How big is Morrowind?

[armageddon]

The game takes place on Vvardenfell, a mere island to Morrowind. I thought it was big enough already but there was a mainland? Games like this just blow my mind.

[psychotron666]

You can see the map here.

https://www.imperial-library.info/content/maps-tamriel

As you can see, the island of vvardenfell is only about half the size of morrowind as a whole.

Vvardenfell also has only been settled in the last 20~ or so years when you play the game, giving it the frontier feeling. For the previous few thousand years, it was off limits holy ground for the temple, only a few temple settlements and the ashlanders lived here "legally". Of course daedric ruins have been there for thousands of years and I'm sure cultists and smugglers and whatnot lived on the island.

Also the dunmer strongholds (big grey buildings in the wilderness) and the dwemer ruins have also been there for thousands of years, as those (and the daedric ruins) were from the time the dwemer and the chimer (dark elves before they were cursed into dark elves) lived on the island together.

The morrowind mainland has much more established civilization and cities.

There is a fan made mod called Tamriel rebuilt which is aiming to put all of the mainland in the game. Currently they're like 3/4 done the mainland with over 200 quests.

https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/

[Nebgama]

Morrowind is a moon and star spiritually and geographically described as one, it is a a moon shaped crescent with Vvardenfell being the star.

Vvardenfell only seems big to you because you are new, it has this effect on all tourist sera.

[Boutus]

As someone else said, get Tamriel Rebuilt and you'll actually feel as if you are wandering around an imperial province of Tamriel in 3E, it's huge, absolutely huge.