25 September 2025

LoZompatore’s Southern Seas

After exploring Vulcanian Settlements, Michele next turned his sight to migrations in and around Mystara’s “southern seas”, by which he mostly meant the Sea of Steam and the Far End Ocean. As always for Davania, the amount of official information available was limited, but he brought together all the relevant sources (listed in his MMB post, and of course in Sources below).

It’s worth noting that at this stage, in 2007, the idea of a vast Far End Ocean separating the continents was still at least a year away. Thus, Michele’s map is based on a literal reading of the Master Set map as encompassing the whole world — with, for example, easy travel between Zyxl and the apparently nearby Arm of the Immortals. This was of course how official sources viewed the situation, so Michele’s map is true to those sources.

To adapt this to the more modern take on the world that has emerged since would likely take some work, though most of the map (everything away from the Tangor Strait area) remains perfectly valid even with today’s maps.

Fan-made Map by Michele Carpita (February 2007)

*The Southern Seas by Michele Carpita, February 2007*

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)
GAZ5 The Elves of Alfheim (1988) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
PC3 The Sea People (1990) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Hollow World Campaign Set (1990) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
HWR2 Kingdom of Nithia (1991) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Champions of Mystara (1993) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
The Known World Grimoire: Lords of the skies, Dragon #200 (December 1993)
Poor Wizard’s Almanac III (1994) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)

Fan Sources

The Southern Seas MMB discussion thread archived at the Vaults of Pandius (February 2007)
The Sea of Steam and the Far End Ocean by Michele Carpita at the Vaults of Pandius (February 2007)

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 February 2007. 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 2007.

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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