There's a good reason for that. It is!

Free League issued a fresh Kickstarter update for their forthcoming "Mythic Carpathia" setting for the Vaesen RPG earlier today. In that are a couple of images of maps that will be coming in that supplement. Those images are linked to higher-res versions, there are folks here I'm sure who would like to see them. The regional map is truly wonderful to my eyes! The KS link to find the two new maps is here.

Slightly surprised to find the comments earlier suggesting Greyhawk was the first world setting in/around 1979, given that Judges Guild's Wilderlands of High Fantasy setting was first published in 1977, along with City State of the Invincible Overlord. I mention these, because they were parts of the first world setting I bought for D&D as soon as they were available in the UK, in 1977-78, and there was nothing else like them for D&D at that time. They really were astonishing products, and expanded my thinking about large-scale settings considerably, and how they could be created and mapped, because of course they had lots of large paper maps! Everything published subsequently that I've seen, while having pros and cons, I've always been mentally comparing their impact on me with what "Wilderlands" had been. Probably unfair, but accurate!

And I forgot to mention that next time's mapping is to be for a location in Statrippe, Artemisia, where I've already found a curious small island just offshore with a ruined castle...

So finally, these maps have now been sent of to Remy for inclusion in the Atlas. Nothing much to add to what was last mentioned here about them, although for those interested, the three PDF files of notes for the set are here: