Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-74.109.247.180-20131222011645

SajuukKhar wrote: Pink Slim wrote: Most people where concerened with the civil war on their doorstep, so thinking back about the war in Hammerfell wasn't as important to them; and then Bethesda was probably planning on expanding upon the Hammerfell/AD skirmishes with a DLC that never came around. and don't forget that an entire 200 years have gone by, we don't really have a lot of information on much of what happened then, only the war is what we know, so saying that there's this one part that we don't know much about is an understatement. Except most people in Skyrim were just like "ehh" in regards to the civil war. Most peopl didn't care, nor were they effected by it.

As for DLC, Bethesda said before Skyrim's release there would be less DLC then Fallout 3, which had 5 DLC, but they would be larger on average..... which is what we got. It's also unlikely they would do a Thalmor/Hammerfell DLC because Bethesda never starts storylines they cant complete in the game game/DLC, and that situation is too large for a DLC.

Also, those last 200 years are just that, the last 200 years, we don't talk about things that happened 40+ years ago today in the real world, nor would they in Tamriel. the Hammerfell situation would be just a year or two ago, which is a different situation entirely. We don't talk about things that happened 40+ years ago today in the real world? How about WWII, the fall of the Roman Empire, or the Birth of Jesus Christ?

But you do have a point: "the Hammerfell situation would be just a year or two ago, which is a different situation entirely." People in Skyrim would definately be talking about something that happened in Hammerfell only a couple years earlier -- especially the redguards in Skyrim.

It's not that NPCs don't talk about things from 40 or even 200 years in the past of their game-lore, it's that there is no reason for them to talk about such things unless they are relevant to the current game's plot.

You're right though, Bethesda won't carry over a storyline.