Dragon 174 Savage Baronies, 8 miles per hex
With Dragon 174, Bruce Heard kicked off his redevelopment of the Savage Coast in great style, introducing the Savage Baronies and the Red Curse. The map follows on from Dragon 172’s Southern Hule, separating the two territories with the Terra Vermelha badlands region. The Great Escarpment and the rivers are drawn directly from the previous X5 map of the area, with only minor changes. This, the first of three maps covering the Savage Baronies, introduced Vilaverde, Texeiras, Torreón and Narvaez.
Replica Map (November 2020)
Sources
- The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 21: The Savage Baronies, Dragon 174 (October 1991)
- Page 48 map (Cartography by Dennis Kauth)
Map Types
The Atlas of Mystara includes a few fundamentally different types of maps. The colour of the castle wall border on each map shows which category it belongs to.
- Replica maps (white castle border) are exact replicas of primary source maps. They present the world of Mystara as the original source materials depict it, warts and all. No attempt has been made to fix errors of any kind — even typos. As far as possible, replica maps use the same art as the original maps, though in many cases they are colourised. These maps are the main source material of the Atlas of Mystara, forming the base of all of the updated maps.
- Updated maps (green castle border) present the Atlas of Mystara’s consistent view of the world, with all errors, alignment issues, and so on fixed. They use standardised hex art and fonts. Anything not marked as a replica map is an updated map.
- Chronological maps (yellow castle border) provide snapshots of Mystara at the end of a certain year in its publication history. In effect, they are updated maps created from a limited list of sources. The years in question appear in the title of each map.
- Fan-made maps are unofficial maps created by other fan cartographers. As such, they do not follow the Atlas’s castle border colour scheme. The Atlas presents these maps in their original form, with the permission of the cartographers. The Atlas considers these maps secondary sources, and updated maps of areas not covered by official maps make extensive use of them. In a few cases, the Atlas also presents Replica fan-made maps (red castle border).
