Known as the Merethic Era because it's dominated by the Mer, a.k.a. The in-game book called The Monomyth is a handy collection of competing creation stories. That's just one version of the story of course. Lorkhan's punishment is to have his heart torn out, and it forms the Red Mountain on the island of Vvardenfell. Akatosh, dragon god of time, builds the Adamantine Tower on the continent of Tamriel to be their courthouse.
According to human myths the gods then create mortals, while the elves believe some Aedra stay permanently to sacrifice their immortality and become their ancestors.īut before that, the Aedra convene to determine how Lorkhan should be punished for tricking them. Other Aedra step back to resume their godhood, becoming the Divines. They leave for Aetherius, a plane of pure magic, allowing magicka to leak into the world through the holes their departure leaves. Some of the Aedra realize Lorkhan isn't being upfront about the cost of this creation, that they'll have to sacrifice much of their own power in the act. Getting a handle on the history and metaphysics is entirely optional, but it adds to my enjoyment and maybe if you take a dip into it, it'll add to yours too.Īmong the first of those gods is Lorkhan, a trickster, who convinces the Aedra to create the mortal plane, while the Daedra go off to make their own planes within Oblivion. You don't have to know this to enjoy them, but then you don't have to read the books and yet some of us do it anyway. Each of the mainline Elder Scrolls RPGs is separated by years, sometimes a lot of them, and The Elder Scrolls Online confusingly leaps back in time to fill in a gap.
This timeline presents a broad overview of things that happen on the world of Nirn, and also puts the games in order. There's even a recurring theme of the game's internal histories being contradictory because they're told from biased viewpoints, as if they're predesigned to be fodder for competing fan theories. They give you the surface stuff of big, freeform open-world fantasy roleplaying, but if you want to dig for it there's more to find. That's part of what makes them appealing to a certain kind of player. The Elder Scrolls games have a complicated history, is what I'm saying.
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