#made the effort to finish this up because of all the notes from the moonrise/cazador posts being reblogged lol

[shadow-fell]

Look, a Map (Locations for BG3)

All credit to Mike Schley for the original Sword Coast map, and the 1990 Forgotten Realms Atlas for additional roads.

Notes for nerds under the cut.

So, the basis of this map is the 2e FR map to the 5e map, as they have the same geography (3e/4e is notably different/stretched). Soubar and The Friendly Arm (from BG1!) are added in from that map.

Crossing the Fields of the Dead are the Thundar Road and the Skuldask Road, meeting at the dwarven/gnomish village of Tempus' Tears. Thundar ends with the Tradeway, while the Skuldask Road continues on through Elturel southwards.

Skuldask Road is clearly the Risen Road (Leading out of Elturel and towards Baldur's Gate. As Waukeen's Rest is supposed to be the halfway point, I placed it close to the intersection, where the broken bridge could easily block off travel to the Thundar Road.

Moonhaven is the Blighted Village; south of Waukeen's Rest, the Selunite Temple is part of it. Anga Vled is a gnomish village of note, mentioned in the game as where Amanita Szarr, the Lady Incognita, was raised.

Moonrise Towers is often placed much closer to Elturel; this is based off the FR Atlas, a defunct and not fully canon map making software. The towers themselves have one sourcebook appearance, all that is said is "West of Elturel". For BG3, it makes sense to put it closer to Baldur's Gate. In purple is marked off the general area of the Shadow Curse.

Sunrise Spires have similarly only been placed through FR Atlas, but are known to be on the Northern Bank. It is generally placed to the west and closer to Baldur's Gate, so I kept a relatively close position (given also the low resolution of the Atlas maps). They're a Lathendarian fortress that fell in the 1170s, and together with Rosymorn paint a whole Lathanderian-Selunite regional shift I find neat.

Waterdeep is well to the north; Athkatla and BG2's setting to the south. That's kind of all the interesting cities.

Travel Times

From the crash site to Waukeen's Rest is 2 days normal travel

Waukeen's Rest to Rosymorn Monastery is another day's travel

Rosymorn to Moonrise Towers is 2 days

Moonrise Towers to Baldur's Gate is 3 days travel