SKYRIM

[M.J. Saulnier]

Why didn't you like the Blades?


Of all the crappy factions you didn't like the ancient order of dragon slaying knights?


Let me guess, you're Brotherhood? One of Astrid's incompetent assassins?


I've killed hundreds of your brethren, killed Astrid, proceeded to massacre your entire faction, and no mod was required.

 

[Noivian]

Yeah, I don't like the Blades much either... They seemed a bit too arrogant for their own good. 

 

[Twist]

Does this have a main story like Oblivion did? Cus I always hated having a main story in a game where you can supposedly be anything (tomb robber, bounty hunter, vampire) and you still have to save the world.

 

[IG42]

Does this have a main story like Oblivion did? Cus I always hated having a main story in a game where you can supposedly be anything (tomb robber, bounty hunter, vampire) and you still have to save the world.

It has one but (assuming you use the vanilla start) you can run away and do as you damn well please after the first 20 minutes.

 

[CrazedFlamingo]

From playing Skyrim and ESO, and looking deeply into the lore, I was actually able to come up with a terrifying prediction for the future of Tamriel.


Come to think of it, Tamriel is in the worst shape its been in since the Interregnum, in which if you don't know it (and I'm sure some people on this thread might not. Maybe new fans of the Elder Scrolls, or someone who missed that part of the lore), was the 400-year period in which began after the final emperor of the Second Empire, the Reman Empire, and his entire family were murdered by Morag Tong agents, in which many had left and became the Dark Brotherhood, leaving the throne empty, causing three different alliances throughout Tamriel, the Second Aldmeri Dominion, the Daggerfall Covenant, and the Ebonheart Pact to clash for the throne (the Elder Scrolls Online takes place in 2E 582, several hundred year before Tiber Septim aka Talos had conquered Tamriel and founded the Septim Empire, ruled by the Septim Dynasty before dying and ascending into Chim Stasis, godhood). Tiber Septim used what was called a Numidium, a Dwemer powerful Dwemer Golem powered by the Heart of Lorkhan, the god whom created Mundus with the help of the Aedra.


Ever since the Oblivion Crisis, in which took place just a few years after the Tribunal was reduced to only Vivec ruling Morrowind, the city he founded, named after him, had the asteroid floating atop of it, and he had disappeared just after the crisis. A machine was built to keep that asteroid afloat in exchange for souls, yet, a Dunmer destroyed it to save his lover, causing the asteroid to hit Vivec, causing the Red Year, when Red Mountain erupted. That is why there are so many Dunmer fleeing to Skyrim and Solstheim. But then, Morrowind was attacked by Argonia, whom in which seceded from the Empire after the Oblivion Crisis, and attacked Morrowind, taking territory from what was left of it. The Aldmeri Dominion was created out of the Summerset Isle (now renamed Alinor), and overthrew Valenwood's government, taking the province and adding it to the Dominion. The Elsweyr Confederacy had suffered from a mass hysteria caused by the Void Nights, when the moons Masser and Secunda had disappeared, and two years later, were restored. They lost faith in the Empire when the Aldmeri Dominion claimed they were responsible for restoring the moons. Then, a coup separated Elsweyr into two separate kingdoms, in which were accepted as client states by the Aldmeri Dominion. Elsweyr completely lost its faith in the Empire after the Empire had taken much of its northeastern territory to establish a construction sight in ancient Khajiiti ruins to build another Numidium, in which failed and left the ruins poisonous.


After Titus Mede II was crowned Emperor, he was given a request from the Dominion to:


1) Outlaw the worship of Talos


2) Give the Dominion the southern region of Hammerfell and the island of Stros M'Kai


After denying that request, the Great War began, knocking the Empire down to its knees, and making it the Dominion's puppet state. Then, the Reguards in Hammerfell felt betrayed by the Empire after the signing of the White Gold Concordat, in which fulfilled the requests of the Dominion, making Hammerfell begin to revolt against the Dominion, leading the Mede Empire to denounce it as a part of the Empire. Hammerfell was able to fight the Dominion, and sign the Second Treaty of Stros M'Kai, making the Dominion completely withdraw from Hammerfell. Then, Skyrim rebelled against the Empire.


Tamriel is in a bad position, but if you look at the previous games, that is when you see some evidence of another great threat to Tamriel. In TES III: Morrowind, the book Mysterious Akavir made its first appearance, and it is said that the Nerevarine had travelled to Akavir after the events of the game. The book showed up in Oblivion and Skyrim.


Akavir is a separate continent in which has invaded Tamriel two times beforehand. Once in the First Era, a second time in the Second Era. There are four races in Akavir:


Tsaesci: Immortal vampiric snake people with the capability of eating dragons.


Kamal: Snow Demons whom remain frozen during the winter, and thaw out during the spring and summer and attempt to eat the Tang Mo extinct annually.


Tang Mo: Monkey people. They fight the Kamal off each and every year to avoid extinction.


Ka'Po'Tun: The tiger people. It is said that the Ka'Po'Tun hate the Tsaesci, and have made an alliance with the Tang Mo to combat against them.


Tosh Raka, the leader of the Ka'Po'Tun, had meditated and became the largest dragon on Nirn. It is probably possible for other Ka'Po'Tun to do this as well. As the book stated, they wage war against the Tsaesci to wipe them out, and Tosh Raka vowed that he will invade Tamriel after the Tsaesci are extinct. In order to ensure a victory, one must invade their enemies when they are at their weakest, and look at Tamriel during the Fourth Era. The Oblivion Crisis has left unrepairable damage on Tamriel, and political tensions are at their highest. Just like the Interregnum, the Akaviri invaded Tamriel when massive disorder had occurred, and surely, it could happen once again. Maybe Skyrim was a foreshadowing for such an event.

 

[The Outcast]

gonna be 100 percent honest, i think morrowind was better. 


but skyrim still kick ass

 

[The Outcast]

 

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[Dex118]

FUS RO DAH!!!