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Distances and Days

Straight from the Caravan Guild's posted rate boards, which are always right and never generous.

Road distances between the seven cities, in miles, by the shortest way around the Ring Road.

City to city, by road

	Balic	Gulg	Urik	Nibenay	Raam	Draj	Tyr
Balic	—	140	150	220	310*	440	645
Gulg	140	—	290	80	170	300	615
Urik	150	290	—	370	460	590	495
Nibenay	220	80	370	—	90	220	535
Raam	310*	170	460	90	—	130	445
Draj	440	300	590	220	130	—	315
Tyr	645	615	495	535	445	315	—

* Balic and Raam are also connected by the Long Reach across the open silt: about 350 miles, but only five or six days by Guild skimmer convoy, against a tenday and a half by road. It's the fastest trip on the continent, and priced to match. Passengers and light cargo only; bulk freight goes round the ring.

The legs of the road

Clockwise from the north, about 1,400 miles all the way round:

Leg	Miles	Along the way
Draj to Raam	130	Blackguard
Raam to Nibenay	90	The wall's turn down the coast
Nibenay to Gulg	80	The Crescent Forest (Gulg is reached by a forest track)
Gulg to Balic	140	Amber Valley (90 from Gulg), Altaruk (35 from Balic)
Balic to Urik	150	The southern run
Urik to Tyr	495	Hollowstorm (120 from Urik), Osgaker (about 260 beyond), the Ringing Mountains coast
Tyr to Draj	315	The long north run; Eldorado on a spur toward the rim

Planning your days

The Guild counts in tendays, like everyone else on the continent, and its rate boards assume you do too.

A walking caravan makes 20 to 25 miles a day: call it two hundred-odd miles a tenday. Divide the miles by twenty, then add a day for surprises.
A loaded argosy makes 12 to 15 miles a day, about a hundred and thirty a tenday, and stops for nothing smaller than a mountain.
A Guild skimmer convoy on the silt makes sixty miles a day or better, and nobody aboard can explain how.
The west is a long haul. Between Urik and Tyr there's a lot of coast and not many stops. Pack extra water.