Board Thread:FAQs/@comment-25117330-20150127221421/@comment-3146930-20150128030307

Shadow at Morning wrote: Yeah it is. If it's a world map, then it is absolutely that big. I've been meaning to do an analysis on this. I did a preliminary a while ago. I'll see if I can get it up in the next day. In the meantime, trust me. I've got math to back this up.

Even if the world map is large, we don't know how much of that area is Grimm territory or just empty space. Going by Roman's map, Vale the city isn't that large and there is forest almost everywhere outside the city. Signal could be the only combat school in the city of Vale, so it would be local if Vale is the only major city in Vale; anyone outside the city would most likely be on their own and have to learn to survive from the previous generations. Even if the maps show borders, it could just be what each kingdom considers their area, even if no one lives on those borders.