9 June 2025

Håvard’s Elemental Plane of Fire

Following on from his map of Mystara’s Solar System, Håvard began a series of maps concentrating on the Multiverse — beginning with the Elemental Planes. This is the first entry in the series, the Plane of Fire. He completed all four of the Elemental Planes in a short period in July 2016.

The basic concept follows Frank Mentzer’s descriptions from the Companion, Master and Immortals rules sets, which state that the Elemental Planes are coterminous with the Prime Plane. They consist of areas of empty space, as well as “planets” and other materials. Mystara has equivalent planets in all four Elemental Planes, although this is not necessarily true of all worlds.

In short, the same geography can be considered to appear on the Elemental Planes as on Prime Plane Mystara — albeit adjusted to fit the single-element matter of each plane.

For his map of the Plane of Fire, Håvard researched and brought in as many fire-based references as he could, from across Mystara’s publication history. There are numerous monster-derived locations, as well as elements from the Gazetteer series as well as from various modules.

Although it may seem obvious now, this map was revolutionary at the time. In particular, the way it explicitly tied Known World geography to the Elemental Planes was genius, because it opened up the planes for intuitive exploration by players, as well as easy use by DMs.

Fan-made Map by Håvard (July 2016)

*The Elemental Plane of Fire by Håvard, July 2016*

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

Companion Rules Set (1984) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Master Rules Set (1985) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Immortals Rules Set (1986) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
And more…

Fan Sources

Mystara’s Plane of Fire (with Map) discussion thread at The Piazza (July 2016)
Plane of Fire by Håvard at the Vaults of Pandius (July 2016)

References

All of Håvard’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
Håvard’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara (upcoming)
Håvard’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius

Chronological Analysis

This is a fan-made map. It was published in July 2016. 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 2016.

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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