Skyrim Size in Lore : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Mon Aug 27, 2012 11:44 pm

I was just wondering how big Skyrim was?

» Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:30 pm

Bigger than a teacup, but smaller than the moon.

» Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:31 am

Somebody used measurements found in the novels to work out that it was roughly the same size as Portugal.

» Mon Aug 27, 2012 7:42 pm

Somebody used measurements found in the novels to work out that it was roughly the same size as Portugal.

Sauce or this tagliatelle is going in the fridge until Groundhogday.

» Mon Aug 27, 2012 3:11 pm

Bigger than a teacup, but smaller than the moon.

Auditioning for the role of Captain Obvious?

» Mon Aug 27, 2012 5:44 pm

Sauce or this tagliatelle is going in the fridge until Groundhogday.

Infernal City stated that Lilmoth was 15 miles from the sea. If that measurement is correct then Tamriel is around the same size as Egypt/Venezuela.

http://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/sd5o6/the_size_of_tamriel/

If course the measuring in the novels may be wrong.

» Tue Aug 28, 2012 12:57 am

Its more likly that the 'dot' on the map that he mesured from Lilmoth to the coast is more than likly not acurate.

» Mon Aug 27, 2012 7:58 pm

As somebody in that thread pointed out, Nirn could be a lot smaller than Earth. I actually kind of like it being smaller, it makes the disconnect between the games and the "reality" seem somewhat less blatant.

» Mon Aug 27, 2012 7:10 pm

smaller is fine, but the size of Egypt? I don't like it that small.

» Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:06 pm

Tamriel is decribed as being roughly 12 million square kilometers in size within the Arena manual and estimates made from distances given within the games size the entire planet to be about 60% the size of the Earth. Skyrim would be about 1,370,000 square kilometers at this scale.

» Tue Aug 28, 2012 12:58 am

Infernal City stated that Lilmoth was 15 miles from the sea. If that measurement is correct then Tamriel is around the same size as Egypt/Venezuela.

http://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/sd5o6/the_size_of_tamriel/

If course the measuring in the novels may be wrong.

Cities get shuffled around all the time, before Skyrim Markarth was much father away from the border.

It was probably just poor dot placement on the map. No way is Tamriel that small.

» Mon Aug 27, 2012 5:50 pm

Well, in Daggerfall, wasn't the Illiac Bay about the size of Great Britain?

By that logic, Skyrim would be about the size of Kazakhistan or Alaska by very unscientific guestimation.