Sturm’s Isle of Dawn Central, 8 miles per hex
Less than a year after Thibault produced his final Isle of Dawn, 8 miles per hex v4 map, Francesco composed his own version of the central area of the island continent. It was his first foray into the world outside of Davania. He went further than Thibault, adding new settlements and map labels, as well as borders and trails. Francesco’s terrain is similar to Thibault’s, but with different terrain choices and detailing, suggesting that he worked from the official 24 mile per hex map rather than Thibault’s more detailed 8 mile per hex expansion.
This map is significant for various reasons, not the least of which is that, like Thibault’s map before it, Francesco’s map has been repeatedly used as a building block by successive cartographers. Jose Ignacio Ramos Lomelin used it in his Ramelin Mystara map of the Isle of Dawn in 2017, keeping most of Francesco’s labels while adding many more of his own. More recently, Michele Carpita zoomed in to a subsection of this map in 2021, again developing a wealth of new detail based around Francesco’s original sketch of the area.
Fan-made Map by Francesco Defferrari (April 2003)
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
- Dawn of the Emperors (1989) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- TM2 The Eastern Countries (1989) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
Fan Sources
- Thibault’s Isle of Dawn, 8 miles per hex 1998 (1998)
- Thibault’s Isle of Dawn, 8 miles per hex v1 (2000)
- Thibault’s Isle of Dawn, 8 miles per hex v2 (2001)
- Thibault’s Isle of Dawn, 8 miles per hex v3 (2001)
- Thibault’s Isle of Dawn, 8 miles per hex v4 (2002)
References
- All of Francesco’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
- Francesco’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara (upcoming)
- Francesco’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius
Chronological Analysis
This is a fan-made map. It was published in April 2003. 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 2003. (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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