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Yeah, because it's simply magnicifent.

Crap I hate this forum software at times. Buggy as hell with Opera. Short version:
* Aurora Borealis to be more frequent during no moon, to help explain why we have much light. Only weather have a good chance of making truly dark nights.
* Bring back Holidays, connect them with constellations (birth signs), and introduce meteor showers at these times, radiating from these constellations.
* Meteor showers are usually non interesting, just a moving dot or a streak, your typical everynight shooting star.
* But a tiny tiny fraction of them (almost impossible to get) are truly spectacular, like these examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1amG4oW9Vg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dan3wM3rns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZDPviXbvkI (have seen something very similar, and yes, it really is this extreme).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ1wsEEDmMw (possible heat source in cold nights? A source of rune stones? Explore to locate )

But why stop at there? Have the occasional Halo effects as well. Easily a flare thing, except not camera driven.
Basic 22° Halo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McWULs2VG14
Sun Dogs / Bi sun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afm1aWuL8ww
Another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W8dMCiqSKU
Technical info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxKlNa4gDOw

Exactly what I was thinking

I think the better thing would be to have Skyrim's night sky be as awesome as the Shivering Isles Mania Night Sky. Now for the Aurora Borealis, I wouldn't mind seeing something like that in Skyrim but that's up to Bethesda.

I would love to see this included. It fits the setting like a glove

This is not earth it is a different world who said they have one ?

It depends, for me. If it's just there, then no. If it has an explanation in the lore, then yes. It would be awesome to see, but, Nirn is not Earth, and there needs to be an Elder Scrolls universe appropriate explanation for the phenomenon. I can't very well pick up a book and read about charged particles interacting with Nirn's magnetic field and have it still feel like an Elder Scrolls game, after all.

If it's without explanation, then no.

I would love to see the Aurora, however, like the poster above me, *nods to Vamphaery* I'd like to have a good story to go with it. Like Greek and Roman legends, that had a story of their gods for every phenomena.

There isn't going to be an Aurora without somebody noticing it over the ages and attempting to explain it.


I would also suggest it be a random event, like rain or snow.

It would be gorgeous. I just wanna walk on it!

I want sixy skies

^^^^^(good sentence for jokes get cracking )

yes but make it rare. i like super dark nights and those would light up everything.

Any planet with a magnetic field and a star that releases solar flares will most likely have this display. Nirn seems to have a base in "earthly" physics and a sun... so Skyrim is definitely far enough north to be in the view of the magnetic field lines.
I grew up in the northern boreal and would love to see these excited particles dance above Nirns north.

Northern Lights would be fantastic, so obviously I voted yes. BUT, Nirn doesn't even have a North and South Pole as far as I'm concerned, which means that Skyrim is definitely not above the Polar Circle. I don't see any REAL scientific reasons why the Northern Lights would appear in Skyrim, but since it's high level of awesomeness I just say "Screw that" :twirl:

Ohh yeah, they should be painted over the night sky in Skyrim, its beautiful!

Nor could they in ancient times because they've never heard of charged particles and magnetism. It didn't get rid of the phenomena though. I'm not a lore guru, so forgive my ignorance. But is gravity explained in the lore?

Or light? Photons are weird. I would like to see the lights but probably not every night, just some odd occurrence every month or so. It would be even cooler to encounter it then.

Indeed they are..........wave or particle? ;P

Would be even cooler if you could only view them from some obscure, hard to reach place. That would definatly be a reward for getting there.

As well as some decent loot, of course...........Aurora Blade?

Yes, it is the earth bones, or the Aedra that are the natural laws.
And its not ancient times. It is Tamriel.
And in Tamriel they have a pretty good understanding of magic, so they could know if the Aurora Tamrialis was charged particles hitting the atmosphere, if these particles were magic in nature. And they probably would be. Its a magical universe.

I want to climb to the highest mountain in the game... lay down and watch the sun set then as midnight approaches the Aurora Borealis starts to shine, increases in intensity it's splendor ever flowing! Then slowly starts to fade...that would be great:D

Lol true. And no, I don't believe gravity is touched on anywhere (although the creation of the world and various heavenly bodies’ formation and nature are touched upon.) But being Elder Scrolls, and particularly given the Nords' (and particularly the Greybeards') fascination with the sky, I would still like some sort of lore based explanation for it. Not to justify its existence, because as you said, if Nirn is geomagnetically anything at all like Earth it should exist, but because I love how Elder Scrolls lore always has mythological and metaphysical explanations for events that take place in its history (and different versions from culture to culture to boot.) I just can't imagine the Nords of Skyrim ignoring something so obvious in their night sky without equating it to the voice of the sky, or some other facet of their mythology.

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=24118 ? XD

This would be nice but only if done correctly.

First of all, colour and shape needs to be randomized so that we're not stuck with five variants.

Secondly, it should be very very rare.

Actually there is evidence to the contrary. But I agree.

Well, if you were that pedantic then you might also say that this is only according to the religious beliefs that are prevalent in TES. It's a supersticious explanation for phenomena that they don't yet have the hard science to explore. Nirn is a planet alright, but the scholars don't realize it. The stars are stars, but scholars in the world of TES claim them to be holes in the curtain of Oblivion that lets the light of Aetherius through. Back when the general paradigm in our world was leaning towards a flat world with the sky held aloft by a couple of giant elephants, that didn't make it so, did it?