Elder Scrolls Post Apocalyptic

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It's been almost seven years since Bethesda first released Skyrim, the hugely popular fifth installment in the Elder Scrolls series of games. In those seven years, fans have had plenty of time not just to explore every single aspect of the base game and its various DLC packs, but come up with plenty of theories involving the lore of the Skyrim universe. Of course, the canon lore of Tamriel is pretty extensive: information about this land, its history, and its inhabitants is hidden not just in Skyrim, but in every Elder Scrolls game. However, that doesn't mean fans can't speculate about the gaps that do exist in the series' official canon! As is the case with any committed fandom, hundreds of Skyrim fan theories have sprung up over the years, ranging in quality from the almost certainly true to the completely and utterly nonsensical. Characters have been given invented but compelling backstories.

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Intrigue and scandal have been invented, and character motivations thoroughly assessed. Links to other games (and even movies) have been pulled out of thin air, and credible easter eggs spotted. These ideas have been extensively discussed, revised, and sometimes totally torn apart. Not every theory is created equal!While some Skyrim fan theories are so plausible that they might as well be considered canon at this point, others are frankly too good to be true. Some are 'good' in the sense that they fit so well, they're probably just too obvious.

Others are 'good' in terms of their entertainment value, even if they're completely off-the-wall and indefensible. Here are just some of the Skyrim fan theories that might not necessarily be accurate, but are fun to consider all the same. Via: nexusmods.comEver wondered how exactly the Greybeards got their names? Sure, they do all have grey beards, but many Skyrim fans think there must be something more to it than that. Has put forward the hypothesis that the name references the fact that unlike many of the men of Skyrim, the Greybeards have allowed themselves to grow old. For many Nords, perishing young in battle is a glorious and enviable endeavor. However, the Greybeards have prioritized safety and longevity.

Hence, unlike many men of their generation, they've aged enough to actually have grey hair—and beards! Via: elderscrolls.wikia.comAnyone who's played Skyrim's Dark Brotherhood quest line will know that not only is Cicero, one of your fellow assassins, incredibly annoying, he's also a big fan of the Night Mother, a corpse who happens to be the bride of Sithis and the spiritual head of the Brotherhood.

For a long time, Cicero was the caretaker of the Night Mother: it's clear he reveres and feels very close to her. However, some fans have speculated that he got a bit TOO close to her at some point in the past, both emotionally and physically. It doesn't bear thinking about. Via: polevaes.deviantart.comUlfric Stormcloak is a pretty controversial character in Skyrim, both in-game and in terms of players' opinions of him.

He's the leader of the Stormcloaks, a rebellious group with arguably racist views, and supposedly destroyed the former High King Torygg using a Shout. There are a number of fascinating theories surrounding Ulfric's intentions and actions, but one of the most interesting is the idea that he truly believed himself to be the Dragonborn. According to, Ulfric himself incited the return of the dragons so that he could 'prove himself' as the Dragonborn. Of course, Ulfric's hunch was incorrect! Via: usgamer.netHas it ever seemed suspicious to you that the majority of Tamriel remains technologically exactly the same throughout each Elder Scrolls game, despite the fact that hundreds of centuries apparently pass? Shouldn't the land have had some kind of technological boom already? One suggests that some kind of industrial revolution should have happened—but that some force is holding Tamriel back. Maybe it's the Empire deliberately keeping its people 'primitive' to prevent an uprising or revolution?

Perhaps the Divines or the Daedra are simply messing with mankind? Via: gamewatcher.comTo be honest, we only decided to throw this Skyrim fan theory into the mix because it's basically become a meme.

It's well-known amongst the game's fanbase that the people of Skyrim are usually utterly horrified if they spot the player ending a chicken. It doesn't matter if it was an accident, or if the player was just really hungry: slaying a chicken is clearly an abhorrent crime. One tongue-in-cheek suggests that the people of Skyrim are clearly chicken-worshippers and revere these clucking creatures. Honestly, it makes sense. Via: saltso.deviantart.comPaarthurnax is one of the few dragons in the main quest of Skyrim who's actually chosen to assist the human race rather than destroy them on sight. He's the one who helped the Greybeards to master the art of Shouting—he must be a good guy, right? Well, not according to some Skyrim fans.

Paarthurnax could secretly be an evil genius playing the long game, waiting for the Dragonborn to banish Alduin so that he can be the top dragon once more. He's not helping the human race out of the goodness of his heart. Via: nexusmods.comIf you thought Avengers: Infinity War was the most ambitious crossover event in history, you clearly hadn't come across this Skyrim fan theory yet. It links this area of Tamriel with the setting of a popular Disney movie: Frozen's Arendelle. According to one, Arendelle is actually the town of Winterhold, before most of it got destroyed.

They cite the architecture in the two places being similar, the presence of magic in both towns, and, of course, all of the snow in Winterhold. While this theory is highly unlikely to be true, it's at least pretty entertaining.

Via: reddit.comAll things considered, Markarth's butcher Hogni Red-Arm is a pretty creepy guy. While he is a butcher by profession, his obsession over meat and blood is just a bit too intense to be considered harmless.

A lot of Skyrim fans that Hogni must be hiding some kind of dark secret—well, apart from the fact that he's a people-eater, as is revealed in one particularly grim side quest. Does he personally slay his victims before he eats them, making him a murderer too? Honestly, we wouldn't put it past him. Via: mygameslounge.comOkay, time for some real talk: considering he's supposed to be the 'World-Eater', Alduin isn't actually all that impressive.

Sure, he's a pretty tough opponent for the Dragonborn to defeat. However, when it comes to conquering and destroying all of Tamriel, Alduin kinda fails. Many fans have behind Alduin's apparent weakness. Did he get too arrogant, and fail to return to his true levels of power because of this? Did he choose not to destroy mankind in the hope that he could rule them, but underestimate the resistance he'd face? Both are possibilities. Via: elderscrolls.wikia.comAh, the infamous Skyrim 'bugs in jars' conspiracy. As any theorist will tell you, these jars can be found throughout Skyrim.

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Each jar has a runic message on the inside of its lid, which fans have desperately tried to decode. Do they represent a sequence of? Are they a sign that the is nigh in Tamriel? So many weird and wonderful theories sprung up addressing the jars, but unfortunately, Skyrim's developers have confirmed that they're actually.

So many hours of theorizing, wasted! Via: za.ign.comAt this point, pretty much every single TV show, movie, or video game that appears to take place in a civilization slightly different to our own has fallen foul to the 'it's a post-apocalyptic nightmare' theory. Skyrim is no exception! One has claimed that every single game in the Elder Scrolls series is another chapter in a tale of doom, gloom, and the end of the world. Numerous wars, destructive, dragon-based events, and natural disasters have apparently reduced Tamriel to a doomsday-esque mess.

Or, it could just be a game set in an imagined fantasy world. Via: polygon.comEven though Skyrim fans have often spent dozens and dozens of hours playing as the Dragonborn, we know surprisingly little about this character's life prior to the events of the game. Do they have a family? When and where were they born? That's if they were 'born' at all, of course. One suggests that the Dragonborn didn't come into the world in a conventional way, but was created by and placed in Tamriel by the Divines.

Maybe they simply appeared on that prisoner's cart one day, and nobody knew quite how. Via: fraghero.comConsidering both Skyrim and Fallout 4 were created by the same game studio, it's perhaps inevitable that fan theories have sprung up suggesting they take place in the same universe.

Plenty of fans of both games have tried to prove this connection using a range of evidence. One uses the existence of the Nirnroot plant in both games as a reason why they must take place in a shared universe. Apparently, Nirnroot managed to survive some kind of nuclear apocalypse that turned Tamriel into the world of Fallout. That's one hardy plant! Via: reddit.comWinterhold is probably one of the saddest holds in all of Skyrim. It's pretty much entirely destroyed, save for a couple of houses and its famous magic-teaching College.

Most of the town fell into the ocean for reasons that are never fully explored in the game. There are, of course, many fan theories surrounding what happened, claims that Winterhold was destroyed because it was built on an unstable glacier. When the ice fell into the sea, so did most of the town!

Surely the people of Skyrim couldn't have planned this settlement THAT badly? Via: nexusmods.comOf all of the aspects of Skyrim's gameplay that fans could have started to theorize about, one Redditor has apparently chosen to focus on the issue of baldness. It may not seem like an important aspect of gameplay, but someone clearly cares about it! Has claimed that centuries before the events of Skyrim, Restoration magic was able to cure baldness. However, all of the mages that could perform this spell were ended during the Oblivion crisis, and the art was lost. Such a shame. Via: marina17.deviantart.comIf you've played the Dawnguard DLC, you'll know that this storyline's ultimate villain is Lord Harkon, a pretty evil vampire.

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Harkon wants to increase the vampire race's dominance in Tamriel by reducing their weakness to the sun. Of course, the Dragonborn doesn't let that happen!

Many Skyrim fans have theorized about who exactly Harkon is and how powerful he actually is, with coming to a stunning conclusion. Apparently, Harkon is a Dragonborn, the main evidence for this being that he's as power-hungry as a dragon. Alternatively, he could just be an awful person (and a pretty terrible father).

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I think everyone should be very patient. Elder Scrolls Online is hugely, hugely popular and the team doing that at Zenimax Online is fabulous. It's not that we're not feeding high quality Elder Scrolls to people.The gap in between is obviously going to be long, it already is. One one hand, I think it's good to miss things, I think that makes people come to it with really, really fresh eyes and I think when they eventually see the game and what we have in mind, they'll understand the gap more in terms of technology and what we want it to do.There's also the fact that eight years after its release, is still doing incredibly well and it has a great player community on many different platforms. The Elder Scrolls VI will need to support players for years to come too.

The main thing is that you've got to look at it in terms of the world it's in, not just a game. What does that mean? What's the tone? We always start with tone, and I don't want to spoil it now, but it has its own tone in terms of science fiction in the same way Fallout has its own tone in post-apocalyptic. I think our aspirations for that game, it's the end-all, be-all science fiction game that everyone's always wanted to play.It needs to be as fully fledged out as to how far in the future is it? What happened in all those years in between?

What is the technology level? What do they eat? Where do they go? What do they know?

How do they communicate? What are the races, or places, or people, or creatures, or this, or that, and why? We'll have it be its own thing as opposed to that Star Trek or that Star Wars — somebody looks at it and says, that's Starfield.Howard encourages players to be 'very patient' when it comes to waiting for either title. However, when we next hear anything substantial about them, it could be because they're close to release. Released just five months after its announcement, and while Howard would like to leave as little as a week between a game's announcement and its release, five months is 'as short as I was told anyone would allow me to do'.

He hinted that we could expect a similar strategy for Bethesda's upcoming titles, but it's likely to be a long time before they appear back on our radar again.We don't have them yet, but we'll publish a story as soon as we pick up the.