Survivors of the Greymarch?

Post » Sat May 28, 2011 6:24 pm

Do elves live longer than 1,000 years, anyway?

Are you guys talking bosmer, dunmer, and altmer, or about other elves?
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Mark Hepworth
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 2:25 pm

Are you guys talking bosmer, dunmer, and altmer, or about other elves?

They probably all can, with magic. Even master human sorcerers outlive their peers. But I don't think that elves normally live that long.
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 4:22 pm

Shivering Isles didnt make sence. Oblivion made little sence. I cant wait to see how Beth will explain it all in the next game.
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 11:59 am

Do you really think they will explain it?
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 3:31 am

Do you really think they will explain it?


I prefer the "it's just a big illusion LOL" theory myself.
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 10:17 am

Do you really think they will explain it?

Not like he hopes. I'd bet there will be rumors and comments in the dialogue that pick at the Oblivion Crisis, but an explanation is highly doubtful. The ending to Oblivons MQ is just like any other ending to TES. It requires paying attention to detail, and then you, the player, try to make an educated guess as to what you think happened. IMHO.

Even though I would welcome a thorough explanation.:)
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 4:23 pm

Shivering Isles didnt make sence.


Prince of Madness
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naomi
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 3:24 am

The Mad God actually. But I guess you could call him the Mad Prince as well and vice verca.
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 3:57 pm

Aging, becoming more and more frail and vulnerable until your body finally ceases working altogether, is a limitation. This is Lorkhan's stuff. It doesn't exist outside of Nirn, where other principles are instead embodied to the extreme.
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 4:09 pm

at the end of the SI main quest you can talk to Dyus and he says something about how your the only one that can release him from his immortality so my question is can you release Dyus from his imprisonment or does he have a larger part to play in future elder scrolls games?
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 8:33 am

at the end of the SI main quest you can talk to Dyus and he says something about how your the only one that can release him from his immortality so my question is can you release Dyus from his imprisonment or does he have a larger part to play in future elder scrolls games?


Don't know. Could be. Maybe not.

We see Sheogorath aged, because that is how we percieve him as the era of madness closes into sterile order. He (the realm) is represented in sterile, simetrical order too. The world is split into two aspects, instead of him being the extreme of one or the other. These phases are close to the effects of time, and that is what we see.

In other words, the Greymarch created a begining and end to mark time from, without it there won't be an "aging" Sheogorath.
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 8:13 am

I'd imagine they're immortal. That other guy I can't remember the name who was in Sheogorath's old library survived all of the Greymarches.
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 4:38 pm

Prince of Madness

It's Madness to people who aren't considered "Mad". But from the perspective of one who lives in the Shivering Isles, the strange adventurer that doesn't mumble to himself would seem a bit strange, no?

The woman that claimed she lived through the Greymarch said she hid from the destruction. My guess would be through magical ways. But I'm just trying to put a reason to the Developers' laziness on the lore side.
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 11:41 am

I'd imagine they're immortal. That other guy I can't remember the name who was in Sheogorath's old library survived all of the Greymarches.

I think Sheogorath spared him after Sheogorath destroyed the library. Before Jyggalag became Sheogorath, Jyggalag had a great library with tons of knowleged but it was in perfect order. So when Jyggalag became Sheogorath, Sheogorath discoverd this library and had it burned down, but Sheogorath didn't want to lose the knowleged so he spared Dyus(which was the guy in charge of the library)to save the knowlege but since Dyus was order Jyggalag wouldn't hurt him.
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 4:18 pm

If it were not for the stats menu in the ingame journal (The part that says how many days have past for your character) I would guess that when you enter the shiverng isles you are rmoved from time altogether. Upon returning to Mundus the time is onlya few seconds after yu entered the realms of sheogorath. Perhaps that could ocur when travelling to any plane of oblivion or even aetherius????


Incorrect. Sheogorath benefits from the ease of existence afforded by the Time God, thus time exists there as well, just like every other Et'Ada.

On that note... what were the Daedric Realms doing during the great dragon break in the first era?
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 6:35 pm

A Dragon Break doesn't mean that time stops or that Akatosh is actually broken. It means that some new gods that don't know what they are doing start to control the sequence of events on Mundus, much like the et'Ada did in the Aurbis before Akatosh (ref: Nu-Mantia Intercept).

It got that name because the Marakuthi Selective tried to break Akatosh, couldn't and then tried something else. Presumably becoming gods themselves so that they could replace the "Merish" pantheon with completely human gods.
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