Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and general Elder Scrolls discussion

The bounties would have been higher but a few times I killed people too fast which then lead to last witness killed. Lost probably a several thousand altogether. I also had help: I was conjuring dremora lords which decapitated people left and right and hired local mercenaries. One of the funnest things I've ever done in the game 

THE THRONE OF SKYRIM WILL BE MINE!!!



Also, fuck the Thalmor. I kill them on sight regardless who's around. 

It´s possible. Todd Howard said somewhere ( I believe it was E3 ), that he wants to wait till the Technology is up to snuff, before releasing a new TES. If that means what I think it does, it could mean that the next TES doesn´t play in just one province, but maybe 2 or even 3. With 3 the game could cover the entirety of the Aldmeri Dominion. Let´s kill those pesky Aldmers!

Yep, Imperial all the way! My character is Imperial, joined the Imperials and married an Imperial, Marcurio!

Ummmmm theres that Grey Quarter place right and the elves are treated super badly???

The only good Thalmor is a dead Thalmor.

Well, the Gray Quarter (formerly the Snow Quarter at the time) was given to the Dunmer before Ulfric took power (likely before he was even born considering their exodus happened right after the Red Year, which took place roughly 80 years before the time of Skyrim), but Galmar makes derogatory comments about Bretons being no better 'than elves' when Ulfric mentions that High Rock didn't accept his offer of an alliance (in contrast, Ulfric seems pretty understanding of their reluctance) and his comments about Skyrim being "man's land" isn't much better. Admittedly, he does say in combat: "The Emperor can kiss my ass!"


The Argonian situation is much more problematic, but that's an issue with the general Nord populace of Windhelm.


I'd also point out that Rolff Stone-Fist is a bigoted buffoon who talks about possibly torturing some of the Dunmer simply because they're elves and, in his warped mind, must therefore be working for the Thalmor, even though anyone with a modicum of intelligence would know that the Dunmer of Morrowind - by and large - don't like the Thalmor. I'm guessing the Dunmer in the Snow Quarter are likely descended from House Hlaalu, given what happened to that House and what appears to be Morrowind's independence from the Empire post-Oblivion Crisis.

The schism between the Legion and the Stormcloaks does represent an area where Bethesda didn't vilify one faction while propping another; Ulfric and Tullius are flawed, but well-meaning, leaders who are doing what they think is right for Skyrim. Unlike certain games, Ulfric and Tullius don't devolve into monsters or turn into one-dimensional caricatures simply because you oppose them; even at the end, each leader believes he is doing what is necessary to save Skyrim and her people, and I applaud Bethesda for not taking the lazy route in writing their factions. Fallout 4 also represents this type of approach in giving us fleshed out factions and refusing to needlessly vilify groups or leaders.

Certainly, not every Stormcloak is a buffoon who thinks all non-Nords are of an inferior race or anything asinine like that (the proprietor of Falkreath even says that he came to accept non-Nords because of his time with the Stormcloaks), but the reason the Argonians are living and working on the docks is due to the racism that endangers their lives (so, generally speaking, it isn't simply limited to one or two Nords).

I found this in a thrift store



Honestly if you want an idea of how much the series has been streamlined, cut down, and simplified in later games just read this book.