7 December 2025

GAZ5 Alfheim Town Area

GAZ5 actually included two ever-so-slightly different versions of this map. While they were functionally the same map, the cropping around the northwestern edge, as well as the positioning of the map title, was just a tiny bit different. In a slight departure from the Atlas’s usual policy, I am treating these as the same map.

This was a peculiar map, as although it was nominally 8 miles per hex, in fact the detail was more in line with a much larger scale such as 1 mile per hex. The 8 mile hexes were printed very large, so that it would be easy to overlay it with a more appropriate scale for the resolution. It also included a close-up that was nominally 1 mile per hex but with the exact same scaling issues as the main map. The close-up would surely be more appropriate as a 1/8 mile per hex map, with a corresponding hex grid.

It’s unfortunate that the area chosen to be depicted was one of Alfheim’s very few deforested areas. A little forest did appear on the edges of the map, but without anything in the way of detailing. It seems like a bit of a missed opportunity to provide a close-up of the Canolbarth Forest together with ideas for DMs to develop it further.

Replica Map (May 2025)

*Replica of GAZ5’s map of Alfheim Town and Surrounding Farm Land, 8 miles per hex*

Sources

GAZ5 The Elves of Alfheim (1988) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Pages 25 & 45 maps (Cartography by Dave Sutherland, Dennis Kauth)

Chronological Analysis

This is Map 85. It was published in March 1988. The updated version of this map has not yet been released. See also Appendix C for annual chronological snapshots of the area. For the full context of this map in Mystara’s publication history, see Let’s Map Mystara 1988.

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. 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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