Mystaros’ Taymora 3000-2000 BC, 24 miles per hex

Building on his sketch of an area map a couple of months earlier, James created the first ever hex map of the Known World in the era before its southern parts fell beneath the seas. This is the Known World of Taymora, in the third millennium BC.

James’s design incorporated his previous terrain for ancient Nithia, while adding the lands of Taymora that would later become the island nations of Ierendi and Minrothad. This all went together with his gazetteer for Taymora.

A few years later, Geoff Gander made a revised version of the same area and period, while Giampaolo Agosta added settlements and labels to his version of James’s map.

Much later, in 2015, James re-discovered the original hand-drawn map upon which his digital map was based, and shared a scan of it on his blog.

Fan-made Map by James Mishler (March 1999)

Fan-made Map by James Mishler (posted August 2015)

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

Secondary Sources

References

• All of James’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
• James’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara
• James’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius

Chronological Analysis

This is a fan-made map. It was published in 1999. 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 1999. (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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