Ashtagon’s HWR1 The Azcan Empire, 8 miles per hex
Emma continued through the HWR series after Milenia, next choosing to tackle Azca. As with her other maps, she mostly stuck to the original, but implementing her new symbol tweaks in the process. She first posted the map at The Piazza at the end of October 2023, commenting:
This is a near-replica copy of the map from HWR1: Sons of Azca. I have taken artistic licence to make some light forest and forested hills terrain into light jungle and jungle with hills tiles, and I have removed the eight-mile-long bridge going from the capital across the sea to the mainland. I’m not sure the Azcans have such advanced bridge-building technology.
There followed a discussion of the offending bridge, and she ended up restoring it in an update a few days later:
Uploaded a new version. I fixed a spelling mistake and restored that bridge-road-causeway thing to the capital.
Overall, this was a good map for showing off Emma’s jungle palette, and how it differed from her forest colours.
Fan-made Map by Emma Rome (November 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
- HWR1 Sons of Azca (1991) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Fan Sources
- Musings on Map Symbols discussion thread at The Piazza (February 2022)
- HWR1: Sons of Azca: map uploaded discussion thread at The Piazza (October-November 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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