Favorite? Valenwood - Bosmers rule!
Least favorite? Black Marsh
Largest Province? Without looking I want to say Hammerfell
Largest ESO Province? Ebonheart
Most people?...do you mean highest population in theory, or highest population in regards to playerbase? In thoery, I would say Aldmeri has the highest population, in regards to playerbase I'm going to guess Ebonheart.

Personally, I would love the next TES game to take place in Alinor or Valenwood. Overthrow the Thalmor and strengthen the Aldmeri Dominion in a new light that encourages people to join rather than submit or die.

Favorite: Black Marsh
Swamps were always cool looking to me, and Argonians are my favorite race in the series. Hopefully Black Marsh will be done well (whenever we get it).

Least favorite: Cyrodiil
I feel like they could've done A LOT more with Cyrodiil in Oblivion. It felt so empty to me, it was the only Elder scrolls were I didn't want to explore anything.
Ayleid dungeons were cool though.

It felt too much like Skyrim could be. They should have ventured away from the Northern European influences.

The Colovians are described as being culturally similar to the Nords though. Eastern European/Germanic influences makes perfect sense for Skingrad and Chorrol (and Bruma is already basically a Nordic city).

I don't see why quite a few people are saying Cyrodiil is their favourite because of Oblivion. We haven't visited lots of those provinces yet, so I believe this is based on the lore of the province, not the game based on it...

Oblivion is just a bad game. Nonetheless I choosed Cyrodiil as the largest.
Morrowind is the best one
And Black Marsh, I never been there but I really hate Argonians, so a province full of argonians I dont like!!!

Bethesda actually changed the lore though. The Cyrodiil described in lore is gone, Tiber Septim just CHIM'd it away or something.

Favorite province: Skyrim
Least favorite: Cyrodiil, because of the execution of it in Oblivion. Might change if they re-visit the province later.
Largest province: In lore Cyrodiil is the largest province as far as I know.
Largest ESO faction landmass: No idea.
Most populated ESO faction: No idea.

I thought the Cyrodiil family in Riverwood looked good. Their olive complexion is more how I imagine Imperials to look rather than the Imperials in Oblivion. But then I give full marks to Bethesda on the races in Skyrim as they put so much effort into them that they all look great. Even the Khajiit have gone to look amazing that I'm tempted to play as one on account. Better than the Khajiit I saw for TESO which looked like a bent up little feeble looking thing.

Favourite Province-Valenwood.
Least Fav Province-High Rock.
Largest-Cyrodiil
Largest in ESO-I assume it'll all be the same size as they said the maps will be the same size as in the TES games.
Most Populated-Ebonheart Pact(Nords,Dunmer and Argonians). The Dominion will be a close second.

Favourite: Morrowind, because I generaly play as a Dunmer, and it's the first game I ever really got lost in and loved. Nostalgia will always play a big role in my love for the province. I'd like to see another game take place here, with the whole province included.

Least: Cyrodil, as I just never could get into the culture of the imperials. Not sure what it is about them, but they were so vanilla in Oblivion that I juat had a really difficult time beliving they could rule the whole of Tamriel. Dunmer had enough pride, and Nords have enough arrogance, but Imperials just came off as vanilla and lacking real culture.

Favorite: Skyrim, cause it was my first TES game, and i like Nords. Morrowind is my second choice, cause dunmer are awesome and i really like their laws there.

Least: Elsweyr, Black March I don't really hate them, but meh, i dont see anything fascinating about them.

Largest: Cyrodiil lore wise.

The rest, i dunno since i'm not into ESO. but id say the ebonheart will be the largest.

Oh how could you?

I have more than one least favorite provinces, here they are: Cyrodiil, High Rock, Skyrim, Hammerfell. Pretty much anywhere humans live (Thalmor/Elven superiority, WOOO!)

Hard to say when we haven't seen some of them. From the ones we have, easily Morrowind. I think Elsweyr has the potential to top it. Skyrim is my least favorite.

If Elsweyr and Valenwood were added together to make a single game. It would be bethesdas best selling game.

I disagree, Elsweyr is a desert and a small tropical forest no way could it beat Morrowind's unique landscapes and ecosystem, certainly can't beat anything architecture wise from the redoran bug shell huts to the Telvanni mushroom towers Morrowind would still be more unique.


I doubt it'll happen, Valenwood is a massive forest that would almost be impossible to go through on foot.

I never said if was likely but together they are the size of cyrodiil.

In theory yes, but it wouldn't feel like it because most of the desert part of Elsewyr gets covered up by sand storms and the forests of Valenwood are so dense that it would be near impossible to explore them completely, due to the constant sandstorms hiding trails in elsewyr and the only main roads in Valenwood surround the coast.

As I said on another thread, lore-wise Cyrodiil would be thousands of times bigger than in Oblivion. Valenwood and Elsweyr would be much bigger too. They can make a province as big as they want. Daggerfall was the only game that had it right. They could be make Valenwood ten times bigger than Cyrodiil if they want and it'd still be fine. In fact, it would be more accurate than the last three games.

I think Summerset isles would be better anyway.

Is it your favourite? If it is I think it's better to hope that your favourite is done last to make it more lore accurate. Make it more beautiful and add more NPCs and creatures. The longer we wait for a province, the better it'll look (and possibly be, depending on where Bethesda goes...)! I'm hoping that Argonia isn't done for a while, but it seems very popular so it'll probably be next...

Actually I am not sure but I'd still want it next.

The one really confusing thing about the poll is that it doesn't ask which is the largest province IN GAME or the largest ACCORDING TO LORE, it asks which is the biggest province. The answers to the two different forms of the question aren't at all the same.

In-game, Daggerfall's thousands of square miles of "playable" but essentially empty wilderness make it the largest by hundreds of times over its next closest competitor. No question. The second-largest could be disputed, because while Cyrodiil was presented as significantly larger than the island of Vvardenfell (in Morrowind province), the unplayable areas in Oblivon (both the "You cannot go that way" borders and the unclimbable mountainous regions) reduced the "play" area to roughly the same as Vvardenfell, where you could Levitate to reach virtually any part of the map in all 3 dimensions. The unincluded mainland portions of Morrowind would make the whole province at least twice the size of Cyrodiil, if one were to go by total province size as the poll states. Skyrim's area in the game falls somewhere into the same general category as Cyrodill, and I don't know enough about it to say which is larger or smaller.

As for the official maps and lore, Cyrodiil is clearly stated in at least one of the in-game books to be the largest province in Tamriel.

High Rock (where Daggerfall takes place) is a relatively small province, so while it's the hands-down winner in terms of "in-game" size, it's not even remotely in the running for the largest province according to official lore and maps.

Since the scale of the map has changed so drastically from one game to the next, the playing area apparently has nothing to do with the size of the province. All of those posters who ask for a combination of two provinces "because they're small provinces" miss the point that Bethesda will scale them up or down to whatever size they feel best suits their concepts and budget for that particular game.

Personally, I feel that improved procedural generation could be used to create the "base" for a significantly larger game area with the same amount of total content, which would make it feel more "real" than the densely packed absurdities in the last three games where you could essentially step from one site to the next in seconds. A little bit of hand-tweaking and "decorating" after the generation process could make it almost impossible to tell that it wasn't all hand-placed.

It was more of a just for fun question