The eighth and final version of his North Central Arypt, 72 miles per hex map, Michele placed a whole series of adventure locations. These referenced the many adventures he had collected together for his project — many from Dungeon Magazine, as well as Dragon, the AC series, and others besides. A lot of these adventures were generic, not necessarily designed for Mystara.

Michele’s seventh map variants for his North Central Arypt, 72 miles per hex map provided information on trade routes. He produced two versions: one with the main trade routes marked on a hex-grid variant of the Settlements map; the other with the same features but no hex grid, instead highlighting each route with the nation that uses that route. He then included a write-up of the main trade routes in his…

The fifth variation of Michele’s North Central Arypt, 72 miles per hex map showed settlements and ruins of the region, following on from the previous one giving the region’s populations. Unlike the other parts of his mini-atlas of the North Central Arypt area, Michele left most of this section unfinished. He included an alphabetical list of these locations, but without any extra details at the time of posting.

Michele’s fourth variation of his North Central Arypt, 72 miles per hex map concentrated on the various populations and races of the region. This naturally led to the fifth version showing settlements. For more information, including descriptions of each of the races labelled on the map, see Michele’s mini-atlas of the North Central Arypt area at the Vaults of Pandius.

The third version of Michele’s North Central Arypt, 72 miles per hex map added landmarks and terrain labels to the region, following on from the second map of winds and sea currents. All of these maps were part of his mini-atlas of the North Central Arypt area. In the comments section below this map in his article, Michele provided a thorough list of descriptions for the labels on the map.

This was a variant of Michele’s North Central Arypt, 72 miles per hex map, showing the winds and sea currents of the region. The whole series of maps was part of his mini-atlas for the whole North Central Arypt area. In his article, Michele detailed his sources for the information here. The principal sources were the Voyage of the Princess Ark…

In the wake of his previous projects aimed at further developing Davania, in June 2021 Michele posted a mini-atlas for the whole North Central Arypt area, complete with a whole series of wonderful maps. He summed it up as follows: This work originally came from suggestions and feedback by Sturm and Simone (Zendrolion) about adding a “Barbary Coast” setting (a late medieval to renaissance M-North African culture of independent city-states) placed along the Davanian coastline between the Yasuko Tribal Lands and the Vulture Peninsula.

This map followed Michele’s earlier Snartan Migrations map seven years previously. It concentrates on the first location for the Empire of Snarta. Michele realised that the area was actually quite empty, even though the Snartans of this time were supposed to have “hostile” neighbours. To solve this problem, he created a development thread at The Piazza, with this map along with an explanation of its contents as the base for the mini-project.

This map was an expanded version of the last version from May 2019. Michele produced it as part of an attempt to summarise and clarify his theories on the origins of various Mystaran populations. It was his fourth variation on such a map, following the original Nithian Expansion v1 (2006) and v2 (2008), and then his 1000 BC map (2019).

Although Michele created this map to illustrate his article proposing a new theory on the origins of the Thyatians, it also clearly follows in the footsteps of his previous maps, Nithian Expansion v1 and v2. As such, it’s the most recent update to this theme which Michele has long been refining over the years. Due to the topic at hand, this map shows not just Nithian holdings at that point in history, but also those of the Thyatians.

Michele used an excerpt from Christian’s Northeastern Davania, 24 miles per hex to create this map showing a possible location for the three mythical (or historical) mountains of the Thyatians. The idea here stems from a note in Dawn of the Emperors, referring to the Thyatians having “taken their names from far southern mountains where they used to dwell” (

Michele created this town map of Akesoli in April 2019 by rather ingeniously plotting the encounters in X10 onto its “Generic City Diagram”, and extrapolating that out into an actual physical map. The whole idea is very clever, highly inventive, and true to the source material. More of a point, perhaps, the resulting map is excellent. He included two variants: one with city districts marked (second below), and another showing the state of the city in 1006 AC.

This was the second map that Michele made for his Threshold #12 article on the ancient history of the elves. He advanced the timeline 4,000 years, adjusting the contents of the map to match the information in his article. Otherwise, it’s a very similar make-up and style to his 14,500 BC map. See Michele’s article for more. Fan-made Map by Michele Carpita (July 2016)

Michele wrote an article for Threshold #12 knitting together various ideas from official and fan-created works. He included two maps, of which this was the first. It dealt with the ancient prehistory of the elves, in the long, long distant past. As such, he referenced Francesco’s 99.9999985% of Mystara History article. The map was (of course) a precataclysmic (pre-Great Rain of Fire) version of the world.

After tackling the invisible moon of Patera in 2015, Michele next published maps of Mystara’s visible moon, Matera. (The earliest remaining file for Matera is dated to October 2015, suggesting that Michele may have worked on both moons at the same time.) He based his maps on real world satellite imagery of the moon, marking various settlements and features such as Blackmoor Outposts and Mek Ruins.

Michele wrote a wonderful article for Threshold #9 called Ecology of the Megaliths and the Norns Cycle. In it, he attempted to reconcile the Immortals Set idea of Mystara as a living megalith with the later concept of the Hollow World. He did this by suggesting that the megalith was hollow in order to facilitate a kind of reproduction, creating new worlds in the hollow interior before “birthing” into the wider universe.

For the last map in his Advice for traders in the Sea of Dread article in Threshold #4, Michele adapted the Atlas replica of TM1-TM2. He added Minrothad’s special shipping lanes, which are the exclusive purview of Minrothad pilots. As such, it’s a necessity for foreign ships to stop off at one of the ports circled on the map to employ a pilot before heading into Minrothad’s waters.

The second map from Michele’s Threshold #4 article, Advice for traders in the Sea of Dread, was a straight-up trade map. Although he used a numbered key instead of symbols, it’s very much along the lines of the Major Trading Routes maps from GAZ9 and GAZ11. The use of text rather than symbols allowed the inclusion of various unique trade goods (the orange boxes), which was a nice touch.

In mid-2014, Michele published the article Advice for traders in the Sea of Dread in Threshold #4. He included a few maps to illustrate it, of which this was the first. It’s an overview of the region from a trading perspective, highlighting ports, shipping lanes, and a variety of hazards that traders would need to consider. To make the map fit on a single page, he used a rather small, 72 mile per hex scale.

Michele noted that this map was “an attempt to place on a map various cultures of Central Davania, especially those created by Alex Benson (Divergans, Hornidd humanoids, and others)”. He had previously posted about the Divergans at The Piazza, receiving replies with information from Alex himself in that thread. Content-wise, this is another tour-de-force research map from Michele, combining numerous sources into a single map.

Michele posted this map to illustrate his research on Milenia as presented in an extensive post in Christian Constantin’s thread at The Piazza. At that time, Christian was active in the community again for a short time, and working on Davania. This map was very much a work-in-progress: Michele described it as “a no-names, no-legend, multi layered map with all layers shown in the same picture”.

This map of the northern section of Alpha’s peninsula in the Great Bay of Norwold was part of Michele’s Alpha development project. He first posted it in the main thread for the project in August 2013, not far into the discussion. At that stage, the map was largely unlabelled, with just the immediate Alpha area named (first map below). Then in October he revisited the project with an eye to adding labels to the map.

Michele shared this wonderful map of Norwold’s capital city in August 2013. As he explained it in his post at The Piazza: “Some months ago I was going to add some depth to the city of Alpha in Norwold as I wished to set a campaign there. Then things got a little too far and everything ended up with the map pack you find below.”

GAZ5’s map showed a label for Evergrun, but only next to an arrow pointing to the edge of the map. The Italian community took this idea and ran with it, developing it as an island off the coast of Davania. Michele was the first to mark it on a map, in his Precataclysmic Mystara series in 2005, but he only marked the general location, not the shape of the island.

A year after posting his survey of official Latitude Issues, Michele posted his own then-view of the world’s configuration. This was part of a fun thread at The Piazza aimed at developing out of the way places in Mystara. It sounds similar to his Platea project, though the scale is far smaller. For the map, he used the Master Set…