User blog:Gwynbleiddd/An Elder Scrolls Analysis - Size of Tamriel (1st try)

First of all, i know there are statements for various relevant stuff that could be used to find Tamriel's size (like the distance between Mournhold and Vvardenfel being 250 miles).

This is just the 1st try.

From "An explorer's guide to Skyrim"

We get the statement that the Ritual stone is only a few hours away from Whiterun.

A good average walking speed is 5 km/h.

Assuming that it can be reached in 2 hours the distance is 10 km, which is what i'll use as a low end.And for the high end i'll assume that it would take 3 hours, making the distance 15 km.

Skyrim map:

Whiterun to Ritual stone = 190.5 px = 10-15 km

Width of the map = 2277 px = 119.5-179.3 km

Height of the map = 1419 px = 74.5-111,7 km

I'll just do a bad approximation of Skyrim's surface area by assume that its shape is a rectangle.

SA (surface area) = width*height

Low end

SA = 8902.75 km^2 (A bit bigger than Corsica which has an area of 8680 km^2)

High end

SA = 20027.81 km^2 (Around the same area as Slovenia)

All in all Skyrim would be a very small country.

Minor note before examining Tamriel's size:

The ratio of the width and height of skyrim changes between the two maps (with the ration on the first map being 1.6 while on the second 1.77)

But i'll just use the width of Skyrim from the first map (which is a low end)

Tamriel map:

Skyrim's width = 469 px = 119.5-179.3 km

Tamriel's height = 1053 px = 268.3-402.5 km

Tamriel's width = 1383 px = 352.4-528.6 km

Again treating it like a rectangle:

SA = 94548.9-212761.5 km^2

But there are areas that covered by water i'll multiply the above results with 0.7 (70% seems a bit low though, could be higher).

Tamriel's surface area = 75639.12 km^2 (low end)

Tamriel's surface area = 170209.2 km^2 (high end)

To put that into perspective Bulgaria's surface area is 110994 km^2 and Romania's s.a is 238397 km^2.

So according to this bad estimation, Tamriel is about the size of a relatively small country.

Size of Summerset Isles
Continuing with the bad estimations.

Skyrim width = 469 px = 119.5-179.3 km

Summerset (the big island):

width = 149 px = 38 - 57 km

height = 258 px = 65.7-98.55 km

Surface Area = 2496.6-5617.35 km^2

Auridon (the second island):

width = 46 px = 11.7-17.55 km

height = 199 px = 50.7-76.05 km

Surface Area = 593.2-1334.7 km^2

Total Surface Area of Summerset Isles = 3089.8 - 6952.05 km^2

Real life islands with similar sizes:

Cornwallis Island (Nunavut) = 6995 km^2

Yamdena = 3100 km^2

Euboea = 3670 km^2