The Map of Dragaera
Chapter 1 -	Steve's Map
Chapter 2 -	Speculative Cartography
Chapter 3 -	The East
Chapter 4 -	The Grand Canal
Chapter 5 -	The Eastern River
Chapter 6 -	The Kanefthali Mountains
Chapter 7 -	Northport
Chapter 8 -	Harata
Chapter 9 -	Greenaere
Chapter 10 -	Elde Island
Chapter 11 -	The Southern Coast
Chapter 12 -	Daavya
Chapter 13 -	Arylle and Luatha
Chapter 14 -	Newmarket
Chapter 15 -	Whitemill/Gatehall
Chapter 16 -	Mistyvale County
Chapter 17 -	The Southeast
Chapter 18 -	Dragaera City
Chapter 19 -	Fornia
Chapter 20 -	The Collier Hills
Chapter 21 -	Castle Rock
Chapter 22 -	The Pepperfields
Chapter 23 -	Castle Redface
Chapter 24 -	Burz
Chapter 25 -	The Ash Mountains
Chapter 26 -	Daeld Mountains
Chapter 27 -	Kliuev
Chapter 28 -	Zerika's Point
Chapter 29 -	Miscellaneous Locations
Chapter 30 -	The Lay of the Land
Unresolved Issues
Chapter 31 -	Blackchapel
Chapter 32 -	The Pepper Road
Chapter 33 -	The Massacre in Tirma
Chapter 34 -	The Holdfree Mines
Chapter 35 -	Other Missing Locations (A)
Chapter 36 -	Other Missing Locations (B)
Chapter 37 -	Other Missing Locations (C)
Chapter 38 -	Other Missing Locations (D)
Chapter 39 -	Other Missing Locations (E)
Chapter 40 -	Other Missing Locations (F)
Chapter 41 -	Other Missing Locations (G)
Chapter 42 -	Other Missing Locations (H)
Chapter 43 -	Other Missing Locations (I)
Chapter 44 -	Other Missing Locations (J)
Chapter 45 -	Other Missing Locations (K)
Chapter 46 -	Other Missing Locations (L)
Chapter 47 -	Other Missing Locations (M)
Chapter 48 -	Other Missing Locations (N)
Chapter 49 -	Other Missing Locations (P)
Chapter 50 -	Other Missing Locations (R)
Chapter 51 -	Other Missing Locations (S)
Chapter 52 -	Other Missing Locations (T)
Chapter 53 -	Other Missing Locations (V)
Chapter 54 -	Other Missing Locations (W)
Chapter 55 -	Other Missing Locations (Y)
Chapter 56 -	Other Missing Locations (Z)
Index
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Chapter 14 - Newmarket

When Zerika et al actually make the journey from Dzur Mountain to Deathgate Falls discussed in the previous chapter, Paarfi describes the first few weeks of their journey culminating in a conversation about where Newmarket is:

It was on a Farmday in late winter of the 246th year of the Interregnum that [Zerika and friends] set out from Dzur Mountain, bound for Deathgate Falls and the Paths of the Dead ... by the time ten or twelve days had passed ... we are now in the duchy called Luatha / And the Sorannah? / Sorannah the region or Sorannah the county? ... the entire province has the name as well as a county within the duchy of Two Rivers [The County] is that way [pointing with her left hand] Across the Shallow River / The Shallow River? ... I thought it was called the Laughing River? / Oh, it is / where is Newmarket? / If it still exists ... it is thirty or forty miles in that direction / the Marquisate of Khaavren cannot be far / No, it cannot ... yet I do not know precisely where it is ... were we to turn around and travel back downriver to the place where the Yendi River joins the Shallow ... we might see barges carrying that famous wine down to the deltas ...

The Paths of the Dead, Chapter 26

And then they resume their journay:

they stayed wet for several days, as spring in Luatha is not a dry season; yet they continued, and eventually the rains ceased ... We have been making five leagues a day, have we not? ... The Lady Zerika ... pretends we can now make ten leagues a day ... in the old days, we made ten leagues a day without ... using the posts ... they passed through Luatha and continued northward, looking forward to their first sight of the Eastern Mountains, still far ahead; and, at their northern tip, some fifteen hundred miles away, Deathgate Falls and the Paths of the Dead.

The Paths of the Dead, Chapter 26

There appear to be a number of issues with this passage and Steve's Map:

On Steve's map, Newmarket is in Arylle, and yet Paarfi claims this conversation takes place in Luatha

Tazendra discusses going "back downriver" to where the Yendi flows into the Laughing River, and that Newmarket is 30-40 miles away, and yet on Steve's map, Newmarket is about 250 miles south of where the Yendi flows into the Laughing River)

Paarfi claims they've been traveling for 10-12 days, and Lars claims they've been traveling at 5 leagues (15 miles) a day, so that would put this conversation 150 - 180 miles from Dzur Mountain, and yet the point where the Yendi flows into the Laughing River is 350 miles from Dzur Mountain on Steve's map.

1,500 miles from Deathgate Falls puts them just north of the Luatha label on Steve's Map, which is well north of the Yendi River.

Are they 30-40 miles from Newmarket? Or just north of where the Yendi flows into the Laughing River?

Zerika arrives at Deathgate Falls "nearly a full year" later, but as Alexx points out, Paarfi is probably wrong here:

"nearly a full year after setting off on their mission". Almost certainly an error. Probably a typo or translation error for "half a year". While planning the trip, Kyttran remarked, "By the time we reach the colder climes, well, it will be at least spring, if not full summer, and thus we will miss the worst of the cold as well as the worst of the heat" (PD 279). This sentiment is not consistent with reaching the Falls in mid-winter. Later, Piro clearly states that they pursued Grita for "All of summer, all of autumn, and much of this winter" (LCB 97). This pursuit seems to have begun no more than 4 days after the battle at Deathgate Falls (LCB 50-60). The pursuit clearly ends in the winter of 247 (LCB 109).]

Which means, in total, she traveled about 2,150 miles in 121 days or so, or about 17 miles per day.

Let's look at each of the points above:

Lars claims they have been traveling 5 leagues a day and double that the rest of the way.

If they are 40 miles north of Newmarket in the conversation above, then they have traveled about 170 miles in 11 days, or about 15 miles a day, and then they travel the remaining 1,980 miles in 110 days, or about 18 miles a day.

If they are north of where the Yendi River flows into the Laughing River, then they have traveled 400 miles in those 11 days, or about 36 miles a day, and they traveled the remaining 1,750 miles at about 15 miles per day.

This suggests they're near Newmarket.
Tazendra claims they are 30-40 miles from Newmarket and that they are past the point where the Yendi Flows into the Laughing River.

The Yendi River flows into the Laughing about 200 miles after they first cross the Laughing River (about 250 miles north of Newmarket). I think it's much more lilkely that she is wrong about where Newmarket is than that she is wrong about having crossed the Laughing River and followed it for 200 miles until it passes where the Yendi flows into it.

This suggests they're north of where the Yendi flows into the Laughing River.
Paarfi claims they are 1,500 miles from Deathgate Falls "several days" after this conversation.

Newmarket is over 2,000 miles from Deathgate Falls, whereas the point where the Yendi River flows into the Laughing River is about 1,750 miles from Deathgate. Note, however, that this observation occurs "several days" after that conversation, so they are even closer to Deathgate Falls when he says 1,500 miles.

This suggests they're north of where the Yendi flows into the Laughing River.
Paarfi claims they have "left" Luatha "several days" after this conversation.

Again, Newmarket is in Arylle on Steve's Map, so they aren't even in Luatha yet, and to get out of Luatha would require they have traveled some 250 miles in that amount of time.

This suggests they're north of where the Yendi flows into the Laughing River.

While I admit the travel times are wonky, everything else better fits with this conversation occurring about 650 miles north of Dzur Mountain and 1,500 miles south of Deathgate Falls.

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