How did you ever find your way around?
You may be disappointed to hear this, but nobody walked anywhere in Daggerfall. You
could if you wanted to, sure. But in practice the only way to accomplish anything was to fast travel. An interface came up showing the map, and you could zoom in or out to different territories, and filter points of interest shown on it, and when you wanted to go somewhere specific you actually typed it in by name and searched for it.
So a quest would tell you to go to Dougville and you'd search for Dougville and you'd see that it's over in this other province 100 miles away, and would take you 6 days to get there, and you'd say "ok take me there" and then you're there.
If you were riding a horse or on a ship, travel would be much faster, which could be important since many quests were time-limited. Like "please see that this letter is delivered within at least 2 months."
It wouldn't surprise me if people were still playing it and finding new things they've never seen. I appreciate that a lot of the world have been auto-generated, and probably miles of open fields, but even so that's really impressive to me.
The whole thing was generated. There is really nothing interesting to see out there. There are some very specific dungeons and cities handcrafted with interesting architecture, but you visit them all in the course of the main quest.
Many quests were totally generated as well, like most of the fighter/mage/thief guild quests. You could save and load and accept a new quest over and over to get different ones, and only accept the easy ones to advance in rank quickly. One mage's guild quest involves simply staying overnight in the guildhall to defend a caster from assassins that would come in the night, which was very easy to do.
Most quests were essentially "go to this procedurally generated dungeon and kill the lone werewolf there," or "collect the note somewhere inside," etc. Every dungeon had several pregenerated spots that could house any given quest item or creature. They were so vast that in the game's final patch the devs included cheats to instantly warp between these quest locations and the exit, because it was possible to get lost in a dungeon for an actual day.
Here's a map of a town, actually the titular Daggerfall but any given town looked like this, just usually smaller:
Colored locations are generally the only ones where interesting things could happen but IIRC random houses could host monsters to kill on behalf of the fighter's guild.
You can see at the top left of the map, this is the flagship city of the game and they didn't even bother to correct an error/quirk of generation that put two "the [whatever] muskrat" named buildings right by each other. Or the top center that put two "the beaver and [whatever]" near each other.
