D&D General If Nentir Vale were in the Forgotten Realms, where would they be?

[Yaarel]

I don't think we have anything to indicate what % of the planet the board game map depicts.

Some of the maps of Nentir Vale indicate how many miles across it is, and from there math can extrapolate the distance of the wider map. So we know exactly the size and can compare it to reallife planet Earth.

The thread refers to the 4e planet, as planet "Mortal", from the references to the "mortal world".

The 4e setting map indicates arctic areas near the north pole, and jungle areas near the equator. So while, there is some wiggle room, there is a sense of how much of planet Mortal the map covers. Hence, the approximate size of the planet is known.

Of course, if the jungle can magically grow in the arctic, or the equator magically freeze over, then the regional areas need not refer to locations on the planetary sphere.

 

[Staffan]

Some of the maps of Nentir Vale indicate how many miles across it is, and from there math can extrapolate the distance of the wider map. So we know exactly the size and can compare it to reallife planet Earth.

The thread refers to the 4e planet, as planet "Mortal", from the references to the "mortal world".

The 4e setting map indicates arctic areas near the north pole, and jungle areas near the equator. So while, there is some wiggle room, there is a sense of how much of planet Mortal the map covers. Hence, the approximate size of the planet is known.

Of course, if the jungle can magically grow in the arctic, or the equator magically freeze over, then the regional areas need not refer to locations on the planetary sphere.

The OP has clearly indicated that he meant the actual Vale, as originally depicted in the 4e DMG. Not the expanded setting as shown on maps in board games and such.

 

[Yaarel]

The OP has clearly indicated that he meant the actual Vale, as originally depicted in the 4e DMG. Not the expanded setting as shown on maps in board games and such.

I was answering a question from an other forumer.

 

[aco175]

I thought the Nentir Vale was just the small area where the Keep on the Shadowfell and towns of Fallcrest and Winterhaven was and not the whole world? Are they synonymous?

 

[Desdichado]

I believe that is from the conquest of nerath board game. I believe it differed a little for the "official" RPG sources, but it was close enough.

It doesn't really matter, though, because none of that was ever used in any D&D product. Unless you count the Seal of Kara Kul, or whatever exactly that novel was called, a D&D product. And then then, that novel just used the rest of that stuff as off-hand references.

 

[Yaarel]

It doesn't really matter, though, because none of that was ever used in any D&D product. Unless you count the Seal of Kara Kul, or whatever exactly that novel was called, a D&D product. And then then, that novel just used the rest of that stuff as off-hand references.

An idea is, the 4e Nentir Vale map is "upside down", so its northerly climate is actually southerly and relating to the antarctic south pole.

Thus the location of the vale is in one of the less explored continents of Toril, whether Katashaka (≈ South America) or Osse (≈ Australia). There is no need to contradict the maps of the more explored regions in NW Faerun (≈ Europe).

 

[dave2008]

It doesn't really matter, though, because none of that was ever used in any D&D product. Unless you count the Seal of Kara Kul, or whatever exactly that novel was called, a D&D product. And then then, that novel just used the rest of that stuff as off-hand references.

No, some of it was used in the WotC 4e adventures

 

[Horwath]

into Delimbyr Vale

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Not sure exactly what's there now, as online maps of FR beyond sword coast are not great; but I guess I would put it in that area between Cormyr, the Dalelands, and Cormanthor, with those mountains that were at the west of the Nentir Vale being the same as the Deserts Mouth mountains. You'd have to push some stuff around, but yeah - there.

 

[Matrix Sorcica]

Maybe this map?

Here's a link to a high res, detailed Faerun map: