Where the Heart of Anti-Shurtugal Rises Again.

I don't think Alagaesia was every described as a continent. Only a "land". This area would have to a little bit more eastwards than I depict, because the lake/ocean at the north of it doesn't line up at all with the Alagaesia map (unless it's meant to be lake Eldor, which seems doubtful). I don't imagine it's all that far away though since we have the same river and we don't even see the end of the river on these maps, it's pretty long to start with and this is presumably nowhere near an ocean. Describing Alagaesia as distant still checks out even if the maps are pushed right up against each other though, as there's a big honking desert between this place and the human empire there. I do recall Eragon reflects that he's leaving Alagaesia when he first enters the desert in the first book. Or maybe he just says he's leaving the empire. I can't be assed to check. My point is if Alagaesia is taken to mean the human nation on the coast (which the original map actually suggests by giving it the same font as Surda, the Beor Mountains, Elfland and Hadrac Desert) than it can pretty easily be described as distant from here.