12 February 2025

B10 Eastern Karameikos

This map was included in B10 as a player handout. It presents a stylised line-art map of Eastern Karameikos. Well, it’s really more of an illustration than a map, showing the rough relative positions of the adventure’s key locations.

Although this simple map may at first glance seem to provide no new information after the hex map, in fact it includes two significant additions and one other point of interest.

Replica Map (February 2025)

Sources

B10 Night’s Dark Terror (1986) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Players’ Calendar & Map, Pull-out Sheet II (Cartography by Geoff Wingate)

Chronological Analysis

This is Map 43. It was published in February 1986. The updated version of this map has not yet been released. See also Appendix C for annual chronological snapshots of the area. For the full context of this map in Mystara’s publication history, see Let’s Map Mystara 1986.

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.

Additions

Races — Elves are marked as living in the Radlebb Woods west of Kelven.
Terrain — The area north of Sukiskyn is here marked as “moors”. The hex map has hill hexes in this area. Note, however, that since B10’s authors were British, “moors” most likely refers to hills: “a tract of open uncultivated upland, typically covered with heather”, according to the dictionary. The US English sense of marsh or fen is likely not intended here.

Revisions

Rivers — On this map, the Windrush meets the Shutturga shortly before the confluence with the Volaga. In other words, the idea that the three rivers do not all join at the same spot appears here for the first time.