The Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle Size Compared To Other Expansions
Despite not living up to expectations at launch, The Elder Scrolls Online has forged on – and over the years and across several expansions – crafted a respectable identity for itself as both an Elder Scrolls title and an online experience. The first Chapter reintroduced the island of Vvardenfell to the players, and ever since, the game was used as the perfect vehicle by the developers to flesh out corners of Tamriel that the mainline games had yet to touch.
From the murky reaches of Black Marsh, to the arid canyons of Elsweyr, variety had never been an issue for The Elder Scrolls Online, and the next location that Zenimax Online Studios has prepared for its players is the Systres Archipelago for the Chapter of High Isle. In terms of size, it looks to be on the larger end of zones introduced through Chapters and DLCs.
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A user on Reddit named Vivec_lore made a comparison picture of the actual size of High Isle compared to its neighboring zones in the game world, stating that the world map size was highly misleading. In actuality, and in a gameplay sense, High Isle seems much closer to Summerset or Blackwood in terms of playable space than Western Skyrim.
On the world map and in lore, the entire Systres Archipelago is roughly the size of Hew's Bane, the zone featured in the Thieves Guild DLC. While beloved by the players for adding an important aspect of every Elder Scrolls game, the size of Hew's Bane would hardly be capable of supporting a full-scale Chapter. Bending the proportions of High Isle allows the developers to tell the story they want to tell without needing to worry about how it compares with the rest of the world.
The main city for High Isle will
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