27 May 2025

Agathokles’ Northern Highshire

Giampaolo drew this map of the northeastern Five Shires to go with an adventure he wrote in Threshold #17. It follows the same style as his other maps from this period, such as Skaufskogr and Darmouk.

The map focuses on the journey from Longflask to the Miskmyr Falls (aka the Mistmyr Falls). It includes all of GAZ8’s details for the area, as well as a new Orcish Mine — the entrance to a “megadungeon” known as Loktal’s Vault.

For more on this, see Giampaolo’s article in Threshold #17.

Fan-made Map by Giampaolo Agosta (October 2017)

*Northern Highshire by Giampaolo Agosta, November 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

GAZ8 The Five Shires (1988) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Five Shires, 8 miles per hex

Fan Sources

Threshold #17 (27 October 2017) (Vaults of Pandius)

References

All of Giampaolo’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
Giampaolo’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara (upcoming)
Giampaolo’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius

Chronological Analysis

This is a fan-made map. It was published in October 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.