The game does not take place in an invented world. Every location in Ashen Veil sits where it belongs in real Silesia, on a map covering about 40 km by 27 km around Katowice. You can drag and zoom the map in the game. Quarantine zones at Szopienice and Bytom and the exclusion zone in the Deadwoods are fiction drawn over the real geography.
| Game location | Real place | What happens there |
|---|---|---|
| S.A.N.C.T.U.A.R.Y. (your base) | Giszowiec | Your base. Manage buildings, survivors and the squad here. |
| Katowice Tunnels | Katowice railway station | A two-part-of-a-day journey underground. Safe from fallout during Rad-Storms. |
| Janow Warehouse | Janow | A nearby warehouse to explore for early supplies. |
| Silesian Park Clinic | Silesian Park, Chorzow | A ruined clinic to explore for medical supplies. Utopek-7 guards a flooded bridge in the same park. |
| Abandoned Bunker | Panewniki forest | An old bunker to explore. Safe from fallout during Rad-Storms. |
| Ruined Outpost | Ruda Slaska | Home to Wasteland Raiders. |
| Overgrown Plaza | Sosnowiec | Patrolled by Reptilian Drones. |
| Rawa River | Valley of Three Ponds | Fishing spot. Closed during Storms and Rad-Storms. |
| Murckowski Deadwoods | Murcki forest | Hunting grounds. Closed during Storms and Rad-Storms. Mist-Crawl hounds roam here. |
| Tychy Logging Camp | northern Tychy | Feral Timber Wolves. |
| Ruined Military Checkpoint | Muchowiec airfield | A three-wave fight: Heavy Enforcers, then Security Turrets, then Scavengers. |
| Flipped Supply Caravan | Katowice west | A caravan to scavenge, guarded by Reptilian Scrappers. |
| Silesian Library Ruins | Katowice centre | Ruins of the city library. |
| Sector-03 Coal Vaults | Wujek mine area | A deep underground coal-vault complex in Sector-03. |
| The Slaughterhouse | Szopienice | A four-wave gauntlet ending in the Abattoir Warden. Costs two parts of a day to reach. |
| Bebok's Scrap Yard | Ruda Slaska (west) | A scrap yard on the western edge of the map. |
| Reptilian Warlord Outpost | Myslowice forests | The stronghold of a Reptilian warlord, linked to the Shady Informant's contract. |
Random sites
Besides the fixed locations, rumors from the bar and contracts from the Shady Informant place one-off sites on the map in twelve real-area spots (Bytom, Zabrze, Siemianowice, the Sosnowiec outskirts, Myslowice, Tychy, Mikolow and the forests). Roaming convoys and traders appear on roads and in towns.
Planning tip: every trip costs a part of the day and stamina. Plan your route so one trip leads into another, and check the weather first. See the economy guide.