Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13568484-20130902214240/@comment-108.248.236.65-20131217072714

Ideas for TES 6? :-) Or maybe even for TES 7.

It's actually a science-fiction story. There exist law of physics undiscovered today, which enables TES-style magic. Think of magicka as thought-controlled nanites or something. Except this "nanites" all together form a sentient AI. And this AI saw Earth in medieval times, and shaped the planet system of Nirn in the form of medieval fantasy world, apparently for its own amusement. In XXIII century, scientists from Earth discovers there exist another inhabited planet in universe. An expedition consisting of a few specialists is sent to planet Nirn and they land in Tamriel. But people from XXIII-century Earth, with their education, are prone to be extremely talented in the art of magicka - they might learn the CHIM, attain godhood, daedric princedom, or whatever you called it; most importantly, they abandon their mission, gain real power and shape the Tamriel to their wishes, causing wars and disasters, inevitably. One, for example, may claim to be a prophet of Mythic Dawn and do a smarter job at overthrowing the Empire dynasty than Mankar Camoran ever wondered. To celebrate this "Revolution of Red Robes", there is a general amnesty, and so, the prisoner player character is released - which is the start of the game.

So, actually, nobody in Tamriel knows where those new powerful NPCs came from. And it is a secret also for players - although they might spot references to Earth works of art, nobody in the game will comment on them as being from Earth. Until on some occasion the player character meets a traveller "from distant island", who is yet another man from this XXIII-century Earth, sent with rescue&clean-up mission after expedition reports stopped abruptly. Well, before they stopped, they reported that on this planet technology fails and there is, ahem, magic - so the rescue man comes equipped with XXIII-century military biotics-amp implants or something. Once the player character agree to help him, he could share this new shiny special abilities. And to track down all the missing living members of expeditions, and how to deal with them and consequences of theirs (wrong)doings - this would be the main quest of the game.

How to fill it up with details and connect with other ideas, that I leave to your imagination.