Apologies if this has already been talked about but nothing came up in my search.

In MW your character doesn't know he is the Nerevarine til about half way through the game, and even then you aren't sure if you're just a convincing fake or the real deal.

Do you think in Skyrim we will have this ambiguity or will you already know you are dragon born from the start? eg you are raised by Esbern from young and you know from the start that you are destined for greatness.

I dont think the tradition of starting as a prisoner definitely means you or others are ignorant of your heritage. Maybe one of the Nord nobles making a play on the throne thinks you're too much of a threat and throws you in the slammer or you're framed by supporters of Alduin or something

Personally I think that you begin the game knowing you are Dragonborn and the early part of the main quest is convincing others that you are and training up your dragon slaying skills

To me the fact that Beth announces right from the start that you are Dovakhiin prevents them going for the big reveal in-game, ergo your character must know he/she is Dragonborn.

Thoughts?

You'll find out during the story and don't know from the start.

I'm 100% certain, can't say exactly what source though. Think it was a magazine or pod-cast.

Im pretty sure its been anounced that you dont know from the start.

My guess is it's another Nerevarine scenario where you don't know much of what's going on at first.

Bang and the topic is gone

XD

Wow, really? I guess I missed that particular detail!

Its a shame then that Beth announces that you are the dovakhiin then. While its probably obvious once you're into the game it'd still be nice for them to build it up and have a big reveal in-game.

Dragonborn learns this in the game, when the Greybeards shout to you from the mountains. This is official information.

There should have been an option for 'don't know'

I'm hoping it will be similar - but not the same - as Morrowind. Obviously not exactly the same, as it would be boring, but I enjoyed the ambiguity that you felt as a player character, and the way that others around you (especially the Ashlanders) reacted to the gradual realisation of who you were.

By comparison, Oblivion felt a bit random - you just got thrust into things.

This. It was Todd Howard's podcast.

We haven't played the game, we don't know.

No. My guess is Esbern saves your milkshake and then explains why he bothered to do so.

yeah... it was pretty lame annoucing that soon we are the zero.

Just because we know, it doesnt mean the character would know; it just means that the big twist in the game, or the driving force of the narrative is not based on a "big reveal".

But we do, because we were told.

[censored] might as well. If not, why nt soon after. The majority of people will already know

I'm glad to hear that we don't.

Todd Howard himself said somewhere that you do not know you are Dragonborn at the start of the game. You figure out at some point during the story.

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I know it's all over the trailer, but I really wish Todd had kept it zipped about being the Dragonborn. Of course, on the flip side, the player is always the hero - so I guess it's kind of pointless to keep it a secret.

I knew i was the Nerevarine the moment someone mentioned something about the "incarnate" coming back to stop Dagoth Ur... Sometimes you can just tell these things. as soon as someone mentions something about the Dragonborne saving the land it'd be obvious anyway.

but about the topic no your character won't know he or she is the dragonborn at first. I think this has been confirmed.

I don't think you would know before the events of the game. People wouldn't treat you poorly if they knew you were dragonborn, and that's an RPG staple.

agreed i heard that too but i dont remember where from.. also if you knew you were the dragon borne..those are very rare so everyone would know and you wouldnt be in jail

It really makes sense that they treat the game like you and your character don't know, but revealed it already. He said most people playing the game probably won't know when they buy it, which is true (unless they put it in ads too). Those of us that follow videogame news, much less news about a particular game, are in the extreme minority of the people who will buy it.

I remember hearing that Esbern saves you for execution and tells you you are dragonborn...

I think that this subject was adressed in the podcast. I don't recall exactly what was said, but I think it was mentioned that the character doesn't start off knowing about being Dragonborn, but that it's revealed at some point during the story, when, I'm not sure, maybe we'll find out early on, maybe not until a certain point in the main quest, but I don't think we'll know from the start. While Bethesda hasn't kept the player's role as Dragonborn a secret, that just means we know about it, that doesn't mean our characters have to from the start. Now, I doubt Bethesda will make it out to be some big surprising twist, as the fact that we've already been told about it kind of ruins that, but in many works of fiction, there are details that you can probably know or at least guess from the start that aren't known to the main character, provided you take the time to look at advertisemants for it. Usually, these aren't meant to be major twists, as a twist is something you won't usually tell people about when advertising you're work, but rather, they're things that you kind of need to know to understand what the story is about, I think being a Dragonborn will be one of those things. And while we know this, someone who has not been following the game's development might not, someone who just sees Skyrim on the shelves, thinks it looks good, and decides to pick it up without knowing what to expect might not know about being a Dragonborn until it's revealed in the game. Since not everyone will necessarily know this, I think that treating it as something the player character doesnt know from the start makes the most sense, even if it's revealed in the tutorial.



True, while Morrowind didn't officially tell you that you were the Nerevarine until a certain point in the main quest, when the game starts calling attention to the Nerevarine prophecies, one might be able to guess from experience with other fantasy settings that the player will have a hand to play in the prophecies, it's pretty standard in fantasy that if you mention a prophecy, then it will become important later on, and the main character must likely either fulfill it, or stop it from being fulfilled, depending on whether the prophecied event would be good or bad. Sto;;. regardless of whether you could guess it or not, the game didn't really clearly tell you about you're role in the prophecies until later, and even then, it tried to confuse you by telling you that you could be the Nerevarine or just someone who appears to fulfill some of the aspects of the prophecy. It doesn't really explicitly tell you "Yes, you are the Nerevarine, it's you're destiny to kill Dagoth Ur and all that." until you got Moon and Star. While it might not have come off as a shocking twist (It wasn't to me either.) the game did have some buildup before telling you of your destiny.