Chimpman’s Intua 2300 BC, 8 miles per hex v2
Intua was John Calvin’s name for the real-world Inca-themed culture living on and around the original, much smaller Atruaghin plateau. He first mapped it at the end of June 2010, starting a thread for it in the Geographical Mapping forum at The Piazza — as he usually did with his maps at that time. The first version is lost to us now, but this second version dates to just a few days later, implementing updates that arose from a conversation with Sheldon Morris and others.
The most interesting features of this area are surely the plateau itself, and the familiar terrain of what would one day be Darokin — Lake Amsorak here named Lake Amaruyaku, and with a very different shape. This kind of connection between the worlds, separated by over 3000 years, was one of the most fun things about John’s Mystara 2300 BC project.
Finally, this map seems to have been the first to include the proper logo for the project.
John would return to Intua for some very minor updates in 2013, but as of this writing it still hasn’t had any significant development beyond these maps.
Fan-made Map by John Calvin (July 2010)
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)
- GAZ14 The Atruaghin Clans (1991) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Fan Sources
- Outer World: Intua 2300 BC, 8 miles per hex discussion thread at The Piazza (June-July 2010)
- [Nation] Intua – Kingdom of the Sun discussion thread at The Piazza (July 2010-June 2012)
References
- All of John’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
- John’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara (upcoming)
- John’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius
Chronological Analysis
This is a fan-made map. It was published in July 2010. 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 2010.
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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