The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

That's what happens when you hadn't written most of your stuff about someone until after the DLC was in production. :T

He does at least still display the hatred for Ayleids. Though it still comes off as more of a confused Racist Grandpa as opposed to frothing genocidal berserker.

Edited by M84 on Jan 26th 2022 at 5:26:36 PM

Can't forget about Tiber Septim's history of backstabbing.

Nor his abuse of Numidium.

Put that way, it sounds like some sort of painkiller.

The Thalmor have some very good reasons to despise Talos - it's just literally everything else about them that makes players not think twice about murdering them when meeting them on the road in Skyrim.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Jan 26th 2022 at 12:40:35 PM

Their good reasons are, however, not the philosophical ones. Which are the important ones.

And like 99% of them boil down to the Altmer being really sore losers.

Why is there so much genocide in Elder Scrolls

Because unlike real life, it's got well documented old history?

Ironically, despite all of the genocide in Nirn’s history the only actual extinction was an own goal of sorts.

Eh, the fox and bird people went extinct pretty well.

I mean, the Ayleids are gone as a culture - whatever Ayleids survived the Alessian Order's purge fled to High Rock or Valenwood and over time assimilated into the local Mer populace.

And we still don't actually know what happened to the Dwemer, especially since there was at least one character claiming he had talked to them.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Jan 26th 2022 at 3:01:22 PM

And the last guy that tried to recreate what caused them to disappear, well.. (summons Arniel Gane's shade)

Though if one looks at the really weird lore Kirkbride came up with later (namely C0DA), the Dwemer "ascended" to become Numidium's skin.

I am so glad that crap is apocryphal, it's annoying to deal with and boring.

It's also one heck of a Downer Ending for Nirn if that is its future.

It seems to mostly appeal to people who really, really hate high fantasy, is my overriding impression. <_>

Part of that is due to Morrowind I think. Morrowind is the game that really seemed to push Elder Scrolls into the spotlight. It's also the weirdest in terms of lore and setting. Of all of the Elder Scrolls games, it's probably the least "High Fantasy" one.

I dunno, I like Morrowind, and for all its weirdness, Morrowind is firmly a fantasy story in tone and setting, if not your usual random European feel. It's the apocryphal "everything is robots and scifi and time travel!" stuff that I think appeals to people who just absolutely loathe fantasy trappings but like Star Wars.

Edited by RainehDaze on Jan 26th 2022 at 2:29:21 PM

The funny thing is that the Might and Magic series did that too but it still retained a lot of High Fantasy beats. Even though the first few games all revolved around stopping a malevolent android from sending planet spaceships into the sun.

I never could get into those. Not because of the setting, but because the only ones I ever played I absolutely sucked at and could never work out where I was meant to be going.

Oh yeah, I sucked at those games too. I much preferred the Heroes of Might and Magic spinoff games.

Daggerfall coughs

I never actually played Daggerfall or Arena.

And I'm fine with that.

I've played it once as it was released for free,its fun but not accessible