Thibault’s Alphatia, 24 miles per hex v1
Thibault worked up his first detailed map of Alphatia in late August 1999, posting it to the Mystara Mailing List in early September. What he posted then is the second map below, a bare map with just the terrain, although he did include rivers and roads using Grid’s built in angular line-drawing system.
The second version, less than two weeks later, added borders and labels. Unfortunately, this file has been lost, though it’s easy to see what it must have consisted of: the first version plus the labels and borders shown on the third version (the map directly below) — which came later, in November 2000. This last version was almost certainly a simple art update, changing the hex grid from grey to black.
The map itself is a nice rendition of Dawn of the Emperors’ Alphatia map. The deep and shallow water is a new innovation not shown on the original map, although Thibault later abandoned this feature.
The final version of this map came in 2001, with his new upright hexes art style, although he never added back the labels or borders. That map will be presented in its own post.
Fan-made Map by Thibault Sarlat (November 2000)
Fan-made Map by Thibault Sarlat (September 1999)
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)
References
- All of Thibault’s maps at the Atlas of Mystara
- Thibault’s entry in Appendix M: Mappers of Mystara
- Thibault’s author page at the Vaults of Pandius
Chronological Analysis
This is a fan-made map. It was published in September 1999 and November 2000. The updated Atlas version of this map is not available yet. 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 and 2000. (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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