Way back when, before any info leaked on the next elder scrolls game and rumors were swirling that the next game would be held in everywhere from the summerset isles to a possible vvardenfell comeback I created an investigation thread on why I believed it would no doubt be held in Skyrim. See in morrowwind a crazy bosmer has a seemingly random rant about a coming threat to the capital province and a threat from oblvion, I'm on my phone so I can't pull it up at the moment. And voila the game was held in cyrodil. Then in oblivion at the docks of anvil another crazy bosmer ranted obtusely, probably the wrong word choice, about things coming on dragon ships and eating something again I'm on my phone so I can't bring it up. By decifering his coded rant, I determined the background of the gist of the next game and discovered based on lore that it had to occur in Skyrim. I wish I could find the op as the discussion between me and fellow forumers was truly great, but with their help we determined the location of the next game and that it would have to involve dragons, sure we had doubters, perhaps it just a coincidence, but one things for sure,when Skyrim hits ill be keeping an eye out for giant slugs and for ranting bosmer.

haha, If that's true, then you my friend, are a psychic gaurd !!

Well, when you look at the prophecies of the elder scrolls the settings are pretty much all per-determined.

Except that Bethesda didn't even start throwing around ideas for the theme of TES:V until after Oblivion was released and finished, right at the start of Fallout 3 production, and then later after Fallout 3 was down, they went full force into Skyrim.
What you call prophecies, we call coincidences. There was also a group of people on this forum that had pretty much confirmed to a lighter degree that TES:V was going to take place in Skyrim almost a year before it was announced. It was a huge series of threads in the TES general discussion forum.

Good call.

I'll be looking for a ranting Bosmer.

I wasn't on the forums at that time, but it seemed pretty obvious to me it would be Skyrim when Bethesda trademarked Skyrim :shrug:

Stop trying to sound smart. First of all, we have no idea what is actually on the elder scrolls, second of all, they didn't start planning Skyrim until after Oblivion came out, at which point they tied together the prophecies of the games.

Anyways, cool idea, but I'd call it coincidence.

This fun little thread is getting ugly.

I knew Skyrim was the next setting back in 2007.

they would of had some idea during oblivion

...that doesn't even begin to make sense.
The Elder Scrolls are scrolls with prophecies written on them. The Oblivion crisis, the Dragon crisis, these are all separate events on separate scrolls. They are not related. Bethesda did not plan all of this out from the get go. They are pretty much making it up as they go along, and that's pretty obvious.

Skyrim isn't a sequel to Oblivion, just like Oblivion wasn't a sequel to Morrowind. They are playing off of each others storylines, but that's because they are games that take place in a linear timeline. That doesn't mean they all fit together. Did the fall of the Japanese Samurai have anything to do with World War 1? No? I didn't think so. That's basically what you're trying to say when you say the TES games are sequels to each other all leading up to some climix. These are events happening in Tamriels timeline, just like the fall of the Japanese Samurai happened before World War 1. They have nothing to do with each other, except for the fact that one precedes the other.


Yeah, that was pretty much the basis for our claims. It really all fit together, it was very obvious TES:V was going to take place in Skyrim.

Your thinking about http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Thurindil. The only thing he mentions about dragons is that "Mother is coming for me in dragon ships" There is no way that lead you to the plot of Skyrim.

Some brief comments i remember the discussion and that may have been where we focused on the particular bosmer im reffering too, either that or it was prior to that threads creation. And yes this discussion took place before Skyrim was trademarked. the rant involved some large slug like creatures invading Skyrim from akavir. As well as half man serpent creatures like what was supposed to be at pale pass in oblivion. It related to the nord homeworld because of dragon ships. I'm having difficulty r emebering because I spent aeveral hours on the lore wiki along with several other forumers. I dont intend to sound like an ass here I'm just facinated by how deep a game's lore can go that it stretches across 20 years of real time and comes back around tohelp predict something like this.

I'm sorry but that is one hell of a stretch of the imagination to make it a basis for what you're saying.
So, an insane (literally) Wood Elf says something about "dragon ships", and all of the sudden that's a prophecy for Skyrim? :rofl:
I see that as the devs (at this point in time, which we have PROOF of, they did not know anything about Skyrim during the pre/production of Oblivion) using funny words to make a Bosmer sound insane.

Yeah I'm going to ask to have this closed before people start taking it too seriously( mostly my fault). But seriously I looked at thurindil's rant the way a conspiracy theorist looks at the kennedy assassination. For example mother related to the matriarch of a certain race that existed on akavir, and whose ships had dragon heads on the front. Then I took other parts ane started mindlessly linking them together.hehe

Edit: at the above poster. Yes quite a stretch but it is also well known that a crazy bosmer in mw had a similar rant that led some to the conclusion that cyrodil and the oblvion invasion were a possibility for TES:iv.


Please don't take me too seriously, ive been drinking.

ok

I'm pretty sure they have a general timeline for events for many years to come, just not the deep indepth stuff.