I've also designed a pirate-campaign region just south of that in my CK Compendium article awhile back (although in retrospect I'd like to go back and re-name some of that). That area, in my Perilous Portals article exists in the region between Katashaka and Lopango (it's basically a Realmsified 'Carribean-flavored' region).
Now, according to my calculation, Lopango - which was just south of Maztica-proper, should still exist, and be right off the southern coast of Returned Abeir. That makes a really cool Pirate region just a couple hundred miles south of the RA campaign area, with poratls leading to other intersting locales around the Realms.
You can download the Compendiums HERE - my map and article are in #9.
I'll try to have a larger map showing the precise location of that region in regards to Retrurned Abeir and the surrounding regions by the end of the day for you.
Returned Abeir and it's placement.
I stitched together several maps I had, and you will note where the map from the CKC article fits iinto things just below Lopango.
Now, according to my calculation, Lopango - which was just south of Maztica-proper, should still exist,
If its the region I'm thinking of it should exist yes (IMO). Returned Abeir had the basic shape of Maztica (from what maps I can find) but unlike Maztica it was an island rather then part of a continent. IMO only the Maztica part of the continent should have disappeared, letting the north and southern portions of it still exist across a small ocean journey.
Is there any information on Lopango? A google search wasn't very helpful.
This took me somewhat longer then expected - please read the notes below the map for resons why I have shifted Evermeet south (to better fit 4e lore).
Returned Abeir and it's placement.
I stitched together several maps I had, and you will note where the map from the CKC article fits iinto things just below Lopango.
Holy crap! Thanks for that Markus. I've been wanting a map like this for some time now (the only way it could be better is if it had all of Toril :p). The closest map i could find wasn't all that great IMO.
For example on that map Katashaka was Terra Incognita. Is the Katashaka map you've created (mountain ranges, grasslands, desert) home brew? Or is that information somewhere? The best I could find was a very brief mention of the name.
If it is homebrew then I've just found a new name for my Xen'drik continent :D
I figure anyone who still wants to use Maztica can still do so with those north and south bits - there's no reason why large groups of natives couldn't have had some time to flee to those remaining areas (perhaps their gods warned them?) In fact, taking those cultures and and re-distributing them without all the Amnian/derivitive history attached might be a good way to 'freshen-up' that fluff.
For example on that map Katashaka was Terra Incognita. Is the Katashaka map you've created (mountain ranges, grasslands, desert) home brew? Or is that information somewhere? The best I could find was a very brief mention of the name.
If it is homebrew then I've just found a new name for my Xen'drik continent :D
I started Katashaka awhile ago, and I slightly modified it's outlines to better conform with the Map of Nyambe, since that seems to be the recommended accessory for use with katashaka.
Using Xendrik works for me as well - all that terrain you see there is just my adaption and therefore homebrew - anyone is free to place anything they want there (the name of the large Island is also my add).
I'll throw a scale on that, since people might find it usful.
Beautiful painting, but you'll note the map background - that's Mystara, and this art originally appeared on The Minrothad Guilds - a product for the D&D setting (pre-1e AD&D).
I should know, because I have said product - and Ed Greenwood did the book on the halflings. :D
Also, there was another product called The Orcs of Thar - Ed borrowed bits and pieces of Mystara for the Realms. Also Avarials and Aranea originated with that setting - LOTS of connections.
Personally, I think if they had dusted that off and made it the 4e flagship setting, it would of been filled with WIN. It may have even brought back old players into the fold along with the new - something they had hoped would happen with FR and didn't (at least not as much as they had anticipated, IMHO).
THAT world was better for shoe-horning stuff into, and the Red Steel crap lends itself to Spellscars nicely.
Oh well... opportunities lost, as they say...
Still, I never really looked at FR as the 'everything goes setting', even though you could pretty-much take stuff from anywhere. Mystara was a lot more generic, even more-so then Greyhawk, perhaps.
Yup, this Clyde Caldwell art appeared on page 86 -
Beautiful painting, but you'll note the map background - that's Mystara, and this art originally appeared on The Minrothad Guilds - a product for the D&D setting (pre-1e AD&D).
I should know, because I have said product - and Ed Greenwood did the book on the halflings. :D
So, it's not a lot different from the Bloodstone Lands art appearing on the Blood & Magic PC game (in the Utter East), or the pictures throughout the Grand History Of The Realms that show warforged pretending to be dragons, or Eberronian priests of the Sovereign Host.
Yup, this Clyde Caldwell art appeared on page 86 -
Beautiful painting, but you'll note the map background - that's Mystara, and this art originally appeared on The Minrothad Guilds - a product for the D&D setting (pre-1e AD&D).
I should know, because I have said product - and Ed Greenwood did the book on the halflings. :D
The halfling book is the Five Shires. That Minrothad Guilds book which I have came out well after the release of AD&D 1e. Cool sourcebooks really
So, it's not a lot different from the Bloodstone Lands art appearing on the Blood & Magic PC game (in the Utter East), or the pictures throughout the Grand History Of The Realms that show warforged pretending to be dragons, or Eberronian priests of the Sovereign Host.
I kinda like the priest of Pelor myself - I think maybe he was responsible for turning Lathander back into Aumanator just to weaken the Faerûnian church of the sun and thus make things ripe for a Greyhawkian invasion. :D
My aside (in the parenthesis) was meant to explain what version of D&D I was referring to, NOT when the Minrothad Guilds came out. :P
Its what I figured