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#18 The Mystara Magazine SAVAGE COAST The eighteenth issue of the Mystara Magazine, featuring the wild and free territories and inhabitants of the Savage Coast and the Great Northway pandius.com thepiazza.org.uk Previous Issues Previous Issues Previous issues of THRESHOLD - the Mystara Also available at the same location are higher Magazine, are available for download from the resolution versions of the maps that were Vaults of Pandius website. included in the issue’s PDF, allowing greater detail to be viewed. #1 - “Karameikos” #2 - “Vaults of Pandius” #3 - “The Sea of Dread” #4 - “Return to Dread” #5 - “Exploring Davania” #6 - “The Northlands” #7 - “Exploring Norwold” #8 - “Warlordsof Norwold” #9 - “Hollow World” #10 - “Elven Realms” #11 - “Thyatis & Alphatia” #12 - “Ages Past” #13 - “A Crucible of Creatures” #14 - “the Shadowdeep” #15 - “Mystaraspace” #16 - “Dwarves, Gnomes & Hin” #17 - “Western Brun” THRESHOLD: The Mystara Magazine Issue #18#11 Issue Contents Issue #18 Editorial.......................................................................3 This Issue s Contributors.............................................4 Call for Contributors...................................................6 People of the Savage Coast..........................................7 Threshold Coloring Contest......................................43 La Baronía de Torreón...............................................46 The Great Northway Lands........................................67 Kingdom of Oshkamab............................................107 The Unknown World Trail map - part V..................132 Dwarven Families Expanded - Part 1.......................154 Engdyr’s Game II - Ruins of Layhash......................170 Artwork Sources and Credits...................................196 Next Issue................................................................204 Threshold: The Mystara Magazine is a non-commercial, fan-produced magazine. There is no intention to infringe on anyone's rights, and in particular not on those of Wizards of the Coast, which holds all rights to the original material on which the magazine is based. THRESHOLD: The Mystara Magazine Issue #8 Editorial Editorial Credits Threshold Editorial Team: Editor-in-Chief, Issue 18: Francesco Defferrari (Sturm) Allan Palmer (AllanP) Giampaolo Agosta (Agathokles) Layout: John Calvin (Chimpman) Allan Palmer (AllanP) Francesco Defferrari (Sturm) Art: I. Calvin Editors Emeriti Leandro Abrahão Andrew Theisen (Cthulhudrew) V Shane (C) 2001-08 Ashtagon Angel Tarragon (The Angelic Dragon) Geoff Gander (Seer of Y'hog) Cartography: Håvard Thorfinn Tait Jesper Andersen (Spellweaver) Irving Galvez Joseph Setorius (Julius Cleaver) John Calvin Leland (Argentmantle) Leandro Abrahão LoZompatore Matthew Fleet Micky Francesco Defferrari (Sturm) Robert Nuttman (RobJN) Simone Neri (Zendrolion) Thorfinn Tait (Thorf) Additional Reviewers & Proofreaders: Troy Terrell (CmdrCorsiken) Allan Palmer (AllanP), Caroline Regina, David Finch, David Insley, Harri Maki (hihama), Nicola Valpiani, Robin, Simone Neri, Shawn Stanley THRESHOLD logo designed by Thorf Thanks To: The Mystara Community, for your support, hard work, and dedication to Mystara. The aims of Threshold magazine: ▪ to provide a venue for community members to present material ▪ to promote the Vaults of Pandius and the material there ▪ to increase the exposure of existing and new articles ▪ to encourage authors to revisit and revitalise existing articles ▪ to motivate interest in Mystara in general 2 THRESHOLD: The Mystara Magazine Issue #18 Editorial To the Savage West! Here it is - the second issue dedicated to Then we will explore in detail one of the Western Brun, as the material submitted by Savage Baronies with a Torreon mini contributors for issue #17 was too much to Gazetteer, and go to uncharted lands with a fit into just one edition. A bit of pride for the the description of the mysterious Trident editorial team that our fanzine is still going Isles and an in depth examination of the so strong in its fifth year, with 18 issues great Northway Lands, the region of the produced and more to come. Obviously most Savage Coast as it was originally presented of the praise goes to the contributors in the in the module X9. Mystaran community, who enjoy writing and reading this magazine! The last installment of the Unknown World Trail Map will take us to the wilderlands of The current issue is focused on the Savage the Atruaghin lands, Sind and the Adri Varma Coast, the region of the continent presented plateau. in the original module X9: “The Savage Coast”, developed in the “Voyages of the To complete the issue we have an article Princess Ark” series by Bruce Heard, and continued from issue #16: “Dwarven then gathered in the Savage Coast and Red Families Extended”, presenting the most Steel boxed sets. As we said in the previous prominent clans and families of Rockhome; editorial, the region was heavily inspired by and the third instalment of the BC 2300 the American West, Northern and Southern, adventure path, “Engdyr's Game”, continuing with pistols, cowboys and gauchos, plus a from issues #16 and #17. mash-up of cultures inspired by other regions of the real world, including the cat- Enjoy your voyage to the Savage Coast and like rakasta, the dog-like lupins and the always remember that Here Be Dragons! tortles. The prominence of humanoid animals is indeed an important feature of the setting and the first article of this issue looks at them, in particular the less known intelligent humanoids which were featured in the Red Steel Monstrous Compendium. Francesco Defferrari (Sturm) Issue #18 Editor-in-Chief 3 THRESHOLD: The Mystara Magazine Issue #18 This Issue s Contributors This Issue’s Contributors Giampaolo Agosta (a.k.a. Agathokles) felines. Human animal hybrids are not agrees with Schiller that “man is only excluded either; she often draws human completely a man when he plays”. Therefore, versions of her favorite animals. She does, he makes a point of taking gaming seriously, however, despise drawing things that are and real life casually. Besides Mystara, his unbearingly cute. It's a pretty awful thing to gaming interests include (among others) do. Dark Sun, Planescape, Ravenloft, Birthright, Call of Cthulhu, Star Wars and Witchcraft RPG John Calvin is fascinated by the depth of Mystaran history, and has always wanted to Hausman Santos is an art educator and share that more fully with players. To that drawing professor. An enthusiast in Mystara end he has been developing sub-settings like since 1995 when he met in Brazil the AD&D The Hollow Moon and Mystara 2300 BC. boxed set of “Karameikos: Kingdom of Adventure”. Matthew Fleet lives in the United Kingdom, He has narrated campaigns for game groups and has been playing RP games since 1984, in Thyatis, Alphatia, Rockhome and Glantri when he got the D&D red boxed set for and keeps some of these groups since 2002. Christmas. His favourite RP systems include He manages a page for Mystara Brazilian fans D&D and Warhammer. He is an active on the internet. Currently he has gathered member of the Piazza Mystara community, much of the material that he developed into and posts there under the name of game sessions with his group from projects Carillion. In his spare time, he enjoys like the Mystaran Almanac and discussed with cartography, reading about the classical the members of the Old Almanac Team about world, studying economics, and avoiding the old and unfinished plotlines (around AC Twitter. 1016-1017) in order to resume them. Even though Sturm (a.k.a. Francesco Irving Galvez (a.k.a. Oleck) Mexican player Defferrari) loves any alternate world, he since the early 80s, amateur Mystara writer believes Mystara is incomparably the best for since 1996. The time passes and when the its vibrant community endlessly delving into days of fantasy flew away with the age and ethnography, linguistics and history just to you reach the stage of responsibilities, work, make a little sense of it. Something like the family and everyday problems, you look back real world, but with dragons. and take those dusty books of D&D, and escape a moment to your childhood. Keep on playing!!! I. "Meandrathel" Calvin enjoys drawing fantasy, and animals that can kill. Namely wolves, dragons, horses, and most large 4 THRESHOLD: The Mystara Magazine Issue #18 This Issue s Contributors Some features in issues of Threshold carry a “From the Vaults of Pandius” tagline. As one of our stated aims is “to promote the Vaults of Pandius and the material there”, we hope you will enjoy these revised or extended treasures from that website. From the Mystara Forum at Some features in issues of Threshold carry a “From the Mystara Forum at The Piazza” tagline. Theses Discussion Boards are an active and dynamic home of creativity for the Mystara community and many other game worlds. We hope you will enjoy the articles that have arisen from that website. 5 THRESHOLD: The Mystara Magazine Issue #18 Call for Contributors The Threshold editorial team invites all fans Articles about other topics are still of the Mystara setting to submit welcome and the editorial team will contributions to the magazine's next issue. evaluate their publication for any We are especially looking for contributions upcoming issue, taking into account fitting the following themes: available space and the issue's theme. Issue 19 - Planes and the Immortals Immortal plots and schemes may drastically alter the lives of those living on Threshold accepts and invites submissions