Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-15888551-20130819093722/@comment-6336669-20130819215610

War created engineering marvels in RL during the Medieval times, although most of it was to do with war. But beyond that nothing was ever really gained during the dark times, it was after the wars, during the Renaissance where tremendous non-military feats were performed. It was a mostly calm time, but only fueled the current state of the world. Rich get richer, poor get poorer, etc.

Tamriel is still in those dark times where people fight for honour, victory, and general wealth instead of oil and "Freedom". They have everything they could need, people can make a fortune from one adventure, with no banks and police getting involved wondering where you found that pile of money.