Poll: Hey Bethesda fans, Elder Scrolls or Fallout?
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A huge black dragon was sent forward in time because the Nords tried to destroy it but couldn't so made it somebody else's problem, also civil war because Nord guy claims Empire is at fault over the whole Talos thing while it's obvious to everyone it was to stop the Elves from crushing everybody from Skyrim to Cyrodiil. Also Elder Scrolls did a thing with the time travelling super-dragon.Kotep said:
^ that's what I've come up with after finishing Skyrim for myself. Oblivion (which I've never even played) had a way better story than that shit.
Oblivion was...well, it was where TES hit its Dork Age pretty hard. Skyrim stayed way closer to the Pocket Guide to the Empire description of it. It would have been pretty neat to have priests singing to their robes made of moths and enchanted topiary of ancient emperors that spoke to you and the ridiculous dragon-fetishism that the Imperials were supposed to be crazy for.Sansha said:
But even so, it had some pretty nice moments. It had a book that talked about how after the Alessian Empire fell, King Hrol made love unto a hillock and from it was birthed the child Reman with the Amulet of Kings in his forehead, speaking as an adult I AM CYRODIIL COME. And then there was Knights of the Nine, with Pelinal, the star-turned-knight who came in the shape of a ruby and could unsector and form himself into a man, sent by the gods from the future.
This isn't even touching on Morrowind, Daggerfall and Redguard where the best lore comes from. That's where the Dwemer were set down, the skeptic elves who were able to disprove their own reality and built a giant brass robot powered by the heart of a dead god, which they struck and fractured the tones from to aid in breaking the laws of the world. That's where you had the Dunmer worshiping their trio of insane demigods who could teach everyone to breathe underwater and flood the land to wipe out an invasion, or command a falling asteroid to simply stop and it did.
And it gets weirder. Way weirder. The Remanada, The Song of Pelinal, the Thirty-Six Sermons of Vivec--it's not hard to say that TES lore is some of the most impressive for just about any game franchise. And my synopses of all of them don't do them any justice at all. Go look them up on UESP or The Imperial Library.
About the place being dirty all the time, my guess is that they just have different standards than those of the Pre-War era.