Dragon 192 Southwestern Brun

This was to be the last of Dragon’s small inset maps, and they went out with a bang; previous inset maps had shown relatively small areas of the continent, but this one encompassed the entire area mapped from Dragon 169’s Sind to this issue’s Nimmur — and beyond to Dragon 200’s Arm of the Immortals.

The map itself is interesting in terms of rotation, as it is not completely aligned with the Master Set world map, but neither is it aligned with the Savage Coast. Instead it’s 0.74º anticlockwise from the world map, so it has its own unique rotation. Naturally, this means that the little black box representing Nimmur’s map is slightly off. But this is a minor quibble.

Replica Map (November 2020)

Sources

• The Known World Grimoire: The sting and the sun, Dragon 192 (April 1993)
  • Page 42 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).