Ramelin’s Bellissaria, 8 miles per hex v1
Jose’s first Bellissaria map was Meriander, in late 2015. Just over a year later, he had completed initial work on the entire island continent. He would spend more time developing Bellissaria intermittently in 2017, building up to a finished version in 2018.
As I noted in the article for Meriander, there had not been any 8 mile per hex maps of Bellissaria before Jose’s. That fact had not changed by early 2017, and so this was the community’s first ever view of it at this scale. Thibault’s Bellissaria, 24 miles per hex served as the base, although Jose added much of his own. In fact, the terrain was wonderfully detailed — especially the mountains, to which Jose gave a lot of shape.
Horken and Lagrius both appeared here for the first time in Ramelin Mystara, already fully detailed. The other provinces of Bellissaria were still in various stages of development at this point. Notrion, in particular, looks to be about half finished.
Although at first it looks very similar, in fact Jose completely redrew Meriander for this map; presumably he had not been happy with the proportions of the earlier attempt, although he carried over all of the details into the new, slightly larger peninsula.
The next version of this map would come a couple of months later, followed by more individual province maps mid-year.
Fan-made Map by Jose Ignacio Ramos Lomelin (January 2017)
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)
Fan Sources
- Thibault’s Bellissaria 1010 AC, 24 miles per hex v2 (November 2004)
- Ramelin’s Meriander, 8 miles per hex v1 (November 2015)
References
- All of Jose’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
- Jose’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara (upcoming)
- Jose’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius
Chronological Analysis
This is a fan-made map. It was published in January 2017. 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 2017.
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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