Mystara 1986

After the major revelations of the previous year, 1986 was a relatively quiet year for Mystaran cartography, with only four or five products including new maps. Only one presented a new area, while others provided further development of existing nations.

But if that description makes it sound like little was added, in fact that couldn’t be further from the truth. 1985’s maps expanded the world, but 1986’s went deeper.

Karameikos Revisited

Many consider B10 Night’s Dark Terror to be one of the best adventures ever written. In terms of maps and setting, B10 delved deeper into the setting’s home region of Karameikos than ever before. It mapped out a large tract of the nation in detail at 3 miles per hex, going into even more detail with two subsections. The text added even more, including history for the region.

Expanding the Known World

The other great achievement of 1986 was the expansion of the Known World. X11 finally completed the Heldann Freeholds, which had been lurking at the edge of the map since 1981’s original X1. At the same time, it introduced Wendar and Denagoth, filling in the lands west of Heldann and north of Glantri. Unfortunately, the map also introduced an infamous conflict with CM1’s Norwold map, which would plague cartographers for decades to come.

The Sylvan Realm also appeared in the far northwest. This rather tiny realm would come to hold a lot of significance for Mystara’s elves.

Finally, the Immortals Set presented the Multiverse in its clearest form yet. It also tweaked the cosmology, switching the order of the elemental planes.

The Maps

These maps have been made internally consistent, adopting the most detailed shapes and positions of each element.

Note that maps remaining unchanged from the previous three years do not appear here. Please refer to Mystara 1983, Mystara 1984, and Mystara 1985 for those maps.

Solar System (1986) — **Solar System**
**Non-hex**

Brun Continental Map (1986) — **Brun**
**Non-hex**

Brun, 24 miles per hex (1986) 100 DPI — **Brun**
**24 miles per hex**

Norwold & Alphatia, 138 miles per hex (1986) — **Norwold & Alphatia**
**138 miles per hex**

Known World, 24 miles per hex (1986) — **Known World**
**24 miles per hex**

Norwold, 24 miles per hex (1986) — **Norwold**
**24 miles per hex**

Wendar and Denagoth, 24 miles per hex (1986) — **Wendar and Denagoth**
**24 miles per hex**

Trail to Denagoth, 12 miles per hex (1986) — **Trail to Denagoth**
**12 miles per hex**

Karameikos, 6 miles per hex (1986) — **Karameikos**
**6 miles per hex**

Eastern Karameikos, 3 miles per hex (1986) — **Eastern Karameikos**
**3 miles per hex**

Foamfire Valley and the Lost Valley of Hutaaka, 2 miles per hex (1986) — **Foamfire Valley and Hutaaka**
**2 miles per hex**

Great Forest of Geffron, 4 miles per hex (1986) — **Great Forest of Geffron**
**4 miles per hex**

Lothenar Forest, 4 miles per hex (1986) — **Lothenar Forest**
**4 miles per hex**

Selinar, 3 miles per hex (1986) — **Selinar**
**3 miles per hex**

Sylvan Realm, 2 miles per hex (1986) — **Sylvan Realm**
**2 miles per hex**

Island of Lost Dreams, 100 yards per hex (1986) — **Island of Lost Dreams**
**100 yards per hex**

Sea of Dread Parchment Map (1986) — **Sea of Dread**
**Parchment Map**

The Multiverse (1986) — **The Multiverse**
**Non-hex**

The Multiverse — Hex Version (1986) — **The Multiverse**
**Hex Version**

Mystara Legend (1986) — **Legend**
**(colour)**

Mystara Legend (1986) (black and white) — **Legend**
**(black and white)**

Threshold (1986) — **Threshold**
**500 feet per hex**

Art — the printed style from 1981’s Expert Rulebook‘s Legend, with additional symbols from the 1983 Expert Rules Set‘s Legend.
Fonts — Baskerville. Helvetica was the only other font to make an appearance, although there was also hand-written text.

*Baskerville was the most iconic font for Mystara maps from 1983 until early 1987.*

References

For more details on the individual maps and their interpretation here, please refer to the original Let’s Map Mystara project articles listed below.

Let’s Map Mystara 1986
Let’s Read the Known World/Mystara post 498 — 1986 discussion starts at this post

1986 Product Lineup

This table lists all the relevant products published in 1986, with links to each map’s individual page here at the Atlas. Product titles link to PDFs at DTRPG where they are available.

Mystara Geographic Maps 1986

Map	Name	Hex	Year	M	Source	Reference
40	Map K Eastern Karameikos	3	1986	2	B10 Night's Dark Terror	Inside Cover
41	Map V Foamfire Valley	2	1986	2	B10 Night's Dark Terror	Poster Map
42	Map H Hutaaka — The Lost Valley	2	1986	2	B10 Night's Dark Terror	Poster Map
43	Players' Map	-	1986	2	B10 Night's Dark Terror	Pull-out sheet II
44	V11 The Island of Lost Dreams	*	1986	2	B10 Night's Dark Terror	Inside Second Cover
45	DM Map 5 The Elven Land	2	1986	2	CM7 The Tree of Life	Inside Cover
46	DM Map 1	3	1986	2	CM7 The Tree of Life	p. 19
46a	Players' Map 1	3	1986	2	CM7 The Tree of Life	p. 39
47	MAP V: Norwold	24	1986	5	M2 Vengeance of Alphaks	Inside Cover
47a	MAP I Players' Map: Norwold	24	1986	5	M2 Vengeance of Alphaks	Cover Gatefold
48	The Multiverse	-	1986	6	Immortal Set	DM's Guide p. 4
49	Map VII Continental Overview of Wendar and Denagoth	24	1986	8	X11 Saga of the Shadow Lord	p. 32
49a	Map XII Players' Map of Wendar and Denagoth	24	1986	8	X11 Saga of the Shadow Lord	p. 63
50	Map VI Trail to Denagoth	12	1986	8	X11 Saga of the Shadow Lord	p. 31
51	Map V Lothenar Forest	4	1986	8	X11 Saga of the Shadow Lord	p. 21
52	Map X The Great Forest of Geffron	6	1986	8	X11 Saga of the Shadow Lord	p. 43

1986 Map Gallery

This gallery shows all of the geographic maps published over the course of the year. These are replicas of the original maps. For full details, please check out the post for each map, linked to in the table above. For corrected and expanded versions, use the maps near the top of this page.