Is Nirn flat or round? Is there an infinate number of continents beyond our known borders?

Nirn isn't flat, there are plenty of other continents outside of Tamriel including Yokuda, Atmora and Akavir.

You can see it http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=15282 in Bethesda's handy dandy lore FAQ. Now with 30% more stuff!

how does it prove that Nirn isn't flat?

How does it prove that Nirn is flat?

http://www.skaarj.com/comic/archive.html?val=050328

I must have missed some great thingy here how long has that comic been online? It's excellent.

Since there is knowledge of the spherical nature of celestial bodies beyond Nirn, that lends credence to the theory that Nirn is round.

Edit: Actually who is the Argonian in that drawing? <_< Not me I hope.

Obviously it isn't flat, there are lakes, ravines, mountains... although you might want to remember one of Einsteins things that he said:

"A circle is a line stretched on a plane."

Go Einstein! :read:

They are the celestial "shperes" which means they are 3 dimensional or else they'd be a circle. It round, theres no lore to say it's flat which means it's round. You may think that that's a case of bad logic but is it really? You think planet you think round (if you say you don't then you're either dumb or trying to be funny). Earth people created Nirn so unless otherwise stated it would be round to fit the creator's understanding of the planets, if it was flat there'd be many hints or pieces of lore to say so so that people'd understand it's flat.

So in short, if you hear hoofbeats think "horse" if you think planet, think "round" (or if you need to get really anol about it "Oblate spheroid" or "Geoid")

Edit: Sorry if this post sounds too serious or annoyed but one of the things I can't stand is people saying the earth is flat so that pet peeve crosses over to other things sometimes

http://www.imperial-library.info/maps/pyandonea.gif. Found often in the Mages' Guild in Daggerfall's system. Take what you will of it.

I guess I better stop believin' that Nirn is a loosely dodecahedral shaped object situated on the back of six very content catfish.

Is Tamriel big on that globe or is the planet that small?

yokuda sunk a long time ago..

But it did exist. It just goes to show that Nirn is bigger than just Tamriel.

Anyway, Nirn is in the shape of a disc supported on the backs of four giant elephants marching around on the shell of an even larger turtle, we all know that.

Turtles all the way down...

Yokuda still exists, no longer as a continent, but as an archipelago.

Nirn is a finite plane as opposed to the inifinite planes of the gods. Since planes and planets are interchangeable terms in lore, it's a bit difficult to use them as definitions for physical shapes, since a plane is a two dimensional object and a sphere is a three dimensional one.

However, planets are always referred to as spheres or "bubbles" of infinity in the greater infinity of Oblivion, so it's logical to assume that Nirn is spherical. Although if the http://www.imperial-library.info/mwbooks/lessons.shtml#17 are any indication...



Ha!

http://vality7.googlepages.com/planetnirn.

Gotta admit, thats some very nice work.

That's one very stressed mananaught.

Mananaught?

Right now if I was any good with photoshop I'd cut and paste Chancellor Occato's face into Buzz Aldrin's space helmet.

So yeah, something like that.

Then what do you mean by stressed?

The moons look round because of 'mortal mental stress,' the inability of your human mind to comprehend their true form. And if someone takes off the blindfold you might just evaporate like a Moth Priest.

So it would true to say then that if you viewed Nirn like this it would appear spherical like a planet, yet in reality it's like...a flat plane?

Nirn is a bit too complicated, but for example you can see the constellations and planets of certain gods... and what you're looking at is a sphere. Both a globe and the meaning of a sphere in ES. It's rather hard to visualize an infinite abstract concept (which is what et'ada are) hanging in the sky somewhere, so you see a planetoid glob.

Most of reality on Nirn is a figment of the mortal mind, and the mortal is merely a figment of a bigger mind. Rather like the daedra, but less direct.

Perhaps Nirn is actually a spherical planet.