seaon's puzzles

Inspired by a comment I made in Crosscord... what weird cities you have, New Jersey. - seaon

This is a puzzle constructed as part of the Secret Snowflake game being done in the Crosscord server on Discord! This puzzle is my submission for  sdbrody , who requested a med-hard puzzle with a fantasy fiction theme! - anonymous (although it shouldn't be too hard to figure out who I am)