Kudos to the Lore Buffs : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:35 pm

Although Keyes would be an excellent choice of writer, I'm not a fan of novelizations. The Elder Scrolls lore is too large to fit into one fictional book, or even a series of books, as other than the short stories that we're given in-game. You couldn't pin the Nerevarine down into one gender or race, for example.

I don't know . . . I guess there's an audience for it, but I'm going to stick to computer games.
By the way, kudos again to Ted for all the years he's given the series.

Why on earth would he try to cram all the Lore into one Book? That's something so Mad not even Sheo would do it

» Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:10 am

Storytelling skill is going to negate any criticism people might have with lack of lore.

I don't think my problem would be with a lack of lore, but rather conflicts. Playing Oblivion can only give you so much information on setting that he would put it in, apart from Cyrodiil, and even then his knowledge would be lacking; meaning any time he tried to reference anything of depth that would actually relate the novel to the TES world (apart from say, Anvil is along the coast and the Emperor is in the IC, the DB is mean (oh, lol, him involving the DB Oblivion style would be priceless)) there would be the chance of conflicting with things that have actually been solidly place in lore. Granted, it'll probably only be a minor detail and something only the people from this part of the forum would ever notice, still...

» Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:43 pm

By the way, kudos again to Ted for all the years he's given the series.

bliviongate:

Thanks, Shaka. It was fun.