3 Banners War Future Content Tease?

Akrasjel

A Dragon Break is a phenomenon where linear time is broken, and becomes non-linear. The "Dragon" refers to Akatosh, the Dragon God of Time. A Dragon Break not only precedes significant changes in Tamriel, but challenges mortal comprehension. It is a re-alignment of time and space in response to an event which makes the normal continuity of reality impossible. The chaos which ensues is a refrain of the chaos of the Dawn Era. The area that is noticeably affected, and length of the interval measured in the areas not apparently affected, varies with each Dragon Break. Historically, the cause is often attributed to mortals manipulating divine matters.

MLGProPlayer

Keylun wrote: »

Can someone explain to me what a dragon break is?

It's a plot device invented by Bethesda to allow for nonsensical things to exist in their games without having to retcon them.

It's basically just an "alternate reality".

Anrose

If they end the war, what happens to all the quests in every vanilla zone pertaining to the war? What happen to the parley on Stirk? ZOS isn’t going to go rewrite old stories to make newer ones relevant.

Loves_guars

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Keylun wrote: »

Can someone explain to me what a dragon break is?

It's a plot device invented by Bethesda to allow for nonsensical things to exist in their games without having to retcon them.

It's basically just an "alternate reality".

As someone that read DC comics in the past, I'm so used to it, I even welcome it. Sometimes lore can be too restrictive.

BigBadVolk

Ertosi wrote: »

There's another possibility, one that Abnur Tharn is just hoping to end the 3 Banner's War by adding a new element to it. So we have 2 big possibilities to what this means:

1. This is truly a teaser that a big event is coming that will end the 3 Banner War. This means there will be a huge PVP event where it will be decided which faction won, once and for all. This will also mean all of the PVP lag we've been facing will be taken to new heights of horridness as even more people flock to Cyrodiil to try to participate in this event.

2. Abnur Tharn has discovered something he thinks might turn the tide for a faction, but in reality, it just means a new game mechanic is being added but besides the new mechanic, it'll just continue being the normal "business as usual" in Cyrodiil. Given Abnur is a very renown spellcaster, and given the appearance of that broken magical tablet in the OP's picture, what could that mean...

Spellcrafting… Spellcrafting… Spellcrafting!

or it could also mean that a new threat is rising, prob another set of daedric princes but this time they plan something around the Alliances or smth like dat :thinking:

JD2013

Faulgor wrote: »

I wonder if that also means that Alfred Molina will reprise his voice acting role ...

Apparently they couldn't get Kate Beckinsale for Summerset, but this seems promising.

Ah man I hope we get Abnur voiced by Alfred Molina again. He was amazing as the character.

Ufretin

Keep in mind that much of the original pve zones / quest lines is based on the Three Banners War as well. They'd have a lot of rewriting (or explaining) to do if they end that war...

starkerealm

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Keylun wrote: »

Can someone explain to me what a dragon break is?

It's a plot device invented by Bethesda to allow for nonsensical things to exist in their games without having to retcon them.

It's basically just an "alternate reality".

Please, call those "nonsensical things," by their proper name: Players.

Though, seriously, the entire Dragon Break structure basically exists to retain some kind of coherent narrative in a universe where players can run rampant.

Shawn_PT

Abnur Tharn. Ending the war, or trying to. Colovia expansion with focus (storywise) on retaking the IC? Will this bring a different PvE version of the IC island, separated from the AvA queuing/riding/ganking mess?

Too many possibilities to think about for now.

What if this year's 'expansion' is a complete rework of Cyrodiil itself?

Loves_guars

Sotha knew!

Ydrisselle

Savos_Saren wrote: »

Vrienda wrote: »

My first thought was that the stone looked like the Dragonstone from bleakfalls barrow in Skyrim. But it looks nothing like that after googling.

I hope they don't do a Dragonbreak. I've always thought of them as the weakest, laziest part of Elder Scrolls Lore.

The events that take place in Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim are all Dragonbreaks.

I would even say that, technically, ESO is during a Dragonbreak. Perhaps Tharn is just coming up with ways to alter the Dragonbreak.

I agree, we are either in a Dragon Break, or right before one. That would explain why the Vestige and the Three Banners War are completely forgotten later.

Neoauspex

Other logical possibilities include adding or subtracting banners. My guess is they just add a PvP server that is open world/group rather than faction vs faction.

luen79rwb17_ESO

Trying to end the war doesn't mean he will achieve it. Maybe the whole story evolves around Tharn being his usual mad self trying to cause a dragon break so he can claim the Throne and it's up to us to stop him because in the beggining he decieved us into thinking he had a noble cause.

Sandman929

luen79rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Trying to end the war doesn't mean he will achieve it. Maybe the whole story evolves around Tharn being his usual mad self trying to cause a dragon break so he can claim the Throne and it's up to us to stop him because in the beggining he decieved us into thinking he had a noble cause.

I'm kind of in this camp at the moment, but with some changes in Cyrodiil (albeit small, new outposts, bridges, gates) and looming racial passive changes (whatever they might be), I'm still hopeful that seeing the Alliance War even mentioned as being relevant in the next chapter is a sign of something significant regarding PvP.

BaylorCorvette

luen79rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Trying to end the war doesn't mean he will achieve it. Maybe the whole story evolves around Tharn being his usual mad self trying to cause a dragon break so he can claim the Throne and it's up to us to stop him because in the beggining he decieved us into thinking he had a noble cause.

Likely this.

Dominoid

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Someone on Reddit said the broken dragon tablet could represent a dragon break. That makes perfect sense and pretty much confirms a PvE Cyrodiil chapter. A dragon break would allow for a PvE and PvP instance to exist simultaneously.

I was sure they were going with Skyrim this year, but it seems they're going to milk the Oblivion nostalgia first.

This is where I'm at without official word yet. An "open/portal" Dragon Break (not sure exactly how they work) that has both a PVP Cyrodill as we currently have and a new peaceful PVE Cyrodiil bringing ES:IV Oblivion into ESO for it's 5th anniversary. Fully ending the Three Banners War makes half the quests in the original 16 zones REALLY wonky story-wise (worse than they are now).

Odovacar

They Dev's are reading this thread and laughing out loud I'm sure ...or are they... hmm

Elsonso

Dominoid wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Someone on Reddit said the broken dragon tablet could represent a dragon break. That makes perfect sense and pretty much confirms a PvE Cyrodiil chapter. A dragon break would allow for a PvE and PvP instance to exist simultaneously.

I was sure they were going with Skyrim this year, but it seems they're going to milk the Oblivion nostalgia first.

This is where I'm at without official word yet. An "open" Dragon Break (not sure exactly how they work) that has both a PVP Cyrodill as we currently have and a new peaceful PVE Cyrodiil bringing ES:IV Oblivion into ESO for it's 5th anniversary.

I suppose if they wanted to end of the open world PVP in the game, this would be one way to start that. I can't see them keeping a PVE Cyrodiil as a single zone, though. I would expect it to be at least three zones, with loading screens. One for each former alliance.

I don't think a dragon break is necessary, though. Seems like overkill. I believe that Cyrodiil and the Three Banners War is so far outside of the main stream that they really don't need to explain it. Just end the war, but let players still zerg in Campaigns until they get bored and leave for lack of attention. That seems to be working pretty well, without a dragon break.

Taleof2Cities

What’s Tharn doing here.

Minno

I called it; IC will be revamped to be the new Cyro with smaller pops.

Normal cyro will be entirely PVE with IC and BGs being the only major PVP modes

Zypheran

As Rich Lambert said, they're gonna enjoy watching us put all the pieces together!

Dojohoda

PEACE in Tamriel from the evil and self-absorbed Abnur?!!
Trickery!

There shall be no peace, only DC dominance!

*Kidnapps Abnur, steals his evil plans*

For the Covenant!

Elsonso

Zypheran wrote: »

As Rich Lambert said, they're gonna enjoy watching us put all the pieces together!

Yup, and they are going to enjoy watching it.

geonsocal

well, as long as the covenant ends up winning, doesn't really matter

Loves_guars wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Keylun wrote: »

Can someone explain to me what a dragon break is?

It's a plot device invented by Bethesda to allow for nonsensical things to exist in their games without having to retcon them.

It's basically just an "alternate reality".

As someone that read DC comics in the past, I'm so used to it, I even welcome it. Sometimes lore can be too restrictive.

have you ever read any of the "Elseworlds" stories?

I love superman as a bad guy...I mean he is an alien after all...

geonsocal

Seenoevil wrote: »

That's a broken spell book tharn is going to fix with the remaining power of the amulet.

Tharn will fix the bridges to imperial city with an over dramatic spell, but to his dismay he weakens all of tamriel removing cp from the game. Daedra are going to take control of the castles in cyrodil from the weakened alliances. The book will be shattered once Tharn f***s all of tamriel up spreading the pages over tamriel introducing spell crafting into eso.

Turns cyrodil into a huge pve war, alliances must constantly fight back against hordes of daedric forces to stop the spread of the mass invasion.

End the war by uniting the 3 alliances against 1 common enemy. Would make the destructible bridges etc in cyrodil really relevant.

Battlegrounds will receive a 6v6v6 mode with larger maps, more maps and more game modes, Bgs are the future of pvp in eso and with no cyrodil that leaves an entire pvp division of Zos with 100% attention on bg's.(Could even set the scene for competitive eso)

Probably what the racial passive changes are going to be for, introducing racial "only active in Battlegrounds" traits, having a crack at pvp balancing not through skills and gear set choices but by race choice. Gives Zos a completely new playing field for balancing pve and pvp seperately.

My 2 cents

Bladerunner1

Abnur was the overlord of Nibenay, and there are still more Nibenese places that could open up, like Bravil or Leyawiin.

MyNameIsElias

A few months ago, Zenimax added a loadingscreen barrier around Bravil in Cyrodiil without ever saying why. Could this be in preperation for future dlc/chapter? I've also been told that it was to prevent people from carrying scrolls into the town, so this could just be a coincidence

ArchMikem

Ooooh, well color me interested. I hope it has nothing to do with PvP though.

Karmanorway

I sense a completely rework of IC, from before it was Destroyed... Remember the "hints" from the final psijic quest?

Zardayne

JaZ2091 wrote: »

Stridig wrote: »

Since they can't fix the lag, they will just put an end to Cyrodiil?

Yeah for real, might as well have the Imperials recapture it and turn it to a overland zone. Might as well focus on BGs for PvP.

If they did something ignorant like that, I'd be out.