In [redacted], collect every established or working geographic fact rβ¦
2026-08-31
User:
In redacted, collect every established or working geographic fact relevant to Book 1, so a map can be drawn. Search very thoroughly:
- notes/canon/world/** (any geography, settlements, roads, rivers, distances, directions files)
- notes/canon/characters/** for home locations
redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished summaries/
- draft/book-01/scenes/*.md and draft/book-01/VOICE.md and STATUS.md for on-page place names, travel legs (who travels where, how long it takes, direction), terrain (hills, marsh, saltings, rivers, coast), and the extent/shape of Edwin's weather-working area (radius, named farms/parishes covered, edges where it stops).
- chapters/ if present.
Report a structured list: (1) all named places with what's known about them (type, size, features); (2) all travel relationships (A to B: time, distance, direction, road quality, mode); (3) terrain/water features and their orientation; (4) Edwin's weather-working coverage: which places are in/out, any stated radius or boundary; (5) contradictions or gaps; (6) which facts are Established vs Working, with file citations (path:line). Do not summarize prose quality β geography only.
12 tool calls
π§ Bash: find notes/canon/world -type f | sort && echo "---" && find notes/canon/characters -typeβ¦
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π§ Bash: cat redacted/notes/canon/world/geography.md
π§ Bash: cat redacted/notes/canon/world/continent.md
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π§ Bash: grep -n -iE 'parish|radius|vale|mile|county|weather.*work|coverage|boundary|edge' redactedβ¦
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π§ Bash: grep -n -iE 'home|born|from|village|farm' redacted/notes/canon/characters/*.md | grep -β¦
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π§ Bash: grep -n -iE 'geograph|vale|mile|parish|coast|fenholt|wystow|road' redacted/notes/concepβ¦
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I now have comprehensive canon data. Let me check a couple more specifics: Edwin's weather-working coverage/radius detail in edwin.md and the magic.md "parish ceiling" reference, plus verify chapters vs scenes correspondence (scenes seem to only go to 33, chapters to 031 β likely later arc drafts).
π§ Bash: grep -n -B2 -A15 'multi-day weather workings' redacted/notes/canon/characters/edwin.mdβ¦
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Now I have enough to compile the full report.
π§ Bash: grep -n "^# \|scope\|Book 1\|arc-01\|arc-02\|arc-03" redacted/plans/book-01/overview.mdβ¦
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Good, confirms Book 1 = the whole 3-arc journey (chapters 001-031, i.e., all covered above). Now compiling the final report.
Book 1 Geography β Full Extraction
Primary source for nearly everything below: notes/canon/world/geography.md (Established/Working sections and the triaged Open Questions at the end) and notes/canon/world/continent.md (regional frame, all explicitly Working, not on-page). Supplementary: notes/canon/characters/edwin.md, minor.md, mattie-ordish.md, ferrin.md, redacted.md, redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
1. Named places
The vale / home region
redacted sentence: unpublished prose geography.md:11-17.
- The Long Tower β Edwin's home, on a hill above Appleford; study (window sees "three bends"), kitchen below, roof used for weather-working.
geography.md:8-10.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose geography.md:18-20, continent.md population section.
- Nether Wold β barley; 8 miles off (seed-only), visible from the top; Mrs Tansy's home.
geography.md:21-23.
- Upper Wold β roots; feuds with Marsh Barton over 4 miles shared boundary.
geography.md:24.
redacted sentence geography.md:25-26, 31.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose geography.md:27-31.
- The Pellings β shearing farm, rain scheduled to the half-hour, 400 sheep.
geography.md:32-34.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose Boundary point: east of it is "other people's country" (other surveyors' maps). geography.md:35-40.
- Orchard parishes β subject to Edwin's frost list.
geography.md:41-42.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose geography.md:43-45.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose geography.md:46-51.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose geography.md:53-56.
- The pale field / redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
geography.md:57-66.
- Ranner's Sluice β inn stop, 12 miles west of Fenholt, ~28 miles from tower.
geography.md:67-70.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose geography.md:71-74, 93-96.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose geography.md:75, 97-99; characters/mattie-ordish.md:16.
- Sennet's β 4 acres old grass N of Ordish redacted, 300 ewes.
geography.md:100-101.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted's, the two Hobbs, the redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose geography.md:103-107.
- The withy bed β 3 acres cut willow, standing water, 4 wet scrapes at N end.
geography.md:108-109.
- Holm Deep (dungeon) β 5+ miles NE of the Ordish gate via the Charter's peat causeway.
geography.md:113-114.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose geography.md:79-81, 162-172.
- The Reaches β northern crag country, home of storm-callers (seed-only).
geography.md:82-83.
- The bandit country β hill fringe on the old SE road toward Wystow, where young Edwin met bandits.
geography.md:84-85.
- The Marches β southern upland boundary region (seed-only phrase).
geography.md:86-87.
- The coast β soil-salts parishes, weather that can "turn" and recall Edwin; W/SW of vale, ~50β70 miles (continent.md).
geography.md:88-90.
- redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
geography.md:120-122.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted. geography.md:138-140.
- The redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
geography.md:140-142.
- Lord Marsh's estate / redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted) or 2.5 days (drove south of fen edge).
geography.md:110-112, 143-152.
- The redacted β new drain being cut at redacted's works, struck the dungeon at "about the fourth mile"; 7 ft deep, 40 ft bank-to-bank at that point.
geography.md:117-118, 149-152.
- The Twelve Foot β a second drain at the works.
geography.md:153.
- The Thirty β old drainage take with flood ground.
geography.md:154-155.
- redacted β nearest dungeon mouth, 11 miles NE of the fourth mile, redacted's.
geography.md:156-157.
- The rim road (redactedβWystow, 35 miles): 15 miles crossing drainage on parish causeways, then 8-hundred-foot climb over 4 miles onto the chalk rim; 3 days at party pace.
geography.md:158-161.
- redacted β village with wool warehouses, redacted (Peri's family); ruled ~30 miles NW of the tower in six counties, unreconciled with earlier "northern"/unplaceable-accent framing.
geography.md:224-232.
- redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
geography.md:174-176, 234-237.
- The rim road east of Wystow: drove for 11 miles, then made parish road, then drove again; redacted** β first post-house on the rim; **redacted β 40 miles from Wystow, flat-topped hill, one of ~9 such hills; from redacted back to Ranner's Sluice by fen-edge drove = 130 miles (drove miles, not line miles; straight-line closer to 90β100).
geography.md:177-183.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose geography.md:171.
2. Travel relationships (time / distance / direction / mode)
| Leg |
Distance |
Time |
Mode/notes |
Citation |
| Tower/Appleford β Ashway bridge |
8 mi |
β |
road |
geography.md |
| Tower β Saltings Corner |
~15 mi |
β |
causeway/east road |
geography.md |
| Tower β Ranner's Sluice |
~28 mi |
β |
east road |
geography.md |
| Tower β Fenholt |
40 mi |
2 days walking |
east road, causeway most of way |
geography.md |
| Ranner's Sluice β Fenholt |
12 mi west of Fenholt |
β |
β |
geography.md |
| Fenholt β Wystow (plots) |
50 mi (Edwin's figure) |
11 days (70 road-mi, incl. injury) |
walking |
geography.md |
| Fenholt β Wystow (town, Charter reckoning) |
60 mi |
8 days post |
β |
geography.md |
| Fenholt β redacted |
40 mi north |
β |
β |
geography.md |
| Fenholt β redacted |
~25 mi straight line |
3 days (made road, bed nightly) or 2.5 days (drove, one night out) |
walking, party pace = one-armed man's |
geography.md |
| redacted β Wystow |
35 mi |
3 days |
causeway crossings then 800ft climb |
geography.md |
| Wystow β redacted |
40 mi |
3 days (~13 mi/day) |
walking, hill in 22nd mile |
geography.md |
| redacted β Ranner's Sluice (fen-edge drove) |
130 drove-mi (~90-100 straight) |
7 days (redacted, solo, ~18.5 mi/day β fastest pace on page) |
walking |
geography.md |
| Coast β vale |
50β70 mi |
2β3 days |
β |
continent.md |
| Vale β Wystow direct |
~85 mi ESE |
4β5 days |
old SE road |
continent.md |
General pace figures: ~20 mi/day is the planning figure; actually achieved 15 mi (Day 7), 12 mi (Day 9), ~13/day (Wystowβredacted and Fenholtβredacted legs), ~18.5/day top achieved (redacted alone). Travel default is walking; hired riders exist, expensive, "emergency setting." geography.md, Working section "Distances and paces, reconciled."
3. Terrain / water features and orientation
- The vale's river β runs west-south-west from the vale to the sea; tidal well inland; not navigable above the tideway; a whale came up it 4 years before story-present.
geography.md; continent.md Rivers section; Open Questions.
- Fen basin β east of the vale, broad shallow sag, begins in earnest ~2β3 miles east of Ashway bridge (long western apron of carrs/winter-wet levels on raised causeway roads), true deep fen further east; "forty miles across" at the margin.
geography.md.
- Main cut β runs SW from the fen margin past withy bed, behind 5 of 9 steadings; redacted's drain**; hatches, windpumps.
geography.md.
- **The level (redacted's drained country) β banked main drains, ladder of lesser cuts every 400 yards, windpumps in threes; drained peat, shrinking/wasting over time (see
continent.md "The fens" section β real-world peat-shrinkage logic).
redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Regional orientation (continent.md ASCII map): coast SW of vale; vale is upper river country in low hills; Ashway bridge/east road runs E; Fenholt E of vale on fen's W margin; Marsh's estate/redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
4. Edwin's weather-working coverage
redacted sentence: unpublished prose 001 dialogue, tracked in the weather ledger. geography.md:18-20, edwin.md:47-49.
- Named parishes explicitly inside this ten-parish set (on-page or seed-only): Appleford, Nether Wold, Upper Wold, Marsh Barton, orchard parishes generally, the Pellings' farm, coast-adjacent salt-burn parishes (though "the coast" is separately flagged as able to "recall" him, implying it's outside routine scheduling but within reach).
geography.md.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose 004) β an explicit edge of his home working knowledge, though not itself the ten-parish edge. redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- No stated radius in miles for the ten-parish weather ledger β it is defined by parish membership, not distance. No map/shape is given beyond "vale."
- Wider teaching range (distinct from weather-scheduling): six counties β "Six counties, everyone says. redacted sentence: unpublished prose 003); course material reached "every parish in six counties" (ch. 005). This is pedagogical reach, not weather-working coverage.
- Recall trigger: "a coast turn" (bad sea weather) can recall Edwin even though the coast is outside the ten parishes β implying an informal, larger zone of weather responsibility/influence beyond the strict ten, unquantified.
geography.md, magic.md.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose 001/002 craft description) β this is a working's physical extent, not the vale's shape, but is the only hard mileage figure tied to a weather-working act. magic.md:18-20.
- No stated map/shape or boundary edge (e.g., "stops at parish X") is given for where the ten-parish coverage physically ends β this is a gap (see Β§5).
5. Contradictions / gaps flagged in canon itself
- redacted placement contradiction (flagged explicitly in
geography.md Open Questions, 2026-08-28): ruled ~30 miles NW of the tower, but this is "hard to square with" Peri's unplaceable "northern" accent and taproom's "a long way from home" framing. Unreconciled, Working.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose geography.md:57-66.
- FenholtβWystow two figures kept deliberately (50 mi "the plots" vs 60 mi "the town") β reconciled by geometry (eastern extension lies between), not a real contradiction but worth noting on a map: draw plots ~10 mi closer to Fenholt than the town itself.
- redacted-to-Sluice 130 mi vs ~90β100 straight-line** β explicitly reconciled as drove-miles vs line-miles, not a contradiction.
- No fixed realm/kingdom name, no fixed county boundaries, no port name, no river name β all explicitly Deferred in Open Questions; a map must therefore go unlabeled/generic at that political layer.
- Edwin's home region β explicitly unfixed/Deferred; cannot be placed on the map.
- The weather-coverage boundary/shape is a genuine gap: no scene states where the ten-parish zone's edge runs, what's just outside it, or its rough radius β only membership by name and the coast's ability to "recall" him as an informal extension.
6. Established vs Working β citation summary
- **Established (on-page, from accepted chapters): Appleford, the Long Tower and rooms, the vale's ten parishes and named farms/feuds, the east road, Saltings Corner, Ranner's Sluice, the pale field/redacted's field, Fenholt (street, farm, fen margin, nine steadings, withy bed, Holm Deep), the made road to redacted (Blackrow, redacted place, redacted's east house), redacted/the level/the redacted, redactedβWystow route and the rim, Wystow town and eastern extension, the rim road east to redacted, redacted. All cited to specific chapters inline in
geography.md (e.g., "chs. 001, 002", "ch. 013", etc. β file does not give line-level citations beyond chapter numbers, since Established facts are sourced to prose chapters, not other notes files).
- Working (author-invented frame, not on-page): the entire continent-scale geography in
continent.md (shape, tectonics, climate, population figures, the regional ASCII map, coastal-town rationale, fen-formation rationale) β explicitly marked "Nothing here is on a page." Also Working in geography.md: the paces/distances reconciliation section, redacted's ~30-mile placement, redacted's field position, and all items under "Open questions β triaged 2026-08-28" marked [Ruled] or [Deferred].
- Practical implication for map-drawing: everything in Β§1β3 down through "Wystow" and the rim road is safe to draw as Established; the continent-scale frame (coastline shape, mountain ranges, the ASCII sketch's overall proportions, "48β52Β°N-analogue") is Working/author-decided and should be drawn as the best current design, not as page-confirmed fact.