Dragon 179 Renardy, 8 miles per hex

After the “Barbarian Kingdoms”, the voyage of the Princess Ark continued west to the “Animal Kingdoms” — nations of anthropomorphic animals, beginning with dogs and cats. The first of these, Renardy, is the kingdom of the Lupins, which Bruce Heard instilled with a French flavour.

The map included a new symbol for “Great Wall”, different again from the art used in Dawn of the Emperors‘ Alphatia. It also incorporated terrain and symbols from X9’s map, most notably including the Dream River. The Second Chance Outpost became the Free City of Dunwick, while the Lawful Alliance Camp on the Dream River became Renardy’s capital, Louvines.

Replica Map (November 2020)

Sources

• The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 26: A glass of wine and a shaggy dog story, Dragon 179 (March 1992)
  • Page 98 map and key (Cartography by John Knecht)

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).