Tamriel Map

How to use this interactive Tamriel map

The map at the top of this page is a full Tamriel map that you can explore like a real atlas. Drag to move around, scroll or pinch to zoom, and tap any province to see its capital, people, neighbours and the games set there. City names appear as you zoom in, so the overview stays readable while the close-up shows every town from Solitude to Lilmoth.

Use the search box to jump straight to a province or city, even if you type it in another language. The game filter lights up the provinces of a single title, which is the quickest way to see where Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim or ESO take place. When you have the view you want, the download button saves it as a PNG image or an SVG file, and every view has its own link that you can share.

The full Tamriel map: nine provinces at a glance

Tamriel sits on the planet Nirn and has been divided into nine provinces for most of its recorded history. Reading the Elder Scrolls Tamriel map from the north and turning clockwise, you meet Skyrim along the icy Sea of Ghosts, Morrowind in the volcanic north-east, the swamps of Black Marsh in the south-east, the badlands and jungles of Elsweyr in the south, the rainforests of Valenwood in the south-west and the Summerset Isles just off the coast. Hammerfell's deserts fill the west, the green hills of High Rock lie in the north-west, and Cyrodiil, the Imperial heartland, holds the centre.

Borders moved many times across the eras, and even the games do not always agree on the details. This map shows the provinces roughly as they appear around the late Third and early Fourth Era, the period of Oblivion and Skyrim. Distances are approximate, so treat it as a guide to where things are rather than a surveyor's chart.

Tamriel map and races: who lives where

Each province is the homeland of one of the playable races, which is why a Tamriel map with races is so useful when you create a character:

• Skyrim: the Nords, a hardy human people descended from settlers of Atmora.
• Morrowind: the Dunmer, or Dark Elves, long ruled by the Great Houses and the Tribunal.
• Cyrodiil: the Imperials, who have governed the Empire from the Imperial City.
• Hammerfell: the Redguards, warriors whose ancestors sailed from the sunken continent of Yokuda.
• High Rock: the Bretons, gifted with magic, and the Orcs of Orsinium in the Wrothgarian Mountains.
• Black Marsh: the Argonians, bound to the ancient Hist trees.
• Elsweyr: the Khajiit, whose forms follow the phases of the two moons.
• Valenwood: the Bosmer, or Wood Elves, who live by the Green Pact.
• Summerset Isles: the Altmer, or High Elves, home of the Thalmor.

SkyrimMorrowindCyrodiilHammerfellHigh RockBlack MarshElsweyrValenwoodSummerset Isles

Skyrim, Cyrodiil and High Rock on the Tamriel map

Most visitors arrive looking for a Skyrim Tamriel map, so start there. Skyrim is the northernmost province of Tamriel, walled off from Cyrodiil by the Jerall Mountains and from Morrowind by the Velothi Mountains, with High Rock and Hammerfell to the west. Its nine holds, from Solitude in Haafingar to Riften in the Rift, are marked on the map and described in the Skyrim guide.

Cyrodiil is the largest province and borders six of the other eight, which is why the Imperial City on Lake Rumare has been the capital of Tamriel for so long. High Rock, on the other hand, is a patchwork of rival Breton kingdoms such as Daggerfall and Wayrest around the Iliac Bay, the region explored in The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall. Each of these provinces has its own page with a focused map, its cities and a short history.

SkyrimCyrodiilHigh Rock

ESO Tamriel map: where The Elder Scrolls Online takes place

The Elder Scrolls Online is the only game that lets you visit every province, so many players look for an ESO Tamriel map to understand how its zones fit together. ESO is set in 2E 582, about a thousand years before Skyrim, when three alliances fought over the Ruby Throne: the Daggerfall Covenant of High Rock, Hammerfell and Orsinium, the Ebonheart Pact of eastern Skyrim, Morrowind and Black Marsh, and the Aldmeri Dominion of the Summerset Isles, Valenwood and Elsweyr. Cyrodiil, in the middle, is the open war zone.

Choose ESO in the game filter to highlight the whole Elder Scrolls Online Tamriel map, and open any province guide to see which ESO zones lie inside it, such as Glenumbra, Stonefalls, Grahtwood or Vvardenfell.

Tamriel and Nirn: the wider world

Tamriel is only one part of Nirn, the world of The Elder Scrolls. Lore describes other lands beyond its seas: Atmora to the north, the ancestral home of the Nords; Akavir to the east, home of the Tsaesci and the Ka Po' Tun; Yokuda to the west, which sank into the ocean; and Pyandonea, the island realm of the Maormer, to the south-west. None of these have been fully mapped in the games, so a Nirn map is mostly a matter of interpretation, while the Tamriel map above stays close to what the games actually show.

A detailed Tamriel map poster, wallpaper or background

If you want a detailed Tamriel map for your wall or desktop, the painted map page offers the whole continent as a hand-painted style artwork in 3686 by 3045 pixels, free to download. It contains no labels, which makes it a clean background for streams, videos and wallpapers, and it is sharp enough for an A2 Elder Scrolls Tamriel map poster. The interactive map can also be exported with names and borders when you need a labelled version.

Painted Map

Using the map for Minecraft builds, mods and campaigns

Builders who recreate Tamriel in Minecraft or other sandbox games often start from a top-down reference with clear coastlines and mountain ranges. The painted map and the SVG export work well as that reference layer, and the province borders help you plan where each region begins. Roleplay groups, tabletop campaigns and mod authors use the same files to show where a story takes place. You are welcome to use them in non-commercial fan projects as long as the tamrielmap.com credit stays visible.

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