I hate these posts that you get about DLC before the game is even released.

But!

I have the books on order and cannot wait for them to arrive hopefully i shall make it through the Infernal City before i play Skyrim.

Does anyone feel they should perhaps have mention of the books in Skyrim???

Or maybe being able to play the Infernal City.... Would help me to visualize the events of the book (when i get to reading it)

Some of the stuff that's mentioned in the book would be hard to incorporate into the game I'd imagine, and you'd be playing along a linear story line (no choices really).

Sounds good for a mod though.

Well that, and the books being well before Skyrim could be rather problematic too- you know, in a "This happened decades before what you did 10 seconds ago, but we threw it into the game anyhow..." sort of way. 40 years after Oblivion makes it about 160 years before Skyrim.

Not to mention the fact none of it happens anywhere near Skyrim, so you'd have to go about recreating Blackmarsh and a devastated Morrowind, and possibly Cyrodiil, depending on which parts of the book you'd want to play.

It's officially part of the lore (which you could interpret as unfortunate, since the prose is pretty purple) so naturally there will be some sort of reference to it or another.

Not really. With what we know from TIC we should expect to see something happen in Solstheim, if not Skyrim itself, when the story is finished in Lord of Souls. And based on the Lord of Souls cover art, it will have some serious action in Cyrodiil as well.

And as for the lore being "unfortunate"..... really? Why? The lore in the book is just as dramatic as that of the games, and it doesn't even do anything really drastic. People complaining about what happens to Morrowind is just silly, because it is part of the history between TES4 and TES5.

Bethesda gave the go ahead on every single part of the lore described in the book, so they have it under control. It's planned to incorporate into the history leading up to Skyrim's release, hence why Lord of Souls won't come out till Sept. 27th.

How many books are in the series?

It's not been explicitly stated, but it can be assumed with some fair certainty that the "series" will be TIC and Lord of Souls.....as far as the story goes. It's basically one story split into 2 parts as part of Bethesda's marketing plan for Skyrim. Also, it will give Greg Keyes enough time to write the whole story with Bethesda giving focused input during TES 5's development period.

So I would say just the 2. If Bethesda likes how this "series" goes, they may keep Keyes on for more work after Skyrim is released. Who knows?

But still nothing in Skyrim. Soltstheim is near Skyrim, but it's not in the Skyrim game. So (even if we ignore the time discrepancies) they'd basically have to recreate half of Tamriel in order for you to play any part of the books. Of course there will be references to it, but I don't think it will play a major role.

Lolz.

Did you think I was commenting about what the OP suggested? Sorry I didn't clarify. I just wanted to say the part about the lore for the books. I know it's absolutely ridiculous to think there will be any in-game connection to the novels aside from the history and perhaps some lore books relating to it.

Yeah, so, @OP - No, we won't have any part of the novels themselves as DLC. We will certainly see references, and quite probably direct repercussions of the events from the novels, but nothing too involved. With 160 years at the most and I'd wager ~130 years at the least between the novels and TES 5, we don't have anything to be concerned about other than the lore from the books.

I haven't read the books yet... Sorry


Some of you guys seem so aggravated when you write

You can't really play the stories because they're firstly set 160 years before Skyrim and also they follow a specific group of characters, so you can't have anyone do the story.

I read the Infernal City and personally I liked it. After reading it and knowing how big it really is all tieing in with skyrim then I'm sure you'll see a mention of it in the game.

A flying island would be ideal for the way they usually make add-ons, being a self-contained area where the fact that you'd fall would explain why you can't just go traveling off. Assuming it's still around and relevant by the time of Skyrim.

no thank you this game doesn't included Time Travel Devices like certain automobiles and brittish phone boxes ...

It has more consequences on the world than the events that happened in Morrowind and Oblivion combined. A bit of an understatement there I′d say.

I've heard the events of Morrowind (something about Lorkhans heart) actually caused the events of Oblivion and Skyrim, so maybe not.

No the events at red mountain and the gates of Oblivion were just 2 omens in an elder scrolls prophecy that foretells of the events in Skyrim. There is no direct cause and effect concerning the events in Morrowind, and what they may have triggered in OB and Skyrim, I believe. :read:

Although an even bigger nerd than me will probly come along and correct me as well.

Gah stupid double post

I wish we could manually delete our own posts in this forum

Well in Morrowind and Oblivion two countries, namely Morrowind and Cyrodiil, face peril at the hands of their enemies but a savior makes it all right. In the infernal city, two countries face total death to the humanoids that inhabit the land and one of the lands gets blown up to boot.

I really disliked the book because it messed up a country that did not have a game that happens there yet (then I mean a game of the same detail as Morrowind and Oblivion) so it messes the games up as well. I do hope the country I′m speaking off can get itself up and running just like it used to before we get a TES game that happens there.

No, there was something else to do with Lorkhan hiding the world from Alduin and something else to do with Oblivion but I forget. Ask Velorien. She knows.

You do realise that country was Morrowind, right?

EDIT: Also, everything was not alright at the end of Oblivion. The entire Empire began to collapse due to the death of all heirs to the throne, ending the Septim line and the third era.

The country I was speaking off in my 2nd paragraph was Black Marsh. The events of the book are bound to have changed a lot about that place. Was trying not to speak the name but I suppose keeping spoilers is kinda useless on the Skyrim forums