Mark’s Known World and Sea of Dread, 8 miles per hex v2
This is one of a set of three maps Mark made while experimenting with Worldographer when he returned to his projects in late 2018. He shared it alongside matching 24 and 72 mile per hex maps in early 2019. See the articles for the other parts for more about Mark’s testing of Worldographer. Suffice it to say here that he did not adopt it, instead moving to Paint.NET.
Mark had already completed a full version of this map back in 2005, using MS Paint. This map is very similar, though not identical. Changes included revisions to Heldann; the addition of the Isle of Garald the Blue in the northeastern corner; and a border and label for the Barony of Threshold. There may be other minor differences besides these.
Since he abandoned his tests of Worldographer, there were no further updates to this map. Instead he redrew the Known World trail map one last time in Paint.NET, releasing his first version in 2020, and he would go on to make many more revisions to that map, leaving this version obsolete.
Fan-made Map by Mark Howard (January 2019)
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
- X1 The Isle of Dread (1981) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Fan Sources
- Mark’s Known World, 8 miles per hex v1 (March 2005)
- Atlas of Mystara (2005-present)
- Mark’s Sea of Dread, 8 miles per hex (April 2006)
- Thanegioth Archipelago Project archived thread from Wizards’ MMB (April 2006)
- Mark’s Known World and Sea of Dread, 72 miles per hex (January 2019)
- Mark’s Known World and Sea of Dread, 24 miles per hex v1 (January 2019)
References
- All of Mark’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
- Mark’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara (upcoming)
- Mark’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius
Chronological Analysis
This is a fan-made map. It was published in January 2019. 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 2019.
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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