Daggerfall:Places

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Places of Interest 3 Overall dimension of the Iliac Bay 3.1 Technical Introduction 3.2 Calculations

[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.