Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27276671-20160214220907/@comment-172.56.23.48-20160803165743

ChishioKunrin wrote: I don't think traveling by boat from Patch to Mistral would be very efficient.

Like, look at this map. Vale is the green symbol, and Mistral is the blue symbol. Patch is the little island to the west (left) of Vale. It'd be much easier to either

1. Fly all the way there. But would they need to pay for it? Did the Kingdoms shut down direct travel between them after they got all the people visiting Vale back home?

2. Take a boat from Patch to the mainland, travel eastward across the mainland somehow, take a ship from Vale's continent to Mistral's continent, and travel across the land to Mistral. Or 3: there is regular ferry service between Patch and mainland Vale (that's my headcanon anyway; like the ferries between mainland Massachusetts and Martha's Vineyard/Nantucket; also it makes sense v/c Vale's combat school (Signal) is on the island). The insignia of Vale on that map is obscuring a mountain range that separates the east coast of Vale's continent and Vale's coast on the west, which would make hoofing it to the east coast to catch a boat difficult as well as dangerous due to the general dangers of crossing a mountain range as well as Grimm in the wilderness. Combine that with Torchwick's map of Vale from V1 (doing this on mobile, idk how to insert pictures) showing Vale's boundaries to be completely on the west side of the aforementioned mountain range, making that mountain range one of the "natural barriers" mentioned in WoR: Kingdoms.

Short version: easiest, most efficient way to get from Patch to Mistral is to take a ferry from Patch to Vale, then catch a flight to Mistral. All of this, of course, assuming there's still regular ttavel between the Kingdoms after the clusterfuck that was the end of V3.

-He who is AWESOME

PS: I currently have that map as the background on my laptop.