» Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:05 pm (I just thought i should get this out there )
All right so while I was on vacation here in winter, with no internet and being hyped as [censored] on ESO, I came up with an idea for a new Elder Scrolls game. I know it’s not perfect, and I haven’t checked if it goes against any other lore there might be. BTW it could also be that it focuses too much on the Elder Scrolls, since the other games didn’t really focus too much on them. Enjoy:
Lore:
The Elder Scrolls are written by 'nobody’s' (I know the name is a bit cliché from kingdom hearts but I couldn’t really come up with a better name for them), who are elected by the scrolls them self (or whatever godlike being that’s making them write them). A 'nobody' is a person whose life has no meaning, to put it another way, the person has no effect on the 'history' in any way and doesn’t need to exist. There are about only 200 of these 'nobody’s’' total throughout Tamriel (or another small number, it doesn’t really matter that much). The Elder Scroll chooses a 'nobody' so they do not affect the 'story' of the game.
Story:
You choose what you start as a homeless person, a hunter in the woods, prisoner (something that makes you a 'nobody', which is the big end game twist thing). You'll find a strange paper (or just something) that tells about something, a treasure or something motivate you to go to a cave, which you of course then do.
When you get to the cave, it’s only you that can go in there, and when you do, you see a person (boy girl doesn’t matter, maybe it’s even the exact same race and gender as you, but for now let’s go with a man) siting looking up in the sky (although there is no hole for anyone to see the sky) surrounded by beautiful surroundings and moths, with a scroll and feather in his hands.
He greets you and says it’s been foretold that you would come and all that. Then you start a conversation with him/her about a lot of things such as (his/hers voice is as if he was in total piece): who he is? (he will say that he’s a nobody), what’s a nobody? (he will explain).
Then you ask what he “summoned” you here for: “what we (by we he means him and the scroll) need your help for is that, the former nobody that the Scrolls had chosen to write them chose to go against them, in the way that he wrote what he wanted and not what they wanted. This way, he was able to give himself indescribable power, because what is written in the Scrolls is as true as day and night, and you have to stop him”. “Why me?” ask you, "I do not know, and I do not question the Scrolls about it for I am but a ‘nobody’”.
Then you can ask him a lot of other questions like: Is the scroll he is holding an Elder scroll? “Not yet”, would he say. Why is he doing this (writing stuff down for the scrolls)? “Because that’s what I’m told to and that is all the reason I need”, would he say. Why was he chosen by the Elder Scrools and why not some other nobody? “For no apparent reason, but I think it was because I was close to this place”. What is he writing? “I do not know, I just write it”, would he say. And other stuff about the Elder Scrolls and him.
Just before you are about to leave the he says " This is something the Scrolls could not foretell so you can imagine how important it is, and try not to get to many people involved in this", you should not get anyone involved in it because that this is something that shouldn’t have happened, so the less damage the better (kinda like with time travel).
Then you will then look for the guy that betrayed the Scrolls and battle against creatures that should not exist because he is able to bring them to live with the Scrolls. You will continue to look for him and find that he have brought forth a weapon (or something) so powerful that nothing can kill him, so you will have to create your own weapon with the Scrolls (for example: a godlike buff, a godlike weapon, a godlike spell or something like that) which however needs to be destroyed after the bad guys defeat, so you don’t screw up with the Order of the universe or and all that.
During your countless encounters with the bad guy he will tell you that the reason why did what he did was because he did not like being a 'nobody' and would tell you how horrible it was knowing that your life had no purpose. Then finally when you defeat him, he says something cliché like "You should thank me, if it were not for me you would also have been a 'nobody'”. Then everything is sunshine and rainbows, and you can go and do the other quests and stuff.
(I was also thinking about getting Hermaeus Mora in on it, and a name idea could be The Forbidden Scroll, or something, if not for the game (since its properly going to be the name of the continent it takes place in) then for the quest)
