Click on a sector to view the annotated map. Four additional maps are below the main map - these are for dungeons that were too big and complicated to appear in their sector. See the index if you have something in mind but do not know which sector it is in (such as a spell, quest item, person, etc. The index really is extensive. Very, very extensive).
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On Dungeons: I tried to mark fixed encounters and decent treasure. I generally marked mundane treasure only when it was in a special place. Many monsters regenerate, so you may encounter more than I listed. I tried to note when special events triggered additional monsters, but sometimes I couldn't tell that from regeneration ('respawning' is the new popular word, I guess). Some monster encounters are random within guidelines, so you may face a slightly different quantity than I did. The maps will still give you a really good idea what to expect.
On Towns: I only marked "Not Your" items if I could steal them successfully, and if they were any good. On the other hand, I do not differentiate stealing from not stealing on the maps. My character's morals end where people's sight ends. There's lots of mundane stuff, "not yours" or otherwise, I didn't bother to mark (except in the first town, figuring first level characters need to grab everything possible before they can afford to start being discriminate).
On the Demo: The demo is the 10 sectors in the NE corner of the map. From Fort Draco down to the Honeycomb and over to Motrax Maze down to Mertis Area. That represents 23.8 % of the outside area, but only about 15 % of the whole game in terms of dungeons and quests. Some of the stuff I marked on the maps isn't available in the demo (things you have to come back and get or do) and I made no attempt to differentiate those things on the maps. Registration really is worth it if you are into this sort of RPG - only 25 bucks for some eighty hours of play (and that's just if you only play through once - though if you use the character editor and ignore the sidequests, the game can be completed much, much faster).
The names of the Sectors: I named each sector an 'area' if it contained multiple places to go (e.g. Formello Area because it also contains the Hidden Tower), but just named it after the one place in it if only one place was interesting there (e.g. Almaria). Unless there was some overriding reason to name the sector something else, in which case I did (e.g. Waterfall Warren or Motrax Maze).
For lack of a better place, I provide the calendar of Avernum here. It's hard to tell which month is first since the game starts on a random day in the year 817. My first party is in the year 818, but I didn't notice whether it switched over on the first of a given month, or on their anniversary date of entering Avernum - I suspect the later, since I've never noticed the year increment in any other game.
The order of the months, however, is known. Each month has 35 days. There are a few holidays throughout the year with special game effects. Plus on the first day of any month, you can walk right into the Ancient Crypt in the Motrax Maze without level 3 Unlock Doors.
| Month | Holiday(s) |
| Rememberance | 1st - Avernum's Birth - 0 gold training |
| Suncome | 15th - High Alignment - all melee attacks do double damage |
| Radiane | 14th - Day of Recall - all shops closed |
| Empire | 8th - Night of Vengeance - all melee weapons cheaper |
| Leafloss | |
| Icefall | 1st - Low Alignment - all melee attacks do half damage |
| Frost | 29th - Battle Eve/Grah-Hoth's Defeat - all spells 2/3ds regular cost |
| Evermoon | 3rd - The Terror - more wandering monsters |
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