The elder scrolls "Space" rim?

[Burst6]

I bet the Dwemer had guns. What happened to those guys anyway?

This game needs more steampunk.

I fully expect the Dwarves/Dwemer to make a return. There is just too much possible story in the WHERE THE HELL DID THEY GO area. Perhaps the next game, you'll play a Dwemer who returns to Tamrial and has to get his people back into the world. You have the ability to jump from plain to plain of reality. Also your people beat back the High Elves who have nearly taken everything over.


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Also I really hope in one of the DLCs I can start and hopefully prosecute a war with the Aldmeri Dominion. Those bastards really piss me off. They keep sending assasin squads after me and I've never done anything to them.

An elder scrolls game where you don't get to pick your race? BLASPHEMY.
but seriously, this needs to be DLC. The whole Dwemer thing just feels like it would be a great thing to expand upon.

But first, i want a DLC set in the Summerset Isles. Just like you, i want to wring some cocky Thalmor necks.

 

[JordanXlord]

Skyrim is already in the future. Haven't you seen the Nordic Space Program. We launch our Nordrinaughts into space using giants with sticks!

This is has made my Monday

a Toast to you my good sir *raises wine glass*

 

[jthwilliams]

I bet the Dwemer had guns. What happened to those guys anyway?

This game needs more steampunk.

I fully expect the Dwarves/Dwemer to make a return. There is just too much possible story in the WHERE THE HELL DID THEY GO area. Perhaps the next game, you'll play a Dwemer who returns to Tamrial and has to get his people back into the world. You have the ability to jump from plain to plain of reality. Also your people beat back the High Elves who have nearly taken everything over.


*EDIT*

Also I really hope in one of the DLCs I can start and hopefully prosecute a war with the Aldmeri Dominion. Those bastards really piss me off. They keep sending assasin squads after me and I've never done anything to them.

An elder scrolls game where you don't get to pick your race? BLASPHEMY.
but seriously, this needs to be DLC. The whole Dwemer thing just feels like it would be a great thing to expand upon.

But first, i want a DLC set in the Summerset Isles. Just like you, i want to wring some cocky Thalmor necks.

Yeah, you are right. TES would never require you to be a dwemer. So the unknown champion of Dwemer kind who can be any race comes except Dwemer, somehow stumbles across wherever the hell they are (I keep saying where ever the hell because If I remember lore correctly several people and Aedra have been looking for them. Beings who really should be able to find them and so far no trace. ) Well in any case you find them, and then need to bring them back into the Tameriel to avoid the doom of the ah ah ah return of the giant cliff racers who breed very quickly and start to take over now that that skyrim guy killed off all the dragons.

 

[Agayek]

Whaaaa?

Elder Scrolls in space? Nope. Never. That'd kill the very spirit of the series. You want Space Fantasy? Stick to Warhammer 40 000.

Besides, open space outside of Nirn (the planet) is a supernatural void, Masser and Secundus are both facets of some god (I don't remember), and stars are actually comparatively tiny portals to Oblivion.

So, um... No. Don't like that. At least, not personally.

The moons are actually the body of Lorkhan, believe it or not. Lorkhan tricked the Aedra and Daedra intro creating Mundus (the mortal realm), and it started stripping their essence from them. In response, most fled the mortal plane, while eight Aedra sacrificed themselves and became the Divines (and basically act as the laws of physics and whatnot). I forget precisely how it went down, but somewhere in that kerfluffle Lorkhan was killed and his heart was ripped out. His body was made into the moons and his heart ended up with the Dwemer (where it eventually disappeared them, then Dagoth Ur found it and the events of Morrowind went down). Then Talos came along, somehow acquired Lorkhan's spirit and became the ninth Divine.

That's actually why the Thalmor outlawed worship of Talos. Their Grand Master Plan is basically 1) Stop Talos from being a god and banish "mortality" from existence 2) Undo creation 3) Become immortal

 

[Agayek]

umm....what?

So your saying that the people of Tamriel, should shove an object that they've never heard of, or even have the gunpowder to make, down a metal tube, which would then result in there hands blowing off.....

To be fair, you don't really need gunpowder to make a bomb when you have a fire rune. It's not that outrageous to come up with a runic thing to create force, put that at the bottom of a metal tube, stick a bowling ball in after it and activate the rune.

Granted, it's a relatively large leap in logic, so it's understandable that they haven't come up with it, but they could easily have canons with their current level of technology if they put their minds to it.

 

[])rStrangelove]

It'd almost be like Star Wars, but with more sparkly effects for "The Force" (magic!).

^this

Running around on Tatooine searching for parts to fix that bloody landspeeder would be so badass. Oh, and MP COOP plz

 

[IamLEAM1983]

My own post.

but 40k is a strategy game series, not an rpg series

Oh, but Warhammer still takes place in a pseudo-Fantasy setting, so it works. Y'know, with FTL travel being possible by way of running the risk of losing yourself and your entire freaking ship to Chaos and most Ork machinery running simply because they're so goddamned stubborn that, well, they essentially generate their own literal Reality Distortion Fields.

That and WAAAAUUGH! banners probably help. Warhammer having an amount of lore that equals and then trumps the Elder Scrolls', I'd say it still counts.

My post again!

That's actually why the Thalmor outlawed worship of Talos. Their Grand Master Plan is basically 1) Stop Talos from being a god and banish "mortality" from existence 2) Undo creation 3) Become immortal

Awesome!

Well, the lore's awesome. I'm not sure I like the idea of an already long-lived species known for its snootiness suddenly turning into bona fide immortals. Can you seriously imagine a Summerset-occupied Tamriel? Being anything other than an Altmer would absolutely suck.

 

[Nouw]

I'm calling a Warhammer 40,000 style RPG and I whole-heartedly approve.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Nah its not Fallout folks!

Imagine one set in like... the 19th Century, yeah, now that'd be brilliant, Muskets and Rifles, Rapiers and Scimitars too, and magic could be something that was forgotten, then rediscovered in the game, now that would be awesome.

so you mean... Fable 2?

OT: probably would. it might not feel like an 'Elder Scrolls' game but dammit i'd play it.

 

[JesterRaiin]

I was always curious : is it possible for high-tech to evolve in the world dripping with magic that much ?
Arcanum, the best example of "both worlds" is a little different - one "path" excludes other, and magic isn't really that potent. It can't cure plagues which leads to medicine. I believe that one of joinable companions said that clearly.

But Tamriel ?
Why invest into medicine since we have Restoration spells that can cure everything ?
What's the purpose of inventing transport since all we have to do is master teleport spells ?
Why invent gunpowder and guns if skilled mage has all the Hell's fires at his disposal ?

No need for steam power, electricity and stuff. No electronics, no quantum mechanics.
I don't think that this world would go further than simple mechanical devices.

...of course we have Dwemers or rather their inventions. What's interesting : there are no factories, no laboratories, no science scrolls or books. My personal opinion is : Dwemers are not part of Tamriel. They are aliens or descendants of earlier, more "technical" civilization.

...Just saying.

 

[ultrachicken]

Astronomy in The Elder Scrolls works nothing like real life, so Bethesda would either have to retcon a lot of the lore or create a really weird method of space travel.

 

[Ruwrak]

Nah its not Fallout folks!

Imagine one set in like... the 19th Century, yeah, now that'd be brilliant, Muskets and Rifles, Rapiers and Scimitars too, and magic could be something that was forgotten, then rediscovered in the game, now that would be awesome.

Actually there are skimitars in Skyrim already.
Just very hard to come by and completely useless as weapons thought (as if they ment to say 'lol western weapons are our specialty so nyaaah.)

 

[Insanity72]

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Yes well when you put effort into your answer like that it makes more sense.

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But why bother doing all that if you have magic anyway?

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Again, why bother when you have the power of destruction magic XP

 

[Maze1125]

But Tamriel ?
Why invest into medicine since we have Restoration spells that can cure everything ?

Because the magic can't cure everything. If it could, you wouldn't see wounded or dying people in places around the world, and no-one would have invented a cure disease potion. That's essentually an early form of medical technology.

What's the purpose of inventing transport since all we have to do is master teleport spells ?

Because everyone seems to have forgotten how to cast those since Morrowind.
Even if they hadn't, not everyone can cast magic. There are carts in Skyrim to transport people and the slit striders in Morrowind.

Transport technology clearly has a place.

Why invent gunpowder and guns if skilled mage has all the Hell's fires at his disposal ?

Because, again, not everyone has access to magic.
And, with magic around, you wouldn't necessarily need gunpowder to make a gun. That very same mage could use soul gems to produce an explosion to propel bits of metal in a fashion anyone could use.

Ta da, a gun that uses magic to fire.

 

[Joccaren]

TES...
In Space...
Go speak to the Giants, they're experts on this stuff.

Honestly, the farthest into the future I would go is not at all, and instead explore the past a bit more in the next game. Have it take place a bit after Skyrim, but with heavy focus on the Dwemer ruins, and finally give at the very least some hints as to what happened to the Dwemer in it. It doesn't have to be entirely set in Dwemer ruins, that would get quite monotonous, but I would like the main story to send ou in to uncover some Dwemer mystery. In the process, you would quite obviously encounter a lot of Dwemer constructs, the Falmer would be around for the non-steampuck part of the Dwemer ruins, and there is plenty we don't know about the Dwemer, why not make an interesting story out of it.
At the moment, my best explanation for what happened to the Dwemer is that they found an Oblivion portal in each of their cities, or made one, and all decided to go in there for some reason and somehow close it behind them. Yeah... We need a better explanation.

 

[Harlief]

Bethesda do fantasy and they do it well, and by fantasy I mean past ages with a twist. What they've produced so far is great and they do better each time (I mean I didn't like New Vegas as much as FO3, but that was due to the mechanics).

I'd really like to see them take on some earlier periods in history. Having said that, their games are so rich because of the back-stories and histories they've created in and between their games.

 

[JesterRaiin]

But Tamriel ?
Why invest into medicine since we have Restoration spells that can cure everything ?

Because the magic can't cure everything. If it could, you wouldn't see wounded or dying people in places around the world, and no-one would have invented a cure disease potion. That's essentually an early form of medical technology.

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I'd like to remind you that i'm not talking about recreating our world in fantasy setting. It's not about fantasy meets the Flintsones where each and every thing must be recreated in magical fashion. I'm thinking about fantasy alternative to high-tech reality.

True, some things are hard or impossible to replace but do we really need them ? The Mankind is known from its ability to find a different way, to bypass hardships and go a little "citius, altius, fortius" each day.

True, not everyone is meant to be a spellcaster, but let me remind you that 20-30 years ago IT sector was not that different from pure wizardry. Nowadays most people are capable of working with computers, so why magic should be that different ?

Also : just like a science, magic evolve. Tamriel is still in its feudal phase. With all this commotion between Mankind and -Mer i guess it's a loooooooong way until their, magical equivalent of Einstein, Heisenberg and (we like it or not) Jobs'n'Gates.

I still think that's not unreasonable to think about advanced, yet void of modern technology world.