What are your thoughts on the dragon born not knowing anything about anything, including his own species?

Being new to the series, it was a nice to see the developers considering the fact that not everyone had played all the games/read up on all the lore, but I do find it a little ridiculous that the character knows next to nothing about the world they live in.

My dragonborn knows about her own species, Talos, Stendarr, the political situation, all that. Sure, those questions appear as topics that I can choose, but since she already knows the answers, she doesn't ask them. (Though I do wish those annoying highlighted topics would go away )

Getting a pumped up soul inserted into your body can't be good for the brain, think steroids...

That's always been a great feature of "Elder Scrolls" games.

You have so much freedom with your character.

You can be the Nord who knows nothing about the Dragonborn, or you could be a Nord who was born in Hammerfell, got picked up on the border and is thrust into a completely new and different situation.

You could be the High Elf who defies convention and as the Thalmor try to rule Skyrim it could be your destiny to liberate it.

It's part of what makes "Skyrim" such a great RPG.

Az

I think it is the price to pay for an open world

people say red haired folk dont realize they have no souls, the dragonborn prolly doesnt realize his soul is special in a similar fashion

but really, it would kill the moment of finding out you're the hero if you already know it

and its much more fun to play without the whole dragonborn thing going if you ask me, stupid dragons are a pain

Red Dead Redemption had an open world, and I don't recall John Marston ever going "The US Government. What's that?"

If they had more options for the character to choose it'd be fine. Maybe some people would like to play characters that knew stories about Dragonborn people, or were veterans of the Great War and knew about the White-Gold Concordant, or were sons and daughters of Stormcloaks and knew about the Civil War before they arrived.

My character was simply suffering a bit from the aftermath of the knock on her head when she got captured, hence asking away about all that stuff. Plus, she loves teasing others by tricking them into spending effort talking about stuff that's already known. And it can't hurt when others underestimate you and think you're stupid. Makes it easier to manipulate them. (All for RP's sake of course)

How about a High Elf who actively wants to help the Thalmor rule Skyrim? People always over exaggerate how much freedom you have in the Elder Scrolls games but in reality you only really get 2 choices (if you call ignoring a questline a choice) when it comes to questlines, the choice to either do it or ignore it, the civil war questline being the odd one out with 3 choices (helping the Thalmor not being one of them), help the Stormcloaks, help the Empire or ignore the civil war questline altogether, racial choice has no real effect either other than how your character looks and starting skills, it is rare that your race is even referenced in game let alone have any meaningful effect on anything, the racist Nord will treat your Dark Elf like any other Nord while actively telling you how much he hates "Grey Skins" and how he loves to go to the Grey Quarter and tell them all how he feels, seriously your Dark Elf might as well be a nord with grey skin and red eyes, High Elf a slightly taller Nord with yellow skin.

Of course if you roleplayers base Skyrim's value as an RPG on those little tidbits of information about your character that exist only inside your own head that are neither referenced in game nor have any impact on the game itself then isnt nearly every other game ever made a "great rpg"? I mean seriously I can ignore the reality presented to me and create my own in any game I please. In MGS4 I can pretend that Solid Snake is really Big Boss' 4th clone Flacid Snake who actually killed Solid Snake before the events of MGS4 and has taken his role in MGS4 as an imposter in some misguided attempt to cop a feel of Big Mama. In GTAIV I can pretend that Niko Bellic is actually an alien named Xor'chun who stole the original Niko Bellic's memories and body and is on a mission from the evil alien overlord Xor'chan to infiltrate and gather information on humanity in preparation for an invasion fleet.

There's not much to be said...


In my experience, I think he knew all along that something was wrong with him, or something didn't feel right to him.

That is incredibly stupid. I should at least be able to have the choice to not know or to know. Got to love dialogue in Skyrim, where it forces your character to say/do things that you don't want.

thats why i loved dragon age origions, every race and social class had a back story that impaxted the game. as much as i love skyrim the lack of character depth kills it in some areas.

To be fair they did start off with him trying to cross into the border into skyrim; i think its quite convincing that he wouldnt know a thing about skyrim. And what do you mean "his own species"? o.O

I thought "species" referred to humans.