Ashtagon’s HWR1 The Azcan Empire, 8 miles per hex v2
In September 2026, Emma posted an art update to DeviantArt for her Azcan Empire map from three years before. She explained the changes as follows:
The two main changes from the v1 map are a) I changed the roads, trails, and sea routes to follow gentle curves rather than straight lines, and b) I redid the hex art for the jungle (including light jungle and hills with jungle). The background colour for the jungle hexes remains the same, but the symbol is very slightly darker. This change in brightness is enough to make the symbol look much clearer. I finally have a jungle symbol I am happy with.
This was a natural expansion of her previous changes to the hex art symbols. She had tweaked her jungle art multiple times over the course of various maps, including her first Azcan Empire map, various Patera maps, as well as Savage Coast and Shahjapur. The latter two even had a quite radical shift in palette to match the colours used in X9’s map. With this map, as she noted, she had at last landed on a satisfying mix of jungle symbols and colours to go with her expanded forest symbols.
The new style and art tweaks — including white border instead of black — all come together to make this a nice upgrade from the previous version. Thanks, Emma!
Fan-made Map by Emma Rome (September 2026)
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)
- Ashtagon’s HWR1 The Azcan Empire, 8 miles per hex (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 September 2026. 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 2026.
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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