Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-50.72.53.15-20131125223904/@comment-13446185-20131227020556

Rukathesoldier wrote: Dovahsebrom wrote: 70.65.223.245 wrote: Actually, I read somewhere on the wiki that tamreil is roughly 12 million square km, so the best country to use now in my opinion would be Canada. Canada is 10 million sqaure km, and has 34 million people. I mean, the upper half of Canada has almost no on, but i guess you could theoretically double the population of Canada to get a pretty good estimation on what tamriel might be. The games arent very accurate compred to the lore so counting npc's would be a enormous waste of time. First of all never trust anything on this wiki unless it has a reference or is directly from the games lore (ex. a book quotation)

Second of all look at this page. i read the same thing on the case to my copy of oblivion... "roughly three to four thousand kilometers eastto west and two to three thousand kilometers north to south."

-TES Arena Manual: Traveling

I guess there are some truth to his words

But in my defense read 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 

Sun-kissed meadow of gentle dells."

-Father of the Niben

Topal the Pilot sailed from Firsthold to the Iliac Bay, taking 66 days.

Columbus' journey to the New world took 34 days and that was around 6500 kilometers

If you were to actually calculate based on the distance Columbus traveled that is roughly 12,500 kilometers Topal traveled

Even when you consider that Topal was probably slowed down by the storm it is still apparently a very long distance to travel.