That sounds ace!

It better not be a prison. Come on Bethesda, I need some change :rolleyes:

Opening scene with flyby and zoom in is a fort showing off the war. Dragon enters the scene and everyone tries to flee. Dragon destroys or severely damages the fort and our here is knocked out. Player takes control, hero wakes up, but the dragon is blocking the only entrance, When looking around, stones collapses behind him and the only way out now is - guess once - through the tutorial dungeon. When you exit, you should go lookup your captain in some not too distant city and tell the news. Something like that. Introduces the landscape, character, the war theme, and one of the most fearsome enemies in the game.

Maybe it should start of either two ways;

Either your training with your mentor and he becomes ill. And while you go to one of the near-by villages, he needs registration of your authority to buy your master some medicine for his illness, thus still maintaining the classic questions we were once given. (I miss those ;.; )

OR

Maybe as you travel along with your master, you come across a village that has been destroyed by the Dragons. As you search for evidence of what happened, a dragon comes out and attacks you both. You black out and wounded, but your master is dying. He then tells you, as his last words, that you are...DRAGON BORN.

And then give us the epic lyrics from that trailer. I mean seriously, I fell in love with the trailer solely for that.

why can't the game start out in a meadow full of happy little bunnies and deers. Then just do the customization and leave? :yes:

I swear, do the majority of the people here have some fascination of being locked up in a jail cell?

YES.

:yes:

I only said "prisoner" in my speculation. I said nothing about starting off in a prison or jail cell. The same goes for many other speculations here.

I am amazed you got away with your name.

Thats sounds good in all, but how does the player see things if they have a black bag over their head?

He never says there's a black bag over your head.

You're a prisoner of war being escorted in the mountains and the group gets intercepted by dragons, you are the lone survivor. Woo-ee.

I think that you will start in a prison, and then the city you are in will be utterly destroyed becoming a ruin. You are the only surviver, i think a city will be destroyed beacuase in this wiki http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Skyrim it shows that there is six cities but in the game informer article it says there is only 5 cities.

He says the executioner would draqe a hood over the head.

My guess to this was a type of sac they use to put on people who are going to be hanged/executed so some people won't have to see their faces when they are executed.

I'm not sure why an exctioner would only use a 'hood' which doesn't really cover the face, and serves no other purpose but should cover the eyes or face.

http://www.executedtoday.com/images/Champ_Ferguson_hanged.jpg

"The executioner drags you to the scaffold as he draqes a hood over his face."

Implies that the executioner is covering his own identity with the hood not covering the character's face.

Ok, my mistake.

But why would the executioner not already have it on?

I thought the point of the hood was to mask his identity incase family/friends wanted revenge agianst the executioner.

He should have the hood draqed over him before he ever reached the scaffolding.

Don't ask me I didn't make the post, I was just pointing out that the person being executed could have seen all the things described because his head wasn't being covered. Your point is valid though, his face would've been covered beforehand.

In a prison, duh :mellow:

I think a better question is why would majority of the people wanted the prison cell intro in the first and why would they wanted an intro that is really demeaning to the character's starting point .

You ar ophaned as a child. Whoever Max Von Sydow discovers you are the Dragon Born. He takes you in as his own. He feeds you and trains you in the ways of combat, stealth ,and magic. He's like a father to you. Then sometime during the game he gets killed by a dragon.

"He sat in the back of a horse carriage, his hands tied and his face beaten. The carriage belonged to the army of one of the warring factions of Skyrims snowy mountains. He did not remember how he was captured or why but it didn't matter. He was going to die. Suddenly, a shadow covers the carriage, the soldiers around starts to yell in panic. A roar. Confused and scared he shoves the other prisoners out of his way to the bars that held them in place. His eyes widens as he sees the creature. Flames, flames everywhere. It descends upon them smashing the carriage with its tail. The horses and the carriage with the prisoners inside tumbles off the road and smashes on a huge rock amongst the trees. On unsteady legs he stands and takes off, not looking back at the soldiers fleeing from the dragon or the other prisoners lying dead or wounded.

Out of pure instinct he ran through the dark forest. He didn't contemplate upon it then, but he had known the dragons name. It had shouted it when it dived to seal their fates. All he knew at that point was that he had to find shelter and warmth. And the thought that he had known the dragons language didn't come to mind when an animal instinct had taken hold of him. He would come to think of it, though, when he found the Draconian runes in the ruin."

I just made this up. Probably svcks, though.

I can sense another 'So, why we in prison this time?' thread

Executioners, at least in Medieval England, covered their faces because they feared that their victim (is it called that?) would want revenge in afterlife. :violin:

I presume it'll be clear from the beginning you're connected to the Blades. I think we'll be immediately plunged into the main quest once again. Since it's kind of confirmed you have a mentor and you're destined to be a dragon slayer. I can't think of a way how you're going to end up in captivity if it weren't because you're doing something for this mentor.

Something like this, for example, makes perfectly sense to me, although I hope it won't be that cheesy.