In September 2026, Emma posted an art update to DeviantArt for her Azcan Empire map from three years before. She explained the changes as follows: The two main changes from the v1 map are a) I changed the roads, trails, and sea routes to follow gentle curves rather than straight lines, and b) I redid the hex art for the jungle (including light jungle and hills with jungle).

Here it is: Simone Neri’s famous Norwold map. Forged on the Italian MMB, later tempered on the MMB, and once finalised, left as a wonderful resource for the community. The history of this map is rather involved and even a little convoluted, but I’ll try my best to sort it out and explain it. As I mentioned in the post for the previous…

After his Denagoth migration maps in early 2006, Simone returned mid-year with a new map: the town of Threshold and its surroundings in northern Karameikos. Again, he posted it to the Mystara Message Board, where he commented: Days ago, I made a map of Threshold region, based on all (to my knowledge) canon sources. Here’s the map; I apologize for the odd scale, but I simply used a x3 zoom on the GAZ1 map.

The third iteration of Simone’s Norwold mostly involved minor tweaks to dominion sizes and positions. The main revision was in the south. In Simone’s own words (translated by Google Translate): ... guided by your suggestions, I’ve permanently removed Eastern March from Norwold and slightly reorganized the southern domains (otherwise we’d have been left with a hole). After this map, the conversation moved on to demographics — Simone’s primary interest.

Just two days after sharing his first pass at Norwold’s dominions, Simone was back with version 2. He explained in his post on the Italian MMB (translation via Google Translate, with apologies): So, gentlemen, here’s the new map with the locations modified according to your instructions and a few of my own suggestions. I’d like to hear some opinions; in particular, I’m still very unsure about the location of the Valley of Two Lakes (Maltus Fharo).

As I noted previously, with the toponyms largely done, Simone next moved to the onerous task of sorting through Norwold’s surprisingly many dominions. He introduced his first pass at this with the following comment (translation via Google Translate as always): Let’s move on to the placement of the fiefdoms. I’ll start with those whose locations we have some clue about, and then move on to the others.

Like its predecessor, Simone’s second ethnographical map of Norwold was another rough map to illustrate the ongoing conversation on the Italian MMB. He posted it in early May 2006, in the midst of a detailed discussion about revising the names of Norwold cultures. It provided a nice general overview of his thinking at the time. He described it in his post as follows (translation via Google Translate, with apologies as usual):

Just a few days after posting his first labelled version, Norwold 1.4, Simone shared an updated 1.5 map with even more labels. He also incorporated revisions that Michele and others had proposed on the Italian MMB. Among Michele’s suggestions were the change from White Sea to Norzee; the naming of Heldland after the Joshuan’s Almanac river in that region; and a general agreement to using fan-created names where official maps were blank.

This map followed directly on from Simone’s 1.3 map and his first ethnographic map of Norwold, in late April 2006. It was his first pass at a properly labelled map, and he added a lot of geographic and political names. Although these remained a fraction of what the final map would eventually get, nonetheless it had taken a long discussion to get this far, and it was a major achievement for Simone and his collaborators on the Italian MMB.

This map was a work-in-progress step in the development of Simone’s Norwold map. He posted it in response to Mariano “Morgoth” Comense’s marked up version of his version 1.3 political map, during involved discussions in his Norwold demographics thread on the Italian MMB. Simone explained (translation by Google Chrome, with apologies for any errors): I finally had some time to get my hands on the Norwold map again.

In March 2009, Simone shared an English translation of his MGAZ1 The Central Altan Tepes PDF. He included this detailed map of the area, and even provided it as a separate download. As he explained in his post at The Piazza: I've managed to finish the English translation (and pdf version) of my "Central Altan Tepes mini-gaz", which I wrote a couple of years ago as the setting of an Italian adventure written by a friend of mine…

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