Ashtagon’s Precataclysmic Mystara Map A
This Orthographic Projection map of Precataclysmic Mystara was part of Emma’s thread trying to track the movements of humanoid populations through history. She explained in her post at The Piazza:
This map probably shows my concept …
Most humanoids remain at Urzud, their original homeland. One branch (Wogar’s ancestors) migrate to the northern edge of New Blackmoor.
She used G.Projector to re-project the Hollow World Set’s Precataclysmic map, then marked on three important locations of the period: Blackmoor, Urzud, and the New Blackmoor Colony in what would later become the Known World area.
This led to a whole series of precataclysmic maps, which she started off by reposting this map in the Geographical Mapping subforum. There, she went into a lot more detail:
I’ve been playing around with rotating various maps of Mystara, in order to find the old north pole. I’m working with the theory that the old north pole was located in what is now the Sylvan Realm. This gives Ilsundal a specific reason to choose that site, as it could logically has magical energies left over from when the Immortals filled in the old polar hole to the Hollow World.
The downside to this position is that it makes the Borean Valley somewhere between on and inside the Arctic Circle, which is entirely too cold to be a reasonable place for Hel to have placed the beastmen. I’m assuming here that the intent is that the Borea be a river with actual moving water, not just a glacial valley. The logical fix would be to make the north pole about 5-10° off the coast instead of having it sited on the Sylvan-Realm-to-be.
The problem of where to locate the precataclysmic North Pole remains a source of many problems for Mystara fans.
Fan-made Map by Emma Rome (January 2022)
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
- Hollow World Campaign Set (1990) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Fan Sources
- Early humanoid migrations discussion thread at The Piazza (January 2022)
- Pre-cataclysm Mystara discussion thread at The Piazza (January 2022)
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 January 2022. 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 2022.
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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