Dawnguard Maps

Post » Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:46 am

I don't know about you guys, but I love posters. I'm one of those kids who plaster every wall, ceiling space, every table with music posters, old school notes, stickers and vinyls. Got all my jewel case CD's on one wall, which both looks awesome, and is a more efficient form of organisation. (Easier to tell a CD from the front cover than the spine).
And maps. Especially from videogames. From RDR, to shivering Isles, tangible maps are awesome. And yet, as far as I can tell, no maps of the soul cairn or the Forgotten Vale exist outside of the Dev's clutches. But thank god for art class.
I am a console gamer. PC gaming just never felt right to me. So I play xbox and leave my computer for design work. And I guess it's time to try my hand at cartography. As I don't have access to the creaton kit, I am here to ask for help. I need dimensions. Rough sketches, whatever. I need pioneers to help me map these locations. I could probably do it by wandering the Dovahkin around, but that's the difference between months of work and days of work.
In return, the internet gets two maps, which I'm sure the wikias would love. Heck, if you help me enough, I could post you hand-drawn, weathered copies, if you're as big on interior design as myself.

Or Beth developers could release maps they've no doubt drawn themselves, save me any hard work. :)
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Post » Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:07 am

There's a map of The Forgotten vale here: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Forgotten_Vale
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Post » Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:32 pm

Is the Forgotten Vale a marked location on the map?
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Post » Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:46 am

Is the Forgotten Vale a marked location on the map?
It is after you discover it - (added by the Dawnguard DLC).

I wouldn't mind seeing a Soulcairn map. I have also collected a couple of maps in RL OP, but mostly very old ones. I have one map of Australia that doesn't even look like Australia. :P
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Post » Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:47 pm


It is after you discover it - (added by the Dawnguard DLC).

I wouldn't mind seeing a Soulcairn map. I have also collected a couple of maps in RL OP, but mostly very old ones. I have one map of Australia that doesn't even look like Australia. :P
So you can fast travel back whenever you want after you discover it?
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Post » Sun Nov 18, 2012 3:21 am

Granted, there is that map, but I don't want a google-maps affair, I want one like you get of skyrim, cyrodill or Shivering Isles out of the game cases. Ya'know, with the actual feel of an old-timey map. Not so much there's any use in them, just because I think they look good. And to be fair, the uesp map is gray and really confusing. And yes, the forgotten vale is a marked location, in the sea and fog. I would be happy as if they had their own area maps like Big MT, Zion and the divide from F:NV, because I could just trace it and that'd be 80% of the work. And the local map system would force me to walk over pretty much every square foot of the two locations and bring up the map. I have no idea how the creation kit works, but I assume they have measurement tools and the rendered outside areas. Would be a simple case of picking out landmarksand measuring the sizes and distances between them.
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Post » Sat Nov 17, 2012 9:30 pm

Granted, there is that map, but I don't want a google-maps affair, I want one like you get of skyrim, cyrodill or Shivering Isles out of the game cases. Ya'know, with the actual feel of an old-timey map. Not so much there's any use in them, just because I think they look good. And to be fair, the uesp map is gray and really confusing. And yes, the forgotten vale is a marked location, in the sea and fog. I would be happy as if they had their own area maps like Big MT, Zion and the divide from F:NV, because I could just trace it and that'd be 80% of the work. And the local map system would force me to walk over pretty much every square foot of the two locations and bring up the map. I have no idea how the creation kit works, but I assume they have measurement tools and the rendered outside areas. Would be a simple case of picking out landmarksand measuring the sizes and distances between them.
You will probably get one if you buy the GOTY edition when it comes out and has the DLCs on disc.
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Post » Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:06 am

You will probably get one if you buy the GOTY edition when it comes out and has the DLCs on disc.

Let's hope so but I doubt it if one more DLC comes out that is a real expansion containing new landmass.
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