GAZ2 Ylaruam, 8 miles per hex
The second Gazetteer series map began a strange trend in not showing any villages. The lack of a central river prevented the Egypt-Like treatment that later worked so well in HWR2’s Nithia. But it nevertheless did a decent job of making what the original 24 mile per hex map showed as an area of pure desert into a more interesting, varied landscape.
Replica Map (December 2020)
Sources
- GAZ2 The Emirates of Ylaruam (1987) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Poster map (Cartography by Dennis Kauth, David C. Sutherland)
Chronological Analysis
This is Map 61. It was published in August 1987. The updated version of this map is available here. See also Appendix C for annual chronological snapshots of the area. For the full context of this map in Mystara’s publication history, see the upcoming Let’s Map Mystara 1987.
The following lists are from the Let’s Map Mystara project. Additions are new features, introduced in this map; Revisions are changes to previously-introduced features; Hex Art & Fonts track design elements; and finally Textual Additions are potential features found in the related text. In most cases, the Atlas adopts these textual additions into updated and chronological maps.
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Additions
- Settlements —
- Terrain —
Revisions
- Settlements —
- Terrain —
Hex Art & Fonts
- Symbols — Gazetteer series standard. Shallow and deep water appeared for the first time in a Gazetteer map, as did the art for Reefs, although both of these appeared in the Legend as early as GAZ1.
- Fonts — Feinen throughout.
Textual Additions (GAZ2 1987)
- Spellings — The map has everything in capital letters, but the Gazetteer’s text provides the correct capitalisation as follows: Cinsa-Men-Noo, Surra-Man-Raa, Tel al Kebir. In the case of Cubis, the map has Cubia but the text has Cubis throughout.
5 February 2016 @ 6:08 pm
Would like to see an updated map (one day) of the 24 mph version from GAZ2 in the internal cover, that included the plateaus/valleys.
5 February 2016 @ 9:01 pm
That’s something I will be doing, but for now the focus is on the 8 miles per hex scale.
Incidentally, the 24 will be necessary to present zoomable maps, likely with world map/continental (hexless) maps, then 24, then finally 8 miles per hex.
18 February 2016 @ 3:05 am
Ylaruam does not load to the large image. :o/
18 February 2016 @ 8:21 am
Try this direct link:
https://mystara.thorfmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/gaz2-ylaruam-8.png
18 February 2016 @ 8:44 am
Thank you. Now, my collecting is back on track. The image url starts with “i1.wp.com/”. That seems to kill it for me.
19 February 2016 @ 10:57 am
As I understand it, this is WordPress’s way of speeding up the site. But it sometimes seems to do the opposite. You can get the direct link simply by zapping the extra domain name (as you said, the i1.wp.com bit).