Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20141125120454/@comment-17114085-20141212104309

(He is correct, in Tamriel's size in this RP it would take roughly 4 months to travel from Shurima to Elinhir. Maintaining a supply route between the two cities would be extremely costly, especially to protect your caravans from attacks. For example my trade route from Kynesgrove to Windhelm, with it only taking around 2 days to travel from the two cities, was attacked by bandits. Imagine how vulnerable a supply route that takes around 4 months to traverse is? Not to mention that it passes through and/or nearby other city-states, making it even more vulnerable and costly. That is why I said that Elinhir was a really odd choice. This isolation between the two would obviously also cause problems with governing Elinhir, as any decision that your ruler made would take 4 months to reach the city. You'd have to make Elinhir's new ruler, your vassal, pretty autonomous so he wouldn't rely on Ranubis to make all the decisions.

PS.: For your letters to reach Windhelm and Mournhold it would take at least a year, especially for Mournhold. Since it takes about 5-6 months to cross Skyrim alone and the 4 months it would take to travel from Shurima to Elinhir, plus crossing the mountains in between Hammerfell and Skyrim, and in the case of Mournhold crossing the distance between Skyrim and either Mournhold or Narsis, which would take another 5-6 months. A ship would reach there around the same time, as it would have to go around the provinces.)