cuddles_with_wroble wrote: »

None of the stories are really connected, you can complete each zone in whatever order you want and it has no real impact on any of the stories

with one tamriel though and th ability to go to any zone, do all quests etc what is the current point in 2025 to do Cadwell's Almanac? i dont like sound of all nps forgetting who i am etc?

Adam_Chattaway wrote: »

cuddles_with_wroble wrote: »

None of the stories are really connected, you can complete each zone in whatever order you want and it has no real impact on any of the stories

with one tamriel though and th ability to go to any zone, do all quests etc what is the current point in 2025 to do Cadwell's Almanac? i dont like sound of all nps forgetting who i am etc?

Since One Tamriel you can do each alliance's storyline without needing Cadwell to send you there, but Silver and Gold provide a framework for completing those alliance questlines (with some cosmetic rewards for doing so).

The main point of doing those storylines is to experience those stories without having to use a different character. In the olden days that was the only way to even get into the other alliance zones, but now it's mostly just a relic from the before times that serves as a framework to point you to the next available storyline.

The thing about NPCs forgetting you isn't meant to wipe away any experiences your character has already had. It mostly means that when you're sent to start the next alliance's story, you'll be seen as a newbie rather than as the person who has already saved Nirn from the Planemeld. Whether you want to consider it a dream, or an alternate timeline, or some kind of Meridia illusion magic hiding who you really are, the people you meet will consider you a member of that alliance and won't acknowledge the things you've done in your "real" adventuring history.

If the Covenant is your home alliance, and you haven't done all of the available quests there, then you can still finish that off any time. Accepting the quest for Silver mostly just puts an extra objective in your quest journal, and once you finish the next alliance zone story you can go back to Cadwell and get your bonus reward. And then go on to Gold and do the same thing with the third alliance. And if you don't feel like doing those storylines because you'd rather jump to a DLC or something, you can absolutely do that. Accepting Cadwell's Almanac doesn't take anything away from you or prevent you from going anywhere you want to go.

Adam_Chattaway wrote: »

cuddles_with_wroble wrote: »

None of the stories are really connected, you can complete each zone in whatever order you want and it has no real impact on any of the stories

with one tamriel though and th ability to go to any zone, do all quests etc what is the current point in 2025 to do Cadwell's Almanac? i dont like sound of all nps forgetting who i am etc?

It doesn't actually change how the NPCs react to you. The quests are all the same whether you do them through Cadwell's Almnac or just by going to the zones and starting them normally.

The line about everyone forgetting who you are was put in as lore justification for not having seperate Cadwells/veteran zone versions of the quests, so NPCs from other alliances who appear at the end of the Main Story or otherwise should know who you are will treat you like a random stranger when you're in their alliance, because you're doing the same version of the quests as people who start in that Alliance. But that's the way it's always been, One Tamriel didn't change it, moving the starting point to the latest chapter didn't change it (and that's now been reverted) and starting Cadwell's Almnac won't change it.

It also doesn't affect how NPCs in your alliance zones (and in DLC and chapter zones) refer to you.