Daggerfall:Places

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Map of the Iliac Bay as seen in Daggerfall

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[edit] Overview

The Iliac Bay is an ample region in western Tamriel, according to the game manual it's about the size of the United Kingdom. And of course there is a wide range of regions and other places of interest throughout the bay, from landscapes to cities and towns to famous structures. Because of the immense dimension of the region it would be impossible to list every single place, but following list, which hopefully will grow in size in the future, contains many interesting and mentionable places within this bay.

[edit] Places of Interest

Regions Cities Places and Structures
Abibon-Gora

Alcaire
Alik'r
Anticlere
Antiphyllos
Ayasofya
Bergama
Betony
Bhoriane
Cybiades
Daenia
Daggerfall
Dak'fron
Dragontail Mountains
Dwynnen
Ephesus
Gavaudon
Glenpoint
Glenumbra Moors
Hammerfell
High Rock
High Rock sea coast
Ilessan Hills
Iliac Bay
Isle of Balfiera
Kairou
Kambria
Koegria
Kozanset
Lainlyn
Menevia
Mournoth
Myrkwasa
Northmoor
Orsinium Area
Phrygias
Pothago
Santaki
Satakalaam
Sentinel
Shalgora
Tigonus
Totambu
Tulune
Wayrest
Wrothgarian Mountains
Urvaius
Ykalon

Abibon-gora
Alcaire City
Alik'ra
Anticlere City
Antyphyllos
Ayasofya City
Bergama City
Bhoriane City
Daenia City
Daggerfall City
Dragontail
Dwynnen City
Ephesus City
Gavaudon City
Glenpoint City
Glenumbra
Grimdale Moor
Ilessan Hills City
Kairou City
Kambria City
Koegria City
Kozanset City
Lainlyn City
Lastabia
Menevia City
Mournoth City
Myrkwasa City
Northmoor City
Orsinium
Phrygias City
Pothago City
Santaki City
Satakalaam City
Sentinel City
Shalgora City
Totambu City
Tulune City
Wayrest City
Wrothgaria
Urvaius City
Ykalon City

Castle Daggerfall
Castle Llugwych
Castle Necromoghan
Castle Sentinel
Castle Wayrest
Cemeteries
Copperton Tower
Cottages
Cryngaine Field
Direnni Tower
Dungeons
Farmsteads
Lysandus' Tomb
Privateer's Hold
Ravennian Forest
Regional Taverns
Regional Temples
Scourg Barrow
Shedungent
Shopping Plaza
Stronghold of Orsinium
Witch Covens
Woodborne Hall
Yeorth Burrowland

[edit] Overall dimension of the Iliac Bay

Since the game was published more than a decade ago, there has been always one question:

How large is the Iliac Bay actually ?

Following passage shall provide a mathematically traceable answer to this question.

[edit] Technical Introduction

Daggerfall uses a clockwise three-dimensional coordinate system with the x-axis for the North-South direction, the y-axis for the East-West direction and the z-axis for the altitude. To the contrast of the usual procedure, the coordinate system's origin is not 0,0,0, for whatever reasons the developers had. In the usual game mode the actual coordinates of the player can not be checked. To enable this feature the line cheatmode 1 must be added to the Z.CFG file, which is located in the Daggerfall game directory. If this feature is enabled the player's location can be checked by pressing the F9-Key. This will display the player's location along with the currently active quests and quest flags. The location is displayed as follow:

PLAYER: y-Coordinate, z-Coordinate, x-Coordinate

Pressing the F9-Key once again will disable these additional informations.

The point with the lowest coordinate-index is the lower left corner of the map with x = 40,961 and y = 51,200. The point with the highest coordinate-index is the upper right corner of the map with x = 16,332,801 and y = 32,389,120. The leveling in the game is also unusual, because it is not standardized to marine level. The altitude at marine level is -80 units and there is a maximum of 1228 units one can ascend over the ground by using a Levitation spell.

[edit] Calculations

According to the maximum coordinates of the map the overall dimension of the Iliac Bay is:

16,291,840 units x 32,337,920 units = 526,844,218,572,800 units2

The linear measure used by the game is very likely the imperial or survey inch, which is approximately 25.4 millimeters. Since the inch is a common linear measure in Anglo-Saxon regions and the player's character jumps exactly 10 units high, while standing, it is pretty reasonable to make this assumption.

unit = inch → units2 = inch2 with 1 inch2 = 6.4516 cm2 → 526,844,218,572,800 units2 ≈ 341,608 km2

35.7% of the overall bay are covered by water (ocean and inshore waters) that are about 121,954 km2. Thus resulting in an overall dry area of 219,654 km2. The area of England (not Great Britain) is 130,395 km2, hence according to the overall calculations the land mass would be about 1.685 times the size of England.

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