Something like a pinned post, I guess
I've had this stuff for a while and used it for my fics (and my own peace of mind), but I've been yapping about Naruto lore for a while, so I imagine people who haven't read my fics have no clue what do I mean when I mention "my calcs"/"my timeline" or whenever anything related to geography pops up, so here's the main resource for both
This is the map I utilize whenever I need to establish where the fuck stuff is going on/how realistic the movements of the characters are/where the hell everyone is in relation to each other. It's a fanmade one, so most of the stuff on the eastern side past Land of Water is presumed by me to be some stuff made up by fans, but considering that all of the events of Naruto take place somewhere within the boudaries of Five Great Nations, none of it really matters. The names of the oceans are also, I guess, made up, but they don't disturb the fragile balance of Naruto's socioeconomic lore, so I am okay with using them, considering that we really don't have the info on them.
Here's the official one available on Naruto Wiki. As you can see it's certainly... less readable than the fan one. I generally try to check if a country on the fan map does appear at some point in Naruto world (be it anime, films or something else) and if it doesn't really contradict the official info regarding these places, then I also utilize it (keeping in mind the fact that if something contradicts manga or databooks, it has lower priority of canonicity to me).
And here's the timeline that I made for Naruto World. Horizontally, we've got the geographic location of the event, while vertically you can see the dates. Dates that are colored in red are for periods when a Shinobi World War was taking place. Obviously, there's A LOT OF stuff contradicting itself within even just manga and databooks, so there's a separate tab for all of the assumptions I make when placing this or that event on a specific spot in the timeline (I know that some of them seem to not fit in the web view of the table, so if something interests you, just ask me directly and I'll send you the xlsx file). I was keeping track of characters, dates and events (and just doing general sanity check) using the works of lovely people before me, so you can see sources on a separate tab.
Again, if there's something in here that seem not to make sense to you, check the assumptions tab, there's probably essay style rambling on why this one fucking line manages to completely fuck up the timeline, thus I choose to ignore it.
I guess that's about it for now? if I'll find anything particularly useful/interesting, i guess i'll add it here as well













