Dragon 183 Eastern Herath, 8 miles per hex

Herath is the gateway to the Orc’s Head Peninsula, with the Wildwoods at the centre of the neck connecting the peninsula to the rest of the Savage Coast. It’s a fascinating nation of wizards that hides a dark secret. The map in Dragon 183 was labelled “Eastern Herath”; the western region appeared in Dragon 196, but only at 24 miles per hex. It was never fully mapped at 8 miles per hex, although much of it was detailed in Red Steel in 1994.

The map introduced two new innovations: shoals, marked by a cream coloured terrain; and a mountain hex with a single lone peak. While shoals would appear again in future Princess Ark maps, the lone mountain hex only ever appeared on this map.

Replica Map (November 2020)

Sources

• The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 30: Web of the Wizard-King, Dragon 183 (July 1992)
  • Page 47 map, inset 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).