Playing through all the Elder Scrolls games with a single ch

Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:47 pm

Justification:

What you learn here will last you a life time; more than one if you're talented.
-Savos Aren

TES I takes place in 3E 399, TES V in 4E 201. That's 235 years between them. Not an unreasonable age for a talented mage :tongue: (well, add ~20 years to that as the character doesn't start Arena in diapers). Only tough thing to do is finding a justification for losing almost all your spells at the start of each game.

What an epic adventure that would be.
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Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:54 pm

Okay?

Seeing how no stats carry over in any of the games, does anyone who has already beaten them all count that as being completed?
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Steve Fallon
 
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:13 am

How can you play through on one character, seeing that one of them is the Nerevarine, one is a Dragon Born, one is a Daedric Prince and the other two are who knows what?
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Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:32 pm

How can you play through on one character, seeing that one of them is the Nerevarine, one is a Dragon Born, one is a Daedric Prince and the other two are who knows what?
Oh yeah, that too.
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:52 am

I use Argonian named Alex in MW, OB & Skyrim. Does that count?
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Joe Bonney
 
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:42 am

This is impissible for numerous reasons. The hero in the games ARE different people. You simply cannot be the same character unless you throw all lore and cannon aside and just RP your own story.

The CoC becomes Sheogorath, yet you meet that person in Skyrim, and it isn't you. This is just one of many reasons as to why this is completely illogical.
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:15 am

This is impissible for numerous reasons. The hero in the games ARE different people. You simply cannot be the same character unless you throw all lore and cannon aside and just RP your own story.

The CoC becomes Sheogorath, yet you meet that person in Skyrim, and it isn't you. This is just one of many reasons as to why this is completely illogical.

Yes it was you, you became Sheogorath. Whoever your character was in OB, slowly became Sheogorath in mind, body, and spirit.
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:31 am

Oh well, so much for that idea.
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:04 pm

I think i know what you mean, you use the same race, same name, same play style, same every thing am i right?
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 3:50 am

age is not a problem, even if you're not an elf, once you become Nerevarine you stop aging so you're good with that. As for the CoC and the shivering isles, just treat it as a bad trip from you brief escapade in the realm of madness... one you've finally recovered from as you awaken to be executed at the beginning of Skyrim heh.
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:26 am



Yes it was you, you became Sheogorath. Whoever your character was in OB, slowly became Sheogorath in mind, body, and spirit.
Um, I just said the CoC becomes Sheogorath. I was saying your character in SKYRIM is not Sheogorath. Which is why it is impossible for your character in OB to be your character in Skyrim.
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:16 am

I do almost the same thing, but different. The Nerevarine was my character's father, my Champion of Cyrodiil was me, he then had some complications, and wound up 200 years in the future where he found out he was Dragonborn.

(For Sheogorath, I had trouble, but then I made a clever solution. Even though my guy vanished, his mind remained in the Shivering Isles, so technically, the Sheogorath is my character's mind in Daedric form.)

Look, I thought this through as I went, the Sheogorath thing was a curve-ball to the brain :tongue:
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:37 am

age is not a problem, even if you're not an elf, once you become Nerevarine you stop aging so you're good with that. As for the CoC and the shivering isles, just treat it as a bad trip from you brief escapade in the realm of madness... one you've finally recovered from as you awaken to be executed at the beginning of Skyrim heh.

This. This is one way of doing things. And I've thought about something along this line for post main quest mod...

But doing all the TES games... sure it's possible to mod that... but it would be a long, long time before such a mod would be done... Even if you had 20 or 30 full time modders and 20-30 texture/mesh/model peopl full time as well...

And then you'd have to consider the time jump... That can actually be explained away and still be within lore...

Arena - Start character, finish quest... not a big time jump to DF

Daggerfall - Character continues a little older, finishes everything, rides off into the sunset

Morrowind - Again not a big time jump here - Nevarine goes to Akavir at end of things... and is immortal from main quest line (convenient!)

Oblivion - iirc it's only about 6 years or so from the end of MW... so Neravine goes to Akavir, doesn't like the chile, comes back home... becomes CoC, Sheogorath plays "Let's mess with the CoC's head for a couple centuries... because it'll be fun and that's the kind of dude I am!"...

Skip 200-ish years...
Skyrim - Sheo "Just messing with ya dude, have a day!" Queue up "Gonne get yer head lopped off scene" (Hey backstory for folks now why you'd be crossing into skyrim! :P) and off we go to save the world ... for the umpteenth time.

See? All within canon... a little shaky, but nothing actually contradictory to canon. :)
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:37 am

This. This is one way of doing things. And I've thought about something along this line for post main quest mod...

But doing all the TES games... sure it's possible to mod that... but it would be a long, long time before such a mod would be done... Even if you had 20 or 30 full time modders and 20-30 texture/mesh/model peopl full time as well...

And then you'd have to consider the time jump... That can actually be explained away and still be within lore...

Arena - Start character, finish quest... not a big time jump to DF

Daggerfall - Character continues a little older, finishes everything, rides off into the sunset

Morrowind - Again not a big time jump here - Nevarine goes to Akavir at end of things... and is immortal from main quest line (convenient!)

Oblivion - iirc it's only about 6 years or so from the end of MW... so Neravine goes to Akavir, doesn't like the chile, comes back home... becomes CoC, Sheogorath plays "Let's mess with the CoC's head for a couple centuries... because it'll be fun and that's the kind of dude I am!"...

Skip 200-ish years...
Skyrim - Sheo "Just messing with ya dude, have a day!" Queue up "Gonne get yer head lopped off scene" (Hey backstory for folks now why you'd be crossing into skyrim! :tongue:) and off we go to save the world ... for the umpteenth time.

See? All within canon... a little shaky, but nothing actually contradictory to canon. :smile:

Actually yes...the OB-Skyrim jump is slightly contradictory to canon.

@Skyrim FTW My apologies, i misread your post.
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:22 am

I do almost the same thing, but different. The Nerevarine was my character's father, my Champion of Cyrodiil was me, he then had some complications, and wound up 200 years in the future where he found out he was Dragonborn.

(For Sheogorath, I had trouble, but then I made a clever solution. Even though my guy vanished, his mind remained in the Shivering Isles, so technically, the Sheogorath is my character's mind in Daedric form.)
This is something similar to what my Sheogorath story is. Andoral is Lord Nerevar. He is immortal he added to his deal to Azura that his family shall be immortal as well, so I have been carrying over several characters and add to my story. Its a roleplaying choice one I find fun, I am rather attached to my characters.

My character is from Morrowind, Andoral is Lord Nerevar reborn, CoC, and Sheogorath but he has become divided on that front. Andoral was not a part of Arena or Daggerfall. I do have an older character Otheral my name who is well over four hundred years old, he was in some great wars threwout the history of the empire and was a general, but he was never recognized by anyone because of his insubordinate nature.
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:52 pm

Well I use the same name for all my argonian males :P
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:27 am

Well I use the same name for all my argonian males :tongue:
let me guess lifts-his-tail?

and lore doesnt really back up the only 1 character, it is somewhat assumed that the coc becomes sheogorath, either that or jygallag is back
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:39 am

Doesn't an ending for Daggerfall have the protagonist be killed by Great Numidium? Seeing as how all endings for Daggerfall occurred, it would be a tad hard to play with a dead character.
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:03 am

let me guess lifts-his-tail?

and lore doesnt really back up the only 1 character, it is somewhat assumed that the coc becomes sheogorath, either that or jygallag is back

Nope Dilophus
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:54 am

Uriel VII interacts with the Arena and Daggerfall protagonists. In fact, I'm pretty sure they both save his life. He probably would have recognized the same person in the Imperial City prison cell. And not just from a dream.
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Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:49 pm

Actually, if you interpret Shivering Isles as a massive Sheogorath-induced hallucination, then it works. Meeting a Sheogorath in Skyrim who insinuates that he is your character would just be a continuation of the mind-games.
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:15 pm

Who cares, make up your own story. Amnesia, wanting a change of identity, descending into madness, ect. There are many viable reasons why you could be the same person in all three games.

I did this with my Nord warrior. My reasoning? He keeps fit. It's not like anyone can tell you that you're doing it wrong, it's your game.
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Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:31 pm

Okay?

Seeing how no stats carry over in any of the games, does anyone who has already beaten them all count that as being completed?

Define beaten them all? Do you mean the mainquest? Ive beaten all main quest's from Arena to redguards to Skyrim atleast two times.. besides Morrowind, thats only once..

I used the "same" character.. (Abit old for an imperial)
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Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:07 pm

I always play as a Argonian called Top killa that comes from Black Marsh..... does that count?
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