zelda-is-forever-awesome:

Just saw this on Reddit today, if that’s true then we’re in for a very vast & very epic adventure! I’m wicked excited - the hype is too real at this point! 😍

I got a little bit curious about this subject, so I decided to dig a LITTLE further to this. I’m also going to assume that these measurements for BotW are correct and not just out of thin air.

(I don’t play Skyrim, or any Elder Scroll games, so the first calculations are by other fans who have way too much free time who measured it by walking. I’m basing my measurements on them and doing lots of estimations, so it should probably be noted that I don’t exactly have a lot of credibility.)

Skyrim is approximately 14.8 square miles, if you measure the individual cells of the game. Skyrim is a rather large continent in Tamriel, so how big is Tamriel?

I’m going to use Skyrim to get an (extremely rough) estimate about how big Tamriel is. (length is vertical, width is horizontal)

It’s about three Skyrims long, except for another smidget of distance on the bottom that’s about a third of Skyrim’s length. This is about 11.4 miles long.

It’s nearly four Skyrims wide, minus just 2.99 miles (took me a while to find that last bit). This is about 15.95 miles wide.

Now let’s just assume that Tamriel is a giant rectangle of land that’s 11.4 x 15.95 miles squared instead of the huge clump that it is. This puts the final measurements WAY off, but it will actually be (significantly) greater than Tamriel’s actual surface area. I could just measure the whole thing, but that might take too long.

So multiply the length by the width, and you get…181.83 miles squared. That’s about 471 square kilometers. Obviously this is much bigger than Breath of the Wild’s map, but only by about a hundred square kilometers. Even then, there’s still whole chunks of land I’m just adding in for convenience so I don’t have to be a true geographer.

These measurements might make Breath of the Wild seem small, but the Elder Scrolls series has always based their games on the individual regions, and not the entire continent. Except for The Elder Scrolls Online, which (from what I’m told) contains a more condensed map of Tamriel. If this is true, then that means that

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD WILL BE JUST AS BIG, IF NOT BIGGER, THAN ANY ELDER SCROLLS GAME THAT COULD EVER BE MADE!!

Provided that they only ever make games on Tamriel, of course.

(via lunarhalo24)