Map Notes

This is a work-in-progress map brief, not a final atlas.

It records:

What Canon Already Fixes

The world has one dominant continent divided by a continent-spanning central mountain range.
The western side is the unstable monster/demon side.
The eastern side contains the main human kingdoms, trade routes, and most organised civilisation.
The Elven Woods are approximately 100 km east-west and 1000 km north-south.

Green Road exits the Elven Woods through the eastern river gap and reaches Merrowford by travelling east.
Merrowford is the first human town east of the Elven Woods.
Merrowford is less than a week from the Woods.
Thomas's family village/farm lies east of Merrowford.
From the family crossroads, Merrowford lies west, and the Elven Woods lie farther west beyond that.

Elven Woods -> Merrowford -> Ironvein Hill -> family farm / South-Field Cottage
family farm -> Harn's Ford -> Lowmere -> Werrin's Cross -> Cotham Dry -> Tareth's Gate
Tareth's Gate -> Fifth Umber route -> Bracken Shade -> Old East Line
Old East Line -> Kelrin Lock -> Hest Quay -> Marrowick -> Lower Harl Step -> Old Spill Road / Black Lock
Black Lock aftermath -> family farm -> Wood Elf settlement -> Karrick Gate -> Hearthmere -> Rimeholt -> Crownholt
Crownholt aftermath -> fairy circle / family farm region -> Aelira contact -> Tidefall Haven -> Eastern Island

fairy circle -> family farm: roughly 2 miles
Hearthmere -> Rimeholt: 3-4 days
Rimeholt -> Crownholt: 10-14 days by royal carriage, about 3 weeks by ordinary road
Aelira's contact region -> Tidefall Haven: about a week; Thomas and Isha reach the sea on day 6
Tidefall Haven -> Westhook: 4-day sea crossing in current voyage conditions

Tareth's Gate is the last major human city before the dry roads / desert fringe.
The Black Glass Basin lies near the dry-road route beyond Tareth's Gate.
The main road normally skirts the Basin by about 2 miles.
Bracken Shade is where Green Road parts from the Fifth Umber caravan and turns onto the Old East Line.
Kelrin Lock and Hest Quay are canal / river-route settlements west of the dry-road transition.
Marrowick and Lower Harl Step are foothill / staging points before the Old Spill Road and Black Lock frontier.

Karrick Gate is reached where the road crosses a deep stone river and the first serious northern hills gather.
Hearthmere is a tundra-edge settlement north of Karrick Gate.
Rimeholt is the last reliable Guild town before true northern frontier road conditions.
Crownholt is the capital of the Northern Human Kingdom, clearly farther inside state structure than Rimeholt.

Tidefall Haven is on the eastern mainland coast.
The current crossing from Tidefall Haven lands at Westhook.
Westhook is the main west port of the eastern island.
The eastern island has a northern mountain region.
The eastern island has a narrow highland middle region.
The eastern island has southern lowland and tundra.
Great Peak stands on the western side of the island, a little north of the highlands.
Larchmeet is a highland village suited to Green Road's base.
Kethrun is a large highland/common-region demi-human city.
Granitethroat is a deep-dwarf border threshold settlement.
The dark-elf capital lies on the edge between southern lowland and tundra.

This is not to scale. It is a best-fit map from current canon.

These are not fully locked canon, but they are the best current map assumptions.

Elven Woods -> Merrowford -> family farm should be treated as a west-to-east chain.
family farm -> Harn's Ford -> Tareth's Gate should be treated as broadly south to south-east.
Tareth's Gate -> Bracken Shade / Old East Line should be treated as a dry corridor running farther south-east or eastward before later bending back west through canal and foothill routes.
Kelrin Lock -> Hest Quay -> Marrowick -> Lower Harl Step -> Black Lock should be treated as a broad westward swing toward an outer frontier.
Karrick Gate -> Hearthmere -> Rimeholt -> Crownholt should be treated as a northern interior climb into stronger state territory.
Tidefall Haven should be treated as an eastern mainland port.
Westhook should be treated as the present island landing port.
Larchmeet should be treated as inland from Westhook in the highlands.
Kethrun should be treated as an eastward or inland highland road from Larchmeet.
Granitethroat and Great Peak should be treated as farther north in deep-dwarf mountain power.
The dark-elf capital should be treated as south of the highlands at the lowland/tundra edge.

These are the main gaps that still block a more faithful final fantasy map.

Exact day-range between Merrowford and the family farm
Exact day-range between the family farm and the Wood Elf settlement
Exact regional spacing between Harn's Ford, Lowmere, Werrin's Cross, Cotham Dry, and Tareth's Gate
Exact spacing between Kelrin Lock, Hest Quay, Marrowick, and Lower Harl Step
Exact macro position of Crownholt within the Northern Kingdom
Exact macro position of Karrick Gate relative to the central mountain range and northern trade space
Exact depth of the Black Lock frontier relative to the true west/wild side

Exact north-east / east-central / south-east placement of Tidefall Haven
Exact island-road distances between Westhook, Larchmeet, Kethrun, Granitethroat, and the dark-elf south
Exact relation of Great Peak to Westhook and Kethrun in travel terms
Exact distance from mainland east coast to the eastern island outside the current 4-day crossing

Name and exact site of the dark-elf capital
Named roads between Westhook, Larchmeet, Kethrun, Granitethroat, and the dark-elf south
Names and sites of most other island settlements
Exact placement of the six lesser great peaks and six major deep-dwarf clans

This file is already good enough to support:

This file is not yet good enough to support:

a precise coastline-and-distance canonical atlas
a procedural generation workflow that must match prose closely without human judgement