Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13436964-20130726062712/@comment-2.122.82.114-20140327223544

Okay, I spent a couple of days working on something like this because I want to have one character that I play as through each game. I'll have other characters as well, I was thinking of having others that would have lived through a lot of them but was not played as the main character in each game but that's unlikely to happen.

This is what I have that is even remotely relevant to this:

 "So, if you want to have a character live through Arena until Skyrim: 

·          Beginning of Arena back lore: ('''3E 389) '''

·          The Events of Arena: (3E 399) (only ten years later and the year that the Five Year War ended)''' '''

·          The Events of Skyrim ('''4E 201) '''

·          The Events of Dawnguard & Dragonborn(The final add-on for Skyrim) (4E 202)''' '''

o    <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aparajita","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Character can't be Nord, Breton, Redguard, Khajiit(only human Khajiits are present in Arena) or Argonian(unsourced article claims 150 is their maximum and just common sense, really). So basically, it has to be mer.''' '''

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height: normal;mso-list:l0level1lfo1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"CourierNew";mso-fareast-font-family:"CourierNew"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">o    <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aparajita","sans-serif"">If you want one of the characters who has lived through this to be the hero of Arena, then they cannot be an Orsimer(Orc) or an Imperial as they aren't playable races. THIS ONE CAN CLEARLY NOT BE THE DRAGON BORN, KEEP THAT IN MIND FOR STORY-TELLING PURPOSES. (Why was this again? - Find out. Apparently a potential ending is to be reunited with their family. That sounds unlikely.) The others might, as the prophecy does not say WHEN the Last Dragonborn would be born.''' '''

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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Daggerfall <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aparajita","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> - 35 Morrowind - 57 Oblivion - 63 Skyrim - 263

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height: normal;mso-list:l2level1lfo2"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Ø   <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aparajita","sans-serif"">They also seem to have to be Talin. He shares the name of General Warhaft, but is not General Warhaft as he was in oblivion with Emperor Uriel Septim VII. You could play it that the hero of Arena - the one who will have lived through to Skyrim - is the son of General Warhaft, making much more sense of the similar names. However, the name could just be popular and Warhaft apparently does not treat this Talin as his son. This could be amended by story-writing but it's worth noting.''' '''

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal; mso-list:l1level1lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">v   <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aparajita","sans-serif"">However, despite Warhaft's race being unknown, it seems highly likely that he is a human race. Jagar Tharn is either a Breton - human/mer mix - or a Dunmer. The Emperor is an Imperial, obviously. What sort of race would likely occupy this role? If it's a human race, then this train of thought ends because they couldn't live that long. As far as you know, they'd have to be mer. Human races cannot live more than one hundred years naturally; most die when they turn sixty to eighty years old. More-or-less like real life. I could make up a hockey reason for why he's still alive but that would not be satisfying. You could just not make the General his father but you sort of want to. Let's continue working out the kinks in the General's race issue. The other way means there isn't a problem. The other way may have to be the way you go. I don't even think that the character who lived through all of the events of the games could be Talin. He was the head of the Imperial Guard. This would imply that he is Imperial. Although, you get to choose your race, don't you? You get to choose from 8 playable races. This means that the character could be Talin could be after all. You established earlier that the character has to be mer. So you have Dunmer, Bosmer or Altmer. The Altmer are exclusive noted as being good at "any art involving the arcane", the Bosmer are Wood Elves (unlikely to be in such a "city" position?)  but are noted as being "well suited towards any class, although their nimbleness serves them best in any art involving thievery." Dunmer "are adept in any art involving the blade and shield combined with the arcane arts." So, probably exclude Altmer. Look more into the history of the Bosmer and the Dunmer. The Dunmer seem most likely but you should probably see if the Dark Elf distain carries back that far. The Dunmer also tend to live a very long time, even when compared to other races of mer. Interesting. You are having issues finding out about the attitudes surrounding Dunmer in that time. In the plotline of Morrowind, you are "a great hero that has been long dead, named Nerevar, reincarnated to unite and liberate the tribe of Dunmer (Dark Elves)." Thus, Dunmer would make a lot of sense to the plot, as the original Nerevar was Chimer, ancestors to the Dunmer. The plot of Daggerfall poses no real problem. Why would a Chimer be reborn as a Bosmer? That would make no sense at all. The plotline of Oblivion poses no problem either and actually puts the Dunmer Talin in prison. Although, now you think about it, why would a Dunmer be called Talin? Does that sound very Dunmer to you? Perhaps it was alias, created to hide them as they have some past they want to hide? It would make sense for there to be several Talins in one area if he crafted the name from popular names. Perhaps he lies and says he was raised by human parents? Perhaps he was? "

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