The general consensus seems to be that ESV will take place in Skyrim, and to be honest I'm kind of afraid that it'll be all snow and shades of gray. But I don't know ES lore at all so can someone explain to me what Skyrim might be like in the game? Obviously no one knows for sure, but in the lore did it mention areas other than snow and cold?

Well, if you go on lore there isn't a lot detracting from the overall snowy aspect, though there will be several who compare the area to countries here on earth which contain vastly varying varieties... ultimately though, I like to think of the massive liberties that BGS took with Cyrodil in that they dramatically altered the terrain and climate from what was included in the lore. It isn't like Bethesda to make something "all the same" oh wait... I did play Fallout 3 and that was pretty much all the same... but they did a great job finding enough variety within that sameness that it made an amazing game. So you shouldn't worry about it, they know what they are doing.

Yeah I hope so... It would really svck if it was all snow and white and grey. So depressing... one of the things I love about the ES games is the beautiful landscapes, the trees and forests and lakes.

Dont worry even on the map it doesn't appear to be all snow. The nords also have their own culture, legends and notable places so there's plenty to get excited over

Skyrim would be Scandinavia / Canada, not Antartica.
It's freaking cold during winter, but it's not covered in snow all the time. (except the northern-most part, maybe)

Now that I think about it, I wish they would implement seasons (with midnight sun, polar night, sea freezing during winter...)

I want dog-sleds instead of horses... now that would be cool... uh-oh... methinks this thread is turning towards the Suggestions thread... perhaps we should continue our discussion there!

It would be fun if we could just make Maple suguar ... in Oblivion there was plenty of real lore (lets hope it wont be like Moon suguar, in Morrowind... probably not).

I hope the snow decals wont be in the style "every faced-up surfaces wil have snow"... that would just make it bad...


And I live in Quebec (which is in Canada), and in this time of year, it starts to become cold... but the snow will be for december, or late november...

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/pocket-guide-empire-first-edition-skyrim

The paragraphs conjure a lot of images. There's still no knowing.

Mars and the Himalayas are the closest anologues.

I bet it is "copy-paste".

Betting is for chumps.

Thanks for the read... Hopefully it'll be as diverse as Cyrodiil. When it comes down to it, I have full faith in Bethesda to create an amazing game world. I really don't think they would create a depressing world with 90% snow and mountains.

If you say so.

... I was talking Iconoklast , not you... (just saying so you don't feal like if I was saying that I don't care about what you post...)

i too was concerned about how much variety there will be, but after reading that fantastic post by iconoklast my concerns are put to rest. Btw where do you get information like that?

I wasn't offended. I didn't think you being rude.

Add 24/7 darkness and you just described north-Norway during winter . Though, its not actually depressing with lots of snow and mountains, its nice, calm and mystical. And there is forests, wildlife, villages etc.. And there should be some variety in the landscape, even if its covered in snow. Would been cool if they included seasons.

Frankly, all of the provinces had boring, featureless descriptions at the start. Vvardenfell was all ash, all of it. No swampy south, rainy mushroom-dotted island east, pretty flower and tree-coated fields. Ash was its only description before we actually went there and were given varied terrain. Really, the only determining factor in how "interesting" a province will be is how they design it.

I'm sure that they'll include fjords. Now those are awe-inspiring.

awesome! lol its funny how everybody is pretty sure of everything, some bethesda employees must jump on here and think "hot dang, these kids are good!"

They're big canyons from glacial recession.

If one doesn't know much about lore, I'd imagine a perfect place to ask about it would be the http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/forum/16-elder-scrolls-lore/


Actually the reverse. Nearer the coast it appears to be warmer than the souther portion near the Cyrodiil boarder. Altitude gets higher as you go south.

There's also http://www.imperial-library.info/sites/default/files/pgtte_v3_skyrim.jpg, that's in the PGTTE V3.

I see two rivers going down a hill, grass on the hill, flowers, a little town down the hill from the cabin, and a mountain in the distance.

Hardly snow and ice. Although, there WILL be snow and ice there, maybe not everywhere, but there will be some places covered with snow and ice. Or else it really wouldn't be the "Land of the Nords" who are used to the cold, high altitudes, are resistant to cold, and all of that sort-of stuff.

Personally, I'll be disappointed if there isn't at least 1 large area with tons of snow and ice.

http://www.crankydragon.com/images/The_Ice_Cave_small.jpg, http://www.jasperjournal.com/jaspergallery/d/206-2/DSC03676_glacier_Jasper.jpg, http://www.bbc.co.uk/wear/content/images/2009/01/07/himalayas_2815_470x353.jpg, etc.

Just imagine crossing a frozen river, and all of the sudden the ice breaks and you're drifting down-river while some Rieklings try to pick you off. Or venturing into a deep (2010 graphics/processing!) Ice Cave where you can see in some areas because the sun shines through and in others you need a torch to see. With something very... http://images.uesp.net//1/1d/Beastofthirsk.jpg about the cave.

We can only speculate as to what Skyrim will look like. Even what information exists on it in lore may not be much to go by, considering that we can't be sure how well Bethesda would adhere to the lore. After all, wasn't Vvardenfell all ash covered wastes, according to lore, before we actually saw it in a game? Not to mention Cyrodiil was supposed to have tropical jungles... So yeah, Bethesda has been known to contradict the lore descriptions of provinces when they're explored in games before, and they could do so with Skyrim too. Although I think it's pretty much guarenteed that a game set in Skyrim WILL include some snow and ice, but would it cover the entire map? I hope not, I have no objections to snow and ice, although we already got that in Bloodmoon, I wouldn't object to seeing what Bethesda could do with it when they have access to modern graphics technology and the luxury of having more than just an expansion to explore it, but if the whole game was entirely covered in it, it would get pretty boring after a while. So I do hope that there will be more variety in terrain than just snow and ice, but we can't really know for sure what Bethesda is doing until they announce the Elder Scrolls V which is assumed to be set in Skyrim which they may or may not be developing. Hopefully when it is announced, we'll get some screenshots or something so we can get a bit of an idea of what it will actually look like, maybe that will clear of some of the speculation as to what Skyriim will be like.



Or they could all be laughing at how far off our guesses are, considering that the things that people are supposedly "sure" of are based on speculation founded on lore and some real life locations with terrain similar to what they expect Skyrim to be like.

Seeing as it is north of Cyrodiil probably it is like North Cyrodiil but a far more icy place. However having said that it is on the same latitude as north morrowind.

I believe he was talking about northern Canada being all ice since he was comparing it to Skyrim, not actually northern Skyrim being the more snowy, icy, cold.


And from previous games as stated im sure that they will spice things up a bit. I think that they just throw out the original lore so we wont ask about it and when it comes down to making the game the make tweaks and changes. So saying that it's going to be all snowy would be hard to do. Unless they only focus on the southern mountains like how they didn't do all of Morrowind. Dare we say southern Skyrim and northern Cyrodiil? (Hopefully not lol)

Well, it all comes down to the precipitation, frankly none of us truly realize the power of DX11 yet, everything will just blow us away and could look far more realistic than this tech demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY0xeCYFpI8
Take note that demo is even a YEAR OLD.