Here in norway we sometimes have wonderful northern lights dancing in the night sky, it is so unbelivable beautiful! To se them dancing over the mountain tops in Skyrim would add so much feeling and mystic into the game. Atleast that's what I feel. I have only seen northen lights twice here in norway, and far to the north in norway that is. And I tell you, its nothing like it :woot:

absolutely, that would be awesome, i love a beautiful night sky with the aurora borealis, would be so cool, i loved staring at sheogorath's night sky with the pink cluster of stars

EDIT: actually sheogoraths night sky was one of the most beautiful skys ive ever seen in a game or movie, and i watch a lot of science-fiction flicks

I agree it would be nice, but, like rainbows, it's not essential.

It would be an awesome touch though, have something different to watch att the sky sometimes

Oh, yes. Aurora Borealis is (according to me) pretty much the single most beautiful sight that nature has to offer. Too bad I haven't seen it in like three years or something. It's always so darn cloudy here during the winter.

Anyway, it shouldn't be too hard to throw it into the game, and it would probably encourage me to be out in the wilderness during the night as well

That would svck. You wouldn't be able to play Skyrim anymore.

Wholeheartedly support this with both hands! They are gorgeous and will be awesome to see them in Skyrim And us Vampire types will get a good compensation for lack of daylight - who needs day when night sky is so amazing?

If we get Aurora Borealis, we've got to have Roll Clouds.

Those are phenomenal.

I agree, I have always played as a vampire in both Morrowind and Oblivion, and as you say, who needs the sun when we have northern light sparkling over the skies? ^^

Why not?

You'd be too entranced to do anything other than gawp at the sky.

Because you'd be dead.

I support having an Aurora being added.

Especially because to the common tribes and such, it could even be a religious event, like when the Aurora is known to appear, there's a festival and dancing in the smaller villages.

I would love to see Northern lights, but some lore thingy to explain them needs to be invented, I think.
In our world its caused by solar particles interacting with the earths magnetic field.
Does Tamriel even have one of those? And the sun is magical in nature too.

Maybe its the magic from the void that falls to Tamriel and lights up in its atmosphere?
Aurora Tamrialis.

It would be pretty sweet - not essential, but one of those little details which stand out and really finish off the feel of a game like this.

If Tamriel had no magnetic field it would have no live on the surface as well, so yes it does. It has reins, and storms and snow, and believe it or not northern lights are just another weather effect Not that the locals can't have legends and superstitions about ti - that would be interesting

Not neccesarily.
It could have magical protection.
I dont think many things from our physics are 1:1 translatable to Tamriel.
You cant say, it works like this for us, and since they have that too, it must work like this for Tamriel as well.

Case in point: the sun is not a huge fission reaction a million miles away, it is a hole through wich magic enters the Mundus.

It might not just be a weather effect in Tamriel though. When Magnus left the world behind and ripped a hole in the sky and made the sun, maybe the Aurora Borealis (Tamrielis. I Like that!) is left over magical energy or something.

I bet the Azura Worshipped would [censored] their pants to see an Aurora...

I liked your idea of magnus leaving behind magical energy in the sky where he broke out. :thumbsup:

I guess it's the matter on how you perceive the lore - I always thought that at last 60% of it's facts are superstitions, and "broken records". Not saying that something specific is untrue, but just about anything has a chance of turning out not how you expected it. Our ancient Egyptians swore that the thing in the sky is god Ra, believed it to be so for a loooong time, does not mean it's true, no more than the fact that the earth is flat. Tamriel is very different form earth, true, but the apple still falls down unless stopped by the wizard
While Northern lights may have a whole realm of different meanings in Tamriel it does not necessary have to - rain is rain, and ionization is ionization.

Lol, but yes, those are real world examples.
I was like that too when I first started TES with Morrowind. Gods? dont make me laugh.
And then I met Mara and a golden floaty guy called Vivec.

In short, In Tamriel, what people believe is real. Wether it is because they believe it that it becomes real, of if they just know its real because the gods told them is verse two.

Some of it is real. The Cyrodillians thought Akatosh was a nice guy.

Well for starters daedra are obviously real, so is magic, so the realm is governed by additional lows that are very unlike our own, but so far I haven't seen any instances where our own laws of physics where discarded. Remember how Vivec ended up as a god? He was a mortal once and than connected to a "divine power source", remember how the player became Shepgorath? It's not as straight forward as you may think - any "god" of TES has a good chance of being just another mortal that got his hands on something very powerful very long ago

That would be awesome. Where I live the northern lights are quite common and we see it every winter. On a bright cold night there's nothing like it.

Where I live we see the lights any winter night that is cloud free. They are an awe inspiring sight and I have never grown tired of them. They change before your eyes yet you can't really see them changing. Beautiful dancing elusive colors in the sky.

I'm not sure if they could be done justice with animation and I am afraid I would not be impressed. I'm not even sure if such a thing would exist in such a world.

I know most wish to see them in game but I have huge reservations about it.