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  • Shezzarrine
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    The dark ages would probably be during the dragon break in the Middle Dawn 1E 1200- 2208(the "accepted" timeframe). And a golden age for the entire continent would be hard to pin down
  • monktoasty
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    The golden era was when I could craft a spell that made me jump across the continant
  • gepe87
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    Dark Ages: 4th Era with wars, disasters and radicalism moviments. Tamriel still need a Golden Era (Septims' reign apparent peace was based on Tiber warmongering, and yeah, I'm thinking about Numidium)
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  • starkerealm
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    Weirdly, Elder Scrolls doesn't really have a fallen world setup. The First and Third eras were (aside from a few events) pretty good overall. There's some lost magic and forgotten spells, but there's no real golden age. That said, a lot of cultures do have their own lost eras.

    The Argonians used to rule a great empire in the swamps of Shadowfen, which you can see the remnants of in ESO. The Dwarves would probably view the current setting as apocalyptic.

    The Second and Fourth Era are both pretty dire, however. Especially 4E, with an aggressive, fascist, Altmer empire on the rise, while the Cyrodiilic Empire is barely holding itself together.

    ESO is set between Imperial dynasties. The Alessian and Reman dynasties are distant history, while the Septum Dynasty is still centuries away. It's not a great moment for Nirn, but it's hardly a dark age.

    That said, there is some deterioration. Things like the Dwemer, Falmer and Aylied civilizations are gone. With that Tamriel has lost a lot of its culture. But, what replaced it isn't inferior, simply different (and in many cases, far more egalitarian.)
  • Necrelios
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    The ancient times of the Dwemer would have been the Golden Era, and the Fourth Era is basically like the end of times.
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  • Demycilian
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    Depends on whose perspective you will take. From the Argonian point of view i would think 4th era is a bit of a golden age. They are free both of the oppressive empire of men as well as Dunmer slavers. For these poor guys it must be like drawing their first free breath in a long time.
  • Xoelarasizerer
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    Given all the smushed together cultures and kingdoms and all their constant conflictions, there's probably no clear, obvious Dark and Golden Eras for the entirety of Tamriel... probably. A more casual perspective shows it's more a case of different highs and different lows for everyone throughout...

    For best e.g. 4th Era is pretty all over the place before someone left a stove on over in Helgen ^^ Red Mountain's detonation probably put a damper on the Dunmer's collective day, but the good old Timeless Void-Hugging Tree Lizards were probably kinda chuffed at the open door for revengeance there. Meanwhile, the Imperials keep falling down flights of more and more stairs as the days go by, and Aldmeri Domnion the Third is making that powerplay on the W.G.T and Elsweyr.
    Edited by Xoelarasizerer on January 6, 2018 1:08PM
  • Nelson_Rebel
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    Given all the smushed together cultures and kingdoms and all their constant conflictions, there's probably no clear, obvious Dark and Golden Eras for the entirety of Tamriel... probably. A more casual perspective shows it's more a case of different highs and different lows for everyone throughout...

    For best e.g. 4th Era is pretty all over the place before someone left a stove on over in Helgen ^^ Red Mountain's detonation probably put a damper on the Dunmer's collective day, but the good old Timeless Void-Hugging Tree Lizards were probably kinda chuffed at the open door for revengeance there. Meanwhile, the Imperials keep falling down flights of more and more stairs as the days go by, and Aldmeri Domnion the Third is making that powerplay on the W.G.T and Elsweyr.

    What’s funny is the Aldmeri Dominion actually held the Ayleid City and the White Gold Tower for just at a year before it was retaken. I don’t know what they accomplished in that time frame or what their true end game is but they are definitely the most powerful force in Tamriel.


    Note- I refuse to call it the imperial city, simply because I despise Imperials, and their pathetic culture in comparison to the glorious mer races.
  • Narvuntien
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    Well in our world "dark ages" are a very roman centric idea. Specifically Western Rome since the Byzantines were doing just fine.

    So applying a cryodillic centric idea about what the dark and golden era's are. Clearly between each of the empires, we have a sort of dark age each time

    I think between the first and second is one of the worst. We have a series of plagues followed by an Akaviri invasion. The founding of the second empire is created by Reman uniting the continent against the invades. So I feel like this is a real dark age.

    So is ESO set in a dark age then? No I don't think so. The reason is that the Potentates created the guilds act. The mages and fighters guilds, organizations with central leadership and wide reach across tamerial. So even if the empire has lost land and influence the separate parts of the empires can still communicate with each other. The mages guild both keeps and shares knowledge. The fighters guild keeps some amount of order as a mercenary company.

    Plus *****spoiler alert.******

    They save the world when the alliances wouldn't

    So in the end ESOs setting is much more medieval (yeah I know people call the medieval period the dark ages as a whole), A nebula's collection of alliances with the guilds playing the part of the papacy, politically neutral (in theory), providing a central location for learning and communication across different kingdoms. Giving just enough structure to prevent chaos.

    It is kind of ironic that the Potentates genius empire organization came to bite his countrymen they invaded, expecting disparate kingdoms and then got pincer-ed between armies that should of been mortal enemies.
  • Aelakhaii_De_Mythos
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    I really liked the orsinium patch pvp for some reason. I get nostalgic for this specific times, not sure why though.
  • ChildOfLight
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    At some point, with no cp cap, you could eventually do this:

    [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs4UVIisJj8&t=1443s[/url]
    Edited by ChildOfLight on January 6, 2018 4:53PM
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