[LE] Replace roadsigns with milestones

[cthunsthrall]

Skyrim has wooden roadsigns, and there are several popular mods that improve the meshes and textures for these roadsigns.

But ultimately, they all suffer from one major problem — although medieval wooden roadsigns are a kind of trope in popular media, historically they were pretty rare, because wood is soft and organic and prone to deterioration.

Throughout history, if you wanted to inscribe something with text or symbols, and you wanted it to last so you wouldn't have to redo it every couple decades, you built that thing out of stone.

In particular, if medieval people wanted to place mile markers on a highway, they would build a milestone. As you might have guessed, that's where we get the term milestone.

 

So, it would make sense if all of Skyrim's roadsigns were replaced by milestones with the same information.

And it would make even more sense if, instead of only indicating the direction to a town (as they do in the base game), the milestones also specified the distance from here to there.

From what I understand, the Elder Scrolls universe uses the Imperial system of measurement. So the inhabitants of Skyrim would probably record distance in miles.

 

This isn't really a request, since I don't actually play Skyrim anymore. It's just something that popped into my head, so I did a search for milestones, and saw there weren't any mods doing this.

So I figured I'd record my suggestion for any mod authors interested in making Skyrim look and feel more realistic. Cheers!

 

 

An example of a milestone in the Roman Imperial province of Hispania.