In the entire story of the RPG maker, I've never saw as awesome, detailed, with love, care and effort put in; huge, but heavily detailed map as yours.
I mean, I saw some amazing maps, but this is absolutely stunning and I totally love the improvements of our character sprites.
One of the reasons this map is amazing, is that there is actually 'life' in it - the combination of random characters with theme and environment is great.
if you're going to interpret the map - you can notice, that despite the differences, everyone works together - everyone has their role and personality. They are organized and you can actually see the battle between good and evil, even if there's no 'pure' battle happening on that map. Humans, animals and other random things are connected together - in one purpose - to fight for the right thing - for peace.
Okay, that was silly, but the map is amazing.
I love the shading and the magic 'particle', that happened to my character, the animations and additional effects happening on other characters and the 'missing' board.
Colorful, well made map. Great work!