13 November 2026

LoZompatore’s Outer World

In January 2018, Michele shared a wonderful article updating his old examination of Precataclysmic Mystara to reflect our new understanding of the Outer World. Specifically, this meant the vastly larger Far End Ocean. He included a series of 21 different maps illustrating various parts of Mystara, mostly in its precataclysmic state.

He based this thesis on my 2016 model of Mystara, expounded in my first Lining Up Mystara project. Taking my world map, he redrew it to his own specifications. Here’s his full explanation from the article, which I think is vital information for this map:

As a starting point I used the following Post Cataclysmic map by Thorfinn Tait.

By using this figure as a basic reference for coastlines and size and by applying the available information on mountains, rivers, and hills, I sketched the following Post-Cataclysmic map to be used as a starting picture for the rest of this work.

I used this map to represent the main physical features of Mystara after the Great Rain of Fire according to an equirectangular projection of a sphere. Icecaps, forests and deserts were not included because they depend on the global climate of the planet, which was clearly different before the Great Rain of Fire.

Notice that, in the figure above, I considered:

as “mountains” (dark brown) all the mountains shown on Mentzer’s Companion Set and Master Set maps.

as “hills” (light brown) all the “extra mountains” shown in the Outer World map of the Hollow World boxed set.

In my opinion this approach can easily solve discrepancies between both sets of maps and increase the detail of the Outer World surface in places not further mapped in the other official supplements.

Islands and rivers are taken from all available official sources, with the intent to increase mapping details.

I also included a dashed line close to the South Pole to show the maximum possible extent of Evergrun, a Pre-Cataclysmic land located south of Davania which was removed by the Immortals to make room for the Post-Cataclysmic South Polar Opening.

As we would expect from Michele, his map was very detailed for a world map of this resolution, and really quite reminiscent of his 2005 base maps.

The line denoting Evergrun’s possible location is also a very interesting addition. The inclusion of Evergrun is something that has become more and more accepted over the years in our community, with members of the Italian Mystara community especially championing the idea.

With this map in hand, Michele then reprojected it to his suppositional precataclysmic configuration; most of the rest of the article’s maps used this reprojected version.

Fan-made Map by Michele Carpita (January 2018)

*Mystara Outer World by Michele Carpita, January 2018*

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

Companion Rules Set (1984) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Brun
Master Rules Set (1985) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Outer World

Fan Sources

Lining Up Mystara XIX by Thorfinn Tait (February 2016)
Pre-Cataclysmic Mystara article by Michele Carpita (January 2018)

References

All of Michele’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
Michele’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara (upcoming)
Michele’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius

Chronological Analysis

This is a fan-made map. It was published in January 2018. 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 2018.

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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