Dinosaurs?

Post » Tue May 08, 2012 12:16 am

It's possible that there could be large reptiles on other continenents. But as far as we've seen, the closest we get to dinosaurs are Guar, Alits, and Kagouti. There's also Cliff Racers of course, but technically, they're closer to Pterosaurs rather than Dinosaurs.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 11:30 pm

Actually, I'd love to see a TES in say, Valenwood or Hammerfell with (feathered and wolf-sized) Velociraptors. That would be sweet. Especially if they beefed up the AI to make them use Jurassic Park-style ambush tactics. You hear them pvssyring up ahead, so you take a detour to the left, and run into another one. And then you turn around, and there's another. They might be kind of little IRL, but they can still be scary.
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Post » Tue May 08, 2012 12:44 am

WE DEMAND:

1) DINOSAURS

2) PIRATES

3) lisbianS
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 4:38 pm

Also, this is super pedantic and should be ignored, but I thought the scientific community agreed that dinos weren't reptiles?
"Reptile" is no longer a useful term for taxonomists. The old clade "reptilia" is based on traits, not on ancestry, an outmoded means of classification. The most useful grouping when discussing reptiles is the class "Sauropsida" which is the only grouping that includes all reptiles but excludes mammals. The class also includes birds, and their ancestors, dinosaurs.
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[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Reptilia-Sauropsida.jpg[/img]

Above is an illustration of the problem. Blue is the old "reptile" clade, which included ancestors of mammals and excluded avians. In yellow is the class Sauropsida, which makes much more sense.

Of course, this has very little bearing on the world in TES, since creatures change into other creatures at the whims of god-like beings and malevolent psychic trees.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 9:38 pm

Could? Theoretically yes. But I'd rather not. Dinosaurs in fantasy just strike me as weird*

I agree with you but if they did like a dinosaur type spin off monster, perhaps from another continent or what not. As long as they arent exact replicas of RL dinos.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 4:33 pm

AFAIK, no source of lore has firmly identified whether or not Tamriel has earthworms. A lot is left to the imagination, and you can fill it with whatever you want, really. I see no reason why Tamriel must be raptor-free
(Assuming this isn't sarcasm.) The game is Planescape: Torment, and it's a masterpiece. Chris Avellone is a wonderful writer.
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Post » Mon May 07, 2012 9:59 pm

WE DEMAND:

1) DINOSAURS

2) PIRATES

3) lisbianS

1) On Skyrim we can find creatures originaly form the Ice mage. The animals we can find on each nations are just to diferent fro meach nation. While on Cyrodill we can find Minotaurs and Unicorns back from Greek mythology, on Skyrim we can pre-historicy creatures from ICE-age. i think that dinossaurs are somewhere, probaly on Akavir.

2) There's already

3) Everywhere.
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