Greg Keyes interview at Bethblog

Post » Fri May 27, 2011 12:40 pm

If we take the Love-letter from the 5th era into Consideration, perhaps the Culture of Morrowind somehow does still survive? It mentions banners of 'vehk and vehk' along with a 'House Sul' (A Great House?).

5th era??
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 12:19 pm

5th era??

http://www.imperial-library.info/obscure_text/5th_era_loveletter.shtml
I am and I are all we. Know Love to avoid the Landfall.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 2:22 pm

Guys, guys, he means destruction of Morrowind as a game.

What actually happened was the Redguards nuked Morrowind with their swords. Helseth anticipated this so he ordered great vaults to be built under Red Mountain. The next TES game, taking place 200 years after the last, will be about the denziens of Morrowind emerging from their underground vaults that have kept them safe all these years, to find that their once great homeland is a wasteland. Meanwhile, one Dunmer will go to great lengths to find his lost father, the new Empire will invade, and a Dwemer airship will crash somewhere.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 5:50 pm

Guys, guys, he means destruction of Morrowind as a game.

What actually happened was the Redguards nuked Morrowind with their swords. Helseth anticipated this so he ordered great vaults to be built under Red Mountain. The next TES game, taking place 200 years after the last, will be about the denziens of Morrowind emerging from their underground vaults that have kept them safe all these years, to find that their once great homeland is a wasteland. Meanwhile, one Dunmer will go to great lengths to find his lost father, the new Empire will invade, and a Dwemer airship will crash somewhere.

Nuh uh!
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 8:45 am

Guys, guys, he means destruction of Morrowind as a game.

What actually happened was the Redguards nuked Morrowind with their swords. Helseth anticipated this so he ordered great vaults to be built under Red Mountain. The next TES game, taking place 200 years after the last, will be about the denziens of Morrowind emerging from their underground vaults that have kept them safe all these years, to find that their once great homeland is a wasteland. Meanwhile, one Dunmer will go to great lengths to find his lost father, the new Empire will invade, and a Dwemer airship will crash somewhere.

ok ok....I lol'd :P
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 10:26 am

Guys, guys, he means destruction of Morrowind as a game.

What actually happened was the Redguards nuked Morrowind with their swords. Helseth anticipated this so he ordered great vaults to be built under Red Mountain. The next TES game, taking place 200 years after the last, will be about the denziens of Morrowind emerging from their underground vaults that have kept them safe all these years, to find that their once great homeland is a wasteland. Meanwhile, one Dunmer will go to great lengths to find his lost father, the new Empire will invade, and a Dwemer airship will crash somewhere.

Or even better, how about Landfallout?
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 8:55 pm

Still not impressed. If he does lurk, then he know what fans are wary of, and doubtless he'd try to reassure us. Everything he says is undermined by the fact that the best plot he and the devs could think of involve a freakin' flying city that kills life and raises corpses as zombies. Too much Left 4 Dead, methinks.

And the whole Prince & Co. to rescue bumbling idiot girl and destroy the polarized evil (oh, but it isn't eeeevil, it's hauntingly beautiful. Giving it a pretty paint job doesn't make it morally grey. :shakehead: ) is so... ugh. Why can't the prince be the one in the kitchen, and the underdog rescues him. Hah, nothing like having your future emperor rely on a nobody - that's what TES games are made of.


exactly.

i would rather have seen some more down to earth plot then a flying city of evil yet beatiful nercomatic undead overlords from hell. why not some plague or something else hitting Tamriel.

flying cities belong more in JRPG's like Final Fantasy then in a game series like TES.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 10:12 am

exactly.

i would rather have seen some more down to earth plot then a flying city of evil yet beatiful nercomatic undead overlords from hell. why not some plague or something else hitting Tamriel.

flying cities belong more in JRPG's like Final Fantasy then in a game series like TES.

No, I suppose the floating Battlespire convent for creating an elite guard of Emperial battlemages is perfectly down to earth.

How about that floating moon with an entire ministry stationed within for holding criminals?

But a floating city? That's faaaaaar out there, isn't it?
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 8:43 am

No, I suppose the floating Battlespire convent for creating an elite guard of Emperial battlemages is perfectly down to earth.

How about that floating moon with an entire ministry stationed within for holding criminals?

But a floating city? That's faaaaaar out there, isn't it?

Nope, it's not. :)
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 9:41 am

This just got interesting....
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 5:01 pm

No, I suppose the floating Battlespire convent for creating an elite guard of Emperial battlemages is perfectly down to earth.

How about that floating moon with an entire ministry stationed within for holding criminals?

But a floating city? That's faaaaaar out there, isn't it?

I'd call that owned.

Also, it's kind of odd. We mentioned it inthe other threads about the books, but if you read Keyes' Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, a lot of things are described as ancient evils in the blurbs and early on, but as the story goes and the reader and characters learn more you find out they're not.
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Like how the titular Briar King was actually not evil, just a force of nature to cancel out the Sedos magic.
so it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that he will do the same with these.

But no, he's not MK so we'll just assume he can't write any depth at all without reading the book to validate the opinion. That seems perfectly logical /sarcasm
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 11:16 am

This wouldn't be difficult if we just had Ted Petersen and Julian LeFay write the novels. :rofl:
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 3:09 pm

Sounds amazing.

Might be hard for me to get a copy though.

I live in the netherlands. :o







I feel like reading now...

The Hobbit here i come! :D
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