Morrowind had giant mushrooms and unique looking buildings. What do you think that Skyrim would look like, without being generic like Oblivions setting(Sorry but it's true. It's very generic)

The architecture can be fantastic in any setting, but if large mushrooms on mud hills makes a fantastic landscape these days, Skyrim could get by with oversized birch trees.

Cold...really cold. maybe a few of these... bliviongate: hahaha....not.

Awesome.

Like Canada. Which is to say - not all snow and tundra, lots of variety.

Thats how I would take it anyways.

Like this: http://www.photosfan.com/images/preachers-pulpit-norway1.jpg

I'd expect it to be like the following images of a tundra:

http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/biohires/ecoregions/h51117tundra3302.jpg
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/images/biosphere/vegetation/tundra_ice_mounds_Alaska_DDS21_LMC0007.jpg
http://www.duke.edu/web/nicholas/bio217/rsf4%20awc7/caribou_tundra.jpg

I can believe that both your posts seem like a good representation of land features in Skyrim.

http://www.worldtimezone.com/travel/photos/russia-siberia02.jpg could be http://www.motorhomehire.co.nz/images/siberia%20valley.jpg. The http://cache.virtualtourist.com/2666303-Aurlands_fjord-Norway.jpg thing http://sofiapalm.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/geiranger-fjord-l.jpg it http://archesutah.com/park-avenue-trail/park-avenue-trail3.jpg dev's http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Major_Stone_Forest_western_section_10.JPG/800px-Major_Stone_Forest_western_section_10.JPG. I got all those http://hickamservices.com/_library/images/new_zealand_mitre_peak.jpg (and http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Dartmoor_b.jpg/800px-Dartmoor_b.jpg) just by http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/5185/islandia6.jpg googling http://www.destination360.com/europe/ireland/images/s/ireland-cliffs-of-moher.jpg.

I did a comprehensive website on Skyrim a while back, I'll have to rehost it.

Snow , snow everywhere !.......
Just kidding , tundra , delicious forests , some mountains , grass lands maybe and some other things people have said.
A lot like Alaska in some parts? I could see from geography from Alaska like.

It should resemble the town of Bruma. Some locations can vary in skyrim, but generally cabins and small settlements are the nord way. Giant burial caverns can make up for the dull snowy forests and log cabins dotting the land.

I have read one book in game that specifies a certain area as being a strange sort of volcanic ashland. Forget which book and which area, all I remember is that it was in Skyrim and was supposedly where the best graps (for wine) in Tamriel were grown. I'll come back with more details.

The book series you want is Beggar, Thief, Warrior, and King. Eslaf Erol's adventures. Also, the vineyard is referenced in The Red Kitchen Reader. Hope that helps, even if I'm too lazy to look it up myself.

Thanks, I was trying to check but UESP is slow today and the Imperial Library is down. But my memory is good enough to tell me you are correct.

Being that Nords are based on vikings and their culture, I think most areas wll look like old viking settlements and landscape they occupied.I was thinking a better looking 'bloodmoon' with more varied terrain

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Snow capped mountains with powerful Nord witches. I read somewhere that in the far north of Skyrim in the mountains powerful witches live and battle each other. I think that'd be cool if they added that in the game. Of course there are valleys where there are pine forests and the majority of cities and agriculture exists.

I could see Skyrim looking like a lot of things, there would be a fair amount of room for Bethesda to design an interesting and varied landscape that won't come off as boring and generic. While certainly, there would be a fair amount of ice and snow, that doesn't have to be all there is, however, Oblivion reduced my confidence in Bethesda's abilities to accomplish that to almost zero, and while Shivering Isles was an improvement in that area, just one expansion with two distinct sides of the map has not been enough to fully restore it, so I'm guessing we'll get something like the area around Bruma or maybe Solstheim except enlarged to cover an entire province, and while maybe that's not necessarily bad, it's hardly enough to keep an entire game from growing stale.



We were also promised tropical jungles in Cyrodiil based on books from earlier games, and look what came of that.

Now if you remember Solstheim, there were a few different areas: Green pine forests in the south, a sort of snowy plain, a hilly region in the north-east, then you get lots of jagged, threatening ice formations in the north-west.

In Skyrim, being igger and more diverse, you could have low-lying fertile fields, particularly in the south, surrounded by frigid mountain paths on most sides with many long, tall valleys connecting them (most towns would be in the fields with outposts in the valleys), up on mountains both mundane and magical you could have either of the two kinds of snowy climates from solstheim, massive frozen lakes going for miles (beware vampires) then in the North even the lowlands would be cold, much like the subtly threatening jagged ice peaks near the Glacier in bloodmoon. And of course there would be pine forests.

And that is just familliar stuff. The rest they could easily make up from scratch.

Large dark forests can be as entertaining as any diverse,strange looking landscape when youhave to constantly worry about a giant polar bear attacking you from behind.

A blend of Finland, Norway and maybe bits of Iceland

M'aiq sees much, remembers some. Skyrim is full of the sky - maybe you will see a dragon up there.

I'm on to you M'aiq... you Bethesda Game Studios employees think you are so smart.

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Skyrim will have snow, mountains, and trees. If done correctly, the lower regions will be like Germany/Belgium/Netherlands while the higher regions will be like Alaska/Sweden/Norway.

Mhm. I agree. Skyrim won't look like Bruma the whole time, just parts. I really don't understand why some people seem to think that it will be boring and generic. (Not you, mt_pelion)

What if they add seasons.

Could drastically change the landscape....snow melting...then reappearing.

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