Dragon 170 Yavdlom, 8 miles per hex

Following on from the previous issue’s hex map of Sind, Dragon 170’s Voyage of the Princess Ark was the first to provide a new hex map at the iconic 8 mile per hex scale of the Gazetteer series. The series would go on to feature many more of these, covering most of the Savage Coast. But this was the first.

The map covers the central southern part of Thanegia Island, centred on Yavdlom’s capital of Tanakumba. This was the first time for the area to appear at this scale; previously it appeared at 24 miles per hex in X6 Quagmire! Tanakumba was featured in X6 under the name of Thanopolis, but Dragon 170 redeveloped the region into the Yavdlom Divinarchy.

Replica Map (November 2020)

Sources

• The Voyage of the Princess Ark: Part 17: The Serpent Peninsula revisited, Dragon 170 (June 1991)
  • Page 42 map

Map Types

The Atlas of Mystara includes a few fundamentally different types of maps. The colour of the castle wall border on each map shows which category it belongs to.

• Replica maps (white castle border) are exact replicas of primary source maps. They present the world of Mystara as the original source materials depict it, warts and all. No attempt has been made to fix errors of any kind — even typos. As far as possible, replica maps use the same art as the original maps, though in many cases they are colourised. These maps are the main source material of the Atlas of Mystara, forming the base of all of the updated maps.
• Updated maps (green castle border) present the Atlas of Mystara’s consistent view of the world, with all errors, alignment issues, and so on fixed. They use standardised hex art and fonts. Anything not marked as a replica map is an updated map.
• Chronological maps (yellow castle border) provide snapshots of Mystara at the end of a certain year in its publication history. In effect, they are updated maps created from a limited list of sources. The years in question appear in the title of each map.
• Fan-made maps are unofficial maps created by other fan cartographers. As such, they do not follow the Atlas’s castle border colour scheme. The Atlas presents these maps in their original form, with the permission of the cartographers. The Atlas considers these maps secondary sources, and updated maps of areas not covered by official maps make extensive use of them. In a few cases, the Atlas also presents Replica fan-made maps (red castle border).