Timothy Klanderud’s Mystara
In late 1998, graphic artist Timothy Klanderud posted this amazing rendition of Mystara’s Outer World to the Internet. It rapidly gained the attention and admiration of the Mystara community, with Shawn Stanley displaying it prominently on the title page of the Vaults of Pandius.
Although it’s unfortunately not very high resolution, everything else about the map is incredible. It would be 20 years before someone posted anything even vaguely approaching this level of realism and quality. Even today Timothy’s image, which has since become an iconic part of Mystara’s history, remains very popular.
The map is largely based on the Master Set version of the world map, but references the Hollow World Set version for terrain. While Brun, Davania, and the islands of the Alphatian Sea (including sunk Alphatia) all take their overall shapes from the Master Set, Skothar is clearly based on the Hollow World Set. This has since become common practice in many fan maps, sometimes referred to as “big Skothar”.
Fan-made Map by Timothy Klanderud (October 1998)
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
- Master Rules Set (1985) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Hollow World Campaign Set (1990) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Outer World Planetary Map
- Wrath of the Immortals (1992) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Poor Wizard’s Almanac (1992)
References
- Timothy’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara
- Timothy’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius
Chronological Analysis
This is a fan-made map. It was published in 1998. 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 1998. (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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