Hey Rose! You always spoil me with the best stuff!  ;D<br/><br/>And one way to shave off a lot of the travel time would simply be to place Castle Oasis very close to the Theiri border. The castles in Nydewia are new and were made for defence reasons as opposed to economic ones so it makes sense that they'd keep some of them close to the borders. That way we don't have too much of the desert to cross and can rapidly enter Theiri.