How many years is it betweeen Morrwind and Oblivon? I am doing a legacy character and I want to make sure the timeframe works. I know between Oblivion and Skyrim is 200 years And i can have a young Dunmer in Oblivion have a son at an old age that may get me to Skyrim.

A very short amount of time, a few years at most.

That will work for a father in Morrowind to have a son and move to Cyrodiill for Oblivion then and he can be young enough to have a sone late in life for a 50 to sixty year old Dunmer in Skyrim.

Morrowind was in the year of 427 in the Third Era, Oblivion was in the year of 433. So not many years.
http://www.imperial-library.info/content/third-era

Thank you.

There's only about six years between the two events. The events in Morrowind were in 3E 427, while the Oblivion crisis was in 3E 433.

Wow, ninja'd is what I get for checking the lore library to be sure of my dates.

This may be tougher than I thought. I want to have a lineage of a char in Morrowind (a Dunmer) and then play as his son in Oblivion and then the grandson in Skyrim. That 200 year gap is brutal. I just got Morrowind so this is something I have wanted to do for a long time but never had an X-Box or a good enough PC to ever play Morrowind, until last night.

Well, the 200 year gap wouldn't be a problem for the Nerevarine, who becomes immortal through being cured of Corprus. Perhaps both the character in Oblivion and the one in Skyrim are his sons?

Well that changes everything then. Being that I never played Morrowind, I did not know that that was the final ending. Thanks for that little spoiler . In that case I can keep the same char throughout all three games assuming he never dies.

Oh, I see what you are saying. He may be immortal but still ages. That way he can continue to have children but is of old age by the time Skyrim happens.

No, he actually doesn't age. He can be killed, but doesn't age or get sick. But the lore of Oblivion states that the Nerevarine has left for Akavir, so he can't really be the same person.

Sorry about the spoiler; I somehow didn't read where you said you'd just gotten Morrowind.

No worries. It only helped me create this Legacy Family tree. I like that thought even more then. My Morrowind Char will become the Nerevarine and I have to figure out how he comes to find his long lost son that also seems to be imprisoned in Cyrodiill 6 years later. This is going to be a fun RP to create. Then the Nerevarine can have another son that gets arrestedin Skyrim. Seems to be a theme here. LOL

The really neat thing about it is that it's possible for two or three generations of a single family to have been the heroes of all the Elder Scrolls games. The events of Arena and Daggerfall occur less than 30 years before the Morrowind story. Perhaps the brother or sister of the Nerevarine did those things, or possibly the Nerevarine's father.

I love to play with these ideas. One notion that I've toyed with: The Nerevarine is actually an illegitimate child of Uriel Septim; given that TES offspring always take the racial traits of their mothers, he/she could be any race.

That is very interesting. I never played Daggerfall or Arena and may never but I have a Dunmer Char (love them) that I wanted to implement a lineage with throughout all three games.

What about this idea? My char becomes the Nerevarine in Morrowind and in an attempt to hide this makes up a story that the Nerevarine has gone off to Akavir only to hide out in Cyrodiil and gets imprisoned there. That will explain how Septim says in the beginning of Oblivion that he has seen me in his dreams. Then, as I am immortal, I can play out Oblilvion and even Skyrim as the same char. The only problem being that the Nerevarine is suppose to be immune to all diseases, which I will obviously not be.

Perhaps that part was a lie. I don't think it's much of an issue, since you can just pray at a shrine and wave away the disease anyway. Just don't get Vampirism; that would be hard to hand-wave away.

Another thing is that elves seem to live an awfully long time, hundreds of years seemingly, in the lore from what I've seen.

I never contract vampirism with my main char. I can't stand that disease. I guess you know what side of Dawnguard I will be on. LOL


Dunmer, from what I have read only live like 120-140 years. I could be mistaken here.

Telvanni wizards would be the exception.

True but I am no wizard. My char is an assasin and born under the Shadow. That being siad, he favors ther DB and TG questlines (if you couldn't tell from my name ) so constantly getting arrested is not far fetched. Also, after the Oblivion Crisis, it could be concievable that I go into hiding for 200 years only to resurface in Skyrim with the return of the dragons. It's starting to all come together. Thanks for the help. Your spoiler mishap has actually been a blessing from Azura in disguise.

Wait, I may have another hole in the story. Can my char be the Nerevarine and then 200 years later be the Dragonborne?

I don't know. Who are his mommy and daddy?

Just kidding. I don't know enough Skyrim lore to answer that, but I'd say that if you can get the Nerevarine into that Imperial Prison, you can get him anywhere you want him to be.

Well that is simple. He can't take the pressure of being the Nerevarine and makes up a story about going to Akivir. He still cannot give up his thieving ways and ends up in prison in Cyrodiil. He loses everything he owns from Morrowind in his arrest. Since I don't use Magic, no magic spells will be lost either. Or maybe amnesia can be a possibility for the loss of Magic spells. Then after the Oblivion crisis he can go into deep hiding in the Jerall Mountains, only to emerge in Skyrim again. I will have to read more on the Dragonborne lore to see if this is possible. And on a side note, since I am sure you will rise to the leader of the DB and TG in Mowwind as in Oblivion, he can start out in both guilds as a newbie concealing who he really is in fear of being found out he is the Nerevarine.

His mommy and daddy are going to be unknown.

Plus, how does anyone get into the Imperial Prison? I could have put myself there in search of solitude (not the city in Skyrim, of course)

Punch a guard in the face. To prison you will go!