Playing through Morrowind for the quadrillionth time, I made my way over to M'aiq, still mad about the Fur Hat Incident. As I was talking to him, however, he let slip a choice bit of dialgoue:

"Dragons? Oh, they're everywhere! You must fly very high to see most of them, though. The ones nearer the ground are very hard to see, being invisible."

Dragons..Near the ground..Invisible...Like..hidden inside a bas-relief?!
The Legends Were True!

You know, that's kind of an interesting interpretation. I wonder just how far in advance the TES games are planned..

..I wonder if TESVII is already planned..

:ahhh: He was right all the time!!!

We should have acted. They are already here.

Oh crap! I'll now ALWAYS heed his advice, even if its just to explain me why feature X is not included in the game.

Edit mayhem: very good one MouseMage, I award you with +5 internets.

Epic post. Very nice!

Quick, what's he say in Oblivion!

"I have seen dragons. Perhaps you will see a dragon. I won't say where I saw one. Perhaps I did not."

"Werewolves? Where? Wolves? Men that are wolves? Many wolves. Everywhere. Many men. That is enough for M'aiq."

Oh.My.Gawd. How could we have been so ignorant?

I still believe that M'aiq is an undercover Greybeard, sent by the Voice of the Sky to try and warn of us certain doom.

*mad that I, Tausig2 the venerated, did not notice this!*

I like to think M'aiq is one of the Nine wearing a mortal guise.

Then perhaps we'll run into Rolf the Uber and Im-Leet as well.

mai'q must have something to do with the whole TES series, hhm, maybe he is a prophet

Skooma for all! :celebrate:

I'd like to think that in the first one he was joking and then for the second in Oblivion you see a Dragon (Avatar of Akatosh) at the end of the game...

Although... "I have seen dragons. Perhaps you will see a dragon. I won't say where I saw one. Perhaps I did not." sounds AWFULLY like a "We have it planned but it might be a no-go." sorta deal..

M'aiq knows all.

I do think they hide hints at the future of the series in the little tidbits of information he gives us.
They just do so in a way that's hard to take it seriously until we see something about the next game and think "OMFG M'aiq was right!"

He is my second favorite character throughout all of TES lore; next only to the deranged, delightful, crazed, and (oddly) Scottish visage that is Sheogorath.

Skooma is one hellava drug.

Well Martin easily transformed into the Akatosh.

I think he is conveniently vague.