Dranleic location

Lingering Dragoncrest Ring
-"A ring used long, long ago in a land that existed where Drangleic is now. Extends the length of spell effects.
Presumably, this ring was used by a high sorcerer, but no proof of such remains."
-"A special ring granted to only the most accomplished sorcerers at Vinheim Dragon School.
The ring is engraved with a lingering dragon, and boosts the length of the effects of sorceries."

Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring
-"An old ring of the Melfian Magic Academy. Depicts a soundly slumbering dragon. Masks the sounds made by its wearer.
The precise origins of the Magic Academy are hazy, for over its long history, its faculty has been dissolved and reestablished at least a dozen times."
-"This ring was secretly worn by a surreptitious sorcerer at Vinheim Dragon School.
The ring is engraved with an everlasting dragon in silent slumber, and masks all sound emitting from its wearer."

Chancellor Wellager
-"He [Vendrick] vanquished the four great ones and built this kingdom upon their souls."
-"She [Nashandra] warned our lord of the looming threat across the seas. Of the giants."
-"The King commandeered their power, and created the golems." (Golems in Draenleic)

Merchant Hag Melentia
-"Dranleic's been a pile of rubble since long long ago. When the giants crossed the sea."

Undead Asylum is in the north. Draenleic is in the north, but in DKS1 the crow flies you south meaning Lordran is less north.
Map (http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130510171424/darksouls/images/7/7e/1_Undead_Asylum.jpg)

Dark Souls Opening
-"And in this land, undead are corralled and led to the north."

Developers stated that Dranleic is not Lordran.

Straid
-"So, how long was I sat petrified? Long enough for the old kingdom to of crumbled I see."
-"Long enough for Olaphis to rise, fall and fade away, evidently."
-"Dranleic, I've never heard the name. Is that what they call this place now?"
-"The cursed ones were imprisoned within this land." - Cannot be refering to Vendrik sending undead here, as he didn't know Dranleic.
-"In the end they swept them up and corralled them here." - Undead Asylum?

Dark Souls 2 Opening
-"Long ago in a walled off land far to the north."

Shalquoir (Familiar with events of DKS1)
-"Once, people tried to round up the undead and hide them away from the world."
-"They thought that imprisoning the undead would solve the problem."
-"Tresspassing into their dreams? Of the ones who crossed the sea, lavishing ruin upon the land?"

Lost Bastille location
-Surrounded by mountains

Rosabeth
-"Master Carhillion and I are from Melfia to the south"
-"It was a perillous trek across the mountains"

Dark Set
-"No one knows the true identity of these men who are said to freely manipulate dark. Old foreign legends describe them as poor souls who chased the lost art of life drain."

Ornifex
-"It is said our technique originates from a strange being that inhabited this land."
-"A pale beast that lived long, long ago."