I figured it was just part of the plot or something though so I just went back out to the main map, and yet again, the fog of war was reset. Worse still, the entrance to Reknor was gone! (I was doing Flyish right before I was going to go to the Far East through the recknor far portal).
Anyways... so then I went to Dreadfell to see if I could somehow trigger it from there again (go in and come out and maybe trigger the Ambush all over). But instead Dreadfell was completely re-set yet again. I also checked trollmire and it was re-set as well so it appears that EVERYTHING has been re-set from scratch.
Anyways, I'll hopefully be able to get back to where I was by doing Dreadfell again and killing the Master again and triggering ambush again (lol) and then hopefully Reknor will open back up. If that doesn't work then my playthrough is lost which is a real shame because it's the furthest I've gotten

But is there anyway to fix this? Anything I can "hack" or something? I just need to get to the Far East. I just lost basically like 4-5 hours and it also feels lame to run through Dreadfell again and collect that extra XP.