Thibault’s Skothar Central East, 24 miles per hex
Thibault worked up this area of north-central Skothar in late 2001, in preparation for his Mystara, 24 mile per hex map a few months later. The naming was perhaps a little confusing, but likely results from the order Thibault was working through the continent.
This is an area that has seen little to no detailing before or since, making this map its best source to date.
Fan-made Map by Thibault Sarlat (December 2001)
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
- Hollow World Campaign Set (1990) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Outer World Planetary Map
Fan Sources
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 2001. 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 2001. (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.
Coming Soon
18 October 2021 @ 10:32 pm
Hello Thorf
I must say rediscovering all the maps I worked on in the period of 1996-2010 is such a pleasure.
Every day brings its new sentiment of pride.
Although i wouldn’t have republished the maps with the hexes facing the wrong way…but that’s just me.
I was really a mapmaniac at the time, mostly because i was afraid my english wasn’t good enough to participate into the developments of regions and civilizations, and I was very intimidated by people such as Geoff or Bruce who at the time I considered like a mere level 3 wizard would consider an Old One.
I even get to meet Bruce in real life when he passed through Paris a few years back. In a small corner of my twisted mind, it was kind of having dinner with Etienne d’Ambreville himself.
Anyways, I had so much fun zooming in the canon maps or almost canon (Geoff’s Davania, Christian central Brun, etc…), and making them available at a smaller scale for all other fans was my fuel.
Hell, I’m not sure I’ll be able to do that today (I hope new software would make the production easier).
So thank you for the daily shot of Mystara. It’s my ray of sunshine.
Thibault “Clenarius” SARLAT
1 November 2021 @ 11:26 pm
Hi Thibault! Thank you very much for chiming in here. It’s a pleasure to hear from you!
I’m interested in seeing the progression through all of your work, as you introduced a great deal of things that others then adopted — and these things are still being used in new maps today. That’s why I started with your earliest maps, trying to work through in rough chronological order. But I must confess, your work is so extensive that doing this has been a constant challenge! Really, it’s only by working through day by day, little at a time, that I have been able to tackle your vast archives, with all the different versions.
I try only to present finished versions, sometimes with work-in-progress files included in the post if they seem relevant — which often is a question of dates as much as details, as I want to know what you made and when you made it.
I’ve probably been a bit repetitive in my articles on each map, but I wanted them to stand alone, and tried to concentrate on highlighting the history and significance of each map. I should be able to make a more coherent overview when I am finished posting your maps, and I will try to finish my Mappers of Mystara article about you then, too.
I’m not even sure how long this will take, though. As of today, I still have quite a lot of your later Davania stuff to post, along with your Isle of Dawn, not to mention all the Hexmapper maps. I wonder if it will take until the end of the year?