General:Michael Wagner's Posts

Michael Wagner's Posts
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Michael Wagner, also known as sentinel, is the Senior Marketing Art Director at Bethesda Softworks, who drew the map of Morrowind by hand. These are a few notable comments from Wagner on The Elder Scrolls setting.

2005

On design "inaccuracies" of the Shadowkey map (01-04-2005)

Well the thing with map making is that the maps are done from the point of view of the cartographer. A resident of Tamriel may not have access to a flight spell to gauge accuracy and certainly would not have access to a satellite photo. So is it really so far fetched to believe that a cartography from that area of Hammerfell would draw his map with inaccuracies? It seems obvious the maps highest function was to point out the most important areas that a traveller to that area would need to take note of.

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And who was the crazy cartography who drew the island of Vvardenfell without any of Morrowind's coastline surrounding it?

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Our ever friendly Shifty Eyed Dog was the creator of the Shadowkey map and she did an outstanding job on it!