Personally, my favorite armor/weapon type is definitely elven. And I'm very excited to already know what the armor looks like along with the concept art. And I'd like to get some opinions from you guys if you think that the sword the player is wielding in this screen is an elven long sword. If so....it looks so badass!!! It almost looks like a combo of elven and glass.

http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14267318/rumored-elder-scrolls-v/images/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-20110330052317887.html

That's a glass sword.

Looks pretty sweet- much better than the TESIV Elven armor IMO. The whole TESV looks a lot more gritty than Oblivion though, so hopefully this trend will translate to the rest of the armor sets.

May I ask how you know that? Link maybe?

...Must be destroyed.

Filthy elves.

It's green and somewhat transparent looking. No confirmation, but deduction. Same deal if you were to say that sword is elven.

Also, [censored] the mer. Shor has it right!

If you look closely at the blade you can see it's made out of green glass, with an uneven surface or consistency. I don't know for sure that it's glass, but I'd be surprised if it isn't.

Touche. I guess we'll just have to wait and see...

Glass Elven Sword?
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100101000837/oblivion/images/thumb/d/d2/800px-OB-items-Longswords.jpg/557px-800px-OB-items-Longswords.jpg

If they let you make custom swords by combining two different types of materials... Well that would kick ass.

If the blade is indeed glass, its one of the best, if not the best, glass designs in any TES game so far. It looks perfect. Sort of dirty; unrefined if you will. Much better than the bright green glass we got in Oblivion. I did enjoy glass in Morrowind, but it does look a bit weird.

I really like the look of the ebony arms and armor in Oblivion.

It's hard to say, really, it definitely looks like one of the more exotic weapon types, but is it elven? It kind of has a greenish color making it look like it might be glass, but I felt that disregarding the technical differences in quality, Morrowind's and Oblivion's glass weapons looked pretty similar (The armor, on the other hand, is another story.) yet this looks very different, so glass might not be the first thing I'd think of. That doesn't mean it's not glass, of course, it would just mean that the design has changed considerably. Though the texture doesn't really look all that "glassy" to me, and I'm not even seeing any transparency, if they STILL haven't made the glass transparent (You know, like glass is...)) I'm going to be slightly dissappointed. Though I do like the style of the sword, it just always kind of baffled me that Bethesda went out of their way to call it "glass" without even making it transparent. It's like if I said a sword was made out of stone and yet had it clearly look like it was made out of metal.

Okay by looking at that picture almost convinces me that it is elven. Look at the shape of both elven blades in each picture.

Glass does not have to be transparent. Just look at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/ObsidianOregon.jpg/600px-ObsidianOregon.jpg

The only thing that makes me think its elven is because the devs maybe wanted to show a whole set, so they pair elven armor with the elven sword. In another screenie, you can see the elven armoured PC with a mace on his belt, which I figure is an elven one.

In the trailer, when the guy shoots the ball of light in the cave, you can see that sword up close, since its equipped. Looks awesome.

The Elder Scrolls glass is clearly not meant to be obsidian, though, seeing as obsidian is not green. And maybe the glass in glass weapons and armor really isn't supposed to be transparent, but if that's the case, why call it glass? It clearly doesn't have the same physical properties as glass, since it's practical to make armor and weapons out if it, so the only way the name could make any sort of sense is if it looks like something we might call glass. Now, it's true that glass does not necessarily have to be transparent, but I'm just saying, calling something glass is kind of misleading when it neither looks nor acts like what usually comes to mind when the world "glass" comes to mind.



That could be the case, but I don't think that alone is necessarily enough evidence to conclude that it's elven, now, I'm definitely not saying it's NOT elven, I mean, if it didn't look like something else, I might think that too, I'm just saying that if the design makes us think it's something else, than the fact that it's being used by someone wearing elven armor alone doesn't really prove anything.



Hmm, I never noticed that it was the same sword, I might have to watch the trailer again, or find a good screenshot of it to get a closer look.

Took a better look, and I have no idea at all. But I will take back what I said, and probably side more with elven. The feather-like blade tip makes me think it's elven.

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/yhst-29358752693524/Macahuitl.JPG probably always should have had a different design, as making an entire blade, full length, entirely of glass is really, really odd. I understand where you're coming from. Glass weapons should have an iron tang that runs up the center, with smaller shards of sharp glass making up the edge, and a glass arrowhead tip making up the stabbing part of the blade, much like the macahuitl that I posted, except with an arrowhead-like tip on the end for stabbing.

A lot of people on this thread are hating on the Elven/Glass sword mix up but aren't actually contributing any OPINIONS to the thread. Nice guys

Since we have a forge system now i wouldnt be surprised if that sword is half elven part glass and maybe has some emeralds stuck in it fir good measure

Actually the word "glass" really just means a material is a non crystalline solid. Even metals can be glass, and at least scientifically "glass" isn't always transparent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass

But the glass in the Elder Scrolls universe is actually a volcanic glass like obsidian. Ebony is the dark, heavier, rarer version of glass that is supposed to look more like our world's obsidian.

Its also made from the blood of a god, so I think so ebony has "its magic" going for it.

Oh so it could be a class sword that was molded into elven shape that would be cool to do

The glass used in the ES games is supposed to be Volcanic glass, meaning it's probably a lot harder than the thin crap we call glass. The best we can say at the moment is that it's clearly a glass sword. Whether we can mix materials when we forge our weapons is a different question altogether - the point is that this sword is glass. You don't call a sword a leather sword because it has a leather-wrapped handle.