I agree, with the land mass of Skyrim as big as it is, it's frustrating that they limited the size of the playable world. I have a couple of expansions that require removing the borders (i.e. the invisible walls) on the "edges" of the map. Before I was prepared to remove those borders I tried to collect some info on what it was all about and learnt that the guys who made these expansion mods, did not actually add any new land masses.
They placed their mods on the political borders of Skyrim and used the already in place land mass because the Bethsoft team had created miles and miles of map space around the borders with what appears to be no intention of the players ever getting to access it.
Now you probably know all this already but it was news to me and proved to be a bit of an eye opener. As I understand it, there were some ideas of expanding the playable land mass, hence the amount of mapped areas beyond the invisible walls of Skyrim's borders but the normal business pressures of release schedules & budgets stifled the plan. It's all hearsay but I wouldn't be surprised if it's correct.
There's one modder in particular that set about adding in a few Skyrim towns/villages from the TES Arena map that aren't in TES V. I haven't tried them because I still haven't been able to confirm if these locations conflict with some other mods I'm using. According to the blurb surrounding his mods, the TES V map of Skyrim has been reduced in size compared to the Skyrim that was in Arena.
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