There is nothing in the game to suggest otherwise.
The opposite is true my dear former Hobbit.
There is multiple things suggest otherwise ... to name few:
1) GM4Him claimed that he have found some notes, that suggest that Halsin leaved with Aradin (and his party) long time ago ... if i remember corectly it was a month ago. Logical question would be: What did they do all that time, since traveling to Selune temple takes hardly 5 minutes?
2) Minthara litteraly tells us that they were "so far unable to find the Grove" ... i dunno how long they were looking for it, but since we can travel through entire map as a single unit within not even whole hour ... with her army she SHOULD be able to find it within single day TOP.
3) There is World Map, where landscapes are lot far from each other, than ingame world shows us ...
4) If you talk to, well almost any non-civilian Tiefling in the Grove, but i talked to that Short Haired girl at the gate ... they tell you, that Baldur's Gate is "tenday" walking away ... then you can easily take World Map and cut the road into Baldur's Gate into 10 same-length fragments ... wanna know what you will find? Each landscape (crypt > grove > village > selune temple / tollhouse / waukeens rest) are aproximately 1 day appart from each other.
5) Blighted Village is too small to even be a village ... there is school, windmyll, blacksmith, apothecary and single barn ... but no regular building without other purpose than living ... also there is no field around, why would those people build windmill, if they have no crops to mill?
6) There is also common sense, in games maps are rarely taken litteraly, bcs "walking for 3 hours in the forest" isnt exactly the most thrilling game experience.
And as a bonus:
7) And i admit that this may be just Larian fault really ... Biotops!
Since even tho im no scientist, and certainly not in this field ... i never-ever-ever heard about any place where you would have sandy beach with crystal clear river ... few steppes in one direction is green forest ... few steppes in another direction are rocky mountains ... and few steppes in last direction is swamp.
Things dont change this fast and this drasticly in the nature.
The "literal transcription" is the map as it is. Greater distances are 100% a product of one's imaginations.
Lets say i believe its possible ...
Do you have anything to support this theory?
How far is Moonhaven from the Druid Grove?
Nobody really knows, thats my point.
Larian didnt tell us:
One source suggest 5min ... another source suggest 1day ... another source suggest something in between.
But there is no deffinitive answer.
And it gets even worse!
Bcs this world is not "just" shrinked ... we cant really state that 1meter in game = 10 meters in the world ...
There is one scale once you are inside some building, or cave, or w/e ... there is another when you are in some place like grove, town, temple, or w/e ... and there is another when you are traveling between landscapes, and even those are not all the same.
As it seems so far, the best explanation is simmilar to what GM4Him said:
My guess is originally the map was supposed to be separate locations.
Personaly i imagine the process of creating this map as if you imagine regular map, of any state you want ...
Then you cut anything that isnt city ... all forests, fields, rivers, deserts, tundra and taiga, nuclear wasteland, w/e ... but also all roads, highways, etc.
Then you have theese separate zones of cities ...
And you smash them together, they obviously will not fit, so you add here and there some tiny bits and pieces of forests, fields, rivers, deserts, tundra and taiga, nuclear wasteland, w/e ...
And voila! Here is your ingame map.
There is no possibility of standardization beyond the actual literal distance present in the game
True ... but that doesnt change how things are.
Also, im not quite sure its needed ... at least i didnt plan to measure distances in this game.
To me "aproximately daywalk away" is measure enough ... the problem related to THIS topic tho is map inconsistency:
Even if we would have written in stone by Swen himself and sealed by his own blood that traveling from Grove to Moonhaven (that is Blighted Village, right?) takes 1 day exactly ... what would it mean for us?
Would that mean that every 1/24 of that distance would take 1h? I think not ... bcs if so:
- then that bridge that is there would be INCREDIBLY long.
- then the Owlbear would either go really far from his cave, or those two siblings dragged their dying brother half day in wrong direction (logicaly they should have return into camp in order to get help)
And some other problems, you get the idea.
Or would that mean that ingame map is actualy so abstract, so even tho we know that point A is distanced XY from point B ... we cant get anything more specific than that?
That is what i believe ... and i believe that nobody in Larian ever bothered to think about this.
And that is also reason why we can never get "passing time" ... (again, or more like still ... relating to the topic. :P ) bcs if we would get it, it would mean that Larian would need to completely rework whole map, in order to let time make sense during our travels.
(which as far as I know does not even provide any dialogue or text to suggest what those distances are)
There are both, dialogues and texts.
You just have to search thoroughly.
