#17 The Mystara Magazine WESTERN BRUN The seventeenth issue of the Mystara Magazine, featuring the vast savage and partially unexplored lands that lie to the west of the Known World 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” THRESHOLD: The Mystara Magazine Issue #17#11 Issue Contents Issue #17 Editorial.......................................................................................3 This Issue s Contributors............................................................4 Call for Contributors...................................................................5 The Great Map of Brun................................................................7 Western Brun in 8 miles per hex..............................................16 The Great Timeline of Western Brun........................................21 Creatures of Western Brun........................................................61 The Southwestern Arm of the Immortals...............................143 Engdyr’s Game 1 - Journey North...........................................153 To the Mistmyr Falls................................................................183 Artwork Sources and Credits..................................................200 Next Issue................................................................................206 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 #17 Editorial Editorial Credits Threshold Editorial Team: Editor-in-Chief, Issue 17: Francesco Defferrari (Sturm) Allan Palmer (AllanP) Giampaolo Agosta (Agathokles) Layout: John Calvin (Chimpman) Allan Palmer (AllanP) Francesco Defferrari (Sturm) Art: Giampaolo Agosta Editors Emeriti Leandro Abrahão Andrew Theisen (Cthulhudrew) Robin D. Ashtagon William McAusland Angel Tarragon (The Angelic Dragon) Geoff Gander (Seer of Y'hog) Cartography: Håvard Thorfinn Tait, Thibault Sarlat, Jesper Andersen (Spellweaver) Christian Constantin, Andrea Francolini, Joseph Setorius (Julius Cleaver) DJ Hartel, Robin D., Roberto Roma, Leland (Argentmantle) John Calvin, Matthew Fleet, Mindszenty, LoZompatore Francesco Defferrari (Sturm), Micky Ignacio Ramos Robert Nuttman (RobJN) Simone Neri (Zendrolion) Thorfinn Tait (Thorf) Additional Reviewers & Proofreaders: Troy Terrell (CmdrCorsiken) Allan Palmer (AllanP), Andrew Theisen, Brian O'Carroll, Caroline Regina, David Insley, Harri Maki (hihama), Robin, Rob Koper, 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 #17 Editorial The West is an iconic theme not only for We will indeed begin by examining the maps Americans but also for the rest of the world, of Brun produced over the years, and then thanks to the influence that the Western we will look at the timeline of the great movies and their epic had all over the globe. continent and at the people and creatures Mystara has its own mysterious and savage who inhabit it. West: part of it was developed in the “Voyage of the Princess Ark” series by Bruce Heard, Special focus of this issue is on the Arm of and then gathered in the Savage Coast and the Immortals, with Ignacio Ramos’ maps Red Steel boxed sets. The Mystaran West and Atila Pires dos Santos’ original nations imagined by Bruce was indeed partially and cultures. inspired by the American West, Northern and Southern, with pistols, cowboys and To complete the issue two adventures which gauchos. In a typical Mystaran style the continue from issue #16: the second parts of picture was completed by a mashup of the BC 2300 adventure path and of the cultures inspired by other regions of the real Loktal’s Vault megadungeon. world, from French-like rakasta to English- like lupins, ancient Gauls, Australian natives As the material submitted by contributors and much else. was too much to fit into just one issue, our voyage in Western Brun will continue in Later the active and imaginative Mystara fan issue #18 with the Savage Coast. community added a lot more to the West of the continent of Brun. As canon Mystaran Enjoy your voyage to the savage lands and products placed in Brun people inspired by remember that Here Be Dragons! cultures from all the real world continents, fans created more nations inspired by Persia, Russia, Siberian people, Native Americans or Japan, and added also more fantastic cultures and people. Francesco Defferrari (Sturm) Issue #17 Editor-in-Chief This issue of Threshold should be considered a starting point in a great voyage to the West of Brun, with the help of the maps and the reports sent by previous explorers. 3 THRESHOLD: The Mystara Magazine Issue #17 This Issue s Contributors This Issue’s Contributors Andrea Ciceri is a RPG and Videogame Geek Skothar. Ramelin has one wife, one son and that also happen to have a PhD in Philosophy one daughter, acquired in that order. He like of Religion. Married, father of one son, he to read fantasy, science fiction and true loves to cook for his family and friends. He is science and is a fan of Star Wars, Lord of the the proud owner of his family bookshop. RingsR, Star Trek, and Terry Pratchett. Giampaolo Agosta (a.k.a. Agathokles) John Calvin is fascinated by the depth of agrees with Schiller that “man is only Mystaran history, and has always wanted to completely a man when he plays”. Therefore, share that more fully with players. To that he makes a point of taking gaming seriously, end he has been developing sub-settings like and real life casually. Besides Mystara, his The Hollow Moon and Mystara 2300 BC. gaming interests include (among others) Dark Sun, Planescape, Ravenloft, Birthright, Even though Sturm (a.k.a. Francesco Call of Cthulhu, Star Wars and Witchcraft RPG. Defferrari) loves any alternate world, he believes Mystara is incomparably the best for Despite not being the first setting played by its vibrant community endlessly delving into Átila Pires dos Santos (a.k.a. Wilhelm), ethnography, linguistics and history just to Mystara is one of his favorites. He feels that make a little sense of it. Something like the Mystara is one of the most democratic real world, but with dragons. settings ever, not only because of how much its fan base can change its destiny, but also Robin (at The Piazza, Robin D elsewhere) because of those many RW cultures that have Female from 1962, she began playing D&D their Mystaran version. since its earliest days as far back as 1978, soon after becoming “addicted”. Ultimately, Ramelin (Ignacio Ramos) hails from she was intimately bound to the world of Guadalajara (that is in Mexico). His affair with Mystara, because of its complex diversity. A Mystara started 32 years ago, and has an current compiler of massive materials ongoing campaign that has lasted as long. available on Vaults of Pandius & her The affair with Mystaran cartography has “Breath of Mystara” blog; and former lasted pretty much as long, but his true Teacher of Biology, Ecology, Chemistry, calling came with the Gazetteers, when he Physics, once travelling all over Europe as a decided that the whole planet should be stage dancer including house parties. Once mapped at this scale. This project is about called “The Fletcher” at UK GenCon by one quarter complete, with most of Brun, Bruce Heard for her extensive compilation parts of Davania and even inroads into in “Revenge of the Little Ones”. 4 THRESHOLD: The Mystara Magazine Issue #17 Call for Contributors The Threshold editorial team invites all fans of the Mystara setting to submit contributions to the magazine's next issue. We are especially looking for contributions fitting the following themes: Issue 18 - Savage Coast Issue 20 - Skothar In Western Brun there is a wild, untamed Where ancient Blackmoor once laid, the land with ancient ruins to explore, proud most unknown and mysterious people and nations to meet, an ancient continent of Mystara! curse and strange weapons. The Savage Proposal Deadline: April 15th, 2018 Coast needs women and men, brave and Manuscript Deadline: May 10th, 2018 free! Issue Published: by July 21st, 2018 Proposal Deadline: Expired on October 21st 2017, but proposal could still be Issue 21 - Specularum submitted if the author is confident that the article will be completed by the below Discover the history, personalities, deadline organizations and locales of Manuscript Deadline: