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I just realized we there is an important character we don't have in ESO
Hygiliack
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I was replaying Skyrim, and after doing the Bards College, I realized that we have not seen "the most important bard in the 2nd era" Rjorn, he is painted as a very important character, so why don't we have him!!! Please Zeni, pretty please Add Rjorn, maybe as a character you can find randomly traveling through Tamriel, similar to M'aiq, but maybe more random instead of in fixed positions, and with comments related to whatever exploits you have completed with your character so far in that game 
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KhajiitiLizard✭✭✭✭✭The 2nd Era was a long time period. The ESO story started 582 years into it after all. Chances are he is long dead.13 -
wolfie1.0.✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭KhajiitiLizard wrote: »The 2nd Era was a long time period. The ESO story started 582 years into it after all. Chances are he is long dead.
or not yet born....9 -
bmnoble✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Maybe he wasn't appreciated during his time and only called the most important bard of the 2nd era from the 3rd era or later onward.
That or he might still be at the point in his career where he is doing gigs in local taverns to just get by.6 -
spartaxoxo✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭He could also just be some dude who hasn't become a hard yet. For all we know, he's just some guy that chops firewood atm.6 -
MasterSpatula✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭spartaxoxo wrote: »He could also just be some dude who hasn't become a hard yet. For all we know, he's just some guy that chops firewood atm.
"This work isn't going to do itself." - Rjorn, the woodchopper with a dream."A probable impossibility is preferable to an improbable possibility." - Aristotle12 -
Credible_Joe✭✭✭✭✭Monte_Cristo wrote: »
The real Rjorn was the friends we made along the wayThank you for coming to my T E D talk10 -
Aliyavana✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Speaking of bardic figures, I’d like to see Kieran the Bard considering he has shrines of worship by the third era. Assuming he is real. Its unspecified when he was around, and he’d be great to depict someone relevant to Breton’s bardic traditions.Edited by Aliyavana on March 20, 2025 12:51PM3 -
NotaDaedraWorshipper✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Rjorn was said to have been in the "Second age", which is very likely a way to say the second era, which is when ESO takes place. Buuuut, the second era went on for 896 years. ESO takes place is 582. That is 314 years left of it, so it's fully plausible he hasn't been born yet. In fact it would make the most sense he hasn't been born yet because the closer to the third era it is, the more likely history of him would be remembered.[Lie] Of course! I don't even worship Daedra!3 -
ArchMikem✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭KhajiitiLizard wrote: »The 2nd Era was a long time period. The ESO story started 582 years into it after all. Chances are he is long dead.
The 2nd Era is 896 years long and ESO is smack dab in the middle of it. I know Humans can live quite long in Elder Scrolls ie. Abnur Tharn but definitely this character could be long dead or not even born yet for us.
Let's just be glad ESO wasn't set in the 1st Era, which was nearly 3,000 years long.Edited by ArchMikem on March 20, 2025 10:18PMCP2,100 Master Explorer - AvA Two Star Warlord - Console Peasant - Khajiiti Aficionado - The Clan
Quest Objective: OMG Go Talk To That Kitty!3 -
JavaRen✭✭✭✭✭
✭Huh, I had to go check into the lore on Rjorn, it looks like all we know is those few sentences spoken by one character in Skyrim. Not sure that qualifies as an 'important character."5 -
LootAllTheStuff✭✭✭✭✭Huh, I had to go check into the lore on Rjorn, it looks like all we know is those few sentences spoken by one character in Skyrim. Not sure that qualifies as an 'important character."
Seems like there was a bit of a missed opportunity in the game there. Rjorn is described as the greatest battle drummer:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Rjorn's_Drum
And then in the ESO Bard's college quest to recover all the missing instruments we have the Reman War Drum:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:An_Instrumental_Triumph
So was Rjorn's drum actually the Reman War Drum, which Rjorn took from the Bard's College to participate in battles in the latter half of the 2nd Age? Or should it have actually been called Rjorn's drum in the ESO Western Skyrim quest and he'd already made a name for himself using it?
Edit: Don't have that chapter, but is Halldir's Cairn (the location where you find the drum in the Skyrim quest) included in the Falkreath map? Another missed opportunity if not (although the mention in Skyrim is indeed a little obscure).
Edited by LootAllTheStuff on March 21, 2025 12:51AM1 -
kargen27✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭He is leading all the children in a sing-a-long followed by a good game of hide and seek.and then the parrot said, "must be the water mines green too."3 -
wolfie1.0.✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭It is the bards college though... how do we know he actually existed? He could be a mythical figure (king Arthur style).
Or maybe... we find out that the reason the 3 faction war started was really because there was an annoying neighbor that wouldn't stop playing the drums till 4am...5
