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So, the receptionist in Master Locks (Nethkept Amanent on this map), claims that Rooted Hold (Gate of Sheathing) is ten miles away, which Beethro figures is "
half a day's walk"
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With that metric in mind, I've estimated the length of the entire thing to be approximately 80 miles.
By Beethro's measurements, walking the path without interruption from the various holds built along it would have taken 4 days.
According to
this page, it takes the average delver just over two days to clear a level. There were a total of 19 major puzzle levels in those holds, plus two levels with only a single puzzle room that I'm going to say qualify as half a level each. That's slightly more than another 40 days.
The Eighth's calendar has 9 months with 37 days each. 333 days in a year. So, if Beethro was walking that path for a year, what was he doing for the other approximately 289 days?
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