17 August 2025

LoZompatore’s Ancient Migrations

With this map, Michele further expanded his project to detail Precataclysmic Mystara. He went through a large range of sources, collecting details of population movements, then displayed them in cartographic form.

This kind of map has long been a part of Mystara, dating back to the Elven Migrations map in GAZ5 and of course Bruce Heard’s first migration maps in GAZ10. The Hollow World Set provided more. Fans have since created many more, but I believe this to be one of the earlier instances of this specific kind.

Fan-made Map by Michele Carpita (September 2005)

Precataclysmic Mystara showing Migrations between 30,000 BC and 4,500 BC by Michele Carpita, September 2005 — *Precataclysmic Mystara showing Migrations between 30,000 BC and 4,500 BC*
*by Michele Carpita, September 2005*

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

Hollow World Campaign Set (1990) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Outer World Planetary Map
- Outer World Precataclysmic Map

Fan Sources

LoZompatore’s Mystara (August 2005)
LoZompatore’s Precataclysmic Mystara (July 2005)
LoZompatore’s Mystara 4000 BC (August 2005)
Blackmoor and the Broken Lands thread at the MMB, preserved at the Vaults of Pandius (October 2005)
Blackmoor and Pre-Cataclysmic Mystara at the Vaults of Pandius (October 2005)

References

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

Chronological Analysis

This is a fan-made map. It was published in September 2005. 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 2005.

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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