I’m into the game series since The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind, released in 2002. After TESIII, Oblivion pleased the RPG gamer community with a new vast open world and fantastic graphics. Then on 11th November 2011, the fifth game of the series called Skyrim took it up to the next level.

Each game so far took place in one province of the continent Tamriel.  Hammerfell and High Rock have been the first ones in TESI Arena and TESII Daggerfall. Morrowind, Cyrodiil and Skyrim are the most recent provinces. Since Arena, there has been a official map of that particular continent.

There have been very beautiful illustrated maps within the game’s case wich differ each time in style.  One day I came up with the mind, to recreate a map like this including all provinces at once and not just a single one. As well I should put it down with ink on paper.  But on a size of 100x70cm I need an detailed template of the locations and the shape. My biggest problem is the lore of the Elder Scrolls World.

What is the Lore in Elder Scrolls? – It is the definition of the whole world as it’s beeing described by ingame books and stories. Tales, History, Geography and much more to fill the whole world. But the computer games unfortunatelly can’t handle that much content and get cropped to a more playable version. Major cities ingame appear to be small as villages but in the lore they are actually very big.

I’m not very well acquainted with the lore myself and so I decided to create a more fictional map based on many official and fanmade maps.

Especially Skyrim(north), Cyrodiil(center) and the Island Vvardenfell (Morrowind) appear to be extremely detailed because I took them from the official maps.

After that job was done, the template needed to be created. Imagine I draw everything on a normal piece of paper first, then copy it to my final paper sheet.

In the meantime I’ve prepared the aged paper sheet of 100x70cm with the classic black tea method. I love the way the wrinkles show up that strong contrast.
Actually I intended to weather it at the end but the ink will blend out in contact with water and destroy the drawing.

I’m into the game series since The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind, released in 2002. After TESIII, Oblivion pleased the RPG gamer community with a new vast open world and fantastic graphics. Then on 11th November 2011, the fifth game of the series called Skyrim took it up to the next level.
Each game so far took place in one province of the continent Tamriel.  Hammerfell and High Rock have been the first ones in TESI Arena and TESII Daggerfall. Morrowind, Cyrodiil and Skyrim are the most recent provinces. Since Arena, there has been a official map of that particular continent.

There have been very beautiful illustrated maps within the game’s case wich differ each time in style.  One day I came up with the mind, to recreate a map like this including all provinces at once and not just a single one. As well I should put it down with ink on paper.  But on a size of 100x70cm I need an detailed template of the locations and the shape. My biggest problem is the lore of the Elder Scrolls World.
What is the Lore in Elder Scrolls? – It is the definition of the whole world as it’s beeing described by ingame books and stories. Tales, History, Geography and much more to fill the whole world. But the computer games unfortunatelly can’t handle that much content and get cropped to a more playable version. Major cities ingame appear to be small as villages but in the lore they are actually very big.
I’m not very well acquainted with the lore myself and so I decided to create a more fictional map based on many official and fanmade maps.
Especially Skyrim(north), Cyrodiil(center) and the Island Vvardenfell (Morrowind) appear to be extremely detailed because I took them from the official maps.

After that job was done, the template needed to be created. Imagine I draw everything on a normal piece of paper first, then copy it to my final paper sheet.

In the meantime I’ve prepared the weathered paper sheet of 100x70cm with the classic black tea weathering method. I love the way the wrinkles show up that strong contrast.
Actually I intended to weather it at the end but the ink will blend out in contact with water and destroy the drawing.