Geoff’s Soroth, 8 miles per hex

After a few months’ break, Geoff continued his drafts of Selhomarr 8 miles per hex with the province of Soroth in January 2010. At this stage, I was somewhat behind in remaking his maps, due to real life events.

This was the first part of Selhomarr to include a new hex design: the silver trees of Marinnirgilandur. (That’s a bit of a mouthful, isn’t it?!) At the time we used white tree symbols, though with the latest update below we’ve changed them to a very pale green. I did consider using a gradient to make them actually look silver, but the Atlas hex art style typically uses solid colours, so the gradients didn’t fit.

The Dejected Isles in the corner here were an in-joke based on Geoff’s draft for Myiad. He had left two icons there for copying and pasting, instructing me to ignore them. I decided to have a little fun instead, and thus the Dejected Isles came into being. The third isle in the little chain is actually an unrelated island from Geoff’s draft for this map. Quite serendipitous, don’t you think?

Replica Fan-made Map (March 2021)

Fan-made Map by Geoff Gander (January 2010)

Work in progress map: This map is incomplete. It appears here in the most recent state available, but it may be missing certain elements.

This is an original map created by one of Mystara’s excellent fan cartographers. For more information on the cartographer, including a gallery of all their maps, see also Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara.

Sources

• Hollow World Campaign Set (1990) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Hollow World Planetary Map

Secondary Sources

• Hollow World: Selhomarr, 8 miles per hex discussion thread at The Piazza
  • Discussion of Soroth starts at this post
• Geoff’s Selhomarr, 40 miles per hex
• The Empire of Selhomarr: a Gazetteer from 5 November 1997 to 23 August 1999 (Vaults of Pandius)
• The Empire of Selhomarr: Player’s Guide current as of 6 May 1998 (Vaults of Pandius)

References

• All of Geoff’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
• Geoff’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara
• Geoff’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius

Chronological Analysis

This is a fan-made map. It was published in January 2010. The updated Atlas version of this map is not yet available. 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 2010. (Please note that it may be some time before the project reaches this point.)

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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