i think it should be near northern europe

Maybe, but there are some parts that don't make sense. For instane, Scotland isn't a forest, England isn't a desert, Scandinavia is not entirely mountainous, and Spain is a desert rather than woodland. It doesn't work

Really Tamriel takes different popular cultures and molds the other races around them, e.g. Nords are modelled on the classic norwegian i think, mountainous and snowy regoins Imperials are sort of modelled on the Roman Empire, the ancient civilisation

yes but where would the best place be?

I don't quite understand your question, Tamriel takes all sorts of different racial backgrounds, some African some, Native American, some European and several other smaller groups, what do you mean by your question?

You really can't put Tamriel on the globe in any meaningful manner. The various climates and biomes can't be made to match up to the actual Earth which makes difficult (if not impossible) to guess where it belongs.


For example, Hammerfell is largely desert, and it is on the coast, so chances are it would be between 15?N and 30?N. Still, let's be generous and say that it has a more Mediterranean climate, which lets us push it up to about 40?N.

Solstheim is cold enough to have glaciers and at sea level. Even if we assume there's a particularly cold current effecting it it's not going to get it much further south than 60?N

Using these two points of reference you end up with the equator around Leyawiin, or maybe a bit south of Bravil. Now, at first glance this isn't too bad. The arid region expected between 15?N and 30?N doesn't entirely fit but most of the provinces actually have climates that are reasonable for their latitude and position. However now size becomes and issue: Cyrodiil would be 1800-2100 miles north to south, about the same length of India but much much wider. Vvardenfell would be about a thousand miles long, which is also massive. I realize that the games do shrink the world size quite a lot, but this still seems excessive.

Of course given that this is a fantasy setting one can assume it doesn't need to follow an Earth anologue - but given that there's no way to really position it on the globe.

When I first played Daggerfall, I thought the Illiac Bay was somehow based on the Mediteranian Sea.

I think it could be placed maybe in parts of North Africa, the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, and parts of Central Europe? I dunno, like Hungry Donner said, you can't really place it on a map.

Pangea?

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It isn't Middle Earth. it wasnt purposefully intended to line up with Europe. Not every fantasy setting has to rip everything off from Tolkien. As said before, you just can't do that, it doesn't work.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PatchworkMap

Tamriel is a continent where Bethesda threw a lot of clich? fantasy ideas together, and later wrote a more or less consistent body of Lore about.

Nirn is a smaller globe than our Earth. Cyrodiil is about the size of the state of Texas rather than India.

i mean where would it look good from sattelite just ignore about the terrains

like if you went on google maps and seen tamrie where would it look good?

I thought Nirn was smaller but I couldn't really remember, I was aware that Cyrodiil is far smaller than it ended up when I tried to get the continent to fit.


Actually I threw it in to Google Earth, that's how I was able to figure out where the equator would be

I'd put it further south than you originally suggest, there's a fair bit north of Tamriel and you don't want it to be cramped. I'd probably put it on top of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. Of course the longitude doesn't really matter, it could just as easily be over mid-to-northern China.