I wonder if your character could still be living. Will s/he be dead? What about if they became vampires? My main character turned into a vampire so he should still be kicking. It would be cool if you could meet a descendant of your own character, perhaps a grandchild. That would be pretty cool.

This is better placed in a different forum.

Sure, your Oblivion character could still be alive, provided he/she is a vampire or a very powerful mage. If it's the latter, then it wouldn't make sense for your character to appear, and it's generally assumed that the CoC is the same as the one who participated in the events of the SI.

EDIT: Also, I'd just like to add that including the player-character from past games directly in new games would just be the worst idea ever. Sorry. Every character is unique and I don't see any possible way to include it in any reasonable format. A descendant is just as bad. My character did not have children. My Oblivion main character is dead. It's best not to make any assumptions about the player character. Ever.

That would be pretty cool, but I feel that it would have more of an impact if he/she was just talked about, you know, like a legend, it would be better that way.

I wouldn't want to meet my character anyways. Too complicated, a descendant would be easier. I totally forgot about the Shivering Isles. Between the span of Oblivion and Skyrim, I'd be at Xedilian all day.


Btw, where should this be?

My Skyrim character is a descendant of my Oblivion character. And, my Oblivion character is still live due to Velorien's last comment.

well idk what the life span of orcs and beast folk are so idk

I'd just prefer to see some references to the Oblivion Crisis. People questioning how the events went, maybe some statue in an old ruin that is suppose to be the champion, but has long since lost all detail.

maybe if he was dunmer or high elf, other wise... no.

I agree, the fewer assumptions an Elder Scrolls game makes about the player character, the better. Of course, if you want to say your character is the same one as in Oblivion, or that characters' descendent, that's your right, but I don't want to be forced to do so. My Elder Scrolls characters have always been different people across different games, it makes more sense that way, for one thing, the passage of time aside, it means I don't have to ask why the Nerevarine is suddenly in Cyrodiil, in prison again, and has lost the beneficial effects of corprus that made him immune to disease and age, as well as forgotting all the skills and spells he may have learned in Morrowind and regressing to the level of a new character in all physical attributes, further, I like to create a new character every game, without needing to tie that character to one I made before. As to what happened to my characters after I finished the game, that is not important, their stories ended with the games they were in, what became of them after that only really matters if there's an interesting story to be told there too.

And if I actually physically met my character from a previous game or saw anything else that tells me who that character is (Say, having the character actually referred to by a real name.) I will be very annoyed, the Nerevarine or Champion of Cyrodiil should be a character I made in their respective games, not a character Bethesda decides to make them.

Exactly. I even think it's a step too far that they've implied that the Nerevarine went to Akavir. My Nerevarine didn't. Mine went to Cyrodiil and got murdered there. But the few times that the series gives any form of description of the heroes of each game, it can usually be dismissed with simple hand waving. My Nerevarine told people she was going to Akavir to keep her real motives in Cyrodiil a secret.

Seeing a character in an Elder Scrolls game that claimed to be the main character of any passed game would completely destroy the integrity of the lore that I've established across the games. Even a descendant would throw things off a lot, because then I'd have to write into my story how my protagonist had children. It's just a bad idea.

by who? My Nerevarine could kill anyone in Cyrodiil. I like that they made Nerevarine leave the continent, otherwise my Nerevarine would of solved the Oblivion Crisis by himself.

as for the Hero of Cyrodiil... didn't he become a Daedric god after Shivering Isles?

Yep. My Champion of Cyrodiil did at least. Some people's characters might not have though, so in that case I hope Bethesda doesn't have anyone blatantly say, "The Champion of Cyrodiil went to the Shivering Isles after the Oblivion crisis and became the new Prince of Madness!"

Who would really know about that anyway, besides the PC and Haskill, etc.?

By my Champion of Cyrodiil.

My character is a Daedric prince, powerful mage, and divine crusader. 200 years doesn't mean anything to him. Of course, my Morrowind character was a demigod and he still somehow went missing in Akavir apparently. It would be funny, however, if Bethesda had the Nerevarine return to Tamriel immediately after Oblivion and be like "What did I miss?"

I'm usually a Bosmer, so she could still be around. But would she be in Skyrim? Probably not. She would have settled somewhere in Cyrodiil, or gone to Valenwood or Summerset Isle. Or lost her sanity and went to the Shivering Isles, defeated Jyggalag, and...became the new Madgod! :tongue:

Some of my characters are elves(and the rests are usually Nords), so they may be still around at that time, unless they are killed by disease, accident, or other things. One of them is a vampire, and I sometimes imagine that she meets the Dragonborn, and helps him/her occasionally.

My player character won't be moving to Skyrim, but if I find myself modding, I have three vampire characters from an Oblivion mod who may make the move. They've already been building the backstory which may propel them into the new game.

Maybe if your an Elf Race. Orcs won't make it that long as they only live 60 yrs on average.

For me, the CoC became the Madgod, and indeed became a daedra. Indirectly through his actions, he created the Dovahkiin, him being madgod and all, it was quite the insane thing to do.

Well I can't judge your opinions but I can disagree with your statement that having the player-character carry over to other games has no reasonable format. My character is the "other-half" of my real life friend's character (we both have played all four TES games) and his character was created by Julianos and solved the main quest in Daggerfall but was killed by Numidium. Then his character was created again for the TESIII story, and my character was created by the Daedra as well for the TESIII story. In short, Akatosh split the Mundus into two dimensions overlapping one another. Both my character and my friend's character killed Dagoth Ur and solved the Morrowind main quest, but in separate dimensions of the Mundus. So it's like there are two Mundus'.

My friend's player-character solved the TESIV main quest storyline (an anonymous NPC did the Shivering Isles questline). My player-character had nothing to do with the TESIV game (mostly because I just flat out don't like TESIV). My friend's player-character found a way to cross over to the "other half" of Mundus in the TESIV story. When this happened, Akatosh & his Jills repaired time and the Mundus, sealing it back to the single dimensional plane that it was. Both player-characters are the historical Nerevarine (but only my character is the Nerevarine in her dimension since my friend's character didn't exist in my dimension of Mundus) but only my friend's character is the Champion of Cyrodiil. My character, shortly after the TESIV story, learns how to prolong elvish lifespan (just like Divath Fyr) and since she is close friends with my real life friend's player-character, she lets her in on the secret and they both can prolong their lives. Now I'm not sure how long my friend's character will live because he might want to use a different character for when TESV Skyrim comes out. If that's true, then I'll just have her killed off in my fanfic that I'm writing. But I still use my same character. And since my player-character learned to prolong her life, she'll also be in the TESV Skyrim storyline.

So you see, Velorien, you can carry over the same player-character from game to game. You just have to be crafty about it.




Ah, but see, here is where you can say "that was a rumor that was created". That's what I say in my fanfic. My character goes back to Summerset Isle where she was born and raised (even though she is a Dark Elf). And when she does go back to Shimmerene, Summerset Isle, boasting about how she saved the land of Morrowind from the evil Dagoth Ur and the Blight disease, everyone thinks she's lying because "the neravarine went to Akavir". And thus, my character is slowly reverted back to the normal person that she was, except her stats are high and all. But I can always work my way around that in story-telling.

And just to clarify, the CoC doesn't have to become the madgod. Any worthy person could have went into the SI gate and solved the SI mainquest and became the new madgod.





If it were to be posted, it'd be posted on The Imperial Library. And I certainly hope they do so we can clarify it once and for all as to what really happened.

What I meant was that there's no reasonable way for the main character of any game to appear as an NPC in-game like the OP suggested. There are certainly several ways to keep the same character throughout games.

Yeah, I agree with you there. I must have misunderstood what you were getting at. I grow so attached to my one character that I don't want to start a new one.

I had a Dunmer character, who could be alive right about now. I really don't know, because I stopped playing him for reasons I can't remember and never bothered to flesh him out. I doubt he's still kicking, because if I recall right he had a real bad skooma habit.