Dunno if this topic has already been discussed before, but I found this picture claiming to be an old map of Cairn on a Grim Dawn wiki:
Was this how the game looked during pre-Alpha/Alpha playtesting? If this is real, what was the design philosophy for the game at the time? The map makes it look like the game was going to have a single hub similar to D2 in the form of Devils Crossing.
Are any of those old maps still rattling around on a hard drive somewhere? I think it would be cool to look at how Cairn evolved from its early design concepts into what it is today.