Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25443668-20140925193147/@comment-204.169.134.11-20141002155411

Yknow, Akavir is an odd subject. However, before I put my opinion in, I'll just respond to a couple main things brought up by previous posters.

1) Akavir still exists, after the end of Morrowind the player's character apparently sets off for Akavir, never to be seen again. This is supposed to mean that it still exists as recently as morrowind, and likely up til skyrim.

2)The Akaviri people can't be dead, with the apparent lifespan of the races I'd highly doubt that they would ALL be dead, though the monkey and tiger races could have been eradicated by the tsaesci.

SPECULATION ALERT: (none of this is confirmed or true, it is opinion and what I believe Akavir has and will be)

In my opinion, Akavir likely still exists with all races still at war, and perhaps so much at war that they've made technological advances and cultural leaps Tamriel has not even seen yet. In fact, if Bethesda brings us to akavir we could find out things about the Daedra and Aedra that we never knew in Tamriel, because keep in mind if the Daedra and Aedra are interacting with and even serving some Tamriel residents, it is very likely they are doing the same or something similar in akavir, in what scale and to what avail I cannot say.

The continent may even contain races we never saw, perhaps unseen origins of the Kahjit and Argonians may become apparent. What would be a real twist, however, is if it turns out that the odd descriptions of the Akaviri races "Snake-People" and "Tiger People" was the earliest depictions of argonians and khajit. Considering cats were tigers at one point in our universe, it's not so far off that the khajit and argonians may be related to the akaviri races as well.

As for the technology they may have, think of the technologies Asia had in our world. They developed gunpowder, crossbows, and many other technologies Europe didn't come up with because the two continents thought differently. Akavir may have similar things, such as rapid fire bows and cannons. I'm going out on a limb here saying this as well, but what if Akavir was in a Victorian era in terms of technology and culture? Honestly, everything about the place is up in the air, but it's intriguing to think that they could be more advanced than Tamriel.