waiting to be solved.
This map also comes with an animated illustrated scene that paints a beautiful picture of the jungle ruin’s eerie stillness.
9. Mwangi Jungle — Jungle Treasure Trove
The Mwangi Expanse holds countless secrets beyond its named ruins and cities—scattered stashes and hidden treasures that have largely gone undocumented, tucked away by nature or whoever left them behind.
This Jungle Treasure Trove map offers a tempting find for the discerning player: piles of glittering coins and a large treasure chest glinting in a quiet jungle pool. But a stash this exposed rarely stays unclaimed for long in the Mwangi—so smart players might want to think twice before reaching in.
This map also comes with an animated illustrated scene that makes the hidden trove nearly impossible for a curious player to resist.
10. Mwangi Jungle — Jungle Lava Flow (River)
Not all of the Mwangi’s dangers come from beasts and factions—sometimes, the land itself can be the threat. Between its dense canopy, hidden waterways, and unstable ground, simply getting from one place to another can be its own kind of encounter.
This Jungle Lava Flow map winds a river and rope bridge through dense, rocky jungle terrain, making for a great fit for an ambush mid-crossing, or a tense negotiation with whoever has made a camp all the way out here.
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The Czepeku Fantasy Maps library includes over 8,000 battlemaps, each with multiple variations for weather, seasons, time of day, and environmental effects.
If you’re searching for more maps to bring the Mwangi Expanse to life, give these tags a try: jungle, ruin, forest, shore, and swamp.
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