Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-24696651-20140405212104

24.67.69.247 wrote: heres what i think:

The game will be set in either hammerfell, or elswyr. why? because summerset isles would be like living in germany in WWII along with valenwood. im not a fan of kajjht myself but fans have been asking for it forever andbeen asking for it forever so that may be a possibility. summerset isles and valenwood would be good but it would have to take place after the war. Hammerfell is where i think it will take place.

I'm not sure the Summerset Isles would be like Nazi Germany. The Thalmor didn't exterminate all the Nords, or deport all the Talos worshippers. Only very vocal and influential Talos worshippers were targeted, in Thalmor aligned areas. You probably would be treated poorly as a man in the Summerset Isles (humans aren't usually seen beyond the docks in Alinor), but to say they are Nazis is a gross overstatement. I think that the Summerset Isles could potentially feature in a game - it would be only a third or so of the in-game map, and the game being in the Summerst Isles could lend itself to some interesting lore and quests, and it is fairly mainstream - nothing says "fantasy" like an elf sorcerer. Hammerfell is quite possible, due to it being the most mainstream of all the potential game settings, and its independence from the Empire and the Dominion (though probably closer to the Empire than the Dominion). But Hammerfell will be mainly very dry and barren - about as varied as Oblivion's rolling hills and forests, but probably less interesting. There is fertile land around the coast, true, but that won't be that interesting either, and most of the map will just be a great big desert with no real reason to go there - there aren't a lot of cities in the desert, and likely there will be little reason to go there - it would fell a little empty. Elsweyr? Well, I'm just not sure that would be a province easy to advertise - it would probably be in a game with multiple provinces, due to its smallness, and there being something else to advertise.