I would bet a lot the freaky lady is a banshee.

It's a spider head.

Giant ants? That's totally awesome.

I'm not convinced that's an ant, either. Not that I'm opposed to the idea (I've loved giant ants since I watched http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/).

What is that piece of concept on the art wall that looks like a big white flash? Its on the top of the art wall?

look at the larva above the ant/spider (the one in color is the ant that i'm talking about, not the spider that's in black and white next to it)

I just saw something weird, The guy in the Elven armor is doing the middle finger.

:tongue:

Kinda looks like my teacher bliviongate:

I just noticed an interesting bit of tid: in the http://i801.photobucket.com/albums/yy297/b_harrison/misc/artofskyrim_003_orc.jpg, the two red labels read "EMPIRE" and "REBELS" respectively. Perhaps these regions/cities are political enemies in the civil war? Looks like Windhelm could be a supporter of the Skyrim secessionists, whilst Solitude is still loyal to the Empire.

Maybe in Skyrim, instead of regular twohanded axes they have them with a very long handle.

Nice catch!!!! I'm gonna add that, good job :tops:

Windhelm, my new city of choice.

Good post , I realy hope that they reintroduce inverted kinetic legs for the Argonians and the Kajits as they where in Morrowind , it made them feel more alien somehow ....

Maybe the female High Elf is wearing Falmeric armor?

And could that be a were-lion?

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/01/10/video-behind-the-scenes-of-skyrim.aspx

and go to 3:08, where he's showing off the meat, to the left you see either a female gypsy or exotic dancer etc

Skyrim Map:
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/2858/skyrimmap.png

The map is sick November needs to get here now :brokencomputer:

If you look very closely you can see that is not an ant, the spiders front legs are just raised, it also doesn't have enough segments for an ant, what your saying is larvae is just a concept of the spiders body without any legs to it. I've zoomed in very closely, and not to say ants are totally out but that isn't one.

The map appears to be very rocky and filled with mountains. Although that is the geography of Skyrim, I hope that mountains don't take up the majority of the terrain. I despise climbing up those treacherous things.

The armor looks very good indeed although it's only concept art.

And the ants. Sounds like a page out of Fallout's book. Hmm let me guess fire breathing ants too? That's if ants are even confirmed considering it's just artwork on the wall.

Hoo boy. It's ironic, really. I have done my research, a lot over the past couple days trying to teach people like yourselves the difference. Halberds are not so much axes on poles but spears with tiny axe heads. Show me one picture from the game we've seen so far that has a spear head coming off the tip of the pole. Just one.

But there is none. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_38X_HlDW_R0/TM2RUtpAfyI/AAAAAAAAAmg/RbfEpcVKepw/DaneAxe.jpg is a long handled axe. Useless for stabbing, great for chopping. Much like all the axes we've seen so far.

As you'll see in in the second link you posted, there is a trend of the axe heads getting smaller and smaller while the spear heads get longer. That's because the larger your axe head, the harder it is to hold the weapon parallel with the ground, as you would in a stabbing motion. That's not a problem with axes, because you are chopping down from a position that starts perpendicular to the ground.

The closest thing we've seen to a halberd is whats commonly called a bardiche, where the axe head is long and thin, and the top of the blade comes to a point, which regardless is separate from the top of the shaft. That was the greyed out concept art though, and there's no telling if it made it into the game.

I counted, Skyrim's map is 101x73 cells big. Oblivion's map is 117x94 cells big.

All of the forces of the forums will descend upon you. Their tears will blot out the Sun!

This one calls http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardiche on some of the concepts. One of those concepts if definitely a long-handled axe though.

If we're going to say what is or isn't in the game based on concept art, then halberds would most likely be in the game anyways. First off, both of those had rather short, thing blades. Quite a bit different than axes, and definitely pole arm material. Spears are also in (if, once again, we base it entirely on concept art), as we can see in the Argonian concept art.

So, even if those weren't halberds, we would still most likely see halberds, considering spears were in.