Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-24696651-20140503114858

AnnroTheArgonian wrote:

94.208.210.66 wrote:

agreed tamriel has already so much lore there is little room for another game. If the game took place in akarivir they could bring back all the races like falmer and dwemer( i prefer them as dwarves, dwarves are cool) And also all other races like all elves and humans.

It would be nice if it took place in a jungle climate with huge trees and deserts. Also maybe highlands with a less hot climate with normal trees forests and huge grasslands. And higher up the mountain a skyrim- like landscape.

Actually, they could keep it in Tamriel and revive old races simply by placing a game in the First Era or in the Merethic Era. If they wanted the setting to be a "jungle climate," it'd probably take place in Cyrodiil again, since Cyrodiil used to be covered by jungle (according to certain sources).

According to Phrastus of Elihinir, Cyrodiil was in fact never a jungle; in The Heartland of Cyrodiil, he asserts the use of the phrase "endless jungle" to describe Cyrodiil is a transcription error, and upon closer inspection of the orginal and damaged manuscript, a more accurate translation would be "extensive upland". The unnamed scribe responsible for this error also mentioned "equatorial rain", which was infact not mentioned by the orginal text at all. Although there is no specific mention of his or any of his contempories' date, I would place his works anywhere from 2E 230 to 2E 580; his works feature in Elder Scrolls Online, so they must have been written before 2E 583, and in one of his lectures, he makes reference to Liminal Bridges, a work which itself makes reference to works of Galerion the Mystic, whose works originate from no earlier than 2E 230. In the works of Phrastus and one of his contempories, Lady Cinnabar of Taneth (who constantly criticsed each others' works), there is mention to the First Era, a concept which did not exist until the Second Era, when the Potentate usurped the throne of the Second Empire, which supports the idea of it dating from no earlier than 2E 230. Given the fact that in the middle of the Second Era Tiber Septim could not have reshaped Tamriel (barring a Dragon Break), and Phrastus of Elihnir lived in Elihnir (a town on the Cyrodiil-Hammerfell border) where could easily see whether or not Cyrodiil was a jungle, I think it's safe to say that Cyrodiil was never a jungle. It isn't in ESO.