The game was originally designed to allow the dragon form to attack ground opponents, but it required too much memory and had too much of a frame rate hit.
There was to be an area with elves and dwarves, as well as a swamp (possibly on the same map), but they were cut due to lack of resources. FoV also had an area designed for outside Aleroth, but including it would have delayed the release too long, so Larian decided the game as a whole needed more of a central hub at that point, so focused on the city.
