Uncharted 4 and The Lost Legacy: Highlands, Madagascar and the Hoysala Temples

In Uncharted 4, a map hidden inside a duplicate St. Dismas idol sends Nate and Sam to a cathedral in the Scottish Highlands. There they find a hidden temple and a map marking King's Bay in Madagascar, the next step toward Henry Avery's treasure. The cathedral is the game's invention. The real Highlands are the northernmost mountain ranges of Great Britain, a region of glens and peaks that suits a lost temple well.

Location precision: The cathedral is fictional and the game names no real site; the pin marks the Scottish Highlands as a region.

In King's Bay the Drakes and Sully learn that Avery, Thomas Tew and ten other pirate captains pooled their treasures, and Nate uncovers a map to Libertalia. The game's debut trailer showed an old map of Africa stopping at Madagascar, with Île Sainte-Marie marked. The real island, today Nosy Boraha, is 60 kilometres long and was a pirate base from 1691, when Adam Baldridge arrived, through the 18th century. Tew was among the legendary pirates who lived there.

Location precision: The game's King's Bay is not matched to a real harbour; the pin marks the island the trailer's map highlights.

Following the map, the Drakes reach an island and find Libertalia, a pirate colony gone to ruin. The founders moved the treasure to New Devon, an extravagant, well-fortified town, and Avery and Tew finally poisoned the other founders. Historians treat the place as fiction: its only source is the 1724 General History of the Pyrates. The game changes the legend so that Avery and Tew found it. One legend puts Libertalia on Antsiranana Bay in northern Madagascar.

Location precision: Libertalia is regarded as a literary invention, so no map pin is given.

The Lost Legacy sends Chloe Frazer and Nadine Ross through the Western Ghats, following towers marked with Hindu weapons. The trail leads to Halebidu, one of the two Hoysala capitals, but it proves a false trail: the tusk is at the older capital, Belur. In reality Halebidu, once Dorasamudra, was capital for nearly 300 years. Its Hoysaleswara Temple is a twin temple with two shrines and two towers.

Location precision: The game builds its own ruins; the pin marks the real Hoysala temple in Halebidu.

Visitor guidance: The Hoysaleswara Temple is in Halebidu.

At Belur, Chloe and Nadine solve several puzzles before Asav captures them and forces Chloe to use the disc to reveal the tusk. She learns that Ganesh let Parashurama cut off his tusk. The real Belur was the early Hoysala capital. Its Chennakeshava Temple is an active Hindu temple and a major Vaishnava pilgrimage site, only about 16 kilometres from Halebidu.

Location precision: The game's temple is invented; the pin marks the real Chennakeshava Temple in Belur.

Visitor guidance: The temple is still used for worship, so dress and behave as at any active temple.