Solitude Districts?

Post » Sun May 18, 2014 3:39 pm

I was just wondering if the districts Solitude is divided into have actual names (like those in Whiterun). According to the in-game book Walking the World XI: Solitude, one of the districts is named the "Well District" but it doesn't bother to name any of the other ones. The official wiki names another, the "Avenues District", but thats unsourced...

Is there any place to find the names of the districts?

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Laura-Jayne Lee
 
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Post » Sun May 18, 2014 5:51 pm

There isn't an official wiki. :P

The Well District is that first area you come across in Solitude. from the City gate to just passed the market stalls. The residential area beyond that isn't named, Castle Dour is well.. Castle Dour and the Solitude Ports are probably referred to as the port district. :icecream:

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Post » Sun May 18, 2014 9:32 am

The official http://www.primagames.com/ guide apparently calls the residential part of Solitude (on the arch from Castle Dour to the Blue Palace) the Avenues District. Considering that Prima works with the game developers to produce their guides, this is likely correct information, although I'm not sure if it's ever actually referred to by that name in the game.

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Post » Sun May 18, 2014 10:29 am

huh, you're right! I had always just assumed the wikia was the 'official' one, just because uesp calls itself the "unofficial" one :confused:

I see, thanks. And yeah, I'm pretty sure that I've never heard any NPC call the districts by their names...

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Post » Sun May 18, 2014 7:41 pm

Which is amusing because UESP is much more reliable than TES Wiki.

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Baylea Isaacs
 
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Post » Sun May 18, 2014 10:41 am

Ah, they're both great resources. Sometimes UESP just gives tables minimal information on an item where TES wiki will give a dedicated page to each item. But then UESP tends to note g when the USKPs change something, whereas I don't think I've ever seen that in TES Wiki. Use them both :)

EDIT: "But then UESP tends to note g when the UESPs"??? Derp... that second UESP should be USKP. Changed.
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Post » Sun May 18, 2014 1:04 pm

A good portion of which is liable to be completely wrong. I would trust something a random person wrote in this forum before I trusted anything on that site.

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Post » Sun May 18, 2014 1:03 pm

Yeah the official wiki is a complete waste of space.

Want to read up on the lore? http://www.imperial-library.info/

Want detailed info for ingame? http://uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page

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Post » Sun May 18, 2014 11:10 pm

So basically you want a Solitude Nazeem rolling around to look down on us for not visiting the Wolf District often enough?

I think you're just looking for an excuse to kill people OP. :D

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Post » Sun May 18, 2014 7:14 am

I was interested today to read that one of the characters from Skyrim is from Borabora, on the TES WIki.. It's actually the only time on a wiiki I've seen something which is clearly not a correct edit.

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Post » Sun May 18, 2014 10:20 am

There are others, which I don't have time to find right now. But mostly it's that TES Wiki often doesn't provide sources for more obscure information and there's no way of knowing if it's correct or simply made up.

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