tamriel's future could be truly dark, awesome and unique

imagine a scroll, suspended in a sleek case of magicka at the heart of the imperial city, a bastion of safety in a ruined world, its tower defiant

the sky ripped apart into shreds of blackness by millennia of battles with the gods

the city stone alive with geometric rivulets of magicka, channelled like electricity, haggard mages locked in battle with ancient relics to tame the energies to their needs

a dunmer sheathed in ethereal bonemold armor, runes rippling, a short blade of crystalised magicka in one hand, keeping watch at the ald-ruhn shield perimeter

hunters skimming the ruined wilds on sleek, hard-lined racers, magicka-plated crossbows on their forearms flinging jagged, barely controlled bolts of condensed fire at the daedra beneath them

legions of undead, their bones fused with daedric metals and weapons wreathed in dark energies

everywhere the echoes of the ancient civilisations, refined and enhanced but the spirit untouched

magicka has become their technology

Imagining Tamriel 10,000 years in the future is an exercise in futility. It's the same as imagining Earth in 10,000 years. It's too far in the future to accurately imagine anything.

Your description alone has a fault. Ald'ruhn was destroyed when Red Mountain exploded, along with most of Vvardenfell.

Since the Merethic Era, 10,000 years haven't even passed yet.

First of all, the things you describe could happen in anytime of the history, even 2 years.... Why would 10,000 years need to pass? That's just laughable.
Velorien got it right.

Velorien gets everything right.

You've actually described Tamriel's past.

I think if you made it at a bit more reasonable time then it would pretty epic. Maybe a couple hundred years or so and then try to imagine it.

The Alyeids come back from who knows where. And if my memory serves right the Knights of the Nine are perfect to play the role of the heros.

But I dont know maybe something about, you know, the wrath of the gods! Or like MeatyThud had it, the gods battle each other and the world of Tamriel as we know it is just a charred waste land.

But hey I think this is an awesome thing to think about and it has some real promise.

Imagining anything is an exercise in futility. I just wondered if anyone else might have thought what a futuristic version of this world might be like.

10,000 years, 200 years, doesn't matter, I just picked a big number that would allow significant advance in technology, but in a different direction to normal. And Ald Ruhn can be rebuilt somewhere else.

It definitely is not. There are a bunch of situations where imagining things could benefit people. Pretty much every invention started with someone imagining something.

Imagining something 10,000 years in the future is beyond my realm of imagination though. It's so far ahead in the future that everything we know about right now is probably not going to exist. The 10 playable races of Tamriel will probably no longer exist as we know them now, but will have changed to something else. I'd hope in 10,000 years all the mortals of the Mundus will have returned to godhood.

If you're asking in the more near future though, the only thing I really imagine is Lorkhan becoming "alive" or becoming in touch with the Mundus again. I feel like that's kind of the point of the entire TES series.

10,000 years into the future is actually sometime in the early second era of the Next Kalpa, each one lasts about 7664 years. (It is unknown how long the fourth Era will last but adding up all the others including the 911 known years of the 5th)

In the real world technology tends to progress, overall. In fantasy, ancient stuff is awesome and powerful while the modern day is a shadow of the arcane knowledge they had.


"I consulted the ancient texts! And you were right! About EVERYTHING!"

Fallout 3.

magic (energy weapons)

monsters (mutants)

end of the world type stuff.

10,000 YEARS?? Well first of all, the Klingons would hopefully still be in the peace treaty with the federation, which has swept aside and forgotten about magic and demons long ago. I could also imagine the romulans beginning to edge into peace after the long cold war with the star fleet, partly because of Shaun luke and commander reickers efforts in the neutral zone.

I can imagine the Borg still hammering down on the alpha quadrant despite the federations best efforts, and its also for this reason I think that the romulans and the Klingons will have to set aside their differences to deal with the bigger picture and to escape from assimilation to be honest, even if the Klingons are to full of pride to accept any aid.

And lastly, I believe the that voyager will return to earth after a long journey though the delta quadrant, of course possessing the EMH's portable emitter, which would of course advance the technological side of things massively, but star fleet also needs to be quite about their advances because if the Borg were to assimilate the technology it would assure the destruction and assimilation of all intelligence in the alpha quadrant.

BUT that's just me, if anyone believes there may be some differences then please voice them