Dragon 186 Wallara, 8 miles per hex

The story of the Wallara knitted together the southern coast of Trident Bay with X9’s Lost City of Risilvar, while simultaneously providing a back-story to the Red Curse itself.

A new symbol was created for Wallara Rock Shelters, but otherwise the map doesn’t seem particularly revolutionary. However, it hides a secret: the connection between the Trident Bay maps is actually far from easy. To sum up, the Tower of Balloch marked here cannot be the same tower from Dragon 183’s Herath map, as treating it as such causes the maps to go out of sync with X9’s map and the continental map. Red Steel later made this official by having a Northern and Southern Tower of Balloch.

Replica Map (November 2020)

Sources

• The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 33: Lords of shade and hue, Dragon 186 (October 1992)
  • Page 47 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).