I know this has been discussed before but I have a few aspects someone might be willing to help me with. I was reading on different forums that if Skyrim was a real land it would be roughly the size of either Canada or Russia. Opinions regarding this vary from person to person. From a heavy RP perspective (yes I am a heavy RP-er to a fault sometimes ), how long would it actually take to walk, not run from Riverwood to Whiterun. Again, considering the size of Skyrim in lore not in-game? Accordingly, what timescale would be appropriate for me to set? Merely doing this as an experiment to see how long it would take to walk from one end of the map to the other. All in the name of lore So anyone who rocks at math wanna give me a hand with this? Thanks!

If Skyrim was the size of Canada or Russia... Then Cyrodiil would be massive! Whoever was thinking that must have said "Well, Canada, Russia and Skyrim are cold, so they have to be the about same size right?" Anyway, I think the scale of the map, and the scale of the time are what Bethesda had intended it to be. But since we have no reliable way to scale the map, to lore proportions, there's no simple answer. I've never played Arena, but I've heard that it is 1:1 scale. I also know Whiterun and Riverwood exist. But, as time has moved on the location has changed. I would suggest timing a walk between Arena Whiterun and Riverwood to Skyrim Whiterun and Riverwood. Then you would put both times in seconds like this S/A = X/100 Where X is the percentage of Skyrim's scale and 100 is Arena's scale, at 1:1. Then multiply Skyrim's time by 100, and divide by Arena's time. Hope I helped!

Search out the old 'scale of Tamriel' threads here in the lore forum, AFAIK it was said that the most realistic would be to have Skyrim size-wise roughly resemble France