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Eh, as it is it’s vague enough that I could easily make up a new city for where he’d be at. Besides if you [i] were[/i] still in Tembrele, there’s no way you’ll make it to the north anytime soon without your own timeskip, and I’d rather not have everyone operating in different days. 

A journey to Tembrele to the furthest north would be two weeks on foot or five days on a horse, assuming a single break to rest and going at a steady pace. A larger group would move slower especially if they need their own supplies, and even the cheapest horse will be costly for your average peasant; a hundred gold coins for one strong enough for farm work, let alone the fast and well bred ones meant for war.

And unless I throw a big enough band of brigands or monsters who think they can take on a marching group of forty tough looking warriors (your dudes), you’ll likely be left alone by rabble. Safety in numbers after all. It’ll be a boring journey up north and again I’d rather not put you days ahead of everyone else just so we don’t have to deal with the tedium of your travels. It’ll be easier to assume you have already arrived further north by now.