Closest similar place to Caliphas from Korvosa?

[LucyG92]

A player is just about to have a hired NPC teleport them to Caliphas in Ustalav. I'm uncertain, if the spell goes wrong, of where would be the nearest, similar place if we're starting off in Korvosa?

We were thinking possibly somewhere in Nidal...

[Statboy]

http://www.mapsofgolarion.com/
http://cdn.obsidianportal.com/assets/162803/Ustalav.jpg

The nice thing about doing everything in the Inner Sea Region, is how well made the maps are. It looks like Vauntil is the closest city to Caliphas, its in the Caliphas region, and even on the coast. So it could take them a little while to figure out they didn't reach their destination.

[LucyG92]

I got the impression from the teleport spell, that it needs to be the closest location to the starting point (Korvosa) which is similar to the destination, Caliphas? Am I misunderstanding? Specifically referring to this part:

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Similar Area: You wind up in an area that's visually or thematically similar to the target area. Generally, you appear in the closest similar place within range. If no such area exists within the spell's range, the spell simply fails instead.

[Statboy]

Its a judgement call, I like to focus on the part that says "visually or thematically similar" because the party doesn't immediately know the spell didn't work then. Just use the maps and find a place you like. You can always look up the wiki on cities you don't know.