How Skyrim will start : V - Skyrim

» Tue May 03, 2011 1:30 am

Yeah, I think Dragons are going to be triggered from the start of the game, because they are calling you to tell you about the return of Alduin and his followers, arent they? I guess we will have to just wait and find out..

» Tue May 03, 2011 3:05 am

The info about the execution came from someone on this forum translating a power unlimited magazine. It didn't specifically say anythng about Esbern and the OP was constantly correcting their translations as were other posters in the thread. As this is the only magazine I know of to state this and we are relaying on some pretty basic translation of it, I'm pretty sure it was a mistranslation. It seemed to me to be too big a piece of info to have just given to on mag. But since then people have taken it as fact, which it turn leads to others assuming it must be because so many talk about it as if it is. I personally don't think this is confirmed yet.

» Tue May 03, 2011 9:34 am

Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it myself as well

» Tue May 03, 2011 7:57 am

The info about the execution came from someone on this forum translating a power unlimited magazine. It didn't specifically say anythng about Esbern and the OP was constantly correcting their translations as were other posters in the thread. As this is the only magazine I know of to state this and we are relaying on some pretty basic translation of it, I'm pretty sure it was a mistranslation. It seemed to me to be too big a piece of info to have just given to on mag. But since then people have taken it as fact, which it turn leads to others assuming it must be because so many talk about it as if it is. I personally don't think this is confirmed yet.

What language was this magazine?

» Tue May 03, 2011 10:13 am

"Following a brief character-creation process, the game begins with you being led to your execution. You will get out of that somehow, although we don't find out how today. As with previous Elder Scrolls protagonists, no explanation is given for your plight. Instead you can decide what happened for yourself - if you're a good guy perhaps you'll decide you were innocent, and otherwise you can fill your imaginative boots."

Eurogamer >>> http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-04-18-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-preview

"Skyrim begins some two hundred years after the close of Oblivion. The player is a prisoner being led to his (or her, if you please) execution. The crime for which he's been convicted isn't particularly relevant -- were you guilty? were you framed? -- since there will soon be an escape. Good thing: the player is the last of the Dovahkiin, the "Dragonborn," and the world's only hope in surviving an attack from a malevolent god who has taken the form of a dragon."

Destructoid >>> http://www.destructoid.com/preview-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-199017.phtml

"Our demo begins just after the creation area, with Dovahkiin, otherwise known as Dragonborn, being sent to his death. How he escapes is never explained in the demo. Dovahkiin is a dragon hunter appointed by the gods to defeat Alduin and the Jills, and to protect Skyrim and Tamriel."

VG247 >>> http://www.vg247.com/2011/04/18/dragonborn-again-bethesda-shows-skyrim-in-utah/

"We don't quite explain it in the beginning of the game, you're being lead to your execution..."

Todd Howard, G4TV Interview >>> http://www.g4tv.com/videos/52434/elder-scrolls-5-skyrim-gameplay-preview/

» Tue May 03, 2011 3:20 am

i heard this confirmed on some podcasts that are linked somewhere Bethesda's website.

problem is i have seen so many videos and listen to so many pod casts recently i can't say which ones.

» Mon May 02, 2011 11:17 pm

The info about the execution came from someone on this forum translating a power unlimited magazine. It didn't specifically say anythng about Esbern and the OP was constantly correcting their translations as were other posters in the thread. As this is the only magazine I know of to state this and we are relaying on some pretty basic translation of it, I'm pretty sure it was a mistranslation. It seemed to me to be too big a piece of info to have just given to on mag. But since then people have taken it as fact, which it turn leads to others assuming it must be because so many talk about it as if it is. I personally don't think this is confirmed yet.

I believe the IGN video interview from their article today confirmed the execution part. Your character is caught trying to cross the border into Skyrin.