But...............the hatching did happen, didn't it?

Jeremy wrote: »

If I had to guess: it would be because of the Justice System. Allowing players to run around murdering children might be a little too much for the developers.

Who says they had to be murdered? Give them god mode like the guards and then have them run off screaming for help.

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I mean, hell, Skyrim originally had murder-able children as a default until a few vocal people whined saying that the game would cause real child murders IRL lol...and that is why you need to use a command or a mod to re-enable that.

On occasion I will "aquire" a few little items like this which seem to mention children in some form or another:



There seems to be rather compelling evidence strewn throughout Tamriel leaning towards the existence of children in this timeline... the question is, where are they now? Where did they go, and when are they coming back? We know they have to return sometime before the next Dragon War as there are children in Skyrim. Perhaps the dragons have something to do with this?

Necrelios wrote: »

On occasion I will "aquire" a few little items like this which seem to mention children in some form or another:



There seems to be rather compelling evidence strewn throughout Tamriel leaning towards the existence of children in this timeline... the question is, where are they now? Where did they go, and when are they coming back? We know they have to return sometime before the next Dragon War as there are children in Skyrim. Perhaps the dragons have something to do with this?

I assume all three alliances sold their children into slavery in Akavir to fund their war. Then once the war is over all three alliances will go.to Akavir and take their children back.

There should be kids in TES games and ESO, they just need to not be obnoxious like the ones in Skyrim. You know "children should be seen, not heard". Basically only there to make the world feel a bit more real. In Skyrim it's like the devs wanted to taunt us with the fact that you could not attack children by making you WANT to attack them with such lines as "oh great, another wanderer here to lick my father's boots... good job" Shut up punk, I'm downloading a mod right now so I can make you a colorful smear on the ground, then you'll be sorry you said that....

GW2 manages to have children in it that are cute, not obnoxious.

There are a lot of child-centric items to steal; I keep getting bronzed baby teeth too lately.

Arato wrote: »

There should be kids in TES games and ESO, they just need to not be obnoxious like the ones in Skyrim. You know "children should be seen, not heard". Basically only there to make the world feel a bit more real. In Skyrim it's like the devs wanted to taunt us with the fact that you could not attack children by making you WANT to attack them with such lines as "oh great, another wanderer here to lick my father's boots... good job" Shut up punk, I'm downloading a mod right now so I can make you a colorful smear on the ground, then you'll be sorry you said that....

GW2 manages to have children in it that are cute, not obnoxious.

As someone who works with kids on a daily basis, having a snot nose brat who mouths off to you is just par for the course in reality. Not being able to do anything about simply because this is a game should be fine ( mean guards mock you all the time, is it really that bad kids could too? )

Also, I think that sneak attacking a child should allow you "knock them out" without killing them. Making them a playable element without being too violent but still participating in the justice system by not being an immovable watch dog. Heck, I think all essential NPCs should be knock out able under the right circumstances (except maybe shop keepers and quest givers).

OT: But uh, yeah it's kinda sad there aren't any kids in the game at all. I think on one of the ESO live shows they may have hinted that it has something to do with the soulburst not allowing new souls to journey to Mundus, ergo no new life can be born on Tamriel unless you're Argonian (since technically Argonians may not be born with souls and they could be gifted to them as part of the "hist licking" naming/sex assignment ceremony).

Nutronic wrote: »

Arato wrote: »

There should be kids in TES games and ESO, they just need to not be obnoxious like the ones in Skyrim. You know "children should be seen, not heard". Basically only there to make the world feel a bit more real. In Skyrim it's like the devs wanted to taunt us with the fact that you could not attack children by making you WANT to attack them with such lines as "oh great, another wanderer here to lick my father's boots... good job" Shut up punk, I'm downloading a mod right now so I can make you a colorful smear on the ground, then you'll be sorry you said that....

GW2 manages to have children in it that are cute, not obnoxious.

As someone who works with kids on a daily basis, having a snot nose brat who mouths off to you is just par for the course in reality. Not being able to do anything about simply because this is a game should be fine ( mean guards mock you all the time, is it really that bad kids could too? )

Also, I think that sneak attacking a child should allow you "knock them out" without killing them. Making them a playable element without being too violent but still participating in the justice system by not being an immovable watch dog. Heck, I think all essential NPCs should be knock out able under the right circumstances (except maybe shop keepers and quest givers).

OT: But uh, yeah it's kinda sad there aren't any kids in the game at all. I think on one of the ESO live shows they may have hinted that it has something to do with the soulburst not allowing new souls to journey to Mundus, ergo no new life can be born on Tamriel unless you're Argonian (since technically Argonians may not be born with souls and they could be gifted to them as part of the "hist licking" naming/sex assignment ceremony).

Yeah but you can turn around and attack the guards if you want... you might not win because they made them ridiculously overpowered in ESO.. but you can try.

They could add this.

LOTRO was like this, and on one of the patch they decided, ok, now we can add children. And everyone's OK with the sudden changes.

And they add it just before they got housing. Which makes housing neighbourhoods alot better.


But yeah, with the justice/thief system, things could get a little awkward. Maybe don't allow children to be targetted? Or if you try to attack a child, Molag Bal will consume your "evil" and you "died" and get immediately sent to the nearest wayshrine?

I'm ok with that.

Gidorick wrote: »

So on ESO Live they shared this bit of information:

ZOS_JasonLeavey wrote: »

randolphbenoit - Why no children in the game? Feels unreal only adults and chickens everywhere...

Hermaeus Mora knows...

Hermaeus Mora is the prince over Knowledge and Fate and I have been wondering how this could fit into the lore of ESO. Is it possible what we are experiencing isn't actually happening? That ESO is somehow just a memory of some sort?

It's always been interesting to me that the Prince over Knowledge and Fate never achieved CHIM (or if he had, never chose to weild it) which, essentially, is a mastery over both. He could reshape Mundus how he desired instead of being confined to Apocrypha. Unless, I suppose, he's content with simply having Knowledge instead of weilding it as a force - though his machinations within Mundus make it seem as though he'd prefer to weild a larger amount of power within it.

Edit: Realized my post was more a tangent than an actual comment on if we can take Jason's line literally. Sorry!

AhPook_Is_Here wrote: »

It's because this isn't the real Tamriel, just an oblivion pocket realm Meridia made for us after we died fighting Molog so that we could continue to ammuse her with her clever heroic scenarios.

You're probably right.... This would be very depressing. I really hope were not in a vision or a dragon break or whatever.

The parents keep them hidden away in the Imperial City.

Otherwise, Sheogorath turns them into cheese.

Can you imagine the lag if there were loads of NPC children running around chasing dogs and cats?? Oh.....wait..... we already have the lag.

If they did insert children into the game, they'd have to explain, why you can't kill children.