Monday, September 8, 2025

Revisiting Skaro

I originally posted these maps in 2018, but I came across them again and thought they were worth re-sharing. For those of you not familiar with Doctor Who lore (it's at least possible somebody reading this isn't!), Skaro is the homeworld of those plunger-armed, shrill-voiced robotic monsters, the Daleks.

According to the map, first appearing in The Dalek Book (1964), Skaro is almost AD&D Outer Plane weird. Check out the named locales here:


Seas of Rust, Ooze, and Acid. The Lake of Mutations. The Radiation Range. All pretty dire stuff. Also, don't miss the note on the giant "serpents" of Darren that are really mutated earthworms!

If that's not enough, subterranean Skaro, is just as weird:




1 comment:

Yomikoma said...

Funny that this author coined “icano” in 1964 but it didn’t catch on in the scientific world which uses “cryovolcano” for this phenomenon on Europa and elsewhere. “Cryovolcano” is apparently from 1987.