Titan legs??????????? RBY made it to wall maria within one day.
(Is that you, punctuation anon?)
It’s true that RBY were able to make it to Wall Maria in a day, but they didn’t have as far to travel as Grisha did. They also had their titan forms to rely on. True, Grisha did too. But Grisha was traveling through inhabited land.
The map below has been floating around for some time. I think it first appeared on Reddit, and then calorescence published it. It provides a good idea of the dimensions of the walled world.
The inset map shows the real proportions, and the small text below Nedlay lets us know that the area within the walls was initially 30% larger than modern day France.
Tracing Grisha’s steps, he went from Shiganshina, at the bottom on the map, to Sina and possibly north of Orvud to kill the Reiss family. That could easily be 730 kilometers.
According to Eren’s memory, he met Shadis the same day he escaped from the cave. I just can’t imagine he made it back to Shiganshina or Trost in a day.
This map also gives us an idea of where Reiner and Bertholt fought the Survey Corps. It was northwest of Shiganshina, south of Chlorba district. We can get a rough idea of how far they travelled to rest atop the wall in Shiganshina.
I remember studying this map a few months ago. If RBY were trying to escape the walls and head back to their village, there was no reason to travel into the ruins of Shiganshina. They could’ve hopped the wall at any point.
The only thing I could figure is that 1.) They took a side trip to find Eren’s basement or 2.) They took advantage of the abandoned city to stock up on supplies for their journey. I think the latter is more likely.