by Nai'shee on May 11th, 2012, 1:01 pm
I don't know why there's no Nyka in a chart, but if you're walking/riding I would take a distance from Ravok, 2125 miles. I know it's more than original distance, but consider the fact Zeltiva is rounded by mountains and sea. If you're coming walking/riding something it will take you a while more than straight distance. I don't know how fast is your character and how good in wilderness survival (and you should have him good in that one, because character can die if he sets for a journey without skill). Take some distance. For example, say he can walk 10 miles per day. Then he'll be off for 212 days, which is around two and half season (that's just an example). If he/she rides a horse it will be much much faster, like one season and some, or even less (an example too, haven't checked the actual speed or counted anything).
You can also come by ship, since your town is port town too. You should find somebody sailing from there, willing to be payed to take you to Zeltiva. It will probably be much faster than going by lend, but they're the ones who'll tell you the actual speed. If you can't find anybody you can ask your domain storyteller if you could lend NPC crew and their ship to take you there, he'll probably allow you, but if he/she doesn't you can always learn a bit about sailing and do it yourself (but boats are expensive, trust me, I'm trying to buy one for a while XD).
However, those people on chat have a point. Why spend so much time if you can already be in Zeltiva? You can always do loads of flashbacks in Nyka, with your characters father or whatever you wanted, or with whoever you wanted. Don't risk your characters life, waste your time and will on something you don't have a reason to do. Just start in Zeltiva (I recommend you to start as if you have arrived in Winter or earlier, because of Djed storm that happened on 1st of spring, it would be hard to survive it in wilderness or sea, and we're trying to make things as realistic as possible here) and do flashbacks in Nyka, taking out the time it took you to travel.