Why wouldn’t Northern and Southern Elsweyr touch?

cmetzger93

The naming of these zones is bothersome enough but they don’t even touch. There is slim chance it will ever be filled in with the weirdest shaped zone ever. What is the reasoning behind this?

ChunkyCat

There was no consent.

WrathOfInnos

Oops, they forgot to make that sliver. Must be where the missing arena is located...

redspecter23

Middle Elsweyr of course!

Hymzir

Maybe they are saving it for next year's chapter?

Would fit the trend... I mean look at Northern Elsweyr and compare it to Reaper's March next to it. Which one is bigger?

In anycase, I am bit miffed we wont be seeing Corinthe. Was kinda looking forward to that.

Oakmontowls_ESO

There might just not be much happening in that area.

Urzigurumash

It is odd. Contiguity of successive DLC seems like a cool idea to me.

I still hope they hire Eric Heberling to write some music for a DLC, who wrote music for TES1 and TES2. Either Elsweyr or Hammerfall should have some good Harmonic Minor music, and he wrote some of the best video game Harmonic Minor music of all time for a non-TES topdown RPG from the mid 90's

Dark_Lord_Kuro

The tenmar forest or central elsweyr

MLGProPlayer

Hymzir wrote: »

Maybe they are saving it for next year's chapter?

Would fit the trend... I mean look at Northern Elsweyr and compare it to Reaper's March next to it. Which one is bigger?

In anycase, I am bit miffed we wont be seeing Corinthe. Was kinda looking forward to that.

Why would you compare two maps that aren't to scale?

Darios_Heliodromos

For someone who primarily enjoys ESO due to the exploration/traveling factor I'm pretty stunned. I was really looking forward to seeing an overland border crossing between Anequina and Pellitine.

This really makes no sense at all to me....

AVaelham

So we're still missing Torval and Corinthe. Interesting. According to UESP, Torval is known as the home of the Mane. Maybe they're preparing an upcoming DLC related to the Mane and the aftermath of that (spoilers Elsweyr)

khajiiti born during the eclipse thing

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Dreyloch

Yeah I thought this was odd too. You get the quest to go meet Sai, and have to go to one of 3 cities when Kenthari's Roost is RIGHT FREAKIN THERE!!! Yet no boat to take you across?? Also, unlike so many other zone updates, you can't just go straight to a wayshrine in the new zone? /boggle...

Nirntrotter

AVaelham wrote: »

So we're still missing Torval and Corinthe. Interesting. According to UESP, Torval is known as the home of the Mane. Maybe they're preparing an upcoming DLC related to the Mane and the aftermath of that (spoilers Elsweyr)

khajiiti born during the eclipse thing

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Speaking of the Mane, I wonder how they will handle the Mane's identity in the future considering the events in Reaper's March.

MLGProPlayer

AVaelham wrote: »

So we're still missing Torval and Corinthe. Interesting. According to UESP, Torval is known as the home of the Mane. Maybe they're preparing an upcoming DLC related to the Mane and the aftermath of that (spoilers Elsweyr)

khajiiti born during the eclipse thing

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We're not getting any more Khajiit-themed DLC any time soon (or likely ever).

AVaelham

ethuiliel wrote: »

Speaking of the Mane, I wonder how they will handle the Mane's identity in the future considering the events in Reaper's March.

Yeah I'm curious about that too. Lord Gharesh-ri acknowledges the events from Reaper's March story-line so at least we know they're not going to ignore it.

"When Abnur Tharn spoke of a hero of renown, I had no idea he was referring to you. It's so good to see you again, though I wish the circumstances were not so dire.
Well, you helped the Mane before. I have no doubt you will do so again."

AVaelham

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

We're not getting any more Khajiit-themed DLC any time soon (or likely ever).

Well that would be awfully weird of them to leave Elsweyr with a hole in the middle, especially without Torval. I was hoping this Dragonhold DLC would conclude our full journey in Elsweyr but oh well.

Jaimeh

Darios_Heliodromos wrote: »

For someone who primarily enjoys ESO due to the exploration/traveling factor I'm pretty stunned. I was really looking forward to seeing an overland border crossing between Anequina and Pellitine.

This really makes no sense at all to me....

It's strange, because the bit in between is part of a massive area as well... I travelled to the southern part of the Northern Elsweyr map thinking I could visit Southern Elsweyr that way, but nope, it was Grahtwood

Nordic__Knights

Why would they not want to cut 1 area into 3 or 4 parts to put out at different times to pull more $$$ out your pockets they KNOW you'll want that middle gap just because its right there to always see blank

Tyrion87

Wow that looks really awkward... I sooo hate when they do the map like that. The leftover area is in such a wierd shape/size that it basically closes any door to fill that gap in the future. My inner pedant is screaming right now :O

Moreover, I think that greyed area comprises the proper Tenmar Forest which I really hoped to see in this game. I hoped we will finally get a good looking forest area. Instead we got only the peripheries. Disappointment.

TelvanniWizard

redspecter23 wrote: »

Middle Elsweyr of course!

Chapter available for 50 bucks

redlink1979

Central Elsweyr, maybe?

Darkmage1337

It doesn't take a genius to realize that the center of Elsweyr (The Mane at Torval, capital of Elsweyr) and the center of Black Marsh (The Hist source & Argonian King at Helstrom, capital of Black Marsh) and the center/most interesting place of other provinces will never be fully showed or fleshed out in ESO. I honestly never expected ZeniMax to show these areas. Sometimes the mystery is more fun. Just like with the Dwemer, Akavir/Akaviri, and so on.
ZeniMax Media needs to leave some room on the map left for the single player games' settings for TES VI, VII, and so on, too...

Vigawatt

RIP a complete Tamriel.

Ozby

@cmetzger93 Right!!!! I was thinking the same thing today and found it ridiculous that I had to go to Grahtwood to get there? It makes no sense at all.

Darios_Heliodromos

Darkmage1337 wrote: »

It doesn't take a genius to realize that the center of Elsweyr (The Mane at Torval, capital of Elsweyr) and the center of Black Marsh (The Hist source & Argonian King at Helstrom, capital of Black Marsh) and the center/most interesting place of other provinces will never be fully showed or fleshed out in ESO. I honestly never expected ZeniMax to show these areas. Sometimes the mystery is more fun. Just like with the Dwemer, Akavir/Akaviri, and so on.
ZeniMax Media needs to leave some room on the map left for the single player games' settings for TES VI, VII, and so on, too...

ESO tends to really irk me in this regard. RIGHT when you feel as if a rather interesting piece of lore is going to be revealed, this game tends to find random reasons to lock doors (i.e. the Tonenaka) or avoid depicting certain races (Akaviri in Rimmen, Ohmes Khajiits, etc) or make certain areas inaccessible (i.e. Tenmar Forest)

I couldn't care less for the dragons, as their presence is simply a marketing ploy to further interest in the game. I was largely excited to play Elsweyr this year in order to see the dramatic geographic contrast between the desert steppes of Anequina and the a true jungle zone like the Tenmar forest. I liked the thought of one day being able to walk non-stop from Grahtwood in Valenwood east through the Tenmar Forest, into Blackwood, then into Black Marsh without ever leaving forest/jungle zones.

It looks almost as if ZOS went out of their way to intentionally not give Southern Elsweyr an overland border with Grahtwood and Northern Elsweyr.

Djiku

The map looks really irritating this way and if it stays that way the gap between the zones will probably never be filled. Why would you leave northern and southern elsweyr disconnected? And no connection to Grahtwood? It doesn't make sense.

WeerW3ir

Djiku wrote: »

The map looks really irritating this way and if it stays that way the gap between the zones will probably never be filled. Why would you leave northern and southern elsweyr disconnected? And no connection to Grahtwood? It doesn't make sense.

Want to hear a funny fact? Dont know it its fixed. but in grahtwood you was able to leave the map and visit southern Elsweyr. The thing is that there was some already finished markings outside of grahtwood for elsweyr. Like the ocean and coast, place markings like the ancient temple of the mane and etc. a lot place. but all was at the area where is no southern elsweyr border :P

WeerW3ir

cmetzger93 wrote: »

The naming of these zones is bothersome enough but they don’t even touch. There is slim chance it will ever be filled in with the weirdest shaped zone ever. What is the reasoning behind this?

call it to Tenmar Forest and it is done *thinking*

WeerW3ir

WeerW3ir wrote: »

Djiku wrote: »

The map looks really irritating this way and if it stays that way the gap between the zones will probably never be filled. Why would you leave northern and southern elsweyr disconnected? And no connection to Grahtwood? It doesn't make sense.

Want to hear a funny fact? Dont know it its fixed. but in grahtwood you was able to leave the map and visit southern Elsweyr. The thing is that there was some already finished markings outside of grahtwood for elsweyr. Like the ocean and coast, place markings like the ancient temple of the mane and etc. a lot place. but all was at the area where is no southern elsweyr border :P

there is a place called. 'Ruins of the Carnelian King'
'Kathdar', and “Valen C15

Araneae6537

Darios_Heliodromos wrote: »

Darkmage1337 wrote: »

It doesn't take a genius to realize that the center of Elsweyr (The Mane at Torval, capital of Elsweyr) and the center of Black Marsh (The Hist source & Argonian King at Helstrom, capital of Black Marsh) and the center/most interesting place of other provinces will never be fully showed or fleshed out in ESO. I honestly never expected ZeniMax to show these areas. Sometimes the mystery is more fun. Just like with the Dwemer, Akavir/Akaviri, and so on.
ZeniMax Media needs to leave some room on the map left for the single player games' settings for TES VI, VII, and so on, too...

ESO tends to really irk me in this regard. RIGHT when you feel as if a rather interesting piece of lore is going to be revealed, this game tends to find random reasons to lock doors (i.e. the Tonenaka) or avoid depicting certain races (Akaviri in Rimmen, Ohmes Khajiits, etc) or make certain areas inaccessible (i.e. Tenmar Forest)

I couldn't care less for the dragons, as their presence is simply a marketing ploy to further interest in the game. I was largely excited to play Elsweyr this year in order to see the dramatic geographic contrast between the desert steppes of Anequina and the a true jungle zone like the Tenmar forest. I liked the thought of one day being able to walk non-stop from Grahtwood in Valenwood east through the Tenmar Forest, into Blackwood, then into Black Marsh without ever leaving forest/jungle zones.

It looks almost as if ZOS went out of their way to intentionally not give Southern Elsweyr an overland border with Grahtwood and Northern Elsweyr.

Well some of those things, the Ohmes Khajiit at least, are just ret con explanations for things that don’t really fit or make sense. Perhaps it is better to leave it an open question as to whether Ohmes Khajiit really exist or are a legend or even a lie invented by some Bosmer.

SFDB

Sometimes when we touch, the honesty's too much, and I have to close my eyes and hide....