http://www.gamesas.com/eng/news/pressrelease_042709-3.html

http://bethblog.com/index.php/2009/04/27/novels-for-the-elder-scrolls-announced/

Has anyone heard of a Prince Attrebus or Annaig before? The press release implied to me that he was the son of the Emperor of Cyordiil(the press release only said "the Emperor's young son", not what the Emperor was ruler of), be that Uriel VII or a new Emperor. I searched TIL but turned up with a character from Redguard called Attrebus who can't be him, a TIL staff member who's nickname was Attrebus, and a scholar called Attrebus someone was roleplaying as in an interview(I think this was the TIL staff member though).

He appears to be a new character who's the son of the new Emperor after Oblivion...

Hmm, a floating city and undead... I wonder where I've seen something like that recently...

And "the emperor's young son"? All I have to say about that is WTFWTFWTFWTFWTFWTFWTF :brokencomputer:

I know, it doesn't make sense for Uriel VII to have another son to em since his 3 legitimate ones and then Matin are all gone. I think Ratwar's explanation will be right if the novel is set some years after the events of Oblivion. There's the answer to the question of would there be another Emperor or not it seems. I wonder how long after those events it is set though. There was an interview of Gamasutra(of Pete Hines I think) that said Bethesda were planning to do something with Oblivion later this year(that got everyones hopes up for another DLC or exspansion), I'm not sure if this would count or not. I personally wouldn't think so because I think he was referring to the game itself, an the book isn't directly to do with it either.

Yeah, unless I've missed something it doesn't say he's part of the Septim bloodline, it says he's the son of the "Emperor." It could be that after the events of TES IV someone unrelated to (or distantly related to) Uriel Septim VII was made Emperor.

That sounds like the most likely scenario.

But for the heck of it, I got some more possible explanations:

1. He was raised by M'aiq the Liar.
2. The Emperor got around more than we or Jauffre knew about.
3. Same reason that Dark Elves became gray/blue, the world shrunk down, Cyrodiil lost its jungles, M'aiq and Big Head gained the ability to wear boots, everyone started to speak the same language, and Imperials appeared out of nowhere; TES is consistently inconsistent.
4. He only recently became old enough to exist in TES.
5. A wizard did it.
6. CHIM.

Does it sound a bit like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laputa

Wouldn't be surprised if the King of Laputa was Manimacro.

Laputa = Necromancers moon = Star Destroyer?

Ouch. All I'm sayin'. :nope:

Key words of Fail:

'the land'
'strange and mysterious city' (did I mention 'floating high above'?)
'horrifying shadow'
'unlikely duo'
'Emperor's young son'
'doom'

You forgot seventeen-year-old girl.

It's going to be a teen age romance novel. (Looking for twilight quotes to spoof right now)

:rofl:

The floating city sounds a bit strange, but hey, Morrowind had a floating prison.

It's not the floating I (personally) object to.

It's the idea of a floating 'city'. A city.

The idea that a 'city' could be a floating 'entity', without any relation to ground-based politics etc. is the kind of 'high-fantasy' loony crap that TES, at its best, steers far clear from. But here we're waltzing straight into it.

I doubt it'll be populated by living people, it may be a city of the dead.

It's not a good sign, but then again we just have to use the best explanation "Wizards did it"

Oh, well that's okay then.

"City of the dead".

Did you just say "city of the dead"? I believe you just...

"City of the dead".

That's where we're goin' with this, is it? "City of the dead". O-hoo, boy.

There were floating cities in the Forgotten Realms once. Didn't ever expect to see this stuff pop up in TES though.

Personally, I really would look forward to a Dune-esque story set in the Ashlands.

Hey, it was okay for Necrom.

City of the dead! That's much better... :rolleyes: My question is where does this city come from!?
Why is the lore dead dammit!

Weaves all together nicely into one narrative, don't you think?

It's not like Tamriel is the only area in the world, nor is everything about Tamriel known. Not everything has to be completely based on old lore.

:huh:

Yes... as a 'nickname' for a city. Not as in 'city populated by the unliving'. There is a slight (though, I think you would agree, essentially important) difference between the two.

But new lore written by a guy who is known for writing Star Wars novels is not what I dream about at night

Why wouldn't Necrom have undead? Dunmer have been using undead as tomb guards for generations.


You can't rely exclusively on previous writers for defining everything in TES though.