Ramelin’s Great Waste and Serpent Peninsula, 8 miles per hex

This map was one of seven major regional maps that Jose shared to his DeviantArt gallery in March 2017. It was his first complete map of the area.

The Great Waste has always been a region that ties together other regions: the Known World, Hule, and the Savage Coast. But since it’s mostly a vast desert, it’s usually depicted as being rather empty — and as such has only rarely been mapped at 8 miles per hex.

Jose also left it pretty empty, although of course his shifting of Ylaruam to the area reduced the volume of empty lands somewhat. On the other hand, he did add some sporadic details throughout the area, including named nomadic tribes (which had always been present — “Master of the Desert Nomads” — but now at last gained some names), minor terrain variations, and some rather nice rift-style valleys. All of these things help break up the monotony of the Great Waste.

The rest of the map remains largely unchanged from the previous maps of those areas.

Perhaps due to the nature of the area, Jose has not made any more major revisions to the Great Waste since this map. He has however released a trimmed version of this map showing only the Great Waste, in which it received minor tweaks and corrections.

Fan-made Map by Jose Ignacio Ramos Lomelin (March 2017)

This is an original map created by one of Mystara’s excellent fan cartographers. For more information on the cartographer, including a gallery of all their maps, see also Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara.

Sources

• X4 Master of the Desert Nomads (1983) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Great Waste, 24 miles per hex
• X5 Temple of Death (1983) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Hule, 24 miles per hex
• The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 16: Conspiracies within conspiracies, Dragon #169 (May 1991)
  • Sind, 24 miles per hex
• The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 18: The Slagovich affair, Dragon #171 (July 1991)
  • Slagovich, 8 miles per hex
• The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 19: Hule!, Dragon #172 (August 1991)
  • Southern Hule, 8 miles per hex
• Champions of Mystara (1993) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Great Waste, 24 miles per hex
  • Serpent Peninsula, 24 miles per hex
  • Ulimwengu

Fan Sources

• Thibault’s Great Waste, 8 miles per hex (June 2004, July 2005)

References

• All of Jose’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
• Jose’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara (upcoming)
• Jose’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius

Chronological Analysis

This is a fan-made map. It was published in March 2017. The updated Atlas version of this map is not yet available. See also Appendix C for annual chronological snapshots of the area. For the full context of this map in Mystara’s publication history, see the upcoming Let’s Map Mystara 2017.

The following lists are from the Let’s Map Mystara project. Additions are new features, introduced in this map. Revisions are changes to previously-introduced features. Hex Art & Fonts track design elements. Finally, Textual Additions are potential features found in the related text. In most cases, the Atlas adopts these textual additions into updated and chronological maps.

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Additions

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Revisions

• Settlements —

Hex Art & Fonts

• Fonts — Bell MT (major geographic and all water labels), Bell Centennial (all other labels), Feinen (titling).
• Hex Art — Ramelin Mystara standard.

Maps of the Great Waste, 8 miles per hex

Maps of the Serpent Peninsula, 8 miles per hex