I think he meant the first image in the magazine article. The one with the Dragon perched on the ruins. If so, that is a screenshot. They just applied a filter to it. The only thing that isn't a screenshot is the one with the dragon flying and a village on fire pg56.

Gimme a sec and I'll link when I asked pete about it...
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@DCDeacon is the dragon perched on ruins (pg 47) in the mountains art or a screenshot? I honestly cannot tell.
@OutlanderDF Screenshot.
http://twitter.com/#!/OutlanderDF/status/25633033008717824
http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/25633711722594304

Yeah, it was bigger, 1280px × 720px, but i was hoping for a 1920×1080 res.

Your right, my bad. I was looking at this pic: http://www.gameinformer.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/610x0/__key/CommunityServer-Components-SiteFiles/imagefeed-featured-bethesda-elderscrolls-elderscrollsv/wordwall.jpg and thought that was the 1st pic. Apparently didn't scroll back to the top of the screen.

It seems I am interpreting the article much different than most people. I didn't read that killing dragons gives you more power or more words. Based on what some of you are saying, I don't want to be killing 60 dragons, let alone 20 dragons.


I read read that killing your first dragon, and absorbing its soul, makes you realize you have this ability. You then proceed to learn the words from various walls spread throughout the land, not from dragons. I didn't read that killing more dragons makes you more powerful with the words you learn.

I can see how that can be interpreted to mean that for each new dragon you kill, you gain the ability to learn another shout, but god I hope they don't really have 20 dragons to fight in the game, that seems overboard.

I think you are right, I would think perhaps killing a dragon makes it possible to read a corresponding wall. The "runes" or whatever don't appear until you have killed the dragon(s) that goes along with that wall.

I am very happy with this update, By far the best update yet. I am pleased for now till we get our next update.

What/who is that mysterious figure on the first page concept art?

I just love the fact that the world is so lore rich. I've read many fantasy novels that don't have the same level of depth and lore to them that TES has. It's impressive and really adds to the immersion I think, knowing the depths of the world you are exploring.

I just skimmed the article, but apparently it's “The Voice.”

AKA Steve Perry.

It's hard to say for sure since its information being filtered through Game Informer. And if there's one thing we know about the modern gaming media, it's that they always try to verify and maintain their accuracy to the highest journalistic standards when it comes to the game's their writing about.... ...sorry couldn't keep a straight face on that one.

A dragon shout of thanks to Andrew Reiner and Pete Hines for going out of their way to give us info. :rock:

There were 100 Oblivion gates, iirc.

I'm thrilled about the update! It just wants me to play more and more! I really want to learn the dragon language in real life, and then confuse people with it.

There were 100 places where gates could show up, but I think (and I may be misremembering this) only about 50 would pop up in any one playthrough.

Ahh, okay. Thanks for clearing that up

I enjoyed the concept art very much and I was happy to read about the dragon shouts. Well written as well.. Imo.

Yeah, good point. The article just says that killing a dragon "fuels [your] ability to learn a new shout". Of the options available, it seems like we can rule out the idea that killing a dragon makes more powerful the shouts you already have - killing dragons seems to have something to do with learning new shouts, not with increasing the power of shouts you already have.



Yep, this is my bet as well. As you kill dragons, you increase in power as the Dragonborn, and that means you get better at reading the runes on the walls.

This still leaves a gap between learning the shouts - this is only a theory about how we learn the words which compose the shouts. Perhaps this is where the Greybeards come in? You get a bunch of words, but you need to be trained by the Greybeards to know how to combine them into shouts?

Enjoyed and appreciated the article and concept arts.

Awww yeah..that's the spot.

Skyrim seems pretty much focused on this dragon business though. Kinda seems a bit weird for a TES game imo. I did want to see/know more about TES dragons though.

Liking the concept art of the tomb on the 3rd page.

And the alphabet is really badass maximum. That's the kinda intricate detail I like.

Awesome update!

I'm siced for that shadow step dragon shout. I'm glad they put at least one in that applies directly to stealth characters.

Not that my stealth character isn't going to summon that [censored] dragon too, because I couldn't possibly miss out on that.

These are tears of joy.





I think it's official. Skyrim's hero will be the most powerfully epic Elder Scrolls hero, yet.

Ya kinda have to be when your facing such an epic world ender.

Hopefully that means we get epicly stronger things to fight this time around. Or at least properly strong things. Fighting a god shouldent be as easy as it was in Oblivion.

i wish for a dragon shout that summons a dragon with a ice breath attack :mohawk:

btw i am pretty impressed with todays hub update

By George they're taking their sweet time "working" on putting up those hi res screens.

Cool stuff. Can't wait to become a mean, green, loud-mouthed dragon-slaying machine.

Ironic, though, that this had more concept art than the update about...concept art.



Hardly. The PCs already had pre-set voices in Morrowind and Oblivion, for grunts and battle cries. This is no different.