[April]

I think this can go here. what peice of lore led yall into becomeing interested about the lore of the elder scrolls? Mine would have to be the dweamer.

[elliot mudd]

I enjoyed reading all the in-game books. The UESP has them all, so I started reading them, and browsing the links. I started on TIL with Savant's Notes on Vvardenfell, wandered over to the Guide to the Daedric Princes... My first extensive study was an anolysis of the Dark Brotherhood and the Morag Tong about a year or so ago. Felt like a real research paper, quoting books. Except that it is all fictional.

Eventually I came here on the Lore forums. I still use the UESP and TIL, and if I can't find what I want there, then I search the Lore Forums.

[michael danso]

I'm not really sure. I've been playing since Daggerfall, and I certainly did read the in-game books... some of them, anyway. I used to post at alt.games.daggerfall, and I'm not sure how much what we did there fell into the ideal "lore." Certainly there was fanfiction, including websites purporting to be "locations" one could find in the Illiac Bay region. Probably my favorite was "Brute's Chicken", though unless I'm mistaken, the better known "Adrian's Chalice" was probably founded under the same idea.

For me, the "lore" idea came from this ideal of "roleplaying" the part of a character from a perspective as close to "in-world" as we could possibly get. But I'm fairly certain my first encounter with the ideal of roleplaying a scholar, and writing what basically amounted to fanfiction and anolysis from that in-world perspective with the references one would expect from a scholarly work, occurred here. I don't believe I've ever made a mark in any discipline, but I think the first subject that really interested me was Argonians. The character "Dreekius" from Redguard fascinated me, as did the notion, put forth in various Anuads, I think (I haven't researched it in some time), that Hist, and therefore Argonians, are the only documented "non-Ehlnofey" race on Nirn.

[Andy durkan]

Wandered in here from the modding section just a little after Morrowind was released to discover a discussion of Patronymics and Neonymics. Was intrigued enough to stay and then picked up everything as I went. Liked it enough to change my name to a flavory name and even did the whole in-character thing (including lying to conceal the truth) for a while until someone invoked the 'you're being annoying clause'. Still make jokes and sentimentally defend Dagon though.

Wow, that was like 8 years ago.

[Epul Kedah]

Forum references to Vivec led me to assume that any character that aroused such energy, animosity, and discussion had to be some epic antagonist.

[Rachel Briere]

i acknowledge that it existed and that it was part of why i loved the game while playing morrowind. i started learning more about it as i began modding. my love for it did not develop however until i somehow wandered into this forum and beheld the depth of discussion and how passionate people were about it. this was back in god knows what year, when we were still trying to decipher the dwemer script, figure out where they went to in the first place, and CHIM was spreading like wildfire through the uninitiated masses. i didnt know jack [censored] about it, and anything bordering on the metaphysical turned my brain to mush (many thanks to ada and prow for answering all my newbie questions), but that was what made it so damn exiting. slowly yet surely the mysteries were unraveled and i became able to weave CHIM metaphor after CHIM metaphor. i love those rare threads that exhibit what the lore masters in this place are really capable of and remind me that i really still am just an aspirant.

[edit]meh, out of school a month and my english is going down the drain.

[Penny Courture]

I think this can go here. what peice of lore led yall into becomeing interested about the lore of the elder scrolls? Mine would have to be the dweamer.

hehe yall..... considering im canadian everytime I see/hear a american saying that word it always makes me smile and laugh...... For me it was my interest in the Khajiit, I love cats in real life and reading about a fictional race of cat-like people really drew me in.

[djimi]

I bought the Collector's edition of Oblivion off ebay and it turned out it came with a free pocketbook to the empire, so i read it and got hooked.

[Kat Lehmann]

I suppose the story of Nerevar, but I'm guessing other lore would do too...

[Kirsty Wood]

MY hook into wantingt o know more , which is , as some of you know , very little . Was the real biography of Queen Bereniaith( spelling horrible sorry ) series in Morrowind.
It was such a capitvating story which spaned quite long , timeline wise . Then meeting her in Tribunal was epic ( though I was dissapointed by the depth of the actual charecter , wish she had been more candid )

[Nitol Ahmed]

I think I came to ask some question about the Daedra and then found much more than I was looking for.

[D LOpez]

At the moment in the main quest line of Morrowind where Lord Vivec gave me not one, not two but three separate accounts of the Battle of Red Mountain and told me to make up my own mind about what happened there.

That grabbed my curiosity like no other back story to any video game ever. I was struck by the realism of there being differing accounts of a historical event. I had to learn more.

[Jason White]

...what piece of lore led yall into becoming interested about the lore of the elder scrolls?...

It wasn't a particular text. It was the discussions (starting back in the dinosaur days of the e-mail groups). Then the books grabbed me. I'd never played a game with so much supporting information; so much mystery. [corny, "life changing" comment removed by editor]

Similar in effect to my reading The Hobbit. Liking it led to reading LOTR. Liking it more led to reading The Silmarillion. I was burning up with the need to know more about this world.

DF's game play, story line, the books and my fellow players gave me that same desire to learn more about Tamriel and it's universe.

Reading the in-game books (which I never, ever, read truly in-game - don't tell anyone) would have been interesting only for a few days if there was no one with which to have such rich discussions.