The Berserkers were fairly maniacal - e.g the feller at the Battle of Stamford Bridge who (according to the chronicles) stood in the middle of the bridge with a Dane Axe and singlehandedly chopped his way through 40 Saxons, holding up the entire army until someone floated under the bridge and stabbed him from beneath.

Actually, a berserker perk would be pretty cool for a Nord! Snort a bit of skooma (or whatever) and let rip!

Well then, Sk?l! to you brother. Sk?l! :foodndrink:

Depends on what you mean with cities. Cities as in middleage-type of cities didnt exist in the viking age. They just started appearing in the end of the viking age, the first one being Borg in southeast Norway. Just imagine a street, with timber houses on each side, with grass on the roof, a goat etc. that was a avarage sized "city" in Norway in the middleage(and late viking age), Oslo and Bj?rgvin and Nidaros would be bigger though. Those were the 3 main towns in early middleage.

Norway was in the middleage the country that had highest % of wooden buildings. That is not only because of the tradition we have with wood though, but also due to lack of building-stone.
Pretty much only stonebuildings that are as old as that are a few churchs and H?konshallen in Bj?rgvin/Bergen. The hall king H?kon H?konsson(who ruled over Norway, Iceland, Greenland, faeroese islands, Shetlands and orkneys) made when he had the throne.

Nords are not solely based on Scandinavian influences. I see everything from Norse, Germanic, Celt, Norman, Saxon, etc....

I hope there's a good mix. Bloodmoon was honestly my least favorite thing in MW. Werewolves and nords are (were) pretty lame, relative to the other stuff ES offers I mean. I'll play it and love it either way though, and I'm super hyped. :twirl:

Since its 200 years after oblivion wouldn't you think they would find different material to make armor. They added mithral armor to oblivion to show they advanced. I wonder if they will have dragon skin or dragon-bone armor and im not referring to dragon age at all im just saying that as a rare armor type or there was a mission to get such armor to fight a certain one or maybe a type like spriggan armor or some other creature material or natural material. :starwars:

Morrowind had dragonscale and dragonbone armor, but not full sets.

Also, I won't say Oblivion advanced comparing to Morrowind. Sure, they had Mithril, but on Vvardenfell they had polearms, crossbows and throwing stars. The people of Cyrodiil was a step behind IMO.

I hope for Nord culture taking up much of the influence, with other items and cultures being present as well.
Like how in Morrowind there were some other culturally inspired things, but much of it was Dunmer.

Except Morrowinds balance was off in my opinion. I'd like to see more of other cultures than you saw in Morrowind.

If any of that makes sense.

Lorkhan and Akatosh are not the same person. Also we aren't completely sure Alduin is truly Akatosh either. But to answer the OP, it won't be a carbon copy of complete Nordic vibe. Bethesda always just uses it as a base for their architecture but they aren't going to completely copy it especially since I doubt that the major cities are going to be wooden shacks. I expect the major cities, since they are supposed to be huge, to be intricately crafted stoneworks. So I wouldn't worry about it being a exact copy of real life architecture, you will have your unique aspects.

I want it to be VERY Scandinavian. I am actually going to be watching movies like Conan and Beowulf before the game comes out so that I can get in the feel for it... I love immersing myself in the culture of the setting in TES games. The Nord homeland should be just that, NORDIC! :biggrin:

I don't know if the blue lines that go into the ocean on http://www.tesnexus.com/imageshare/images/511948-1233008234.jpg are rivers or fjords, but it certainly look more like rivers than fjords. I do hope for fjords though.

I don't know if they will follow this map though, or if they will cange the landscape a bit.

Hmm, I've seen several references in here about the Scandinavians migrating to Scandinavia from Germany. Actually, that's backwards. Linguistic evidence points to a Scandinavian urheimat for the Germanic peoples; they spread through the rest of Europe from there.

But don't forget Morrowind is no more now :flamethrower:

Well Mithril wasn't added to the game to show that the game had advanced in Oblivion, seeing as it was only 6 years after Morrowind. Mithril powerful metal armor that had been either found in ruins or those in Cyrodiil had the means to smith it where those in Vvardenfell do not. I don't think spriggan armor would be very protective, it would just be wood armor and would be very flammable :flamethrower: However I could see Dreugh armor though.

I hope so. Or at least there will be something like fjords. Should not expect too much. Hope at least the mountains will be not just pointy, like the alps, but more . . "round" . .

I believe fjords were confirmed.

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That's awesome. I think the Skyrim landscape is going to be quite epic.

Alright Guys, I'm leaving this open, but please don't use languages other than English.

Back on the air. The whole fall in new England looks very promising that must be down south west towards hammerfell or highrock.

As you wish. Well, are fjords confirmed?

If so, source anyone?

:P awww, really? I felt like I was in Skyrim aleady with all the Norwegian :woot:

And yes, omg, fjords would be insanely beautiful... imagine looking over a cliff and seeing a view that makes you lose your breath...

Alduin: Creator-Destroyer. He's the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros archetype. The head and tail - the destructive/creative paradigm - are Lorkhan (the Doom Drum) and Auri-El (who's perch from Eternity allowed the Day). See http://www.imperial-library.info/content/morrowind-varieties-faith-empire and http://www.imperial-library.info/content/morrowind-monomyth.


They added mithril and "elven" armor, for their love of cozy familiarity.


I don't know how much non-Scandinavian style stuff will be in Skyrim. Todd said Hyboria was a huge inspiration, so google "Aesir," and you can probably reach a nice feel of what Skyrim will be like.

Funny he would call Hyboria an influence, since Skyrim is still noticeably "medieval," in the screens. It's going to be rather jarring fighting mammoths, then going to ye olde smithy and seeing a pixel-bimbo, dressed like a princess. I'll assume that screen shot was taken from either of the "civilized" Holds, and the mammoths are east.

I guess snow-whales are out of the question...

I know that feeling already

I also would like to fjords implemented especially if we could watch viking type ships leaving and coming from them even if we couldnt partake of raids in another land.

nords are sort of an amalgam of germanic cultures.. I kind of doubt they'll all be "fur clad horned helm wearing barbarians" any more than dark elves are all Ashlanders...