Introduction.

One of the things to remember about Mystara is that it is not a campaign setting. I know many people will argue over that comment, but hear me out. Mystara is a campaign world, within it are many, many campaign settings for TTRPGs like Basic D&D (Where it gained popularity), AD&D (which it kinda flopped in), and others.

As a world, you can edit or add things you wish to have, and I do. While running my weekly game, I came across the “Old Known World” files from Moldvay & Schick. These are the files for which they used to play OD&D with when Moldvay was tasked with making a setting for the new BX version of D&D. They include a lot of races they tossed into their setting because they loved reading. Nowadays, you would call it “Homebrewing,” but back in the 1980s and before, the entire game was homebrewing, so nobody batted an eye at this. Unfortunately, there were a few races that at the time were still under copywrite to their owners. (now have been moved to Public domain.)

When my players traveled back in time to before Blackmoor, they discovered a crashed spaceship called “Denathix” (which I stole the name from Patrick Wetmore’s Anomalous Subsurface Environment Setting). It was a convenient name at the time, and I said that to spell the name of the ship in its native language looked a lot like the word “Coot” (see below). as the characters were looking for the Egg of Coot.

They translated it to mean “Buzzard.” which was a fun little thing. Anyways, after my team fixed time (They royally screwed it up and spent a year repairing the damage). I figured I would keep the city around as a partner to Serraine the flying city. and since I had introduced a lot of the races from “Old Known World” in that city I would start to put together a series of articles, explaining their role in the modern World, and the races as Player races for 5E and BECMI (As I do).

Again I draw inspiration from the following sources:

• Anomolous Subsurface Environment – Patrick Wetmore.
• Old Known World – Tom Moldvay & Schick (I will add first name later, sorry)
• John Carter of Mars Series - Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Metamorphosis Alpha – James M Ward
• Where Chaos Reigns – Graeme Morris

As I edit and write more about this ship, I will update this list.

I welcome any help / suggestions as I go.