Anondson’s Known World South, 8 miles per hex

This is the southern part of Eric Anondson’s Re-Arranged Known World project, which he unveiled in 2014. It shows most of the area traditionally associated with the Known World. There are large overlaps with the other two maps in the project, Known World North and the Great Waste.

Even with just a glance, the changes are quite clear to anyone familiar with the original Known World. Eric aimed to move things around to make a little more sense, and this included not just shifting nations around but also inverting them east-west, and even rotating them; the hex grid is particularly suited to this kind of thing.

Some of the major changes include: Ylaruam shifted to the edge of the Sind Desert, with Heldann moved south to take its place; Ethengar moved up onto the Adri Varma Plateau, with Rockhome moving north to take its place, and also that of Heldann; the Northern Reaches shifted around and expanded; Alfheim, Darokin, the Five Shires, Karameikos, Ierendi and Minrothad flipped east-west, with Darokin expanded to fill gaps; more land for the Broken Lands; and the removal of Atruaghin.

There’s an awful lot going on here! For a full explanation, see Eric’s overview at the Vaults.

This project was the first to redo the Known World in such detail. For more on this, see also his Mappers of Mystara article.

The most recent map is a high resolution export, with slightly different art and palette. Two older versions are also available below.

Fan-made Map by Eric Anondson (April 2022)

Fan-made Map by Eric Anondson (May 2014)

Fan-made Map by Eric Anondson (March 2013)

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

• X4 Master of the Desert Nomads (1983) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Great Waste, 24 miles per hex
• X5 Temple of Death (1983) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Hule, 24 miles per hex
• GAZ1 The Grand Duchy of Karameikos (1987) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Karameikos, 8 miles per hex
• GAZ2 The Emirates of Ylaruam (1987) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Ylaruam, 8 miles per hex
• GAZ3 The Principalities of Glantri (1987) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Glantri, 8 miles per hex
• GAZ4 The Kingdom of Ierendi (1987) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Ierendi, 8 miles per hex
• GAZ5 The Elves of Alfheim (1988) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Alfheim, 8 miles per hex
• GAZ6 The Dwarves of Rockhome (1988) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Rockhome, 8 miles per hex Overview
• GAZ7 The Northern Reaches (1988) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Northern Reaches, 8 miles per hex
• GAZ8 The Five Shires (1988) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Five Shires, 8 miles per hex
• GAZ9 The Minrothad Guilds (1988) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Minrothad, 8 miles per hex
• GAZ10 The Orcs of Thar (1989) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Broken Lands, 8 miles per hex
• GAZ11 The Republic of Darokin (1989) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Darokin, 8 miles per hex
• GAZ12 The Golden Khan of Ethengar (1989) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Ethengar, 8 miles per hex
• Champions of Mystara (1993) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Great Waste, 24 miles per hex
• The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 16: Conspiracies within conspiracies, Dragon 169 (May 1991)
  • Sind, 24 miles per hex

Fan Sources

• Atlas of Mystara
  • Known World, 8 miles per hex

References

• All of Eric’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
• Eric’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara
• Eric’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius

Chronological Analysis

This is a fan-made map. It was created in March 2013 and first published in May 2014, then updated in April 2022. Since it depicts an alternate take on Mystara, there will be no updated Atlas version of this map.