Hollow World Set Northern Iciria, 40 miles per hex

The Hollow World Set‘s twin maps of Iciria presented a fantastic overview of the setting with a surprising amount of detail.  Compared with the Known World, the Hollow World’s maps were amazingly regular and consistent, due to the far more structured birth this subsetting enjoyed.

The scale is unique to this map and its sister map.  Far more detailed than 72 miles per hex and yet more compact than 24 miles per hex, the 40 mile per hex scale suited the sprawling empires of this land of lost civilisations. It also converts to 8 miles per hex reasonably well. In a strange twist, the scale was entirely left out of the Hollow World Campaign Set and its maps, and only came to light a few months after publication when Bruce Heard answered a question about it in Dragon Magazine.

This map holds a special place in the Atlas, as it was the first to be started, way back in my first attempts at mapping in 1999. For the full story, see Threshold Issue #11.

Replica Map (November 2020)

Sources

• The Hollow World Set (1990) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Poster map C (Cartography supervised by Dave Sutherland; executed by Dave Sutherland, Diesel, Dennis Kauth, and Frey Graphics)

Chronological Analysis

This is Map 141. It was published in August 1990. 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 1990.

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

Revisions

Hex Art & Fonts

• Fonts — Garamond throughout.

Textual Additions (Hollow World Set, 1990)