I guess that means we will visit just the throne room during a cutscene (maybe the castle), but we won't see anything of the city.
I'm pretty (99%) sure Vizima is still in. It's the prologue area. I think that map just mostly covers the Skellidge/Velen/Novigrad main maps. If you look at the top it cuts off most of the Kaer Morhen portion of the map too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l9iFPld2oSo
If you go to 53-54 seconds into the gamespot video you can see the map in the background. If you look at it on full screen it appears there is an island in the middle of a bay. That could be Thanedd Island in theory. which would mean Gors Velen would be directly to the South/South East of that location (according to the Time of Contempt).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l9iFPld2oSo
If you go to 53-54 seconds into the gamespot video you can see the map in the background. If you look at it on full screen it appears there is an island in the middle of a bay. That could be Thanedd Island in theory. which would mean Gors Velen would be directly to the South/South East of that location (according to the Time of Contempt).
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It's the physical map from the collectors edition. They wanted to get the different areas on one map. Like you said, skellige and kaer morhen aren't that close to Velen/Novigrad in reality.
That's something that reminds me a bit of medieval maps where cities often were placed on the map due their importance (religious etc.) instead of resembling the actual geography.
It's just typical map of POIs with lots of details of them, meaning the scale is messed up pretty bad and you shouldn't refer to this map when thinking about scale or exact locations.
At some points on the map you can see the image of a character with a symbol next to it (beneath Kaer Trolde, above Oxenfurt etc.). Does anyone have any idea what these are meant to represent? Maybe something with the politics of the world?
Indeed, I think that character is the ruler of the region, Crach an Craite. Makesense because he own Kaer Trolde Kaer Trolde.
You can see him better here, in the right with his crown:
As for the character benath Oxenfurt, his heraldry next to him look a lot like the one of the kingdom of Redania:
So I think this is Radovid V, the actual king of Redania.
Ok cool. I like it that they included this on the map, I think I count about 7/8 of these characters in total.Indeed, I think that character is the ruler of the region, Crach an Craite. Makesense because he own Kaer Trolde Kaer Trolde.
You can see him better here, in the right with his crown:
As for the character benath Oxenfurt, his heraldry next to him look a lot like the one of the kingdom of Redania:
So I think this is Radovid V, the actual king of Redania.
The map overall is awesome, I'm really curious as to what the south of No Man's Land looks like.
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The rest:
No Gors Velen
Disappointing. I hope they add it with a bigger dlc or addon.
Well shit. It still looks like an awesome map. But it is very disappointing since Gors Velen is in the area and it's sounds like such an awesome place when described in the books. No school of magic ... no market place ... no crumbling island filled with illusions and traps. Whomp.
i just realized the pics above only show a part of the map. Comparing it with the CE map:
Kaer Morhen for example isn't on the map of the gamestop video.
Looking at the CE map it also seems that there is more on the right and below. (the proportions of the map would be very weird if that's all)
So there is still hope.
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I agree but I think it's like 5-10% chance. The black fault line seems to be a clear demarcation of the edge of the main Novigrad/No Man's Land Map. So unless Gors Velen is a separate area (Like Vizima, Skellidge, and Kaer Morhen), I don't think it will be in the game.
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Although ... now that I look at "the rest" image more closely there does appear to be some area to the South that is not a part of either NML or Vizima maps (seperated by two different boarders in very South West corner). I'll go with 10%.
It's interesting to note that in the meditation screen it shows the area around Vizima and Gors Velen (former Temeria) and it's map is identical to the one seen in W2, but in Witcher 2 its written Temeria over it, and in this one it's written Nilfgaard and Gors Velen could belong to a different faction since it's borders are very white.