Sturm’s New Blackmoor 3050 BC, 24 miles per hex
This was the first map that Francesco published in Threshold Magazine, appearing in Issue #2. He created it in late 2013, around the same time as his Pirate’s Rock map, which was also for Threshold.
The area shown is the familiar Known World area, albeit in a highly unfamiliar form. This is Mystara before the Great Rain of Fire, before the axial tilt that set the world in its current configuration. Consequently, the lands shown here are rotated 60º clockwise. If you tilt your head to the right, the familiar shapes and terrain forms should become apparent, with the Adri Varma Plateau in the centre and the Isle of Dawn in the bottom right.
New Blackmoor is a colony of Blackmoor proper. As a setting, it adds ancient history to the Known World region, placing ancient settlements where modern towns and cities are now located. This creates a nice potential for adventuring in both the 3050 BC timeframe as well as the present, 1000 AC, as it provides ancient history to correlate with modern locations.
All in all it’s a fascinating map.
Fan-made Map by Francesco Defferrari (December 2013)
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
- None
Fan Sources
- The Age of Blackmoor, the epic history of Blackmoor from netMAG 5 (1997) at the Vaults of Pandius
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
- New Blackmoor, 3050BC, 24 miles per hex thread at The Piazza (2014)
- Maps of Mystara at the time of Blackmoor archived thread at The Comeback Inn (2014)
- New Blackmoor, 3050 BC from Threshold Magazine issue 2 (2014) at the Vaults of Pandius
Chronological Analysis
This is a fan-made map. It was published in December 2013. 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 2013. (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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