16 October 2025

LoZompatore’s Floating Ar Islands

This is really more of a diagram than a map. Michele included it together with his Annotated Alphatia and Seashield Area maps.

The purpose of the diagram is to calculate the total area of Floating Ar’s islands, which he did by combining them all together into a small space, making it easy to do a simple hex count of the area. This was necessary because the figures given in the text did not line up with the islands as depicted on the maps.

Fan-made Map by Michele Carpita (August 2009)

*Floating Ar Islands 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)

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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