Dawn of the Emperors Isle of Dawn, 24 miles per hex
The Isle of Dawn received a full colour treatment at last in 1989’s Dawn of the Emperors, having first been mapped out in M5 two years previously. M5’s map covered a single page, nominally at 24 miles per hex, though actually at 33.7 miles per hex. Dawn’s map encompassed a whole poster map, again nominally at 24 miles per hex. Whereas M5’s map drastically underestimated the scale, Dawn’s slightly overestimated it, so that the actual scale is something like 22.5 miles per hex.
Terrain-wise it’s largely the same map, and this version includes all of M5’s details, but also adds a lot more detail, changing forests into heavy, light and forested hill regions, adding smaller settlements, and generally refining the broad terrain categories of M5’s map.
This map also includes villages in the Alatian Islands that were only ever featured here, and were for some reason missed out of all other maps of the Alatians. Their names are Thothian in style.
Although there is a border dividing Thyatian and Alphatian territories, one thing that was missed out was borders between the different provinces. These were later provided by Bruce Heard in Dragon 165.
Replica Map (May 2018)
Sources
- Dawn of the Emperors (1989) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Isle of Dawn, 24 mile per hex poster map
Chronological Analysis
This is Map 115. It was published in August 1989. 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 the upcoming Let’s Map Mystara 1989.
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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Additions
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