Hello people, first post on this forum!


I do not have the permission to post links, but if you are interested in seeing the exact findings go to YouTube, search "elder scrolls nirn size" and it should be a recently uploaded video, by "itspietertime" (me ).


So I started calculating the size of Nirn and Tamriel, after I read some post on another forum where someone found in the Infernal City book a quote that from Lilmoth (South East Argonia) to its coast it was around 10 miles. as well as an official map if Stros mKai with, particulary handy, its longitude and latitude. however, the poster made two big mistakes: he measured the circumference of Nirn at the wrong latitude, and didn't keep in mind the Mercator projection.


So I started doing my own calculations. I looked up a map of Tamriel where Stros mKai was accurstely represented. to my suprise many official maps didn't portray Stros mKai accurately. so I got an unofficial map, unfortanetaly, but it did got Stros mKai the best.


Then i drawed the longitudes and latitudes of the island further. Measuring the distance between the two longitudes resulted in me being able to measure the longitude of Lilmoth. Then I measured the latitude of Lilmoth and its coast with the use of the comparative method (explained in the video, could elaborate here if you want). So now I knew how much delta longitude 16.1 km (is 10 miles), at that longitude. Then i could calculate the circumference of that longitude, and then I could with a cross comparison with Earth measure Nirn's equator.


With the cirvumference of Nirn, I could calculate its radius. Then I could calculate Nirns surface.


Then, by finding Winterhold's latitude, I pretended Tamriel was a square, and measured the number of "boxes" (there are 360*360 "boxes" on Tamriel), and si could find Tamriels surface. This result suprised me: i didnt know Tamriel was this small. This was so because the devs, I think, made a mistake with Elder Scrolls Redguard its map, by putting Stros mKai at such low latitude.


Anyway, here are the results:

Nirn's circumference: around 16679 km

Nirn's radius: around 5309 km

Nirn's surface: around 354 million square km


Tamriel's surface: around 1.8 million square km (!)

That's still a LOT of space

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Btw, I'm King, nice to meet you.

Thanks King

If it helps, you might be able to use some measurements from Daggerfall's game world - as far as I know, Daggerfall's world is built to scale, and each "pixel" on the travel map is a square kilometer (or is it a square mile?).

I always figured Tamriel was smaller than Earth, though.

I wouldn't know if Daggerfall is made to be its real size, but it pretty is correct is so. daggerfell in game is about 230,000 km, thats about (230,000/1,800,000)*100% = is about 12.78%. If I look on the map of Tamriel, High Rock looks to be on that size relative to Tamriel. if so it would be pretty much be correct according to my calculations.

BTW just for some comparison, so you get the feel of the sizes:

Earth: 510 million sq km

Nirn: 354 million sq km


Tamriel: 1.8 million sq km

France + Spain + Portugal + Germany + Italy = 1.8 million sq km


On earth, if it would take as much space as it does on Nirn, Tamriel would be around the size of Kazakhstan.