Cthulhudrew’s Great Crater, 8 miles per hex
Andrew “Cthulhudrew” Theisen’s first posted map of Mystara was this update of the Glantri’s Great Crater. It added developments in the area up to 1015 AC, bringing it into line with the Mystaran Almanacs, as well as his own ideas for the region.
This was the first fan-made map to tackle the crater, which had previously appeared in Glantri: Kingdom of Magic three years earlier. Andrew added detail to the terrain, replacing the earlier map’s bare rocky desert and surrounding mountains with some swamps, fungi, wasteland and broken lands. In fact, the only real details that originate in the earlier map are Marrow Lake, its river tributary, and the rough shape of the crater itself.
Moreover, this was the first of a series of three maps detailing the crater. The next would follow about a month later, with the last appearing the next year, in 1999.
Fan-made Map by Andrew Theisen (May 1998)
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
- Glantri: Kingdom of Magic (1995) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- GAZ3 The Principalities of Glantri (1987) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Wrath of the Immortals (1992) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Secondary Sources
- Mystaran Almanac AC 1014 (1997) (Vaults of Pandius)
- Mystaran Almanac AC 1015 (1998-1999) (Vaults of Pandius)
- The Great Crater from the Mystara Mailing List posted 3 August 1998 (Vaults of Pandius)
References
- Andrew’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara
- Andrew’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius
Chronological Analysis
This is a fan-made map. It was published in 1998. 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 1998. (Please note that it may be some time before the project reaches this point.)
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; and 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.
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