21 October 2025

LoZompatore’s Latitude Issue

After a year or two away, Michele returned to Mystara with this study of the wandering lines of latitude in official maps. He marked up a scan of the Hollow World Set Outer World Planetary Map, nicely illustrating the problem in a visual medium.

Fan-made Map by Michele Carpita (April 2012)

*Latitude Issue by Michele Carpita, April 2012*

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
TM1 The Western Countries (1989) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- The Western Countries, 8 miles per hex
The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 2: Into the mountains, to meet with … doom, Dragon #154 (February 1990)
- Jungle Coast
The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 3: To seek out new life and new civilisations, Dragon #155 (March 1990)
- Cestia and Oceania
The Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 4: Capture, surrender, and — death?, Dragon #156 (April 1990)
- Cestia and Oceania
Poor Wizard’s Almanac (1992) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Alphatian Region, 72 miles per hex
Poor Wizard’s Almanac II (1993) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Sea of Dread, 72 miles per hex
Poor Wizard’s Almanac III (1994) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- New Alphatian Region, 72 miles per hex

Fan Sources

None

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 April 2012. 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 2012.

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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