The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is about in Cyrodiil, the province in Tamriel dwelling to the Imperial Empire. It’s a fantasy setting filled with sufficient quests to maintain even the most devoted adventurer busy for tons of of hours. However that hasn’t stopped some from probing the invisible barrier of its border for cracks — and even exploring the areas past.
Over the weekend, redditor GnoblinXD recounted their journey through Cyrodiil’s border and into Valenwood, Tamriel’s southwestern province and dwelling to the Bosmer, or Wooden Elves, and subsequent door Elsweyr, a area featured in The Elder Scrolls On-line. GnoblinXD discovered they had been ready to transfer by the invisible barrier set in place to forestall this kind of factor, and, from there, merely jumped their means throughout the river and up the cliff face in basic The Elder Scrolls style.
“I explored a bit and was shocked to discover principally the entire landmass of the map was there, even when not detailed ofc,” GnoblinXD mentioned.
Valenwood itself is a barren space, devoid of life, cities, NPCs, and even bushes. There are a variety of graphics and environmental points GnoblinXD bumped into whereas exploring right here, which you’d count on given the builders of Oblivion Remastered by no means meant it to be explored in the first place. GnoblinXD tried to attain what they consider to be the Summerset Isles west of Valenwood, however fell afoul of the void. Reloading from saves set outdoors the bounds of Cyrodiil don’t seem to work, forcing GnoblinXD to restart inside its borders.
In order for you particulars, GnoblinXD uploaded a video, under, exhibiting precisely how to get into Valenwood by way of this new border-breaking discovery.
Undeterred, GnoblinXD later uploaded photos of their journey to Hammerfell, the province in the west of Tamriel rumored to be the setting of the upcoming The Elder Scrolls VI.
Bethesda has remained tight-lipped on the place the subsequent model new The Elder Scrolls sport will happen. All we have now to go on is the sport’s 36-second announcement teaser, which presents a towering stretch of mountains and a picturesque shoreline overlooking an unlimited ocean. The prevailing concept is that the sequel will let gamers free in Hammerfell – the central setting of The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall and The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, in addition to a visitable location in The Elder Scrolls On-line. With tropical forests, harsh mountains and scenic coastal cities, Hammerfell’s depictions in earlier Elder Scrolls video games appear to align with the teaser, hinting that we could also be set to discover the Redguards’ homeland as soon as once more.
To get to Hammerfell, GnoblinXD handed the southern Valenwood hole and walked round the port metropolis of Anvil, the westernmost metropolis in Cyrodiil, and up in the direction of Hammerfell.
“After many an hour spent looking, I lastly discovered my means to the different aspect of Cyrodiil’s northern border!” GnoblinXD mentioned. “The area appears huge. A lot larger than the Valenwood/Elsweyr space. The landmass stretches means past render-distance, so who is aware of how far it goes… Probably there may be nothing right here, however I am intrigued nonetheless.”
Now right here’s the place issues get actually fascinating. GnoblinXD tried to discover the shoreline from the The Elder Scrolls VI teaser, strolling west in the direction of the place that space can be in-game, however ended up falling off the edge of the map (“I did not die, however now I am caught in the backrooms of Oblivion, lol.”).
Maybe GnoblinXD will finally give you the option to discover that space, or maybe one other participant will handle it. Both means, the problem is about for a glimpse at what could find yourself being the setting of one of the most-anticipated video video games ever.
“I acquired right here utilizing no mods, glitches or console instructions, my sport is fully vanilla,” GnoblinXD insisted. “Oh, and it is type of humorous that Hammerfell appears totally coated in forests whereas Valenwood had no bushes in any respect, lol.
“Anyway, time for me to do some exploring, would possibly replace extra later :)”
And they also did, this time photos of a journey into the aforementioned Elsweyr. Elsweyr is of course dwelling to the Khajiit, the playable bestial and feline race function in all the important The Elder Scrolls video games up to now.
What’s sensible about this out of bounds space is that from inside it you’ll be able to see what very a lot appears like The Throat of the World, the highest mountain of Tamriel and maybe the most iconic location in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. It’s right here that the Dragonborn climbs the Seven Thousand Steps to the historical monastery of Excessive Hrothgar, the place the order of the Greybeards dwells, and learns from them Shouts and speaks with the dragon, Paarthurnax.
That’s proper, you’ll be able to go to Skyrim in Oblivion Remastered, however you’ll be able to’t really journey far sufficient in to get to The Throat of the World or see any signal of life.
That is so cool. In case you go to the edge of the map in Oblivion Remastered, you’ll be able to see Skyrim’s tallest mountain, The Throat of the World, off in the distance. This was not in the unique sport pic.twitter.com/oilOVpeuXF
— sackchief 🍂 (@sackchief) April 24, 2025
“Very similar to Valenwood, Elsweyr is sort of barren as soon as you allow the border space with Cyrodiil,” GnoblinXD defined. “Not like Valenwood, nonetheless, I suppose the lack of flora and fauna is considerably extra lore-accurate. With that mentioned I discovered neither cats nor deserts, sadly, and most heartbreaking of all, no Moon Sugar 🙁
“I ran round a bit searching for something of curiosity, taking some photos alongside the means. I made a decision to see how far south you may go. Properly, it seems you’ll be able to go fairly far. After reaching and going past the southern edge of Elsweyr, there appeared solely to be infinite sea, so I made a decision to head east in the direction of Black Marsh as an alternative.
“And, oh boy, Black Marsh is certainly… uh… Distinctive, for instance. I would make a submit about it sooner or later if folks need to see. I did not see how far east I may go, however very apparently there’s a HUGE landmass past the far japanese edge of the map.”
GnoblinXD continues to be mid-journey outdoors Cyrodiil, and could uncover much more areas to discover and well-known landmarks looming over the horizon. They managed to discover their means to each the Morrowind and Skyrim aspect of the border, however the walkable space doesn’t prolong far. “So no selfies from the Throat of The World, sadly :(“ GnoblinXD mentioned. Nonetheless, after their preliminary submit blew up on reddit (19,000 upvotes and counting), it appears others could make discoveries of their very own. And so it has confirmed. “Went to Hammerfell a sport early lol,” said X / Twitter user @Mar_Animation.
Went to Hammerfell a sport early lol.#Oblivion #OblivionRemastered pic.twitter.com/EBB9abBGMD
— River (@maranimation.bluesky.social) (@Mar_Animation) April 27, 2025
Me simply typically frolicking outdoors the map. Evidently somebody did not admire me leaving Cyrodill.#Oblivion #OblivionRemastered pic.twitter.com/5N1yZifQD3
— River (@maranimation.bluesky.social) (@Mar_Animation) April 27, 2025
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