Ramelin’s Sindh Desert, 8 miles per hex v1
This map — Jose’s first map of the Great Waste on its own — was mostly an excerpt of his previous Great Waste and Serpent Peninsula map. Its one major update was the addition of three archipelagoes south of the Great Waste, which he had added in a map the previous month. However, there were also a number of much more minor updates. For example, the Menket Tribe had previously been marked in two disparate locations: in the hills southeast of the Great Pass, and west of Baratkand in Sind. Jose removed the latter label, replacing it with a new label, the Akani Tribe. There were a number of other minor terrain tweaks, too.
The spelling change for the desert itself continued, with the map also now being labelled as the Sindh Desert — I can’t find any evidence of Jose calling it the Great Waste.
Finally, this framing somewhat ironically cropped out part of the nation of Sind. Jose would return to fix this in another version a few months later.
Fan-made Map by Jose Ignacio Ramos Lomelin (June 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)
- X5 Temple of Death (1983) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 16: Conspiracies within conspiracies, Dragon #169 (May 1991)
- The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 18: The Slagovich affair, Dragon #171 (July 1991)
- The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 19: Hule!, Dragon #172 (August 1991)
- Champions of Mystara (1993) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Fan Sources
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 June 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
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Hex Art & Fonts
- Hex Art — Ramelin Mystara standard.
- Fonts — Bell MT (major geographic and all water labels), Bell Centennial (all other labels), Feinen (titling).
Maps of the Great Waste, 8 miles per hex
