Poor Wizard’s Almanac III Isle of Dawn

This map of the Isle of Dawn area, including parts of sunken Alphatia, was one of a number of small scale overview maps in Poor Wizard’s Almanac III. Others included the Great Waste and Northeastern Davania. Previously, the Almanac series had mostly concentrated on larger scale maps of individual nations. However, the limitations of the format (small page size, maps less than a single page, tight schedule with annual releases) meant that it was difficult to include much detail. In many ways, these smaller scale maps seemed to come off better — at this scale, no one expects a lot of detail, but they nevertheless make for very handy references.

There weren’t all that many maps of post-Wrath Alphatia, so it was welcome to have another view on the area.

Replica Map (October 2025)

Sources

• Poor Wizard’s Almanac III (1994) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Page 37 map, Cartography by Diesel

References

• New Map: Poor Wizard’s Almanac III Isle of Dawn post at Patreon

Chronological Analysis

This is Map 268. It was published in December 1994. The updated version of this map has not yet been released. See also Appendix C for annual chronological snapshots of the area. For the full context of this map in Mystara’s publication history, see Let’s Map Mystara 1994.

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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