I was thinking,I know that the empire is made of many provimces(morrowind,hammerfell,ect.) but whats out side of that,I mean they cant hace councered every thing out there in the TES world.

I think this belongs to the Lore Section.
Anyways, there is Akavir, another continent found outside of Tamriel.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Akavir
http://www.imperial-library.info/akavir/index.shtml

http://www.imperial-library.info/pge3/other_lands.shtml

To the west of Hammerfell, you have Yokuda, the old homes of the Ra Gada, or Redguards. As far as I can remember, it was wracked by disaster, natural or no.
To the south and southwest of Summerset Isle, you've got Thras, the home of the Sload, as well as Pyandonea, the home of the Maormer, or the sea-elves.
To the north of Skyrim is Atmora, the old home of the Nedic men; it's almost completely inhospitable now due to terribly cold climates.
To the east of Morrowind is Akavir, which is home to a plethora of strange races, which can be read up on http://www.imperial-library.info/akavir/
And there's also Aldmeris, which is the old homeland of the elves; no-one has a clue where it is or whether it still exists.

Aldmeris probably never existed. If it did, it does not refer to a single place, but every Elven territory.

If it never existed where did the Elves come from? They didn't come from any of the other continents

Tamriel, like the humans.

Didn't the humans come from Atmora?

The Nords are just one human group of many to exist. And if you listen to their own legends, they were born on the mountain Hrothgar in Skyrim, and presumably migrated north.

Saying humans come from Atmora is like saying that Americans come from Texas.

Some Americans do come from Texas... The Texans...

The Nords are the ancestors of the Imperials are they not?

partly. the imeprials are more directly descended from the nedic tribes found in the cyrodiil area before and during the arrival of the nords to tamriel. the nords intermingled with these populations to create what we now know as the imperial race (the degree of nordic biological and cultural influence determines whether a region is colovian or nibenese)

to quote Nu-Hatta, all life originated on Tamriel. it just had time to spread out onto other continents and eventually return.

Ah, sorry then

Was Tamriel originally one Pangaea-like supercontinent that got separated by the turmoils after the gods found out they were tricked? That could explain why men ended up on different continents.

Also, is Atmora uninhabited at all? I seem to remember somebody mentioning in Bloodmoon that the Nord raiders on Solstheim (the ones with the nasty weapons with damage strength-enchantments) came from Atmora.

I've been wondering, are the continents of Nirn subject to tectonic forces? :unsure:

The plates are the scales on Akatosh's brow.

I think I remember MK expressing disdain for fantasy worlds were such things apply.

But... If you don't have that stuff, then there's no explanation for igneous and metamorphic rocks. And even sedimentary rocks, since those come from the weathering of igneous and metamorphic rocks. And you don't get awesomely cool rock features, like crossbedding and folds. Or even volcanoes and magma/lava.

At the end of the Dawn it's more as if several world came together and their features merged. Resulting in the loss of the land and metaphor of old Aldmeris. Continental drift and such don't really apply as with only some seven thousand years, the world isn't old enough for it yet to be noticeable.



Uninhabited by humans. The PGE has a note about the last ship arriving half dead and Atmora freezing over.

Let's explain it away by saying the Earth bones got a bit uppity.

i have a handbook about all this that i got in my special edition of Oblivion. The other Continents included; Aldmeris, or Lost Aldmeris, good reference gamesas, also home of all elves, Maomor, a vast watery continent made up of a sea like land scape, home of a race of sea-elves, who were banished from Aldmeris for a attempted rebellion against the lands powers, mortal enemy of Summerset isle, Akavir, which is basically Asia, Atmora, a cold landscape, which is home of most men, and proven by recent expeditions, has gradually become to cold to support life, And there was formally Yokuda, but it sank, and was home of the Redguards.

Aldmeris may only be a metaphor. See proweler's posts earlier in this thread.
The maomer are the race of sea elves. They live on Pyandonea.
Yokuda never sank - it was simply nuked (sorta) and abandoned by most of the Ra Gada. Some people live there still, IIRC.
And you've ignored Thras, home of the Sload (although it has sunk.)

*At the back of the room, a salty old Redguard sea captain drags a hook across a chalk board*

"Arghhh....I been to the edges of the map, yessir. Thar there be sea monsters...and tall columns of spiked waters. Arrrrgh."

"Arghhh....I been to the edges of the map, yessir. Thar there be sea monsters...and tall columns of spiked waters. Arrrrgh."

Indeed,

http://www.imperial-library.info/mwbooks/spikedwater.jpg