Question: are these areas visible from the playable zones? If so, these are not necessarily "scrapped" areas. The Elder Scrolls does this a lot. Oblivion had big chunks of Hammerfell, Elswyre, Blackmarsh, Vallenwood, Skyrim, and Morrowind in game as part of the heightmap with basic landscape generation done. That does not, however, mean they were part of the game then scrapped. They are there to convey that Cyrodiil is just a part of Tamriel. Same thing with Skyrim, which has big chunks of Cyrodill, Hammerfell, Highrock, and Morrowind, but none of that was ever going to be playable. It's purely there for the far off LOD. Same could apply here.