Henadic Theologian
Legend
"The Realm" of the D&D Cartoon can locate on the continent of Faerun.
The "Great Glaciers" at the N of the Realm, are the Great Glacier of Faerun, N of Vaasa, Damara, and Narfell.
Here, "Alicorn Sea" appears to be a local name for Mirror Lake, W from Vaasa. Sometimes freshwater bodies are called "seas". Mirror Lake is missing from some maps of Faerun that only depict a simplified Pelauvir River. In an earlier post I hypothesize the Icelace Lake as "Alicorn Sea", but having seen this recent 5e map below, Mirror Lake seems likelier to be the "Alicorn Sea" on the E of the Realm map.
Then the "Waste Lands" at the W of the Realm map is the Tortured Lands in Faerun.
The local "Fire Mountains" and other mountainous areas are parts of the mountain range of the West Galena Mountains.
The Abyss is some local phenomenon relating to the mountain range, perhaps a rift valley, or a sinkhole collapsed into the Underdark.
The "Sea of Sorrows" seems a shallow wetland, ambiguously mapped as land or water. Even Mirror Lake is ignored in some maps. These waterbodies may be seasonal, having more notable water levels when the icy areas of the Great Glacier thaw.
Thus the "Far West" is NW Faerun, including the Sword Coast and the elven High Forest that is part of the wider forest area that is "The Forest at the Edge of the [Known] World".
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Map from ForgottenRealms FandomCom, made by Mike Schley.
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Mike Schley is the cartographer who did the official WotC map for NW Faerun for the 5e Sword Coast setting. So this map with Mirror Lake is either official or quasi official.
Note, even official maps of Faerun, across the D&D editions, have numerous discrepancies of terrain, watercourses, distortions of distance, and even alternate locations. Inworld, consider the discrepancies between maps as the result of medieval maps generally trying to make sense of multiple conflictive sources plus conjecture about the sources.
The maps of the Realm, such as the one below by Ian Johnson, are themselves fan creations that are piecing together information from the Cartoon. These fan maps are estimations and conjectures and conflict with each other. The Realm can easily be in Faerun and S from the Great Glacier.
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No it can't because the sky doesn't match either, The Realm had no Selune with Selune's tears and it had like 5 moons or something.
Look I assumed before I watched the cartoon that it was either set in FR or generic enough to put it there, but after I watched it, it was clearly uncompatible.
Honestly this is the kind of lore slopiness I expect from the D&D team now, canon is just something they can steal memberries from for marketing, not something that they care about or see of value to a setting.
They choose to learn the hard way. Star Trek also took this approach with Discovery and we see what that did to the Star Trek fandom, massive splits. Now for Star Trek Academy they have canon police and deputy canon police, they are mostly more careful with canon having been burn badly by careless handling of canon previously (Klingons now look like Klingons again).