Interesting. It would be fun for me but I don't know about others. However, the issue I see is that almost all of the lore is available online - and while some (me, for instance) wouldn't "cheat", others would just to "rank it up".

Or there could be an NPC Loremaster in random places asking you questions on lore, and it could be like those random encounters like giving to the poor or M'aiq. Answers could be timed to discourage internet searches, though it doesn't really matter if you cheat, you're learning something anyway.



"And the wind calls me.... (Poorly made wind sounds)"

I think the Antiquities system is a great solution for this in TES, and the amount of back-and-forth discussion and debate the guild members provide over each item you dig up highlights why a simple "right or wrong" quiz system for TES lore wouldn't work.

Unlike most fantasy worlds, lore books in TES aren't unquestionable. If you read a book about events in Dragon Age Origins, you just assume "yep, that's what happened. The devs wrote this for backstory." But in TES it's really important to remember that an NPC wrote each book, and you have to think "were they a contemporary source, or writing about this hundreds of years after the event? Do they have a political or cultural bias? Are they being hired to write this?" etc. So often there isn't a right answer.

Yokuda is a great example of this. A lot of lore fans latch on to the anime idea that it was sunk by an Ansei with a nuclear sword stroke. Meanwhile there is lore in-game that suggests it hasn't sunk at all and trade is alive and well in TES4 Oblivion's era with Yokuda. Personally I would suggest that since we know (via the Crowns and Forebears leaving Yokuda post-war at different times) it doesn't make much sense for the Ansei to execute a point-blank range island-sinking nuke and then sheath their swords and say "Well lads, I guess we'd best pack our things that miraculously survived the nuke, board those ships over there that miraculously survived the nuke, and wave goodbye to all these other folks who miraculously survived the nuke, who will now just... tread water for a few decades I guess before following us to the eastern lands." But the point is, without concrete evidence, it's all just something we can debate, and no-one can rightly or wrongly say what factually happened in Yokuda.

That's why Antiquities is perfect imo for a loremaster playstyle. Like in real life, there's still so much we just don't know about ancient empires like Egypt and Mesopotamia, and the best way to try and figure that out and discuss the possibilities with others is to get digging Though ZOS, I would love an extension to Antiquities that has delving into ancient ruins etc, digging down there, taking rubbings of ancient tablets, translating ancient texts etc. Still so much potential with this system than just digging overland.