What are Tamriel's seasons? : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:50 am

Maybe a dumb question, but what are the seasons called in Oblivion (Spring, Summer, etc.)?

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:59 pm

I've never heard of any equivalent word for the seasons.

But the month names are here:

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Calendar#Months_of_the_Year

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:24 am

I say that they most likely don't have any. Since seasons are based on tilt... and I haven't read anywhere about Nirn's tilt.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:36 am

Searching "winter" at TIL gets 63 results... :mellow:

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:40 pm

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Winterhold

If they haave a Winterhold, we can be fairly sure of their concept of winter.

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:31 pm

Morgrim had an interesting take on it: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?s=&showtopic=967781&view=findpost&p=14084270.

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:39 pm

Cold (which what winter is) doesn't mean seasons.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:09 am

Cold (which what winter is) doesn't mean seasons.

You're... seriously doing this, aren't you...

Searching "season" at TIL gets 73 results. Now go play Daggerfall, which certainly has them.

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 3:31 pm

Cold (which what winter is) doesn't mean seasons.

No, I'm pretty sure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter refers to a season.

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:29 pm

You're... seriously doing this, aren't you...

Sure

No, I'm pretty sure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter refers to a season.

In our context... but we don't live in Tamriel do we?

Season from what I have read is through the constellations.

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:33 pm

Every winter season,
Except for the reason
Of one war or another
(Really quite a bother)

No, seriously.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:49 am

No, seriously.

The orgiastic seasonal celebrations seem unusual in a province with few changes in the weather from month to month. Yet on the 28th of Suns Dawn, the Redguards of the Banthan jungle celebrate Aduros Nau to relieve the wintertide lethargy; on the 1st of Mid Year, the people of Abibon-Gora celebrate Drigh R'Zimb in honor of the sun, which no normal Redguard worships in this day; similarly, on the 29th of Suns Height, the festival in the Desert called Fiery Night, seems almost perverse in such an environment; the Koomu Alezer'i on the 11th of Last Seed in Sentinel has been translated as a harvest thanksgiving, though many scholars have suggested that it was once a springtide holiday; similarly, the Feast of the Tiger in the Bantha on the 14th of Last Seed was probably once a religious holiday to a Tiger God, instead of a thanksgiving.

They may have "seasons," but they are not like the earth's.

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:44 pm

That's in Hammerfell. Saudi Arabia doesn't have the same climate as Ohio, you know?

If you actually want to know what the seasons are like in the temperate regions of Tamriel rather than make bizarre excuses, ask a Daggerfall player.

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:11 pm

They may have "seasons," but they are not like the earth's.

In many places on earth, seasons are simply a artificial convention, particularly in the tropical and polar regions. In the polar regions, it would be more accurate to have 2 seasons - day and night - while in the tropics it's pretty much the same year-round. Yet most people living in those regions observe the same four seasons as in the temperate zones.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:21 am

This question cannot really be answered without a battle of semantics. So define it how you wish, and I will do the same.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:02 am

It seems like the names are Wintertide, Springtide, Summertide, then whatever they want to call Autumn (Falltide?)

But it IS obvious that Tamriel has legimate seasons that correspond in timing and length to Earth's. The names of months and their order gives off the biggest clue.

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:01 pm

It seems like the names are Wintertide, Springtide, Summertide, then whatever they want to call Autumn (Falltide?)

But it IS obvious that Tamriel has legimate seasons that correspond in timing and length to Earth's. The names of months and their order gives off the biggest clue.

Yet, they reference the constellations as seasons. Therefore 13.

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:29 pm

I'm pretty sure Autumn is referred to as "Harvest"

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:53 pm

Their names obviously reference temperatures and agricultural cycles. That they correspond to the Constellations is just more indication that the seasons are the same, but ocurr for different reasons.

» Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:03 am

Their names obviously reference temperatures and agricultural cycles. That they correspond to the Constellations is just more indication that the seasons are the same, but ocurr for different reasons.

Can you provide a reference for it?

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:47 pm

Can you provide a reference for it?

well, knightfall, refrences a harsh cold winter and a harvest season, which seems to imply seasons.
http://www.imperial-library.info/obbooks/knightfall.shtml

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:55 pm

Well, there are rain seasons as well...

And from the context, it seems winter means cold. Like the region is in a state of winter.

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:33 pm

Well, there are rain seasons as well...

And from the context, it seems winter means cold. Like the region is in a state of winter.

I disagree, the text describes an anticipatable season of coldness, which is predictable and occurs at regular intervals, with predictable characteristics, just like a season.

The families in his charge would not last the winter, which was always bitter and cold in the northern reaches of the Jerals.

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:13 pm

I disagree, the text describes an anticipatable season of coldness, which is predictable and occurs at regular intervals, with predictable characteristics, just like a season.

The second quote, to me, doesnt verify really anything. :shrug:

» Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:02 pm

the winter.

The second quote, to me, doesnt verify really anything. :shrug:

I don't see how it can be anymore clear.