Alright I see it now...

2 gods fighting... Thanks Martin, I wanted to kill the main boss, this is Fable 2 all over again, I one-shotted the boss...

The dragon statue? I wanted to kill the dragon!

Throw eggs at the statue!

No. If you read what I said, you'll find that that is not true. The Alessia line ended quite quickly, but the empire still remained. in 478 E1, the empire begins to break after being defeated by Kvatch, but a new era is not made till 2920 when Reman III is assassinated (that's 2 empires in 1 era that were made), and Potentate Versidue-Shaiethe takes the throne, marking the beginning of the 2nd era. The second era's empire fell ~400 years into the era and there wasn't anyone on the throne, war broke out everywhere, but wasn't the third era till Tiber Septim came along and conquered all of Tamriel.

That was the best part of the main quest!

How are they going to " fix" a hero into the lore? or Bethesda will go about not caring about the lore and randomly put some hero in a random time

So if the pattern continues the Fourth Era should only last a couple hundred years, and the Fifth only about a hundred (of course the Landfall happens then so its moot anyway). :twirl:

The thing with your "Martin Logic" is that despite its in-game representation the Oblivion Crisis was probably the biggest event on Tamriel since Akatosh and Lorkhan warred in the Dawn Era, at least since The Battle of Red Mountain. It wasn't just a handful of gates in the wilderness and Dagon "on 1 or 2 buildings in the Imperial City", it was a continent(and possibly world)-wide invasion by another dimension that affected every group of people around, not just Martin. If anything is worth ending an era over its that, that the "last Septim" died is just the icing on the cake. Hell, its also worth noting that last time Dagon appeared the era ended as well (cite 2920).

But he completely demolished Mournhold. This time, me only broke the ceiling of the Temple of the One and ruined some streets. Kvatch and Ald'rhun are the only places that were effectively destroyed, or at least heard of being destroyed.

I'd say that the symbolism of the Daedric Prince of Revolution appearing in 'full' form is where the key actually is (not to mention the first Aedra appearing in full form at all since the Dawn Era). Its not really about how many cities were destroyed or how much damage was done, its about the intercultural cataclysm that just occurred and the ramifications of that. Nothing even comparable to this has happened in the history of Nirn.

Not always. Read the 2920 series. It seems that it just takes a significant event - the Camoran Dynasty, for example.

Can anybody give a short summary of whats likely different between the 3rd and the 4th Era? Like, any new technologies or new races or new important persons? Is it like when we went from Iron Age to Bronze Age?

I agree with the those that say that the ending of OB was epic. At least it looked that way from the sideline I got relegated to at the end of the MQ. With a good sword Dagon's hamstrings would have been toast. Hahaha. I might get roasted for this but I reckon they should jump forward a bit further in the timeline with the next release. During some sort of medieval industrial revolution with new techs. if the next game takes place at the possible collapse of the empire It's plausible that that will be quite a while in the future.

We don't know yet. It's possible that there will be an Interregnum lasting years, possibly generations. The Keyes novel coming out in November is set 40 years after the Oblivion Crisis.

I once theorized that the Interregnum could be similar to Japan's Sengoku Jidai period, but it may be that the Interregnum won't last as long as Japan's warring states period. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengoku_jidai

I don't expect new technologies, but that's only my opinion. If I were Bethesda, I would write the end of the Third Era to resemble the fall of the Roman Empire, complete with the equivalent of the Romano-Britons trying to pick up the pieces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romano-British_culture

But as always, I'm no loremaster or historian.

Well that was sorta both ways. The historic event was the motivation, but it was the guy in charge (not the Emperor, but he was in the same role) that declared the transition.

:facepalm:

An era is a very loosely defined term. An era could be a period of 5 years, or a period of thousands. The existence of humans in its entirety could be considered one era. The existence of the internet could be an era. The amount of time that it takes to get the song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPo9ISQpzvM out of your head could even be an era. There is no specific length.

Yeah that was kinda epic...

You resurrected an 8 month old thread to say that? :blink:

I actually just wanted to see what would happen. I don't have too much experience with forums, and I kinda figured it would pop up here, but after reading some of the really older ones, and they are some pretty good ones, I wanted to know if it would pop to the top or not.

4th era my ass. I don't need some dead jerk's opinion of what the date should be. A. Tosh is my boy, he'll do what I tell him.

tip: if you post in a thread on any forum, it will go to the top*. if the thread is inactive, its called necromancy and is outlawed by the mages guild .

*unless the forum is alphabetical, but you rarely run into that.

It's a 1000, trust me.
When its 358 3E
Its the 358th year of the 3rd Era