Jacob’s Osterlo, 8 miles per hex

Although Jacob didn’t add anything to Osterslo Island itself, he did add a nice little feature in the sea to the southeast: a shipwreck. The symbol for these didn’t appear until after GAZ7’s publication, so there were no such features marked on the original map.

I had always considered the difference in spelling between Osterslo Island and Clan Osterlo to be an error, but Jacob clearly didn’t think so. GAZ7’s text doesn’t refer to either very much, but it does nevertheless feature both spellings just as on Jacob’s map here. Perhaps it was a deliberate differentiation after all.

Fan-made Map by Jacob Skytte (August 2001)

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.

The Atlas has been unable to contact the original cartographer. This map therefore appears here without explicit permission from its creator. Any information on how to get in touch with them would be most welcome.

Sources

• GAZ7 The Northern Reaches (1988) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Northern Reaches, 8 miles per hex
  • Ostland, 8 miles per hex Overview

Fan Sources

• The Complete Domains of Ostland 1st Ed by Jacob Skytte (August 2002) (Vaults of Pandius)
  • The Clan Domain of Osterlo (August 2001) (Vaults of Pandius)

References

• All of Jacob’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
• Jacob’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius

Chronological Analysis

This is a fan-made map. It was probably published in August 2001. 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 2001.

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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Additions

• Shipwrecks — A Sunken Man-o-War southeast of Osterslo Island.

Revisions

• None.

Hex Art & Fonts

• Hex Art — Highly saturated Campaign Cartographer 2 non-hex art style.
• Font — Arial.

Textual Additions (Complete Domains of Ostland, 2000-2002)

• Lairs — The Sunken Man-o-War marked on the map is in fact the lair of a Huge Sea Dragon named Zikandra, known to the Ostlanders as the Storm Serpent.
• Rulers — Starkad the Hunter is the Jarl, Head of Clan Osterlo. Although the name was listed in GAZ7 (Player’s Book page 13), Jacob worked up a full description.