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 7 - Northport

In Orca, Vlad travels to Endra's home and from there to Reega's, neither of whom live in Northport proper:

Endra ... lived high on Vantage Hill, overlooking a little town called Harper on the outskirts of Northport. It was ... only an hour's walk [from Northport City Hall]
Orca, Chapter 6

Reega lived on a hill ... called Winteroak, which was on the northern edge of Northport, overlooking the Kanefthali River Valley. It was quite a hike [from Endra's place]
Orca, Chapter 6

Vantage Hill and Winteroak might be two of the three hills that surround Northport:

[Northport]'s a funny town--sort of a miniature Adrilankha, the way it's built in the center of those three hills the way Adrilankha is built between the cliffs, and both of them jutting up against the sea.
Orca, Chapter 2

The third is probably Shroud Hill:

Fyre's Building ... was at the edge of Shroud Hill, which means it was almost out of town, and it was high enough so that it had a nice view.
Orca, Chapter 2

All three hills are described in terms that suggest they are either within the city limits, or border the city directly, so I think these hills are insignificant at the scale I'm working with here. Nonetheless, locating them can help make sense of the terrain around Northport, which Vlad describes thusly:

This is a funny part of the world ... The landscape, I mean. Maybe it's because we're so far north of the equator, or because the Kanefthali Mountains start only a few hundred miles away ... you can walk from the east side of Northport to the west, or from hills overlooking the docks straight north, and you'll have four completely different landscapes. I mean, along the coast, it might as well be Adrilankha--you've got the same kind of ugly red cliffs ... just a little ways to the east you have these prairies that look like the area around Castle Black and west of Dzur Mountain ... and the country around Endra's is all rocky and hard and pretty in the same way the southern tip of Suntra is pretty--unforgiving but attractive, anyway. So you head north, along the river to where Reega lives, and it's like the big forests to the east of Dzur Mountain, almost jungle.
Orca, Chapter 6

Vlad says Winteroak is on the northern edge of Northport, north of Vantage Hill (which is therefore south of Northport). In fact, he claims Winteroak can be reached by heading straight north of the docks, but Steve's Map shows open water directly north of Northport, so I think Winteroak is probably along the northeastern edge of Northport, with water directly north.

Vlad indicates there are "big forests" near Reega/Winteroak, which puts them to the northeast of Northport. Due east are prairies, and south is "rocky and hard."

Since the Kanefthali Mountains are located near the northwestern coast of a continent that exists in the northern hemisphere (see Vlad's comment about the equator above), my guess is that the general climate somewhat resembles the northwest of the United States or the British Isles (that is, warmer and wetter than the east coast at the same latitude, with the predominant winds blowing eastward, carrying water from the ocean to the mountains to the east).

This would create a rain shadow on the eastern side of the Kanefthali mountains, with the Kanefthali River formed by rains on the western side of the mountain (meaning the river runs along the western foothills). I guessed it started right around the middle of the range, near Mount Kana, and from there ran south and then west back into the "short stretch of sea" mentioned before, with Northport built around its mouth.


There is a small hamlet whose name is unknown to Paarfi just outside of Northport:

Some two years after the events we have just observed [the cave], Alishka was in an inn at a hamlet some ten miles outside of Northport. The name of the hamlet has not come down to us [but to some it was] that place on the road that goes by where the windmill burned down ... journey to a place called Wetrock, five hundred or five hundred and fifty miles south of here on the western coast.
The Baron of Magister Valley, Chapter 19

I have labeled this point "burned windmill" on my map.


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