9 October 2025

LoZompatore’s Seashield Area

Michele presented this detail map of the seafloor capital of the Kingdom of Aquas together with his Annotated Alphatia map. It provided some information about Seashield and its immediate area.

Poor Wizard’s Almanac III included a map of the city itself, but nothing had yet been done to show its immediate surroundings. Michele’s map transformed the information from the Almanac’s map into a full area map. I believe it was the first such map of this undersea kingdom.

Fan-made Map by Michele Carpita (August 2009)

*Seashield Area by Michele Carpita, August 2009*

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

Dawn of the Emperors (1989) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Poor Wizard’s Almanac III (1994) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- The Undersea City of Seashield

Fan Sources

Official details about Metropolitan Alphatia discussion thread at The Piazza (August 2009)
Official details about Metropolitan Alphatia by Michele Carpita at the Vaults of Pandius (August 2009)
LoZompatore’s Alphatia, 24 miles per hex Annotated (August 2009)

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 August 2009. 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 2009.

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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