Ferelden travel: distances and times
Methodology at the bottom if you care about that sort of thing or want to argue.
End point -> End point -> real travel time (in days unless noted)
South Reach -> Dalish Camp -> 5.6
South Reach -> Lothering -> 5.1
Denerim -> Vigil’s Keep -> 3.4
Denerim -> South Reach -> 5.6
Denerim -> Dragon’s Peak -> 1.7
Highever -> West Hill -> 4.9
Lake Calenhad Docks -> West Hill -> 2.8
Lake Calenhad Docks -> Gherlen’s Pass -> 2.8
Lake Calenhad Docks -> Lothering -> 9.0
Ruins -> Heart of the Forest -> 4.5
Heart of the Forest -> Dalish Camp -> 4.2
Gwaren -> Dalish Camp -> 11.0
Orzammar -> Gherlen’s Pass -> 3.7Â
(Also distance from Orzammar to Ortan Thaig and Aeducan Thaig via Caridin’s Cross)
Lothering -> Ostagar -> 3.6Â
(Also distance from beginning to end of Dead Trenches)
Flemeth’s Hut -> Ostagar -> 2.1 to get there but only 1.5 to get back with Morrigan’s help
(Also distance from beginning to end of Anvil of the Void)
Redcliffe Village -> Lothering -> 5.6
Redcliffe Village -> Gherlen’s Pass -> 5.4Â
(Also distance from beginning to end of Ortan Thaig and Aeducan Thaig)
Highever -> Vigil’s Keep -> 5.6
Amaranthine -> Vigil’s Keep -> 1.7
Haven -> Rainesfere/Sulcher’s Pass -> 4.5
Redcliffe Village -> Rainesfere/Sulcher’s Pass -> 1.7
Honnleath -> Temple -> 7.6
Honnleath -> Redcliffe Village -> 5.6
Lake Calenhad Docks -> Kinloch Hold-> 3 hours by rowboat
Redcliffe Castle -> Kinloch Hold -> 5 hours by sailboat
Redcliffe Village -> Redcliffe Castle -> the map makes no sense here, so let’s call it an hour’s walk.  Isolde certainly didn’t run 22.5 miles in that outfit.Â
Some aggregate distances:
Highever -> Ostagar -> 20.3 through West Hill, Calenhad Docks, Lothering
Denerim -> Haven -> 23.9 via West Road through Redcliffe, Rainesfere, Sulcher’s Pass
Denerim -> Redcliffe -> 16.3
Flemeth’s Hut -> Lothering -> 5.7
Redcliffe Castle -> Haven -> 6.2
Redcliffe -> Denerim -> 4.5 forced march via West Road
Methodology: using the map and scale included in the RPG guide, I came up with inch measurements for the distances on provided roads or, where roads aren’t shown (like to and from Haven and Honnleath) where it would seem natural to travel, like along a river. Deep Roads calculations were taken mostly based on the fact that in The Stolen Throne and The Calling the entrance Maric and co. use is somewhere not too far from West Hill and they come across Ortan Thaig after a few days, so it’s not like all those abandoned thaigs are neatly nestled under Orzammar.  Once I had scaled the Ortan Thaig map to fit that, I scaled the others appropriately, figured out how they’d all line up, and went from there.
I tried to get really ambitious and calculate Mercator projection compensation (where the map gets more distorted longitudinally the closer you get to the poles) but that’s a whole lot of math that I haven’t used in like twenty years so, no, that didn’t work out.
From that I calculated the distance in miles (D).
I then assigned a difficulty rating (X) from 1.0 to 2.0: the higher the number, the more difficult the travel. Â Up to Haven? Â 2.0. Â Along the West Road between Denerim and South Reach? Â 1.0.
Travel time (V) is calculated by using accounts from various population migrations in Europe and North America (not forced/death marches) where most people traveled on foot over varied terrain and averaged 20 miles per day.  Forced marches on roads go at about 70-75 miles per day, cross-country forced marches go at about 55-60 miles per day.
Sailboats travel at approximately 16 mph, rowboats at approximately 2 mph with an experienced rower, and horses at about 30 miles per day over long distances.
So the formula works out like this: (D/V) * X = real travel time (in days).
You may want to vary these calculations for bad weather by adding an additional difficulty multiplier.  For example, I assume there will not be snow along the road from Ostagar to Lothering.  I also assume there’s snow, but not a blizzard, in the Frostbacks.
I’m only providing end points and real travel times in this post because I’ll be damned if I can figure out how to get tumblr to manage a table without shitting the bed.  I’ll screencap my spreadsheet and post my whacked-out lined-up maps of the Brecilian Forest and Deep Roads later (maybe not today; I have miles to go before I sleep) and add them to this post or a new one that will link back to this one.
Here’s the link to the post with the spreadsheet and maps of the Deep Roads and Brecilian Forest.
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