I hope this section will work for this topic since it is completely lore related.

I was thinking of doing some youtube videos where I narrate stories from the Elder Scrolls lore.

I've always followed the lore of this world but not really delved behind the games until recently. One thing I thought would be great would be to listen to someone talk about or explain parts of the lore. I checked around youtube and only found one other person who narrated but he really only talked about things that occurred in the games. I'd like to talk about whats in the games and the connections to the lore that is before and after each game.

I'm just a little lost on where exactly to start. With so much history its daunting. I thought about starting from the beginning, with the different creation myths and explaining details from them, if details exist. After reading them though I think that anyone who's interested in beginning lore might get turned off by them. My comparison would be like someone who only knows LOTR through the movies trying to read the Silmarlion.

I've been reading through the "history buff" post and thought about starting with the basics. The races, their general history, and then pulling back to the broader history of the creation myths and world history.

Other things I plan to do are possibly narrate some of the books from the games. Maybe if enough people like the series I could narrate books that people ask me to.

Anyways that's the idea. Criticism and ideas are really welcomed as well as where I could start with this.

I'll add my youtube channel to my account website info and probably my signature eventually once I start this project.

Thanks,

- Hawk

Well if you are looking for a place to start, allot of people are unfamiliar with the historical context of Skyrim. You could do a section about the rise and decline of the Empire.

I'll second Proweler's idea - the political and social background of Skyrim, both in recent times (Great War, rebellion in the Reach, etc.), in history (it's role in the second and third empires of Cyrodiil), and in antiquity (Saarthal, war with the Dunmer, etc.). It would be relevant and interesting to a lot of players, and still simple enough (as long as you don't get within 10 feet of the Arcturian Heresy). You could also do overviews on the Dunmer, Dark Brotherhood, and other popular sections of lore.

By narrate stories, do you mean "read books from the games aloud" or "talk about TES lore using original words"? If the former, I think the Pocket Guide's would probably be the best place to start off. If its the latter, I agree that Skyrim's history would be the best place to start. After that, I think tackling the topic of dragon history would be a good idea.

Alright that sounds good. I had thought about that but didn't want to look like someone trying to just sap popularity from the release of Skyrim, but it doe make the most sense.




Thanks that sounds great.



Well kind of both. If someone requested that I read a book from the game aloud I could do that but I'll also probably do speculation on the lore and things like that as well. From reading some of the histories, due to their length and depth, I'll probably condense them down into my own words while still staying true to the original writing. If some are shorter I may just read them, or read sections of them then explain them in context to history I may have already covered.

Another question. Is there anywhere to has the pronunciation of worlds related to different TES languages? After reading some of the writings, I can pronounce the tough ones but I don't know if I'm doing it right. I'd be fine with asking questions for topics through posts but not post after post of "How do you pronounce ........"

Thanks for the help.

Many of the words are pronounced in game, sometimes in different ways. Sometimes the pronunciation of names and words is clarified in the VA script (this goes mostly for the Ayleid lines for Umarin in KotN). If it's not anywhere in there, we don't know how to pronounce it.

The only pronunciation guidelines we really have are the games, and they've been known to contradict themselves. Unless you're just insanely off (pronounce Altmer as "Ah-lit-me-arr") you'll probably be fine.

Haha alright thanks. That's kind of what I figured.

Thanks.