Not really. IIRC Todd Howard said it would be a lot harder for a TES series to work. And unlike Fallout, TES has been out of the spotlight for a lot longer.
Yes, that's essentially the reason he gave but I haven't seen his exact quote in a while.
Fallout has a very unique identity when discussing post-nuclear media when you look at it at a glance (which is essentially what promotional materials are). Power Armor, Vault suits, Ghouls, retro-futuristic 50's Americana, etc.
A lot of the standout worldbuilding and lore for TES is deep and weird, not the kind of stuff that is easily conveyed with a brief look. When put alongside other big names in the medieval fantasy landscape, it doesn't stand out as much in that regard. And I mean TES as a whole, not just any part of the individual games.
I also think if they wait for Neflix' Witcher to die out, that would open up the slot for TES series. I'm sure it would be Prime, and they tend to do a good job. Not sure if Prime already has a Witcher-y medieval fantasy series or not.
As a fan of fantasy and TES, I'd love a series and I do think it eventually happens. Imagine if they start with Morrowind or Oblivion, and a few seasons later they post credit tease the Dragonborn season? Literal chills.
Nah. That would only push away the people who have no idea about TES.
The series must start with Skyrim, dragons, and Dragonborn, as the publicly best-known part of the TES lore, to pull in a critical mass of fans (who might know nothing about TES, but know about Game of Thrones and/or LotR/Hobbit and Smaug). Then, if the ratings are good, the second season might be something like "Tamriel Chronicles" and show the Morrowind story.
Honestly, I think it could work if they set the series WAY back during the rebellion against the Dragon Cult. Still gets you the Skyrim recognition by way of having Nords fighting dragons, but also a) allows for greater artistic freedom, since we really don't know THAT much about that era, and b) leaves open the possibility of moving your way through Tamrielic history without having to go backwards, like what you suggest
I was thinking a way earlier era like that. Or the original war with the elves, or even another land entirely as we know there are other continents in the world.
I understand the necessity for a show to be similar to their most successful product (although the fallout series didn't immediately start with FO4 or NV). But kind of done with fantasy shows overusing dragons. I welcome morrowind and oblivion. But I started with morrowind.
I was going to say Prime already has Wheel Of Time, but TIL they cancelled the series due to high costs and not enough viewership đ. The books are great and they could have milked the series for years with 15 books of material to use. Oh well, seems like Amazon wouldnât try another series like this for awhile given how this went.
The biggest reason the Fallout show works is that it is NOT a show following any game. It uses the setting, touches on locations, people and is packed with references. They arenât following any game linked character for any length of time, they arenât in any place long enough for those familiar with it to have issues.
TES wouldnât work in the same way. The setting isnât unique enough at a glance. While there are great bits of lore and world building most of those require more explanation than really works in a series like that to differentiate it from any other fantasy world.
And if you try to follow a particular gameâs story then you run into the issue that every thing they do is going to end up not quite matching enough for the fans.
Just look at all the other game inspired series, any time they donât dramatically depart from a preexisting story they end up mediocre at best. And TES just doesnât have enough unique and recognizable enough setting to be understood by any but the deepest fans. Who will also be those most disappointed in all the inevitable deviations.
I always say Skyrim got so popular because it came out right after Game of Thrones ended the first season so people were hyped for a game that looked just like it. I tried to watch the show but couldnât get into it myself. It started off cool with the draugr zombie guys at the beginning but didnt capture me from there.
There's literally a show running right now about a post-apocalyptic world where people live in a series of vaults which are kinda for their protection and kinda also not and the main character gets forced out into the world to find it isn't quite what they expected.
I mean, yeah, it's definitely less common than LOTR-alike high fantasy over the last 20 years, but right now it's actually not terribly unique.
Thatâs not the only reason. Fallout can be filmed with a below average amount of digital special effects and heavy practical effects, whereas an ES series would need it in nearly every scene.
On the contrary, the general public doesn't seem to care that something is a samey copy of 20 other things they've watched. So if they don't notice it isn't that then that's probably not even a problem.
beaucuse morrowind its interesting and makes you want to explore the lore but in skyrim the main villian is some black dragon that speaks english is stupid
"In today's episode, the Dragonborn just sprints in a random direction and enters whatever location they find! Could it be a Dwarven ruin? A Nord barrow? Some herbalist's hut? Watch how our intrepid hero discovers 23 locations then fucks off to fish for several hours!"
Is that not just describing fallout as well? I don't really care about Fallout as a series so I haven't watched the show, but it doesn't actually follow the "protagonist" from any of the games right? It's a new character they developed just for the show.
Like if they made a Skyrim show, I wouldn't expect them to follow the dragonborn (mainly because Bethesda doesn't want to give the dragonborn or any protag a default race/appearance) but instead I feel the show would be about the civil war. You follow a stormcloak or imperial soldier, maybe a newbie rising through the ranks or a more important higher up. You could even do a dual protagonist one on each side if you don't want to make either side seem better than the other and keep them equal. Of course you can have mentions from characters in the show about the Dragonborn.
The plot of the video game Skyrim wouldn't work well as a TV show, but the lore of The Elder Scrolls is so rich and dense, you absolutely could make a show from itÂ
If you want to watch a show about Elder Scrolls lore, just watch one of several Elder Scrolls lore youtubers like FudgeMuppet, TheEpicNate, and Camelworks. Trust me, there are some looooong and detailed videos about Elder Scrolls lore. And speaking as someone who enjoys said videos, I would highly recommend them.
Game of thrones is very grounded I think. It feels like it couldâve happened in our world. All of the magical elements are very very old and donât really have a place in that worldâs modern day.
TES is pretty weird and intricate. There is magic everywhere. There are cat and lizard people. There is an overwhelming amount of weird fantasy lore you can pull from, but what really would center the show? Most of the stories Iâd think theyâd tell would just be more âgenericâ fantasy and not really do the franchise justice.
Iâm sure Bethesda/producers could figure that one out, I just donât have the vision.
I could see it working if they went the route of the trio from all the ESO trailers. Not one particular hero but more or less a TES themed d&d party/campaign
Although if they did do it, I think the best route might be to take a page from the parodies in the community: avoid main characters like the Dragonborn or Nerravar. Tell the story around, or exclude them entirely in place of a band of heroes.
Ngl I feel like it cod make a fire animated series, but if it ever happened it'd be a 1billion dollar tv show with live actors that either takes 5 years a season or gets canceled after the first
I wish more directors/producers understood this about adaptations, I would much much rather watch an animated series instead of them butcher a live action (rip witcher my beloved) đ
Thatâs a great point. A Skyrim show would be amazing but writers/executives/directors could easily mess it up beyond recognition. A TES show in general would be entirely too expansive for one show. It would need to be a series of shows.
I donât feel like thereâs a cohesive enough story to tell. Fallout is a world you could write a million stories for that could be pretty easily told. Both games have a lot of wandering around but fallout is way easier to tell relatable contemporary stories without a crazy amount of long-term World building.
I just want an animated series akin to castlevania or dmc set in the 1st Era with Alessia, Pelinal, and Morihaus as tritagonists. It doesnât have to take away from the mystery. If done right it can actually add to the mystery.
For one, to much in world racism for them to replicate lol. Hollywood ainât gonna like when they shoot the Windhelm docks and the nords just stand there berating all the Argonians.
Fallout is an entertaining show but I doesnât require any amazing writing to hold it together. An elder scrolls show would need to rival game of thrones, a next to impossible task.
And Elder Scrolls doesn't really have any characters, it seems. At least GOT had books and books of established characters. Even Fallout has like Mr. House.
I think that Fallout just has a way more interesting world to tell stories in, the TES games really shine because you are the main character, without that, the lore and world building around it would be way too blunt and generic to tell anything but a generic fantasy story.
I think elder scrolls media would only work for super fans who would buy multiple books that provide context for a SHOW that relies on a lot of background knowledge, or else itd come off really shallow and/or generic, especially if we follow the dragon born
If we assumed we had multiple seasons the size of Game of Thrones, I think 5 seasons would be appropriate, covering parts of each era and following particular people of importance, but again would be a very difficult show to execute properly
It's difficult to pull , we're talking about talking cats and lizards walking on two feet , elves of different shapes , the plot can be anything, the problem is how to not make those creatures look goofy but more realistic, like avatar , do they have such budget?
Possible is doing a lot of work, but I think after the relative flop of some other recent fantasy series, finding the money to produce a quality TES series would be difficult, before getting to the actual question of - what would the series even be about?
Why would you want that, is my question? I love Skyrim and oblivion, but the fun is in playing them. The elder scrolls are bog standard fantasy worlds, they don't bring anything to the table that tv would be able to handle in an interesting way. And after years of got, witcher, and other really middling fantasy series, I just don't care
I don't think that it would transfer well to tv. I mean, Witcher books, lore and games are interesting, but the show sucks.
It's too much of a lore to entertain casuals, but dumbing it down would leave hardcore fans very unhappy, and then the series would be just another fantasy Netflix series.
I think it could work as long as it didn't follow just a single Dragonborn. Maybe different iterations of the Dragonborn that we get familiar with (ie: just like how we all make a different Dragonborn in our gameplay) so that way it could be more plausible to explore different storylines without sacrificing character development. And it'd be interesting to see the different choices the different Dragonborns go with versus one guy that is somehow just doing everything
Is a TES series that does the franchise+continuity justice possible? : unlikely. There will be retcons, accidental or otherwise.
Is a TES series that doesn't look like generic fantasy possible? : Hard no. Anything that touches old Dunmer lore or Kirkbride's work will get veto'd into oblivion by shareholders.
Fantasy is way harder and more expensive to produce on screen and look premium, Got was a lot of money, and even if well produced, itnwould take a lot of time, and prime wouldn't be looking to compete with their other fantasy shows rn.
Now, what TES would be the perfect IP to adapt for is an adult animated series in the vein of Castlevania, Critical Role/Vox Machina, Arcane and the like. Man, that would kick ass and be orders of magnitude cheaper and quicker to produce with much lower risk, and just be an awesome result.
As much as I like the concept, I donât think itâd work past one season. Weâve got the Wheel of Time that was canceled too soon, and the Dungeons and Dragons movie, which I loved, apparently was not profitable enough to have a sequel. Both are similar enough, in the fantasy realm, that I donât think TES would stand out enough
I don't think they gonna do it
But if they do it, I hope it's something like a 3 character story (kinda like fallout) where you have the dragonborn, someone for the civil war and someone for a secondary plot like thieves guild
Even tho I would like it better if there wasn't the alduin plot
Todd Howard said in an interview recently that he canât rule it in or out. Fallout has a better message to tell about power and war that fit better in TV. He didnât say a hard no but I wouldnât get your hopes up.
Personally Iâd love to see like an anthology of Elder Scrolls stories that take place at random points rather than a long-running series.
I feel like Skyrim would work really well for this. I mean it all depends on the writer on how they set it up. However, for Skyrim it will need to happen before he is captured. Make him a seasoned adventurer first and follow his hunts (basically some random like in Witcher). The overall story would then follow the political intrigue of the world and some blade/greybeards inputs, and lead to all the "the dragons are coming". Obviously being the Dragonborn would mean it is against the Nords, because of Ulfric. Some sort of "because of him I got captured while innocent".
tbh if there is i wouldnât watch it. not only will probably be a repeat of the Witcher show situation rn and probably not a true homage and exploration of the lore and world but the fun part abt tes to me (and maybe this is the writer coming out lol) is YOU make your story. i donât really want to watch a random Jon Skyrim save the world, or a random jane morrowind become Nerevarine. They keep the previous protagonistâs fate vague and identity vague on purpose because WE were the storytellers.
Could they try a slice of life or make up some new world-ending threat that someone has to rise to defeat? Sure, butâŚit started out as a video game. Itâs a reason I donât watch letâs plays either: if I want to play the game I donât want to watch someone I want to play it. I donât want to watch some characters doing something I could be doing. Thatâs just me though.
I also thinkâlike others have said in the commentsâthat the deeper lore and worldbuilding are not going to appeal to a wide audience. The average individual whoâs not already a TES fan and only casually interested in fantasy is not going to want to stick around for the esoteric and unique things about the series. It would be a leap thatâwith the over-fucking-inflated film industry budgetsâa multi-million or billion dollar money sink they wouldnât want to risk. Theyâre probably going to play it safe. Weâd get dragons and Nords and maybe some mer (who will probably be made to look less alien as they are in lore)
Idk. I hope they donât. I like us telling and sharing our characterâs stories with each other.
I mean it could work, you just need good writers who can understand the deep lore this franchise has.
If LoTr can do it, so can anyone else.
Dude finds out he has powers and can choose to help or not in the harsh reality that is skyrim while staying alive.
Witcher had a good first season.
Shit elden ring is just 1 guy beating gods so he can be the same thing and get killed by a guy trying to become a god and I look forward to that.
Man I grew up on shitty movie adaptations and am happy for what we get if anything.
It is inevitable if you ask me. Maybe when ASOIAF spin offs start to chill out a bit there will be a gap in the sword and sorcery zone for a proper elder scrolls series. Rings of power didnât do it for people and there will always be a market for epic heroic fantasy done properly. The Dragonborn saga is more compelling to me than any other elder scrolls lore so I reckon itâll be based on that. Iâd put money on it coming in the next ten years.
iâll go against the grain here and say it could be done successfully, but it would be challenging.
instead of having a unique set of characters in the modern era (around the timeline of the games) youâd likely need to go incredibly far back and canonize certain events that wonât have long lasting impact.
for example, doing a show that revolves around the life and rise of talos could be done with minimal impact on the future of the games, but youâd have to canonize some of the ambiguity around his character to effectively do it.
Personally? I think not, as someone else put, ES has been out of the spotlight for a while, so trying to drum up hype could prove challaging. Also, the history of most fantasy based television shows does not typically end well, e.g. The Witcher. They would have to tread real careful to not fall into the many pitfalls other shows have, although given Fallouts track record (limited as it may be) there is a chance it could prove successful.
As others have mentioned, the Elder Scrolls suffers from being a pretty detailed universe with a lot of lore inside the games and then central story points in the games themselves.
This is a lot like the 40k to TV show problem.
WHAT, WHERE, WHEN have to be defined to make something.
If they were to do an Elder Scrolls series, they'd need to answer the What, Where, When and they'd likely want to not do story lines from the games. This presents a challenge, as why do the fans want to watch it? To visit that world? Or to see their game on TV? There has to be a compelling narrative.
Why do new comers want to watch it?
I think the only way it could work is with the Star Wars approach on setting it in the TES verse after or between one of the main story lines.
Maybe after the Oblivion Crisis but before the Dragonborn or after the Dragonborn.
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I like the Fallout show, but a TES anthology would be more feasible than a dedicated series. Still don't think it's a good idea, but it would certainly work better.
I really don't see it happening. Fear it could be seen as too derivative of LoTR, GoT, and hell, even the Witcher series.
Unlikely to strike gold twice with a TES series.
Yes. The world is so big and diverse, so many different types of stories can be told that can barely be related to anything we see in game. A good enough writer can make it work. Shit, they can make a story about slavery or a desert frontier and it can still be lore-friendly.
Could be but probably. Although if they did do one, it would have to be close to perfect. It would be pretty cool if they actually put in some effort and hired good writers
Divines, I hope not. Like, can it be done? Absolutely. Literally just make any fantasy show with the right species of bipedal people and slap a TES logo on it. But would it capture the feel of the game in the way the Fallout show kind of does? I don't think it would.
I hope not. It would be a shameless poorly written mess based on memberberries rapidly cramming as many camios in as fast as it can and annoy most fans with how far off the source material it is.
Nah because TES is to simular to GOT and LOR and other medieval shows it would come off too cringe to make an movie or TV show on it without ruining lore now maybe an prequel to skyrim with aldrin first shows up might be dope
Probably but certainly not soon, at least not till 2030
Also what era it will be?
Thereâre ton of events which we could see, like Giber War, Potema Septim Civil War, War of the First Council, Alessian Slave Rebellion, Great War or completely new story. Though how would people take it? From what I saw FO Season 2 is dogshit where brotherhood shoots working car (something they would never do in games) and where Houseâs character was fully rewritten
Although what about argonians or khajiits? How their makeup or CGI will be done? And without two of them TES isnât TES
So I donât know, though TES events far greater and can be set in span of thousands of years, so they would probably do something in 1st or 2nd era
As much as I love TES,
It would probably end up being a shitty GoT ripoff in the eyes of the public and wouldn't perform well, fallout is a bit more unique but I feel like tes, while I love the games, its just your generic medieval fantasy era storyline that has been done many times
I do not want a TES television series and I don't think most of the fanbase does either.
Moreover, it would be difficult. TES has extremely complicated lore that differentiates it from a lot of contemporary fantasy. A discussion of where and when would need to be had and then substantial work would need to go into helping the audience understand the world enough to follow the plot. Video games are able to present this over time because they are interactive, you aren't just watching images over a screen.
Fallout as a television series works because it has enough broad connection to the real world for people to grab on to. Even today, young adults are vaguely familiar enough with the Cold War and the era from which the Fallout timeline deviates from our own, allowing them to understand "This is like our world, but different things happen after this point involving nations we are familiar within the real world. They eventually ended up in a nuclear war which, predictably, fucked everyone over. And this is the story of those who exist in the world afterwards."
Which is a lot more easy to digest than:
"This is a world existing in its own dimension between two other realms where older spirits lived which are known as Aedra and Daedra. It came to be when one of these old spirits tricked some of the others to invest some of their power to create it. Some of the spirits understood this would end up killing them and fled back out of this new realm, which is called Nirn, tearing holes in the veil between it and Aetherius, which is how the stars were formed. Later on Nirn mortals started to form, with some attesting that the Aldmer were the oldest. The Aldmer were the first elves and eventually split into different kinds of elves due to various geographic changes, strange magic, and daedric pettiness. Humans were around too, like the Nedes and the Yokudans. Most scholars believed that the Nedes come from Atmora, which is a continent north of Tamriel, the actual continent the stories of this series take place. Yokudans were from Yokuda, which eventually sank into the sea like Atlantis! THere's cat people too, who may have once been like the Mer, but something happened with magic or the Moon to make them like they are now. And there's these lizard people called Argonians who are actually descended from regular ass tree-dwelling lizards that drank the sap of these magical trees called the Hist and gained sentience as a result so now they kind of worship the trees. Kinda?
Eventually the Nedes and the Yokudans also came to Tamriel, where various elves or Mer as they are called had also settled. The Nedes would eventually become the Imperials and Nords, and interbreed with some elves to also become Bretons, but not before they were enslaved by elvish overlords, namely the Ayleids in the Nibenay Basin, where they would exist in slavery for thousands of years before one of them, named Alessia, and her lover, who was a Minotaur and is still beleived to be kicking around today, overthrew them in a bloody war and made a new Empire. This is the First Empire (there are at least 4 empires of note total: Alessian, Reman, Septim, and Mede). There's also Dwarves, which are actually elves, but with big beards and bigger golems, which are called Animunculi, and they disappeared, but no one really knows how or why, though the circumstances of their disappearance is really similar to this thing called a Dragon Break, which is when a lot of frayed timelines are reconnected to the main timeline and all their outcomes become true, which really fucks people up a little bit, because no one really knows what happened during them and only understands that time has changed.
Speaking of Dragons, there's those too, but they only recently returned en masse to Tamriel with most either being dead or in hiding between the Merethic Era and the Fourth Era. Only they aren't really dragons like we know them, sense they are really more or less fragments of the oversoul of Akatosh, who is the God of Time and one of the Aedra I mentioned earlier... (insert several hours of infodump here)"
No, GoT killed the scene for "medieval fantasy", Rings of Power wasn't enough to restore it. So now an elder scrolls series would be only appealing to part of the people that are already fans others would see it as a GoT/LotR wannabe; not really a capitalist dream.
I know, GoT was overall good, but as the ending got the reception it got (deserved from what I hear), new viewers and casuals won't be as receptive to a new series in the same setting. It sadly stained the genre for a time and even a strong franchise like LotR couldn't do much as Rings of Power wasn't that powerful.
Bro, absolutely! TES has such a rich lore & epic world, it'd slap as a series. Imagine the drama of Skyrim and madness of Oblivion on screen? Just take my money now đ¤
I've heard Todd has said it's unlikely and would be a lot harder to pull off, but I dunno...
One issue with Fallout is its primary lore is all stuffed within a span of 200+ years, with few major gaps. So a show based on that property almost needs to happen at the end of the established timeline to fit comfortably.
But The Elder Scrolls not only has a much longer established timeline, but there are significant gaps where there's not much in the way of major events. The span of the First Empire alone has enough gaps that you could fit an entire multi-season show in somewhere without treading on the toes of preestablished lore.
I dunno, I'm inclined to think it could work. Just depends on what the primary plot is about and how well it would fit into a given period of Elder Scrolls history.
I donât see it working well as a TV series so much, but I could see potential for a movie.
I think a Dragonborn movie could work. Like get some real writers to flesh out the main quest story, maybe include some of the civil war in there. I could see that being pretty tight, interesting, and having broader appeal
This probably won't be a popular take, but among the many, many reasons why I don't want a TES tv show is I don't want confirmation The Dragonborn is a man, and I am certain it would be. Theoretically, they could do a completely new calamity, and pick a new location, but I think their best chance at a TES show would be to capitalize on the success of Skyrim. Â
Fallout is nice, because it's a new vault, so it doesn't impact the characters you made for any of the games.  I don't know if they'd be able to do that for TES, considering the amount of world building they'd need to catch the viewer up to.Â
Edit: As expected. But I'm going to stay mad at treating men as the defaultÂ
The Dragonborn is a man, lol. j/k But yes, this is an excellent point. But Skyrim let the player be whoever they want to be. Want to be a cat? Ok you're a cat. So deciding for the viewer ruins that. Because all of us have created our own stories and narratives for this world.
The Elder Scrolls feels a bit more like the challenge that Star Wars has. It has a cool universe you could explore and tell solo stories in. But the temptation to revisit the same stuff over and over again is pretty great. And I doubt they could stay away from "hey look the Dragonborn comes"
I'll go against the grain and say it would work really well if released soon. Nothing has taken the Epic Fantasy Show crown that GoT started since Henry Cavill left Witcher. I Imagine it'd be best to set it in the ESO era. Maybe make the main character an elf that lives across the eras. Or someone like Vivec.Â
Iâm aware of the handful that do exist but itâs far and few. If it wasnât for the movies none of us would even care, letâs be real. Iâve met zero people of our generation thatâs read the books.Â
I could bring up Elder Scrolls to the least gaming person in my household and they can carry a conversation about that series. Lord of the Rings? Not so much we were laughing hard at the Gollem game but thatâs about it.Â
Let me guess you love Star Trek too? Itâs not absurd to state that Elder Scrolls is more relevant to younger audiences than LoTR. Thereâs a content gap. Itâs like how Star Wars is popular, but it was the Clone Wars on Cartoon Network that really unified that enjoyment, well that and games.
Rings of Power from my understanding fell flat on its face. Meanwhile Skyrim is once again trending in the top 10 of most popular games on Xbox, and ESO is still maintaining its player base.Â
People liked Shadows, but gamers hate that Warner Bros locked up the nemesis system,and did nothing with it. LoRT is a millennial thing.Â
...No? But my friends and I all play DnD and perform at Ren Faires. LOTR is still incredibly popular. I literally started a fantasy club when I was in undergrad, we celebrated Hobbit Day every year.  We had a big Hobbit Day booth on the campus walkway--- so many people came up to us excited about it.
(Honestly it's kind of cracking me up this conversation is "Nobody in Gen Z cares about LOTR" "Myself, my friends, and multiple people in this thread care about LOTR and we're all Gen Z" "yeah well that doesn't count because you probably like other old stuff too")
Most people today wouldnât care about LOTR if it werenât for the movies, though. Thatâs not specific to Gen Z.
More people have not actually read the books than people that have. Theyâre pretty tough to read if youâre not already an established reader (The Hobbit is better of course, but that was meant as a childrenâs book so the required reading level is understandably lower).
Every gamer knows TES, of course. But I talk about Skyrim sometimes with some work friends, and none of the people there who donât game have a clue what the fuck it is. And thatâs the most recent entry. Most of them knew what LOTR was.
I would absolutely argue LOTR has a firmer place in the general culture simply by being more known by ânormiesâ (non-fantasy fans). Movies are also more accessible than games, since many people will never pick up a game that requires a decent PC or console in their life, but most people watch movies.
Not really. IIRC Todd Howard said it would be a lot harder for a TES series to work. And unlike Fallout, TES has been out of the spotlight for a lot longer.
That and there are so many shows similar to it, while Fallout is pretty unique
Yes, that's essentially the reason he gave but I haven't seen his exact quote in a while.
Fallout has a very unique identity when discussing post-nuclear media when you look at it at a glance (which is essentially what promotional materials are). Power Armor, Vault suits, Ghouls, retro-futuristic 50's Americana, etc.
A lot of the standout worldbuilding and lore for TES is deep and weird, not the kind of stuff that is easily conveyed with a brief look. When put alongside other big names in the medieval fantasy landscape, it doesn't stand out as much in that regard. And I mean TES as a whole, not just any part of the individual games.
I also think if they wait for Neflix' Witcher to die out, that would open up the slot for TES series. I'm sure it would be Prime, and they tend to do a good job. Not sure if Prime already has a Witcher-y medieval fantasy series or not.
As a fan of fantasy and TES, I'd love a series and I do think it eventually happens. Imagine if they start with Morrowind or Oblivion, and a few seasons later they post credit tease the Dragonborn season? Literal chills.
Nah. That would only push away the people who have no idea about TES.
The series must start with Skyrim, dragons, and Dragonborn, as the publicly best-known part of the TES lore, to pull in a critical mass of fans (who might know nothing about TES, but know about Game of Thrones and/or LotR/Hobbit and Smaug). Then, if the ratings are good, the second season might be something like "Tamriel Chronicles" and show the Morrowind story.
Honestly, I think it could work if they set the series WAY back during the rebellion against the Dragon Cult. Still gets you the Skyrim recognition by way of having Nords fighting dragons, but also a) allows for greater artistic freedom, since we really don't know THAT much about that era, and b) leaves open the possibility of moving your way through Tamrielic history without having to go backwards, like what you suggest
I was thinking a way earlier era like that. Or the original war with the elves, or even another land entirely as we know there are other continents in the world.
it would cost a billion to make
I understand the necessity for a show to be similar to their most successful product (although the fallout series didn't immediately start with FO4 or NV). But kind of done with fantasy shows overusing dragons. I welcome morrowind and oblivion. But I started with morrowind.
I was going to say Prime already has Wheel Of Time, but TIL they cancelled the series due to high costs and not enough viewership đ. The books are great and they could have milked the series for years with 15 books of material to use. Oh well, seems like Amazon wouldnât try another series like this for awhile given how this went.
They do have LotR Rings of Power, but don't know what state the show is in after season 2, if it's been cancelled or if there will be another
The biggest reason the Fallout show works is that it is NOT a show following any game. It uses the setting, touches on locations, people and is packed with references. They arenât following any game linked character for any length of time, they arenât in any place long enough for those familiar with it to have issues.
TES wouldnât work in the same way. The setting isnât unique enough at a glance. While there are great bits of lore and world building most of those require more explanation than really works in a series like that to differentiate it from any other fantasy world.
And if you try to follow a particular gameâs story then you run into the issue that every thing they do is going to end up not quite matching enough for the fans.
Just look at all the other game inspired series, any time they donât dramatically depart from a preexisting story they end up mediocre at best. And TES just doesnât have enough unique and recognizable enough setting to be understood by any but the deepest fans. Who will also be those most disappointed in all the inevitable deviations.
Prime is very hit or miss on their original series. We would either get a great series or a very poorly written one.
I always say Skyrim got so popular because it came out right after Game of Thrones ended the first season so people were hyped for a game that looked just like it. I tried to watch the show but couldnât get into it myself. It started off cool with the draugr zombie guys at the beginning but didnt capture me from there.
There's literally a show running right now about a post-apocalyptic world where people live in a series of vaults which are kinda for their protection and kinda also not and the main character gets forced out into the world to find it isn't quite what they expected.
I mean, yeah, it's definitely less common than LOTR-alike high fantasy over the last 20 years, but right now it's actually not terribly unique.
I think he said something more recently that walked that back a little bit.
What does that mean they wonât continue?!? :(
Edit: I realize now the post is about a show not the game itself
Thatâs not the only reason. Fallout can be filmed with a below average amount of digital special effects and heavy practical effects, whereas an ES series would need it in nearly every scene.
Would cost similar to the Witcher series but I believe TES has a stronger fanbase. Itâs too obvious.
TES will need a show after TESVI
Will it?
Gonna need until the heat death of the universe
The future retro vibe makes Fallout stand out. Skyrim would feel too much like Game of Thrones, Rings of Power, etc.
Morrowind does not have that problem.
Unfortunately the fruit fly attention spans will not see the distinction.
On the contrary, the general public doesn't seem to care that something is a samey copy of 20 other things they've watched. So if they don't notice it isn't that then that's probably not even a problem.
beaucuse morrowind its interesting and makes you want to explore the lore but in skyrim the main villian is some black dragon that speaks english is stupid
They really should have focused their attention on the civil war quest line. Not every main character needs to save the fabric of the universe.
I could definitely stand a dozen more quest to sway the populace, retrieve vital documents, bribe mercenaries, and take over encampments.
Nah dragons are cool
ragebait or hasn't played the game, engage upon it
Well it couldnât be that bad?!?!?
I really hope not. TES doesnât really seem like it would translate well to tv.
"In today's episode, the Dragonborn just sprints in a random direction and enters whatever location they find! Could it be a Dwarven ruin? A Nord barrow? Some herbalist's hut? Watch how our intrepid hero discovers 23 locations then fucks off to fish for several hours!"
ITâS BLACKREACH! (again)
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âJoin us next time as our Hero tries to buckle down and finish some quests, only to become distracted chasing and eating butterflies.â
Thou shall always get sidetracked by bullshit.
Is that not just describing fallout as well? I don't really care about Fallout as a series so I haven't watched the show, but it doesn't actually follow the "protagonist" from any of the games right? It's a new character they developed just for the show.
Like if they made a Skyrim show, I wouldn't expect them to follow the dragonborn (mainly because Bethesda doesn't want to give the dragonborn or any protag a default race/appearance) but instead I feel the show would be about the civil war. You follow a stormcloak or imperial soldier, maybe a newbie rising through the ranks or a more important higher up. You could even do a dual protagonist one on each side if you don't want to make either side seem better than the other and keep them equal. Of course you can have mentions from characters in the show about the Dragonborn.
That actually sounds pretty fun.
The plot of the video game Skyrim wouldn't work well as a TV show, but the lore of The Elder Scrolls is so rich and dense, you absolutely could make a show from itÂ
I think thatâs part of the problem. Itâs too deep. It might be a little bit too strange for mainstream audiences.
Who knows though, theyâve made other fantasy type stories popular on tv
If you want to watch a show about Elder Scrolls lore, just watch one of several Elder Scrolls lore youtubers like FudgeMuppet, TheEpicNate, and Camelworks. Trust me, there are some looooong and detailed videos about Elder Scrolls lore. And speaking as someone who enjoys said videos, I would highly recommend them.
I would watch that.
I mean, I would have said something similar about Fallout before the show
Hmmm a cave. Wonder whatâs inside
As a Skyrim fan this sounds awesome
"But there is a twist"* then the screen fade out black and a voice begin .."A New hand touch the beacon, hear-me and obey".
Tes games? No! Lore like tiber septim's rise and conquest
Honestly, i hope the fallout series was just another case of toddy using one of the other franchises to test the waters for the flagship franchise
Game of Thrones did a good job with the dragon CGI but that felt like they were very deliberate on how often to show dragons, which wasn't a ton.
I'm curious, why do you think that? Game of Thrones worked well enough, why not TES?
Game of thrones is very grounded I think. It feels like it couldâve happened in our world. All of the magical elements are very very old and donât really have a place in that worldâs modern day.
TES is pretty weird and intricate. There is magic everywhere. There are cat and lizard people. There is an overwhelming amount of weird fantasy lore you can pull from, but what really would center the show? Most of the stories Iâd think theyâd tell would just be more âgenericâ fantasy and not really do the franchise justice.
Iâm sure Bethesda/producers could figure that one out, I just donât have the vision.
Imagine it focused just on the main story arc. Would be better as a cinematic movie.
There are some arcs that would work well on TV, for example, Alessian rebellion. If BGS is involved, this would provide an additional lore as well.
I could see it working if they went the route of the trio from all the ESO trailers. Not one particular hero but more or less a TES themed d&d party/campaign
Possible? Sure.
Likely, and likely to succeed? Not really.
Although if they did do it, I think the best route might be to take a page from the parodies in the community: avoid main characters like the Dragonborn or Nerravar. Tell the story around, or exclude them entirely in place of a band of heroes.
Follow a band of bandits. In the last few minutes, you hear a distant Fus ro and the screen cuts to black. Roll credits.
Never should have come here.
Ngl I feel like it cod make a fire animated series, but if it ever happened it'd be a 1billion dollar tv show with live actors that either takes 5 years a season or gets canceled after the first
I wish more directors/producers understood this about adaptations, I would much much rather watch an animated series instead of them butcher a live action (rip witcher my beloved) đ
After seeing The Wheel of Time and The Witcher destroyed by the show writers, I would rather not see it happen again.
Thatâs a great point. A Skyrim show would be amazing but writers/executives/directors could easily mess it up beyond recognition. A TES show in general would be entirely too expansive for one show. It would need to be a series of shows.
The Witcher should have just been season 1 for likeâŚ. Ever.  Dude just goes and fights awesome monsters.
Skyrim shines because itâs a video game. Iâd made into a show itâd be just like any other generic fantasy
Itâd be worth it to see live action sweet rolls.
That is so true
Hope not. That would be 100x more easy to fuck up and would take resources from ES6. I just want to play the damn game
I donât feel like thereâs a cohesive enough story to tell. Fallout is a world you could write a million stories for that could be pretty easily told. Both games have a lot of wandering around but fallout is way easier to tell relatable contemporary stories without a crazy amount of long-term World building.
I just want an animated series akin to castlevania or dmc set in the 1st Era with Alessia, Pelinal, and Morihaus as tritagonists. It doesnât have to take away from the mystery. If done right it can actually add to the mystery.
NO. NO. NO GOD NO.
I would enjoy it. It should focus on the main story arc and just be a cinematic retelling of the dragon born.
I wouldn't say "no", but I would certainly have very little interest in it. These series seem to very consistently disappoint.
I hope they won't do that annoying slow motion spam they did in Fallout series, if at all they make a TES series.
No they won't, instead we'll watch the protagonist picking locks for half the runtime.
For one, to much in world racism for them to replicate lol. Hollywood ainât gonna like when they shoot the Windhelm docks and the nords just stand there berating all the Argonians.
So many fantasy shows as it is.  We would probably get a crappy version of game of thronesâŚ..
OP is super vague and should have said t.v. show.
They're both videogame "series" after all.
Fallout is an entertaining show but I doesnât require any amazing writing to hold it together. An elder scrolls show would need to rival game of thrones, a next to impossible task.
And Elder Scrolls doesn't really have any characters, it seems. At least GOT had books and books of established characters. Even Fallout has like Mr. House.
I would watch a series about Tiber septim and how he became Talos
In this episode, the hero will forge 2000 daggers and become a demigod.
I think that Fallout just has a way more interesting world to tell stories in, the TES games really shine because you are the main character, without that, the lore and world building around it would be way too blunt and generic to tell anything but a generic fantasy story.
I think elder scrolls media would only work for super fans who would buy multiple books that provide context for a SHOW that relies on a lot of background knowledge, or else itd come off really shallow and/or generic, especially if we follow the dragon born
If we assumed we had multiple seasons the size of Game of Thrones, I think 5 seasons would be appropriate, covering parts of each era and following particular people of importance, but again would be a very difficult show to execute properly
Yeah, no casuals are gonna comb through UESP just to get a reference from the early Merethic era or to learn who/what Padomay is.
Hell I wonder how many people mix up Thalmor and Falmer in conversation in regards to the super casuals
Todd once said he would agree for adaptation of some TES stories only if Peter Jackson would agree to direct it.
I'd rather a book, I feel like it'd work better for some reason
A novel series would be excellent.
These people take decades to make games, I have feeling the next three games theh release will be their last.
It's difficult to pull , we're talking about talking cats and lizards walking on two feet , elves of different shapes , the plot can be anything, the problem is how to not make those creatures look goofy but more realistic, like avatar , do they have such budget?
Not to mention the bottle episode where our hero is just smithing jewelry and then running back to the enchanting table.
Lmao đ
Followed by a re-release of Skyrim: Ultimate Anniversary TV Show Streaming Edition with zero new content, more bugs, and a billion dollars in sales.
And folk wonder why TES VI isnât released yet đ. Why release something new when the old is still selling like hot cakes ?
Please god no
No.
Nah leave it to the games to maintain the important stuff - I dont want another iconic series ruined by a tv adaption, thank you.
Todd Almighty literally says no for a decade to this question (until someone comes with a fat paycheck probably)
Possible is doing a lot of work, but I think after the relative flop of some other recent fantasy series, finding the money to produce a quality TES series would be difficult, before getting to the actual question of - what would the series even be about?
There's so much ground to cover... I feel like every story line would have to have it's own series..
Different universe but in an alt timeline thereâs a chance it connects to modern world and fallout 1-76 happens from present to future
Honestly, I would expect an animation series before a live action.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Wheel of Time. Don't the two universes share a lot of similarities?
Or even The Witcher. I've never played those games or watched the TV show but it has the same vibe. Same with that Lord of the Rings show on Amazon.
A series of aftermath of oblivion crisis would be good.
Why would you want that, is my question? I love Skyrim and oblivion, but the fun is in playing them. The elder scrolls are bog standard fantasy worlds, they don't bring anything to the table that tv would be able to handle in an interesting way. And after years of got, witcher, and other really middling fantasy series, I just don't care
Doubtful
Thereâs so many vague details that are either canon or non canon or both. It would cause the writers brains to blow up
I don't think that it would transfer well to tv. I mean, Witcher books, lore and games are interesting, but the show sucks.
It's too much of a lore to entertain casuals, but dumbing it down would leave hardcore fans very unhappy, and then the series would be just another fantasy Netflix series.
I think it could work as long as it didn't follow just a single Dragonborn. Maybe different iterations of the Dragonborn that we get familiar with (ie: just like how we all make a different Dragonborn in our gameplay) so that way it could be more plausible to explore different storylines without sacrificing character development. And it'd be interesting to see the different choices the different Dragonborns go with versus one guy that is somehow just doing everything
Is a TES series possible? : absolutely
Is a TES series that does the franchise+continuity justice possible? : unlikely. There will be retcons, accidental or otherwise.
Is a TES series that doesn't look like generic fantasy possible? : Hard no. Anything that touches old Dunmer lore or Kirkbride's work will get veto'd into oblivion by shareholders.
Fantasy is way harder and more expensive to produce on screen and look premium, Got was a lot of money, and even if well produced, itnwould take a lot of time, and prime wouldn't be looking to compete with their other fantasy shows rn.
Now, what TES would be the perfect IP to adapt for is an adult animated series in the vein of Castlevania, Critical Role/Vox Machina, Arcane and the like. Man, that would kick ass and be orders of magnitude cheaper and quicker to produce with much lower risk, and just be an awesome result.
Anything is possible, but do the big boys want to pay for it? That's the real question.
Very unlikely, Todd mentioned that he isn't interested in making TV shows and Fallout was just an exception.
There are too many similar series like Game of Thrones and The Witcher.
As much as I like the concept, I donât think itâd work past one season. Weâve got the Wheel of Time that was canceled too soon, and the Dungeons and Dragons movie, which I loved, apparently was not profitable enough to have a sequel. Both are similar enough, in the fantasy realm, that I donât think TES would stand out enough
I don't think they gonna do it But if they do it, I hope it's something like a 3 character story (kinda like fallout) where you have the dragonborn, someone for the civil war and someone for a secondary plot like thieves guild
Even tho I would like it better if there wasn't the alduin plot
I don't know about live action, but an animated version (like Vox Machina and Mighty Nein) is very much possible.
While I do like the Fallout series, I'm not that big of a fan. Elder Scoll's genre is more to my liking m
Todd Howard said in an interview recently that he canât rule it in or out. Fallout has a better message to tell about power and war that fit better in TV. He didnât say a hard no but I wouldnât get your hopes up.
Personally Iâd love to see like an anthology of Elder Scrolls stories that take place at random points rather than a long-running series.
I think itd be cool if they made a TES Anime or something,
I feel like Skyrim would work really well for this. I mean it all depends on the writer on how they set it up. However, for Skyrim it will need to happen before he is captured. Make him a seasoned adventurer first and follow his hunts (basically some random like in Witcher). The overall story would then follow the political intrigue of the world and some blade/greybeards inputs, and lead to all the "the dragons are coming". Obviously being the Dragonborn would mean it is against the Nords, because of Ulfric. Some sort of "because of him I got captured while innocent".
tbh if there is i wouldnât watch it. not only will probably be a repeat of the Witcher show situation rn and probably not a true homage and exploration of the lore and world but the fun part abt tes to me (and maybe this is the writer coming out lol) is YOU make your story. i donât really want to watch a random Jon Skyrim save the world, or a random jane morrowind become Nerevarine. They keep the previous protagonistâs fate vague and identity vague on purpose because WE were the storytellers.
Could they try a slice of life or make up some new world-ending threat that someone has to rise to defeat? Sure, butâŚit started out as a video game. Itâs a reason I donât watch letâs plays either: if I want to play the game I donât want to watch someone I want to play it. I donât want to watch some characters doing something I could be doing. Thatâs just me though.
I also thinkâlike others have said in the commentsâthat the deeper lore and worldbuilding are not going to appeal to a wide audience. The average individual whoâs not already a TES fan and only casually interested in fantasy is not going to want to stick around for the esoteric and unique things about the series. It would be a leap thatâwith the over-fucking-inflated film industry budgetsâa multi-million or billion dollar money sink they wouldnât want to risk. Theyâre probably going to play it safe. Weâd get dragons and Nords and maybe some mer (who will probably be made to look less alien as they are in lore)
Idk. I hope they donât. I like us telling and sharing our characterâs stories with each other.
I mean it could work, you just need good writers who can understand the deep lore this franchise has.
If LoTr can do it, so can anyone else. Dude finds out he has powers and can choose to help or not in the harsh reality that is skyrim while staying alive.
Witcher had a good first season.
Shit elden ring is just 1 guy beating gods so he can be the same thing and get killed by a guy trying to become a god and I look forward to that.
Man I grew up on shitty movie adaptations and am happy for what we get if anything.
God I hope not
No, don't ruin our beloved TES please. Or they can prove us wrong.
Infernal City as a series could be really cool
It is inevitable if you ask me. Maybe when ASOIAF spin offs start to chill out a bit there will be a gap in the sword and sorcery zone for a proper elder scrolls series. Rings of power didnât do it for people and there will always be a market for epic heroic fantasy done properly. The Dragonborn saga is more compelling to me than any other elder scrolls lore so I reckon itâll be based on that. Iâd put money on it coming in the next ten years.
iâll go against the grain here and say it could be done successfully, but it would be challenging.
instead of having a unique set of characters in the modern era (around the timeline of the games) youâd likely need to go incredibly far back and canonize certain events that wonât have long lasting impact.
for example, doing a show that revolves around the life and rise of talos could be done with minimal impact on the future of the games, but youâd have to canonize some of the ambiguity around his character to effectively do it.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong. But I feel like Todd/Bethesda just seem more biased towards sci fi than medieval high fantasy.
idk theyd hav to have alot of tree props
Personally? I think not, as someone else put, ES has been out of the spotlight for a while, so trying to drum up hype could prove challaging. Also, the history of most fantasy based television shows does not typically end well, e.g. The Witcher. They would have to tread real careful to not fall into the many pitfalls other shows have, although given Fallouts track record (limited as it may be) there is a chance it could prove successful.
As others have mentioned, the Elder Scrolls suffers from being a pretty detailed universe with a lot of lore inside the games and then central story points in the games themselves.
This is a lot like the 40k to TV show problem.
WHAT, WHERE, WHEN have to be defined to make something.
If they were to do an Elder Scrolls series, they'd need to answer the What, Where, When and they'd likely want to not do story lines from the games. This presents a challenge, as why do the fans want to watch it? To visit that world? Or to see their game on TV? There has to be a compelling narrative.
Why do new comers want to watch it?
I think the only way it could work is with the Star Wars approach on setting it in the TES verse after or between one of the main story lines.
Maybe after the Oblivion Crisis but before the Dragonborn or after the Dragonborn.
But then who is it about?
WE NEED ANTHOLOGY SERIES FOR FALLOUT AND ELDER SCROLLS NOT SOME LAME CORPORATE PLEASING HALF BAKED BETHESDA STORY THAT CONSTANTLY CHANGES THE LORE FOR THE WORSE!đŁď¸
I like the Fallout show, but a TES anthology would be more feasible than a dedicated series. Still don't think it's a good idea, but it would certainly work better.
no, just no
Isnât TES6 coming out soon?
This about the live action Fallout series and a potential live action Elder Scrolls series
My point is they would use a show to promote the game. Most likely reason we will ever get one.
True
Off topic, but define "soon."
Before GTA6.
jk, I donât know that
I guess? If done right it could be a hybrid between Game of Thromes and Lord of the Rings.
Please no
I really don't see it happening. Fear it could be seen as too derivative of LoTR, GoT, and hell, even the Witcher series. Unlikely to strike gold twice with a TES series.
Maybe an adaptation of the Greg Keyes novels?
It really wouldnât work as well as fallout
TES Show:
Yes. The world is so big and diverse, so many different types of stories can be told that can barely be related to anything we see in game. A good enough writer can make it work. Shit, they can make a story about slavery or a desert frontier and it can still be lore-friendly.
If they do I would see it coming only if tes6 did good.
everything is possible, even making a character timetravel backwards/forwards to get to the tes time period
game of thrones
Not if they keep reselling the same 3 games for the next 5 years.
Could be but probably. Although if they did do one, it would have to be close to perfect. It would be pretty cool if they actually put in some effort and hired good writers
Divines, I hope not. Like, can it be done? Absolutely. Literally just make any fantasy show with the right species of bipedal people and slap a TES logo on it. But would it capture the feel of the game in the way the Fallout show kind of does? I don't think it would.
I hope not. It would be a shameless poorly written mess based on memberberries rapidly cramming as many camios in as fast as it can and annoy most fans with how far off the source material it is.
Nah because TES is to simular to GOT and LOR and other medieval shows it would come off too cringe to make an movie or TV show on it without ruining lore now maybe an prequel to skyrim with aldrin first shows up might be dope
iâd hope not
Imagine a series based on the assassins guild.
Bethesda would never let that happen. They're too busy taking 20 years to make ES game
ES fans are only allowed to have ESO. That's the only content you get
Probably but certainly not soon, at least not till 2030 Also what era it will be?
Thereâre ton of events which we could see, like Giber War, Potema Septim Civil War, War of the First Council, Alessian Slave Rebellion, Great War or completely new story. Though how would people take it? From what I saw FO Season 2 is dogshit where brotherhood shoots working car (something they would never do in games) and where Houseâs character was fully rewritten Although what about argonians or khajiits? How their makeup or CGI will be done? And without two of them TES isnât TES
So I donât know, though TES events far greater and can be set in span of thousands of years, so they would probably do something in 1st or 2nd era
As much as I love TES, It would probably end up being a shitty GoT ripoff in the eyes of the public and wouldn't perform well, fallout is a bit more unique but I feel like tes, while I love the games, its just your generic medieval fantasy era storyline that has been done many times
I do not want a TES television series and I don't think most of the fanbase does either.
Moreover, it would be difficult. TES has extremely complicated lore that differentiates it from a lot of contemporary fantasy. A discussion of where and when would need to be had and then substantial work would need to go into helping the audience understand the world enough to follow the plot. Video games are able to present this over time because they are interactive, you aren't just watching images over a screen.
Fallout as a television series works because it has enough broad connection to the real world for people to grab on to. Even today, young adults are vaguely familiar enough with the Cold War and the era from which the Fallout timeline deviates from our own, allowing them to understand "This is like our world, but different things happen after this point involving nations we are familiar within the real world. They eventually ended up in a nuclear war which, predictably, fucked everyone over. And this is the story of those who exist in the world afterwards."
Which is a lot more easy to digest than:
"This is a world existing in its own dimension between two other realms where older spirits lived which are known as Aedra and Daedra. It came to be when one of these old spirits tricked some of the others to invest some of their power to create it. Some of the spirits understood this would end up killing them and fled back out of this new realm, which is called Nirn, tearing holes in the veil between it and Aetherius, which is how the stars were formed. Later on Nirn mortals started to form, with some attesting that the Aldmer were the oldest. The Aldmer were the first elves and eventually split into different kinds of elves due to various geographic changes, strange magic, and daedric pettiness. Humans were around too, like the Nedes and the Yokudans. Most scholars believed that the Nedes come from Atmora, which is a continent north of Tamriel, the actual continent the stories of this series take place. Yokudans were from Yokuda, which eventually sank into the sea like Atlantis! THere's cat people too, who may have once been like the Mer, but something happened with magic or the Moon to make them like they are now. And there's these lizard people called Argonians who are actually descended from regular ass tree-dwelling lizards that drank the sap of these magical trees called the Hist and gained sentience as a result so now they kind of worship the trees. Kinda?
Eventually the Nedes and the Yokudans also came to Tamriel, where various elves or Mer as they are called had also settled. The Nedes would eventually become the Imperials and Nords, and interbreed with some elves to also become Bretons, but not before they were enslaved by elvish overlords, namely the Ayleids in the Nibenay Basin, where they would exist in slavery for thousands of years before one of them, named Alessia, and her lover, who was a Minotaur and is still beleived to be kicking around today, overthrew them in a bloody war and made a new Empire. This is the First Empire (there are at least 4 empires of note total: Alessian, Reman, Septim, and Mede). There's also Dwarves, which are actually elves, but with big beards and bigger golems, which are called Animunculi, and they disappeared, but no one really knows how or why, though the circumstances of their disappearance is really similar to this thing called a Dragon Break, which is when a lot of frayed timelines are reconnected to the main timeline and all their outcomes become true, which really fucks people up a little bit, because no one really knows what happened during them and only understands that time has changed.
Speaking of Dragons, there's those too, but they only recently returned en masse to Tamriel with most either being dead or in hiding between the Merethic Era and the Fourth Era. Only they aren't really dragons like we know them, sense they are really more or less fragments of the oversoul of Akatosh, who is the God of Time and one of the Aedra I mentioned earlier... (insert several hours of infodump here)"
When and Where is like the key point. You nailed it.
No, GoT killed the scene for "medieval fantasy", Rings of Power wasn't enough to restore it. So now an elder scrolls series would be only appealing to part of the people that are already fans others would see it as a GoT/LotR wannabe; not really a capitalist dream.
GoT was actually a success despite the lackluster ending, Rings of Power was out right a mistake.
I know, GoT was overall good, but as the ending got the reception it got (deserved from what I hear), new viewers and casuals won't be as receptive to a new series in the same setting. It sadly stained the genre for a time and even a strong franchise like LotR couldn't do much as Rings of Power wasn't that powerful.
Bro, absolutely! TES has such a rich lore & epic world, it'd slap as a series. Imagine the drama of Skyrim and madness of Oblivion on screen? Just take my money now đ¤
I've heard Todd has said it's unlikely and would be a lot harder to pull off, but I dunno...
One issue with Fallout is its primary lore is all stuffed within a span of 200+ years, with few major gaps. So a show based on that property almost needs to happen at the end of the established timeline to fit comfortably.
But The Elder Scrolls not only has a much longer established timeline, but there are significant gaps where there's not much in the way of major events. The span of the First Empire alone has enough gaps that you could fit an entire multi-season show in somewhere without treading on the toes of preestablished lore.
I dunno, I'm inclined to think it could work. Just depends on what the primary plot is about and how well it would fit into a given period of Elder Scrolls history.
Anthology...
I donât see it working well as a TV series so much, but I could see potential for a movie.
I think a Dragonborn movie could work. Like get some real writers to flesh out the main quest story, maybe include some of the civil war in there. I could see that being pretty tight, interesting, and having broader appeal
This probably won't be a popular take, but among the many, many reasons why I don't want a TES tv show is I don't want confirmation The Dragonborn is a man, and I am certain it would be. Theoretically, they could do a completely new calamity, and pick a new location, but I think their best chance at a TES show would be to capitalize on the success of Skyrim. Â
Fallout is nice, because it's a new vault, so it doesn't impact the characters you made for any of the games.  I don't know if they'd be able to do that for TES, considering the amount of world building they'd need to catch the viewer up to.Â
Edit: As expected. But I'm going to stay mad at treating men as the defaultÂ
The Dragonborn is a man, lol. j/k But yes, this is an excellent point. But Skyrim let the player be whoever they want to be. Want to be a cat? Ok you're a cat. So deciding for the viewer ruins that. Because all of us have created our own stories and narratives for this world.
The Elder Scrolls feels a bit more like the challenge that Star Wars has. It has a cool universe you could explore and tell solo stories in. But the temptation to revisit the same stuff over and over again is pretty great. And I doubt they could stay away from "hey look the Dragonborn comes"
I'll go against the grain and say it would work really well if released soon. Nothing has taken the Epic Fantasy Show crown that GoT started since Henry Cavill left Witcher. I Imagine it'd be best to set it in the ESO era. Maybe make the main character an elf that lives across the eras. Or someone like Vivec.Â
It would actually be a good idea in the future, mainly because Lord of the Rings fell out of popularity with Gen Z. TES fills that role for us.Â
Maybe for you. LOTR is still this generations LOTR to me lol (also Gen Z)
Iâm aware of the handful that do exist but itâs far and few. If it wasnât for the movies none of us would even care, letâs be real. Iâve met zero people of our generation thatâs read the books.Â
I could bring up Elder Scrolls to the least gaming person in my household and they can carry a conversation about that series. Lord of the Rings? Not so much we were laughing hard at the Gollem game but thatâs about it.Â
What are you talking about? I'm Gen Z and almost everyone I know loves LOTR.
Let me guess you love Star Trek too? Itâs not absurd to state that Elder Scrolls is more relevant to younger audiences than LoTR. Thereâs a content gap. Itâs like how Star Wars is popular, but it was the Clone Wars on Cartoon Network that really unified that enjoyment, well that and games. Rings of Power from my understanding fell flat on its face. Meanwhile Skyrim is once again trending in the top 10 of most popular games on Xbox, and ESO is still maintaining its player base.Â
People liked Shadows, but gamers hate that Warner Bros locked up the nemesis system,and did nothing with it. LoRT is a millennial thing.Â
...No? But my friends and I all play DnD and perform at Ren Faires. LOTR is still incredibly popular. I literally started a fantasy club when I was in undergrad, we celebrated Hobbit Day every year.  We had a big Hobbit Day booth on the campus walkway--- so many people came up to us excited about it.
(Honestly it's kind of cracking me up this conversation is "Nobody in Gen Z cares about LOTR" "Myself, my friends, and multiple people in this thread care about LOTR and we're all Gen Z" "yeah well that doesn't count because you probably like other old stuff too")
Most people today wouldnât care about LOTR if it werenât for the movies, though. Thatâs not specific to Gen Z.
More people have not actually read the books than people that have. Theyâre pretty tough to read if youâre not already an established reader (The Hobbit is better of course, but that was meant as a childrenâs book so the required reading level is understandably lower).
Every gamer knows TES, of course. But I talk about Skyrim sometimes with some work friends, and none of the people there who donât game have a clue what the fuck it is. And thatâs the most recent entry. Most of them knew what LOTR was.
I would absolutely argue LOTR has a firmer place in the general culture simply by being more known by ânormiesâ (non-fantasy fans). Movies are also more accessible than games, since many people will never pick up a game that requires a decent PC or console in their life, but most people watch movies.
I was the one of writers but the preliminary plot I suggested to see the audiences' reaction was overall not good. We are reworking on it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/1pu4y7g/elder_scrolls_tv_series_plot/
U dont work for bgs
i dont. i am externally asked by them do do so.
Head of development of what? â ď¸
The head of development of nonsensical delusions by the looks of it.
Real
This guy is NOT the lead writer of The Elder Scrolls show, if that post is anything to go for.
even comments here are not receptive of ES show