League is a unit of measurement in Daventry.
Secondly its also used as a description when certain characters have 'joined forces' with each other.
Background[]
In Daventry a league appears to be roughly four miles in distance.
In the north, Serenia is the largest collection of human folk for leagues around.
Daltina wanted a golden sword which lay ten leagues from her home.
On most occasions when Alexander had been told he couldn't miss something, he generally missed it by a good league-if not by several.
Behind the scenes[]
A league is any of several European units of measurement ranging from 2.4 to 4.6 statutemiles (3.9 to 7.4 km). In English-speaking countries the land league is generally accepted as 3 statute miles (4.83 km), although varying lengths from 7,500 feet to 15,000 feet (2.29 to 4.57 km) were sometimes employed. An ancient unit derived from the Gauls and introduced into England by the Normans, the league was estimated by the Romans to be equal to 1,500 paces—a pace, or passus, in Roman measure being nearly 5 feet (1.5 metres).
Land leagues of about 2.63 miles (4.23 km) were used by the Spanish in early surveys of parts of the American Southwest. At one time the term was also used as a unit of area measurement. Old California surveys show square leagues equal to 4,439 acres (1,796 hectares). In the late 18th century the league also came to refer to the distance a cannon shot could be fired at menacing ships offshore. This resulted in the 3-mile offshore territorial limit.