Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.58.163.238-20130703034923/@comment-13446185-20131230055154

99.127.46.120 wrote: If you read the wiki page, it specificaly stated it was 12 million square kilometres in area. Antarctica is about 13.

-The Z Boss If you read the wiki page

God those words make me cringe. I realize that the wiki page does have a reference for this but never say those words. Just quote the damn reference instead of the wiki.

And as I said before sizes of Tamriel vary...

"On a clear day (an exceedingly rare event), the peak can be seen from Almalexia, 250 miles to the south."

-Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition: Morrowind (Dagoth Ur to Almalexia)

This implies that Tamriel is roughly 1,560,000 square kilometers

Then there is this...

Which implies that Tamriel is around 42,000,000 square kilometers (around the size of asia)

Then this (which the wiki page refers to)

"The world of Tamriel is vast, roughly three to four thousand kilometers east to west and two to three thousand kilometers north to south."

-TES Arena Manual: Traveling

Which the wiki uses to estimate that Tamriel is 12,000,000 square kilometers

Then there is this

"For sixty-six days and nights, he sailed, over crashing

Waves of dire intent, past whirlpools, through

Mist that burned like fire, until he reached the

Mouth of a great bay and he landed on a

Sun-kissed meadow of gentle dells."

-Father of the Niben (sail from Firsthold to Iliac Bay)

If you are to take in some reallife calculations this could imply that tamriel is as large as 849,000,000 square kilometers (which is utterly ridiculous even if you do subtract from it saying that the storms slowed them down alot.)

These are only a few of many descriptions on the size of Tamriel, and as you can see the size varies to an extremety.

The gist of what I'm saying here is that Bethesda really f*cked up when it came to giving us a lore size to the continent.

I for one, prefer MK's map as it gives us an actual scale to see real world comparisons to the landmasses instead of varying numbers that require calculations to get a rough estimate on the size.