Ashtagon’s GAZ8 The Five Shires, 8 miles per hex
From the Valley of Wolves, Emma next chose the tranquil land of the Five Shires. GAZ8’s map was a very dense piece of work, posting somewhat of a challenge to cartographers — including the original cartographers, I’m sure — to fit everything in.
Emma wasn’t quite done with tweaking her palette:
I decided to change my seas to a slightly darker blue compared to previous maps, in order to make it more easy to distinguish from the basic green land colour (to help with colour-blindness; the two were almost the exact same luminosity). I’m not sure I’ll stick with this exact blue though. Likewise, the river colour is not yet set in stone.
The results speak for themselves.
Fan-made Map by Emma Rome (October 2023)
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
- GAZ8 The Five Shires (1988) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Fan Sources
- Musings on Map Symbols discussion thread at The Piazza (February 2022)
- GAZ8: The Five Shires discussion thread at The Piazza (October 2023)
References
- All of Emma’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
- Emma’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara (upcoming)
- Emma’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius
Chronological Analysis
This is a fan-made map. It was published in October 2023. 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 2023.
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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