15 June 2025

Håvard’s Limbo

Along with his Feywood – Plane of Fairie map, this map of Limbo finishes off Håvard’s coverage of the Inner Planes. (Although the status of Limbo is rather ambiguous, Håvard treated them as Inner Planes.)

As Håvard noted in his post at The Piazza, the primary source for Limbo is The Voyage of the Princess Ark in Dragon #180. That episode outlined the concept, and provided all of the official details. It wasn’t really touched on again, although various fan works have referenced it, often while trying to sort out its position in the cosmology.

Once again, Håvard didn’t stop with just the original source, instead scouring all of Mystara’s published sources for references to place on the map.

Fan-made Map by Håvard (January 2017)

Limbo - The Plane of the Dead by Håvard, January 2017 — *Limbo – The Plane of the Dead by Håvard, January 2017*

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

The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 27: To death and back, Dragon #180 (April 1992)
And others…

Fan Sources

Mystara’s Plane of Limbo – Realm of the Dead (with Map) discussion thread at The Piazza (January 2017)
Plane of Limbo – Realm of the Dead by Håvard at the Vaults of Pandius (January 2017)

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 January 2017. 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 2017.

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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