History Trivia / TheElderScrolls

* ThePeteBest: Creator/JulianLeFay played in instrumental role as a game designer and programmer for Creator/{{Bethesda}} in the company's early days, playing a pivitol role in creating the series as the lead programmer for ''Arena'', ''Daggerfall'', and ''Battlespire''. However, when it came time for development to begin on ''Morrowind'', [=LeFay=] was not picked for the development team. Around the same time, he started having increasing concerns over Bethesda's changing corporate culture in the latter half of the 90's, so he eventually tendered his resignation from the company in 1998, citing CreativeDifferences, but still made some small contributions to ''Morrowind'' at the behest of his good friend and Bethesda founder Christopher Weaver. It would be [=LeFay=]'s unfortunate luck that ''Morrowind'' would turn out to be the BreakthroughHit for both the ''TES'' series and for Bethesda, leading to a massive NewbieBoom that propelled both into the mainstream gaming conciousness. [=LeFay=] would then be supplanted in eyes of fans who first experienced the series from ''Morrowind'' on by series' [[MyRealDaddy My Real Daddies]], Creator/MichaelKirkbride and Creator/ToddHoward.

* ThePeteBest: Creator/JulianLeFay played in instrumental role as a game designer and programmer for Creator/{{Bethesda}} in the company's early days, playing a pivitol role in creating the series as the lead programmer for ''Arena'', ''Daggerfall'', and ''Battlespire''. However, when it came time for development to begin on ''Morrowind'', [=LeFay=] was not picked for the development team. Around the same time, he started having increasing concerns over Bethesda's changing corporate culture in the latter half of the 90's, so he eventually tendered his resignation from the company in 1998, citing CreativeDifferences, but still made some small contributions to ''Morrowind'' at the behest of his good friend and Bethesda founder Christopher Weaver. It would be [=LeFay=]'s unfortunate luck that ''Morrowind'' would turn out to be the BreakthroughHit for both the ''TES'' series and for Bethesda, leading to a massive NewbieBoom that propelled both into the mainstream gaming conciousness. [=LeFay=] would then be supplanted in eyes of fans who first experienced the series from ''Morrowind'' on by series' MyRealDaddy, Creator/MichaelKirkbride.

* ApprovalOfGod: Bethesda is extremely supportive of ''The Elder Scrolls'' modding community, publishing a modding kit with every game they release that is essentially the API they used to build the game world. ''Skyrim'' would then serve as the launch title for Steam Workshop.

* LyingCreator: Series Director Todd Howard has a habit of saying that they are absolutely, positively, unambiguously ''NOT'' working on another ''Elder Scrolls'' title...usually, it isn't long after that the next ''Elder Scrolls'' title is announced.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Despite the sheer amount of content in each game, even more ends up failing to be implemented due to either time or technical limitations. Specific examples are listed by game on the trope page.

* BigNameFan: Possibly the three most well-known fans are Dave Humphrey, the creator of the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages wiki (UESP), Lady Nerevar, admin of The Imperial Library and fiancee of former series writer Creator/MichaelKirkbride, and Shirley Curry, a popular youtuber in her 80's that does let's play videos of Skyrim.

* BigNameFan: Possibly the two most well-known fans are Dave Humphrey, the creator of the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages wiki (UESP), and Lady Nerevar, admin of The Imperial Library and fiancee of former series writer Creator/MichaelKirkbride.

** DoorOfDoom

* BigNameFan: Possibly the two most well-known fans are Dave Humphrey, the creator of the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages wiki (UESP), and Lady Nerevar, admin of The Imperial Library and fiance of Michael Kirkbride.

* BigNameFan: Possibly the two most well-known fans are Dave Humphrey, the creator of the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages wiki (UESP), and Lady Nerevar, admin of The Imperial Library.

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: The main series has seemingly fallen victim to Bethesda's ADD. Since ''Skyrim'' (not counting ''Skyrim''[='s=] numerous re-releases), Bethesda has developed, produced, and/or published two ''Elder Scrolls'' spin-off titles (''Online'' and ''Legends''), ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', the ''Franchise/{{Dishonored}}'' series, a new ''Wolfenstein'' series, ''The Evil Within'' series, ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', ''VideoGame/Prey2017'', and ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 76}}''. Rumors continue to swirl of yet another major production which has been clearly stated to not be ''TES:VI'' (Eventually revealed to be ''VideoGame/{{Starfield}}''). ''Finally'', at E3 2018, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkFdqqyI8y4 The Elder Scrolls VI]]'' was announced...vaguely. It is stated to be in pre-production and will not be released until after ''Starfield''. (Educated estimates put the release date somewhere in the early [=2020s=]...)

* SequelGap: The series has had three gaps of at least five years to date: ''Daggerfall'' (1996) to ''Morrowind'' (2002), ''Oblivion'' (2006) to ''Skyrim'' (2011), and now from ''Skyrim'' to whatever ''TES:VI'' will be. (By the time of this writing, it has already been seven years, the longest gap in the series to date, with a vague announcement of ''TES:VI'' at E3 2018 putting a potential release date somewhere in the early [=2020s=], or, if judging by later statements by Bethesda's staff, maybe even as far out as some point in the mid-[=2020s=].)

* SequelGap: The series has had three gaps of at least five years to date: ''Daggerfall'' (1996) to ''Morrowind'' (2002), ''Oblivion'' (2006) to ''Skyrim'' (2011), and now from ''Skyrim'' to whatever ''TES:VI'' will be. (It has already been seven years, the longest gap in the series to date, with a vague announcement of ''TES:VI'' at E3 2018 putting a potential release date somewhere in the early [=2020s=].)

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: The main series has seemingly fallen victim to Bethesda's ADD. Since ''Skyrim'' (not counting ''Skyrim''[='s=] numerous re-releases), Bethesda has produced and/or published two ''Elder Scrolls'' spin-off titles (''Online'' and ''Legends''), ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', the ''Franchise/{{Dishonored}}'' series, a new ''Wolfenstein'' series, ''The Evil Within'' series, ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', and ''VideoGame/Prey2017''. Rumors continue to swirl of yet another major production which has been clearly stated to not be ''TES:VI'' (''VideoGame/{{Starfield}}''). ''Finally'', at E3 2018, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkFdqqyI8y4 The Elder Scrolls VI]]'' was announced...vaguely. It is stated to be in pre-production and will not be released until after ''Starfield''. (Educated estimates put the release date somewhere in the early [=2020s=]...)

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: The main series has seemingly fallen victim to Bethesda's ADD. Since ''Skyrim'' (not counting ''Skyrim''[='s=] numerous re-releases), Bethesda has produced and/or published two ''Elder Scrolls'' spin-off titles (''Online'' and ''Legends''), ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', the ''Franchise/{{Dishonored}}'' series, a new ''Wolfenstein'' series, ''The Evil Within'' series, ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', and ''VideoGame/Prey2017''. Rumors continue to swirl of yet another major production which has been clearly stated to not be ''TES:VI'' (''VideoGame/{{Starfield}}''). ''Finally'', at E3 2018, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkFdqqyI8y4 The Elder Scrolls VI]]'' was announced...vaguely. It is stated to be in pre-production and will not be released until after ''Starfield''. (Educated estimates put the release date somewhere in the early 2020s...)

* SequelGap: The series has had three gaps of at least five years to date: ''Daggerfall'' (1996) to ''Morrowind'' (2002), ''Oblivion'' (2006) to ''Skyrim'' (2011), and now from ''Skyrim'' to whatever ''TES:VI'' will be. (It has already been seven years, the longest gap in the series to date, with no announcement in sight.)

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: The main series has seemingly fallen victim to Bethesda's ADD. Since ''Skyrim'' (not counting ''Skyrim''[='s=] numerous re-releases), Bethesda has produced and/or published two ''Elder Scrolls'' spin-off titles (''Online'' and ''Legends''), ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', the ''Franchise/{{Dishonored}}'' series, a new ''Wolfenstein'' series, ''The Evil Within'' series, ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', and ''VideoGame/Prey2017''. Rumors continue to swirl of yet another major production which has been clearly stated to not be ''TES:VI''.
** The wait is over, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkFdqqyI8y4 Elder Scrolls VI has been announced... sorta.]]

* CashCowFranchise: One of two for Bethesda, along with its ''Fallout'' sister series. It boasts five main series games, three GaidenGame spin-offs, and two official novels. Each main series game since ''Morrowind'' has received at least two major expansion packs/DLCs, as well as an UpdatedRerelease (with ''Skyrim'' now up to four'' such re-releases).

* FanNickname: Not a "nickname", per se, as the terms exist in-universe as well, but it's very rare to see an Elder Scrolls fan refer to High Elves, Wood Elves, Dark Elves, or Dwarves by those names, even though those are the ones that appear on the user interface. Instead, fans almost always refer to those races by the terms they use to refer to themselves - Altmer, Bosmer, Dunmer, and Dwemer.
* TalkingToHimself:
** The voice actors hired have no range, and generally, two characters of the same race and gender will have the exact same voice. This can lead to something literally sounding like someone talking to himself. This can cause a pretty sharp decline in gameplay enjoyment if you're into immersion.
** This improved slightly by the time of ''Skyrim'', where the voice cast was made more diverse, but there are still moments where this can happen.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://uesp.net/ Two of]] [[http://elderscrolls.wikia.com them]].
* WordOfGay: Overt references to Pelinal's homosexuality were apparently removed from the Song of Pelinal, but Huna (who Pelinal "loved well") has been confirmed as male by the author.

** This improved slightly by the time of ''Skyrim'', where the voice cast was made more diverse, but there are still moments were this can happen.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Lynda Carter has been a regular VA since ''Morrowind''. Patrick Stewart plays Uriel Septim in ''Oblivion'', yet ironically Uriel's appearance in ''Daggerfall'' (which he didn't voice) more resembles Patrick's real life appearance.

* TalkingToHimself: The voice actors hired have no range, and generally, two characters of the same race and gender will have the exact same voice. This can lead to something literally sounding like someone talking to himself. This can cause a pretty sharp decline in gameplay enjoyment if you're into immersion.

* TalkingToHimself: The voice actors hired have no range, and generally, two characters of the same race and gender will have the exact same voice. This can lead to something literally sounding like someone talking to himself. This can cause a pretty sharp decline in gameplay enjoyment if you're into immersion.