With that in mind, Pyandonea would make a great location to set or visit within an Elder Scrolls game, especially with its long history of attacks on the Altmer of Summerset. It’d be an ideal opportunity to enrich the lore of the many races in Elder Scrolls, as well as visit several different environments each with their own unique, historically based conflicts.
One section of Pocket Guide to the Empire, Third Edition, based on an account of the sole Alinori ship to survive a well-laid Pyandonea ambush, calls it a “sea jungle”, with “massive plateaus spilling over with vegetation form mazes around valleys of ocean”, “waving tendrils of kelp”, giant mist storms, and sea serpents that act as guards and mounts.Īlong with Thras and Yokuda and other small groups of islands out in the Eltheric and Padomaic Oceans, there’s a lot of room for a seafaring-based Elder Scrolls game that allows the player to visit several areas off the shores of Tamriel by boat. They describe the continent, which lies south of Tamriel, as the home of the Maormer, a group of elves that split off into their own faction back in their ancestral homeland of Aldmeris. What little we know of Pyandonea comes mostly from in-game texts. With a little writing magic, Yokuda could easily make a challenging and visually appealing destination, two staples of any Elder Scroll adventure. But either way, I’m not content to assume that Yokuda, as the texts suggest, is gone forever. In-game scholars debate how Yokuda ended the continent was apparently prone to earthquakes, but the civil wars may have also had a hand. It’s not the most hospitable sounding place the Pocket Guide to the Empire, Third Edition refers to it as “rocky, barren hills”, with an “arid” landscape and “harsh environment, training the Yokudans well for their lives in Tamriel”.
#Where did all the elder scrolls games take place series#
This continent, which lies west of Tamriel, may not actually exist anymore, but it’s the original homeland of the Redguard, who were said to have “destroyed” it in order to flee after a series of civil wars. As a potential game setting, Thras has almost everything Elder Scrolls needs. Meanwhile, Thras itself is made mostly of coral, which the Sload use to build the homes in their kingdom, holding tremendous promise in terms of atmosphere (there are no known photos of Thras however the above is a picture of one of their Summerset Isle-held outposts, Errinorne Island). The drama and conflict are all but built-in, as the Sload are ruthless traders with an aggressive sense of self interest, having no qualms about sabotaging the competition if it benefits them personally in the end. They already have a long history as antagonists, maintaining an ongoing feud with the elves of Summerset that even culminated in a plague that wiped out a massive portion of the population of Tamriel. Thras is home to perhaps the most insidious villains in the Elder Scrolls series, a group of self-involved slug-like necromancers called the Sload. Here are the six that I think are the most promising.
Some areas would make great primary settings for the next game, not just because of the secrets they keep, but because of their visual potential as well. There are many places shrouded in mystery, with scant references to them hidden across games, books, fleeting pieces of dialogue, and other sources you might have missed in the hundreds of hours it takes to complete each game. While I’ve longed for the series to revisit some of its earliest locations so as to see them now in high definition, reading up on what lies beyond Tamriel has piqued my curiosity. But in general, so much of the action takes place on this one massive continent, it’s easy to forget there’s more out there than just a few flimsy islands to visit during a DLC campaign. Sure, if you’ve played all the games (even The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard) and read all the in-game books and paid close attention to the histories of various Tamriel races, you may be aware.
If you’ve never done a deep dive into the lore of the Elder Scrolls, you might be surprised to know there are continents on the planet Nirn that are not Tamriel.
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