Dragon 185 Shazak, Ator and Cay, 8 miles per hex
The Bayou was a feature on 1985’s X9 Savage Coast map. At that time, it featured a lone Cay-men Outpost. Dragon 185 detailed the whole region, leaving it mostly swamp but adding not just one but three nations of anthropomorphic reptilians.
The map itself remained faithful to X9, including not just The Bayou but also the Shady River. It also used the new shoals symbol from Dragon 183 to add detail to the swamp’s coast.
Replica Map (November 2020)
Sources
- The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 32: Silence of the lizards, Dragon 185 (September 1992)
- Page 48 map (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).
