Original Threadhttp://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1157429-skyrim-map-discussion/


Continuing on from before...

http://www.unep-wcmc.org/habitats/freshwater/I/TundraWetland2.jpg That's tundra marsh.

Here's my latest map.
http://i767.photobucket.com/albums/xx316/randomguyface/5thmap.png?t=1294846943

Here are Faulgors maps
http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/5636/skyrimmap1.png
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1717/skyrimmapls.png
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7782/skyrimmapclean.png

Slyrim? Can someone adjust?

Lol, sorry! :whistling:

Working on a redraw/cleanup of the map at the moment. Hope it ain't useless before I'm done.
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/3523/ss20110112170031.png

It's looking nice. It'll be great to see a non-blurred left half.


EDIT: Add some sea monsters!

Snow-whales, leviathans of the clouds.

Dragonbone: You should put a link to the first thread in the OP.

Also, great map! Though I'd like to add that there it appears that the most north-western hold on the map (containing Solitude) may indeed be two holds. Its difficult to make out, but there may be a dotted line running roughly parallel with the river. Nine holds would also be consistent with lore.

I thought maybe, but I wasn't sure and there were a couple of lines to choose from and I didn't know which one would be right anyway, so I didn't want to put it until I was more certain.

Cross-referencing stuff we were discussing in the previous thread with lore sources, it looks like the red location in the mountains northwest of Whiterun is the Labrynthian, one of the main dungeons from Arena. It was a maze built by the Archmagus Shalidor to guard something called "Glamorill," an elven word mean "the secret of life." In Arena, it was where Tharn hid one of the shards of the Staff of Chaos.

Also, Faulgor's map is looking great.

I made the rivers (or where they seemed to be, the parts in the canyon are harder to make out) clearer and more obvious. Should I upload it?

EDIT: Nah, I need to stop uploading at every change.

Alright, here's what I got so far

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/5636/skyrimmap1.png
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1717/skyrimmapls.png
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7782/skyrimmapclean.png (in case somebody wants to use it for further edits)

Exelent map! Good work, and the square closest to the reach might be Markarths side.

That looks beautiful.

A few nitpicks:

- We're still not sure on the names of either of the two northwestern holds. There's definitely a border along the river, though.
- The western settlement in Whiterun is Markarth Side
- It's Eastmarch, not Eastreach

nice! :goodjob:

- I left most "uncertain" things out for now, it's just to provide a clean slate to work with. That's why I left Markarth Side out, too.
- fixed Eastmarch.

I guess it just bugs me, because the way the map is now it looks like we're certain that there's only one northwest region and it's named Haafingar/Solitude, which obviously is not the case.

Well, everyone's welcome to edit the map.

I'm just saying, it's misleading.

Great maps. You ought to mark the "Throat of the World" though. It's too major to ignore.

That map is really nice, nice job.

Faulgor, that's beautiful, fantastic work! I would add the 4 cell outline on the absolute Western edge of Skyrim's coast though, if you look closely it is there. I am excited to go to that dungeon again... or to whatever it is now. For all we know, it could have been renovated into an Orc settlement. Speculation!

Another thing I want to point out is that we should probably still add the http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/2858/skyrimmap.png to the beginning of this thread. Just because a lot of people won't bother to find the original thread, and I don't want to get stuck on any path dependency when it comes to observing the map. There is a lot there.

I would also like to point out that the icons at the bottom left on the original are not a key to the terrain types, as they match the colors of the square icons on the map rather than the terrain shading. They are a key to the landmark icons: forts, daedric ruins, dwemer ruins, caves, shrines, statues, dragon lairs, etc. What I am wondering now is what the icons could be, beyond the guesses I just made, and whether there will be more landmark types considering that 2 of the icons are penciled in so they were still working on potential landmark types at that point in the game. I am expecting more landmarks overall than Oblivion had, especially because there are so many more types. I think that they wouldn't have added more types if they wanted to decrease the number of locations.

Also, I think that for now you are right to leave The Reach as tundra, because there is no other terrain type listed, and I imagine that the terrain is probably tundra type short hills around the canyon. However, it does look like a different shade than tundra to me. It actually looks quite similar to the shade of the Volcanic Tundra but I am not so sure. Can you imagine a volcanic looking canyon? That certainly doesn't seem right to me, unless the canyon was actually created by a gigantic eruption caused by some kind of God-dragon erupting from the earth, rather than the river.

:tops: :rock: :thumbsup: :mohawk: :tops:

Well, I guess its time to start deciphering all the small location names. :sweat:

First: Anyone find Sky Haven Temple yet? I'd bet Sithis' Floppily Doppilies that its there somewhere....

That map should get its own thread. Fantastic job.

Damn, great work on that map, Faulgor.
That said, it looks like they put more effort into it fitting the lore than with Cyrodiil. Unless screens show otherwise, I'm satisfied.


I kind of chuckled when I read the typo title. Slyrim - Land of Foxes! ^_^