A Pocket Guide to the Empire and its Environs by Bethesda Softworks

Some of these, such as Morrowind or Skyrim, have historically been unified into kingdoms others, such as High Rock or Elsweyr, are looser groupings of many kingdoms, chiefdoms, village confederations, and so forth, united under a dominant race or culture. Tamriel itself is generally divided into eight major regions: Skyrim, Cyrodiil, High Rock, the Aldmeri Dominion of the Summerset Isles and Valenwood, Hammerfell, Morrowind, and the Elsweyr Confederacy. To the south all is mystery and the whisper of a lost Elven homeland. To the east is Akavir, whose armies invaded Tamriel in the previous era. To the west is Yokuda, the lost native land of the Redguards.

To the north of Tamriel is Atmora, from whence the Men of the World came. The Empire stretches across Tamriel, the largest known continent of the World. We strove to balance timeliness with accuracy and completeness if we have erred in our zeal to place this valuable guide in the hands of interested citizens everywhere, we beg the kind reader's indulgence. Written in celebration of the Battle of Hunding Bay, which marked the return of all human kingdoms to the unchallenged rule of the Cyrodilic Emperor, this pamphlet seeks to briefly describe the present provinces of the Empire and the surrounding regions- their history, people and current condition. With the dawn of a new era before us, it is time that we take stock of where we have been and where we are, in order to better illuminate the way ahead.

A Pocket Guide to the Empire and its Environs by Bethesda Softworks