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

[Eyes of Nine]

Maybe this map?

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

My computer says "nah" to the high res

 

[Matrix Sorcica]

My computer says "nah" to the high res

It crashes?

 

[Eyes of Nine]

It crashes?

Just doesn't load it. I'm bumping up against my hard drive space limit which may have something to do with it...

 

[Bragi]

Alright, here's a bunch of maps placing Nentir Vale in the Realms, that I've collected over the years.

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Thank you I've been looking for this map (the last one in the series). Do you happen to have the northern portion of the map?

 

[Matrix Sorcica]

AFAIK, there's no specific northern portion - it's just "regular" Faerun.

 

[Zeromaru X]

There is some wiggle room, but this thread addresses a number of the issues.

D&D General Post in thread 'Piecing together the official maps of the Mortal World of Nerath'

Apr 3, 2022

And sized from the Arctic Circle to the Tropic of Cancer:

These two placements make the Known Regions very small.

The second map looks about right. But it seems to mean the planet is something like half the size of Earth. In this case, on planet Mortal, ten degrees of latitude is say a distance of 35 miles.

• Yaarel

Well, the Nentir Vale should be on the American continent, as the Nentir Vale is based on Renton (Washington), that's where Wizard of the Coast headquarters are located.

I think Matrix Sorcica already posted my handmade map of where I would locate the Nentir Vale in my Realms,

Alright, here's a bunch of maps placing Nentir Vale in the Realms, that I've collected over the years.

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I chose the Neverwinter area because that's where my 4e Realms campaign was set. I even wrote some adaptational lore, if the OP is still interested. You can read it at Candlekeep.

Candlekeep Forum - A Realmsian Nentir Vale chronicle

 

[Desdichado]

That's a pretty good bet, then, that that's where Perkins et al meant for it to be then.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

How would the history work, that is a biggest question for me. Nentir Vale had entire empires of Tieflings and Dragonborn, would they now be retconned into Realms' history?

 

[Zeromaru X]

That's a pretty good bet, then, that that's where Perkins et al meant for it to be then.

IIRC, the intended area for the Nentir Vale may have been the region around the town of Loudwater, as that was the starting area of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, and, at the time, people mentioned how similar this town was to Fallcrest. I believe (and this is my personal guest) that Fallcrest may be a generic adaptation of Loudwater.

And we don't know how much of the Nentir Vale was created before they decided it was to be its own thing instead of part of the Realms. Besides the fact that the area was inspired by a modified copy of the map of Renton.

 

[Matrix Sorcica]

How would the history work, that is a biggest question for me. Nentir Vale had entire empires of Tieflings and Dragonborn, would they now be retconned into Realms' history?

You could check out this thread at Candlekeep:

Candlekeep Forum - Where to put Nentir Vale on the Sword Coast?