Cthulhudrew’s Karameikos, 8 miles per hex

In 1998, Andrew Theisen developed his own mapping template system using MS Paint. This was one of his earliest maps, following on the heels of his Great Crater series. As with those maps, Andrew set himself the task of updating the official maps to reflect changes that occurred in the Poor Wizard’s Almanac series, as well as the continuing fan-written Mystaran Almanac series.

Andrew’s Karameikos adds borders and labels for the new estates granted to the Alfheim elf refugees: the Estate of Achelos in the far west, and the Estate of Radlebb just east of Luln and Koriszegy Keep. Then he went a step further, incorporating B10’s Lost Valley of Hutaaka and extending the Foamfire River northwards towards it. Reconciling B10 with the 8 mile per hex Karameikos maps is a difficult task, and Andrew was the first to take a swing at it.

Strangely enough, although he included information from Karameikos: Kingdom of Adventure, Andrew clearly based his map on GAZ1’s version of Karameikos, as evidenced by the lack of forested hill hexes and the omission of Vandevicsny.

Fan-made Map by Andrew Theisen (November 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

• GAZ1 The Grand Duchy of Karameikos (1987) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Karameikos, 8 miles per hex
• Karameikos: Kingdom of Adventure (1994) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Karameikos, 8 miles per hex
• B10 Night’s Dark Terror (1986) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Eastern Karameikos, 3 miles per hex
  • Foamfire River, 2 miles per hex
  • Lost Valley of Hutaaka, 2 miles per hex
• Poor Wizard’s Almanac (1992)
• Poor Wizard’s Almanac II (1993) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
• Poor Wizard’s Almanac III (1994)
• Joshuan’s Almanac (1995) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)

Secondary Sources

• Mystaran Almanac AC 1014 (1997) (Vaults of Pandius)
• Mystaran Almanac AC 1015 (1998-1999) (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 November 1998. The updated Atlas version of this map is Karameikos, 8 miles per hex; an updated 1016 AC 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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