I was wondering, in real terms if someone were to calculate it, how high would it be?
It stands above mountains so ill guess at the very least 1000 meters.
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I don’t see it being 1 km tall. That 2.5 times the Empire State Building.
I guess you could measure it by timing how long it takes to fly to the top.
Dude, it’s literally higher than the mountains surrounding it.
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Actually it is just 304 m tall, if you take the ingame scaling compared to an avarage 6’ tall Nightelf, and fly to the top (you can’t by the way)
Exactly 1000 feet tall
it kannot be 1 kilometer. the sword of sargaeras is 1164.9 meters.
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I guess mountains in wow are very small.
Realistically though, if the planet was about as big as Earth, icecream would be really high.
What about in lore height? Do we have some numbers on that?
Because it doesn’t really make a lot of sense, the only way this could make sense is if azeroth is really really small. I mean if the sword of sargeras is only about 1km high, then that means the planet is at most 10 to 20 km in diameter, considering how big sargeras is, and how big the sword is relative to him, which makes no sense at all.
Azeroth is quite small; since the Legion Cinematic, and the Sword of Sillitus, it is possible to measure it; the Sargeras’ sword is almost 4 kilometers long, with the blade piercing almost 1.5 kilometers deep. With the angle and the cinematic, gives us Azeroth circumference is around 80.000 m, so the diameter of Azeroth is roughly 25.5 Km. Comparison, the diameter of Earth is 12 742 km… Azeroth is pretty small, if you take the official cinematic and measurable sword as facts. BUT if you take the in-game “facts” as fact? An NPC in Northrend mentions that it takes a week to travel between Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra. There’s a journal by High General Abbendis who describes taking two months to sail from New Avalon to Dragonblight. At an average speed of 5 knots and assuming the weather stayed consistent, that’d make it about a 6,000 - 8,000 mile journey. Arthas also took a month to sail from Stratholme to the Howling Fjord, which is half of the distance Abbendis sailed. So the timeframe does match up there too. So the Great Sea itself is maybe twice the size of the Atlantic. The Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor are about the same size as that vertically. If you take those in consideration and ignore the cinematic and the Sword of Sargeras? Then Azeroth is very roughly 1.798 times larger than Earth
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yea i am talking about in lore numbers, because obviously in game numbers don’t really make a lot of sense, and designing a map that is as big as a real planet would be a little insane.
Might be cool though. Imagine that.
- How did you measure that? Or is this something you read? Genuinely interested.
- Night Elves are 7-8 feet tall according to several sources, including https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Night_elf
Average height 7–8 feet (213 - 244 cm)[2]
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He used in lore height of night elves, and stacked it to icecrown, the problem with that is that you’re using an in lore number against an in game number, so the result is low balling.
As the game realistically cannot be as big as an actual planet.
Nothing official
But WoW borrowed a lot of thing from LotR
The in-game architecture of Icecrown’s Scourge-controlled fortresses (especially Icecrown Citadel) bear striking resemblances to artwork of Orthanc, Barad-dûr and countless other citadels from The Lord of the Rings.
And as per description, “No known weapon could harm it. Orthanc rose to more than 500 feet (~150 metres) above the plain of Isengard, and ended in four sharp peaks”
It make sense, they simply doubled the hight of the Tower of Isengard
They are takin the hobbit to isengard!
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I’m not that insane or have that much time 
But stacked away among the “useless nerd knowledge”
I do remembered it was the double of Saruman’s tower
I think it was measured with a gyrphon, whitch covers 3m with a wingflap 
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So here’s the possible outcomes.
Either azeroth is really small, and the people of azeroth are miniature people only a few centimeters high and that’s why it takes so long for them to traverse the planet, which makes no sense as it was stated that they are standard height. Or the walk and travel really really slowly, which also makes no sense.
So the real answer can only be that in lore statements do not translate to in game proportions.
So while icecream citadel in game might be only about 300 meters tall, that’s only because they could not scale it up to actual lore numbers, and if the tower is higher than the mountains surrounding it, then it must at least be 1km to several km tall, unless in lore the tower is not higher than the mountains surrounding it.
Actually 1000’/304m is not that small, nor totally out of the realm of possibility when it comes to Icecrown
The 828-metre (2,717 ft) tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai has been the tallest building since 2010 on Earth, but it is a slim skyscraper built by 21th century technology
Azeroth is high fantasy setting - with the occasional hyper advanced races like the Draenei or the Legion or Titans or Mechagnomes and so on
But more or less it is “medieval” level of technology with some steampunk with magic
But Icecrown was built by not magic, but by the undead, with their rotting, boney hands
It was not magically summoned or conjured, it had to be built, and saronite, the main component is not… really the best of materials; it is fragile actually, and have to be alloyed to be usefull as an armor for the Death Knights
Not the bets building material I guess even if it is alloyed
Even in our magical world of Azeroth the laws of physic works more or less the same as on Earth so there is a limit how tall building you can built from certain materials with a given technology
A 300m tall citadel is quite reasonable if you ask me
it’s only reasonable if the actual height in game is not properly represented and the tower is not actually higher than the mountains surrounding it in lore.
Otherwise yes, if it is higher, it’s is 100 % unreasonable for it to be only 300 meters tall.
This is a very simple argument and i struggle to understand why you are finding an issue with it.
Just because something is a fantasy game, doesn’t excuse it from not being internally consistent with the statements given in the story. If it was stated that there is gravity, and then all of a sudden everyone went flying off the ground for no reason at all, you would say that’s bs, right? Because it’s not consistent with the fact given previously.
If the people of Azeroth are as big if not bigger than us, the only way this argument can make sense is if they move really really slowly and it takes them a lot of time to traverse the planet, which obviously does not make any sense.
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Hey, they could be small mountains
We dont really have that tall mountains on the South and North poles The tallest is maybe 1000m?
And Northrend is what remained after a supercontinent shattered, hard to tell, how tall are the mountains in Northrend, but Icecrown was built on and was carved our from Icecrown Glacier… so the “taller than the mountains” is a bit an optical illusion I guess
Depends if it has a flake on top of it!
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No it isn’t, read the comment that was made by the other person before, that makes literally no sense at all.
“Azeroth is quite small; since the Legion Cinematic, and the Sword of Sillitus, it is possible to measure it; the Sargeras’ sword is almost 4 kilometers long, with the blade piercing almost 1.5 kilometers deep. With the angle and the cinematic, gives us Azeroth circumference is around 80.000 m, so the diameter of Azeroth is roughly 25.5 Km. Comparison, the diameter of Earth is 12 742 km… Azeroth is pretty small, if you take the official cinematic and measurable sword as facts. BUT if you take the in-game “facts” as fact? An NPC in Northrend mentions that it takes a week to travel between Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra. There’s a journal by High General Abbendis who describes taking two months to sail from New Avalon to Dragonblight. At an average speed of 5 knots and assuming the weather stayed consistent, that’d make it about a 6,000 - 8,000 mile journey. Arthas also took a month to sail from Stratholme to the Howling Fjord, which is half of the distance Abbendis sailed. So the timeframe does match up there too. So the Great Sea itself is maybe twice the size of the Atlantic. The Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor are about the same size as that vertically. If you take those in consideration and ignore the cinematic and the Sword of Sargeras? Then Azeroth is very roughly 1.798 times larger than Earth”
Those mountains are lower than 300 meters? Those are not mountains, those are hills if that’s the case. And hills generally are never pointy as they have been eroded, you can have higher mountains and lower ones, but generally a mountain is at the very least 700/800 meters tall.
Icecrown Citadel is a complicated structure we don’t really know the full size of. It’s top end is no doubt the spire with the Frozen Throne, but remember that we also have the deep Forge of Souls accessed from the Frozen Halls, and the Wrathgate entrance in Dragonblight. For not to say the potential amount of basement layers we don’t know about.
…wait a minute… Icecream Citadel you said?