Something i haven't seen mentioned at all yet is that is the now the 4th Era. ALL of the other games have taken place in the 3ed. So, I personally expect to see major changes across the entire realm. Such as new types of weaponry, new enemy types, a more 'civilized' populace.

What do you expect in the new era?

Edit: perhaps Civilized was not the right word. I meant a shift in the populace, forgive me for such a firestorm word...

More civilized? The Empire is in ruins. The next game is in the barbaric land of Skyrim. Why on Nirn would you expect things to be more civilized?

An era is just a measure of time. Sure, there are special things that happen once every era, such as the Great Hunt or the Greymarch, but it doesn't dictate what type of weapons and armor and enemies appear in the world. I expect nothing from the new era and more from new games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages

This. Nicely said.

More "civilized" populace? I hope exactly the contrary. Firstly, because we are in Skyrim, land of the Nords, and secondly, because the old Empire was which brought order to Tamriel. The new Empire is one of warchiefs, for I have read. Tamriel is in some kind of Dark Age.

Oh, by the way, Redguard took place in the 2nd era.

Honestly it all depends on where you go. Look at how far we have come from using axes and swords and there are still lots of places that are uncivilized 3rd world countries. Places where if you are lucky enough to avoid the rampant crime and corrupt leaders, and manage to avoid the crazy death rituals, you still contract Chagas and Dysentery.

Wales, for instance.

that is true. I it is why it is in ' ' however.

Now, to the dark ages comment. It was a rejection of the Greco-Roman views and policies, where it became more important to be spiritual and the arts became less important. Religion made a thrust forward and with 'big brother' now no longer watching your every move each country took it chances at gaining new territory.

The reason I brought it up was things such as the Dark Ages, The Bronze Era, The Iron Age, etc an Era is not a fixed measure of time. The first act of the new era is supposedly the banishing of the oblivion gates. Is that the only measure, is the Daedric age past, new cults perhaps? Just postulating no reason to get worked up or anything.

LIke someone else said, an Era is just a measure of time. It's not like on 1999 we were using one tech and then the very first day of 2000 we're suddenly upgraded (just an example)
I doubt we'll see much change, probably just minor changes

Skyrim does indeed take place in the Fourth Era. Oblivion marked the end of the Third Era, Uriel Septim pretty much says that in the opening, though that doesn't automatically mean Skyrim will be more civilized than past games, when I think Skyrim, "civilized" is not what comes to mind. According to what we're told, Skyrim will actually be less advanced technically than Cyrodiil was in Oblivion, this is in terms of the lives of the general populace, of course, obviously, the Dwemer ruins don't count here.

Though I'm sure many things could have changed between Oblivion and Skyrim, it's just that how things have changed beyond what we learned in Infernal City and what we've been told about the game so far we can't say yet.

an Era is a segment of time dominated by a particular event or series, Such as the great depression was an era, the industrial age was an era, etc

here's hoping they haven't embraced capitalism and we all have to queue to open in-game bank accounts before we can queue to claim in-game welfare.

And this era started with the collapse of the Septim dynasty. Hardly a technological revolution.


That's socialism, we were already running capitalism in Oblivion.

Okay, so we see a decline, I was trying to get at what you all think will be the changes, other then dragons of course. Such as different types of armor weapons, etc.

I think the end of the Oblivion Crisis was the last act of the Third Era, actually, not the first of the Fourth.

There is no "Daedric age." The Daedra will have just as much influence over mortals as they always have. They are gods. They are not going away. The religions and cults are based on the collective memories of the creation of Mundus, so there's not a lot of wiggle room for new ones to form.

The world of TES isn't our world. A good example of how more 'civilized' the society and people became in LOTR in time, which was, in order words, nothing. The LOTR "society and people" actually degraded from their old and magnificant civilizations for thousands of years.

I don't expect that will change. I mean, look how similar the world of Redguard was to the world of Oblivion. All that really changed is the fashion. That and we lost half our spells in the last 17 years.

isn't socialism the one where you queue up to get no bread?

the point is we have seen a change of era, Era's are significant time slots dominated by one fact that governed how life was lived. With whatever that thing was, what will be the new things (progress or digress)

Nah, that's communism.

Capitalism is where you queue up to get bread, but the price has inflated tenfold faster than your wages.

The end of the Empire marked the end of order. Now we have chaos and wars. A pretty relevant thing.

I dont really care i only want that the city's are higher populated.

pulling my info from

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Fourth_Era_Major

so i would agree with you

Edit: In times of war you see great military strides forward in weaponry and defense and in tactics.

I think you're thinking of era in the wrong way. The way I understand it is that in TES, era's are simply a measurement of time. When we look back at history and deem certain time periods to be different "era's", we're not measuring time, we're grouping events togethor. We add the groups later, after they happen. In TES, the era's talked about are marked while things are happening, thus, new era's don't mean change. They're just numbers.

Well the death of the last Septim and the fall of the empire is a big change.

As for advances in weaponry? People can dual wield now I guess...