So, next chapter will be in Skyrim. Will we see anything about Snow Elves?

Neoealth

CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »

TheShadowScout wrote: »

CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »

An ancient race resurfacing, literally, is simply not a scenario that ESO has explored yet.

Uhm... you do realize dragons are an "ancient race thought extinct", right?
And there are just so many things they can dredge up despite them never ever being mentioned in the lore afterwards... it worked with the year of the dragon, but I doubt it could become a recurring theme.

But hey, who knows... there are sooo many possibilities. Even without "resurfacing snow elves", which would be more like "surfacing falmer degenerate descendants of snow elves" anyhow... which totally could be a thing of course! But then I'd really want some play with dark caverns where a hero goes to kill those dastardly creatures while clinging their torch for light while the falmer set traps and double back to ambush them... or maybe am I just having "Goblin Slayer" flashbacks again?

Another interesting premise might be the explosion of dragonpower and magic in elsweyr at the end of that battle waking something up that should have kept sleeping. Or, well, being dead.
And while the snow elvers -are- dead... well... there is always ways their corpses could rise as undead ice armies (although that would be a tad "Song of Fire and Ice", yes?)
Of course, it could also be artifacts. Even tho we had that in murkmire already...

Then there is also the Reachmen option, since those would be entirely different from dragon cults or undead as we had in elsweyr (which would also rule out dragon priests, since they are ... basically more of the same and the cult of the new moon?), or the dwemer stuff we still remember from CWC. Which would come with a serving of briarheart magics, so there is that. But the ever flaring up conflict between the nords and the reachmen... would do well for western skyrim and a vestige to set some troubles right, yes? And it would be nice to have a expansion where the main baddies are just people being... people, instead of some supernatural force behind everything, be it deadra or dragon, yes?

And there could be so many optins there, like... being involved with the Bards College in Solitude or helping the College of Winterhold, both of which exist in this time...
Oh, well. Guess we shall see how it goes, right?

True.

With that said... The relationship between mortals and dragons was always different between mortals and well, other mortals.

Many dragons had delusions of godhood. The Snow Elves/Falmer? Not really. In fact their devotion, respect and loyalty to the divines was some of the strongest of any race.

Regardless of how accurate my "never explored yet" comment actually is, I'm still rather quite convinced that the Snow Elves/Falmer will play a big part in the next story.

And it would absolutely be very different to a dragon outbreak. Like I say, they are still mortal. Very long-lived mortals apparently, but still mortal no less.

Dragon's didn't really have delusions of god hood, a drogon soul is a shard of akatosh which is divine. They are just bound to nirn much like the other aedra in one way or another. They are also not mortal since their souls are capable of returning to their bodies (unless a hungry dragonborn eats their soul)

And compared to mortals they were basically demi gods. And easily ruled over them, even making mortals worship them for a time. I mean, they can destroy things just by having a conversation.

Van_Winkle

Snow Elves? I hope, we will finally see really new content (not few quests and small zone), class balance and optimization. Even new servers, but this is doubtful...

Grianasteri

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

They're all dead by this point.

So were "Dragons" (Wyverns).

Asardes

Grianasteri wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

They're all dead by this point.

So were "Dragons" (Wyverns).

Not really. Dragons only died out in Skyrim, there was quite a bit of lore about surviving Dragons in other zones. Also Dragons are immortal - if they die, thy are reborn after a time. For example the dragon with the broken horn from Elsweyr, Nahfahlaar, later shows up as mercenary working for Tiber Septim. There are also mentions of Dragons still being alive preeminent in certain regions of Akavir, so it's not totally impossible for some to fly to Tamriel from time to time even outside the dragon invasion in Elsweyr in the 2nd era or Skyrim in the 1st and 4th eras.

Chaos2088

Again the lore is not 100% set in stone, there could be a snow elf settlement left in this era, and we help them relocate somewhere else? They could of gone to an island off from Tamriel. Or even to atmora....

Again not going to know till we get our hands on the chapter.

Snow elves would be cool tho.