A recent interview with TESO's gaming staff revealed that time travel would come into play with a very early quest.

Apparently the daggerfall's opening quest include time traveling back in time 150 years from TESO's present to an breton island occupied by orcs. At the time the island was destroyed by a weapon of mass destruction made by the bretons. You the time traveler have been sent back in time to retrieve or disable the bomb. (The orcs of daggerfall want you to destroy it, they apparently didn't appreciate being bombed)

Now I get that there is time tears but at no point do i remember really interacting with the stuff there so you can't really say its the same thing.

At the point they begin introducing time travel to change stuff in the original lore doesn't that mean that this isn't the original time line? That it's a completely different string of events? It's own universe with it's own continuity? If that's the case wouldn't that free them up to do anything they want with the world from then on? They could make their own narrative and open up the world to more sandboxxy elements as well.

It's kinda like a comic book retcon, there's the original and still ongoing elder scrolls universe from the games and then there's an offshoot retcon universe where time travel changed something seemingly small but directly effects the course of the universe from there on.

I'm more bothered about bretons making nukes and orsimers being so powerful magicans that they can send you back in time. I'm ok with time travel if it's done well

I think that whatever time travel there will be in ESO will only be related to the single player main quest part of the game.

If I am right about that part then it doesn't really bother me at all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6cxNR9ML8k

First,there has always been time travel in TES games. Therefore, by it's very definition, it can not be lore breaking.

Second, I doubt these time travel quests are going to alter much. This is not ESO: Voyager.

Didn`t know Bretons can build Nuclear Devices....

Well there was time travel in Skyrim when the dragonborn learns the Dragonrend shout, so no I don't really have a problem with it or the quest in general.

I am...to me it holds no real place in TES but that's just me!

This, and also that I've never really liked time travel, anyways. It's alright, but I hope not to see more of it.

Nope not at all, sounds fun to me..

It will probably appear once per faction, it was just to give us an example of diversity in quests and people are exaggerating as always

Once i could stomach, not multiple times!

TES = Trek Online?!

There was time travel in Skyrim, so no need to say that it's not "Elder Scrolls."

But, I don't mind time travel as long as it's done well. Matt just gave us some background on the quest, he, obviously, isn't going to give us the whole narrative. It could be done very well.

Frankly I hope I am sent back in time to become my own grandmother.

Well I've heard of Redguards making explosions that were the equivalent of a nuke (Pankratosword)... never Bretons though

Sort of. You're only looking back in time when using the Time Wound, and the Mask Chamber is a closed off area designed to protect the mask, Konahriik.

But that is not the only time travel in TES. That is not even the only time travel in Skyrim, technically.

No, it was not to protect the mask. It was so the player did not have another whole world to explore.

Pretty sure the Bretons could make a magical device capable of nuking something. They are adept with magic and all.

Redguards blew up their island with magic not a bomb.

There is no evidence that this is the case. The mask also works only in the room you find it which only makes it more likely that you return back in(if you even do that, it could be a plane of oblivion that looks like the mask room or something). And even if it is you have to remember that it was made by powerful dragon priests, not some tribal orcs. If it was that easy to travel back and forth in time tamriel would be a really f***ed up place

Basic logic.

The devs can't have you running all over a whole new world. The game is not that big.

See, that would have been cool. You try to leave the room and it ports you back to your real time.

If this was the case they could have easily made the area seem larger and just block it with invisible walls, like soul cairn in Dawnguard

I hate invisible walls. Unless they are really invisible walls.

Not really OP. Think about this... traveling FORWARD in time to visit skyrim when the dragonborn fight's alduin...

Well the devs at Bethesda Softworks studios obviously don't (why would they have so many invisible walls in their game with them if that was the case?) and I happen to know that they were the guys who made the game, not you