Ramelin’s Ylaruam & Jaibul, 8 miles per hex
November 2015 was a momentous month for Jose’s project, as he finalised more than thirty individual maps over a couple of days. The first set covered most of the Known World, while the second finished that off and then moved west to cover the Serpent Peninsula and the Savage Coast.
This is another map from the first set, and it’s his first truly major departure from official maps. Previously we saw how he was in the process of shifting Ethengar to the Adri Varma Plateau, and this is a similar relocation. But this seems like quite a few steps further, as Jose removed Ylaruam from its pretty central Known World location, instead rotating it 60º and placing it southwest of Sind and Jaibul, overwriting part of the Sind Desert.
As I’m sure all fans are very much aware, Ylaruam is among the most contentious nations of the Known World. Its status as an apparently hot desert directly south of the much cooler Northern Reaches has caused it to be repeatedly questioned over the years, ad infinitum. Jose’s solution wasn’t the first to relocate it in this way, but he made an excellent job of it. The only remaining question is what he did with the gap left where Ylaruam was originally placed — for which see his Khoryvian Dales map.
Fan-made Map by Jose Ignacio Ramos Lomelin (November 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
- GAZ2 The Emirates of Ylaruam (1987) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Atlas of Mystara
References
- All of Jose’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
- Jose’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara (upcoming)
- Jose’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius
Chronological Analysis
This is a fan-made map. It was published in November 2015. 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 2015. (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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