Lore-side, what to be expected on Wednesday? (French - English subtitles)

Ajaxandriel

Hello!
I did a video to sum up some hints and possibilities about this year's chapter, theme and new features

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ho9g0ywLTA

I'm a french speaker but I did the translation

My main hypotheses are

- Telvanni, Dres and Redoran lands + spellcrafting
- Falinesti and Bosmeri lands + spellcrafting/"talecrafting"
- Pyandonea + new playable race

what are yours?

Darkstorne

Great video!

I would LOVE Falinesti. It's my dream Chapter at this point, especially after High Isle and Galen demonstrated that ZOS have finally figured out how to create dense forest in this engine. I just don't want to get my hopes up too much for that when they've been dropping strong Telvanni hints.

FeedbackOnly

Spell crafting + Bosmer

Jaimeh

-Falinesti is a good guess, because if they do Wood Elf chapter, it's the logical zone for the story to take place in, since most of the other areas have been featured in the base game. Also, Falinesti returns at the end of the 2nd era, so the story could perhaps involve putting events in motion for its future reappearance.

-Spell crafting fits with the 'most requested' description, but I doubt it will be that because ZOS has shot down the idea for years, and it would be a little weird if they suddenly came out with that. Plus, I think if they do spellcrafting, it will be a very watered down version of what people have in mind, for balancing reasons.

-I don't know how likely Pyandonea would be, though I would love for us to travel outside of Tamriel. On the one hand I think the official stance is to leave certain worlds to the imagination and mystery, on the other hand, the sentence 'the fate of two worlds...' could be mean two geographical locations, like Tamriel and Pyandonea, and it would couple very well with the introduction of the Maormer class.

-New (Maormer) class is also another thing that's been high requested. We already have sea elves in the game, and the latest dungeons/trials introduced some water-based skills and visuals that could very well be part of the skill kit of a new Maormer class.

-Telvanni lands: there have been hints in this year's chapter about it, but at the same time, there's also been hints about other things, for example, a bard class, etc. So I think sometimes they do that on purpose to keep players guessing. It's definitely a possibility, and it would be popular choice with the fans, but imo, since wood elves and redguards havent't had a proper chapter yet, I doubt they would devote another one to dark elves.

Ajaxandriel

Darkstorne wrote: »

Great video!

I would LOVE Falinesti. It's my dream Chapter at this point, especially after High Isle and Galen demonstrated that ZOS have finally figured out how to create dense forest in this engine. I just don't want to get my hopes up too much for that when they've been dropping strong Telvanni hints.

Thank you very much!

Yes and at the same time that would be a strange move to go for Telvanni lands with two races still "forgotten" aside.
The last hint talks about Redgard lands too, yet nobody expects Hegathe or Riyad or Yokuda.
Seemingly there are hints towards Pyandonea also.

Very difficult to see where it goes, unlike last year!

Jaimeh wrote: »

-New (Maormer) class is also another thing that's been high requested. We already have sea elves in the game, and the latest dungeons/trials introduced some water-based skills and visuals that could very well be part of the skill kit of a new Maormer class.

I think a race instead of a class would be a very new feature, and people wouldn't feel pushed to reroll to try it (paying a rerace may seem easier for most, I confess I would use crowns to change my sorc "high elf" maormer if it would came true)
But it can definitely come along with a new class, like Aquamancer kind-of

Someone told me they would not have to display all of Pyandonea at once, but instead introduce few zones, like a coast, some isles...

Also, now they won't follow "1 year = 1 region" we may be surprised about how diverse the 2023 theme could be?

Aliyavana

Its necrom

Jaimeh

Ajaxandriel wrote: »

Jaimeh wrote: »

-New (Maormer) class is also another thing that's been high requested. We already have sea elves in the game, and the latest dungeons/trials introduced some water-based skills and visuals that could very well be part of the skill kit of a new Maormer class.

I think a race instead of a class would be a very new feature, and people wouldn't feel pushed to reroll to try it (paying a rerace may seem easier for most, I confess I would use crowns to change my sorc "high elf" maormer if it would came true)
But it can definitely come along with a new class, like Aquamancer kind-of

Someone told me they would not have to display all of Pyandonea at once, but instead introduce few zones, like a coast, some isles...

Yeah, I meant water-based class, but it got tied to sea-elves in my head Though the Maormer race is also highly requested, but I think a new class is more exciting and involved than a new race, since racial passives are not that important (which is good, so we can play for aesthetics), and it's already pretty easy to RP as a sea elf with certain cosmetics. I do hope they decide to go outside Tamriel, it'd be a pretty huge deal.

Araneae6537

I would love any of those possibilities and hope you’re right and that the theme won’t be, as some have suggested, more Nord/Skyrim/Solsteim stuff.

SerasWhip

Darkstorne wrote: »

Great video!

I would LOVE Falinesti. It's my dream Chapter at this point, especially after High Isle and Galen demonstrated that ZOS have finally figured out how to create dense forest in this engine. I just don't want to get my hopes up too much for that when they've been dropping strong Telvanni hints.

I'd take Telvanni over Falinesti any day.

jtm1018

I saw Wednesday dance and it was awesome.

It really fits her character.

BretonMage

Aliyavana wrote: »

Its necrom

That would fit the two worlds criterion, and fits the occluding mists theme.

jtm1018

I just hope Naryu is involved, since most players are thinking darkelf theme?
I just love Naryu, just saying.

Ajaxandriel

Maybe it could be both

"two worlds" meaning the cultural "world" of the Bosmeri and the cultural "world" of the Telvanni.
After all, the tree-pod houses of the wood elves look like the (future?) telvanni towers, and there wa a wood elf grower aiding the local wizard in Tel Mora (in chapter Morrowind)...

Zyva

I want more cats. Just put cats in the zone, let me pet them, I will go there.

Vasoka

Whiterun, I deeply hope. Otherwise something Bosmer related.

colossalvoids

My hopes are that writing would eventually recover, so anything we're getting won't be dreaded but enjoyed no matter racial biases. It's will be really easy to go from great dunmer chapter into utter trash by just mediocre writing.

Ajaxandriel

Vasoka wrote: »

Whiterun, I deeply hope.

I must confess the Nord lore is the least interest I have currently, but I'd say well, fine if there is a zone in Atmora iteself.