Thibault’s Known World Area, 72 miles per hex

Thibault began his work mapping Mystara at some point in 1997. Most of his earliest remaining files date back to early January 1998, by which time he had already outlined the terrain for a few large sections of the world. At the same time, he was wrestling with the limitations of the software he was using, Grid. The main problem was that it used regular rows of hexes, while the vast majority of Mystara’s maps had regular columns.

For this map, Thibault chose to reinterpret the world within Grid’s parameters, adapting Mystara to Grid’s regular hex rows. He seems to have quickly discarded this idea, as this is one of the only maps he made in this style. Still, it’s a perfectly valid solution, and a rather unique map.

Fan-made Map by Thibault Sarlat (January 1998)

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)
  • Empires of Alphatia and Thyatis, 72 miles per hex
• Poor Wizard’s Almanac (1992)
  • Alphatian Region, 72 miles per hex
• Poor Wizard’s Almanac II (1993) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
  • Sea of Dread, 72 miles per hex
• Poor Wizard’s Almanac III (1994)
  • New Alphatian Region, 72 miles per hex

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 1998. 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 1998. (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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