Dawn of the Emperors Isle of Dawn, 24 miles per hex
The Isle of Dawn received a full colour treatment at last in 1989’s Dawn of the Emperors, having first been mapped out in M5 two years previously. M5’s map covered a single page, while Dawn‘s encompasses a whole poster map. Terrain-wise it’s largely the same map, and this version includes all of M5’s details, but at the same time it adds a lot more detail, changing forests into heavy, light and forested hill regions, adding smaller settlements, and generally refining the broad terrain categories of M5’s map.
This map also includes villages in the Alatian Islands that were only ever featured here, and were for some reason missed out of all other maps of the Alatians. Their names are Thothian in style.
Although there is a border dividing Thyatian and Alphatian territories, one thing that was missed out was borders between the different provinces. These were later provided by Bruce Heard in Dragon 165.
Replica Map (9th May 2018)
Sources
- Dawn of the Emperors (1989) (PDF at DriveThruRPG)
- Poster map
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