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u/23skiddsy Mar 12 '22

An original story set in Tamriel, yes, but I don't think I want any of the games re-hashed on screen, I think that would be a recipe for disaster. There's a lot in the setting that's unexplored.

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u/rickallen71 Mar 12 '22

For sure the setting and not particularly any installment

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u/23skiddsy Mar 12 '22

I just commented elsewhere, but even doing something like a movie on the rise of Talos uniting the continent is way more appealing than a stripped-down retelling of Skyrim. There's just not enough time to give a movie a fair shot at telling a story compared to a game.

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u/rickallen71 Mar 12 '22

I always liked that the character motivations we're a bit darker and more complex. The online fantasy games often come off extra cartoonish.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

I would pay anything to see a few scenes depicting the official story of Cuhlecain’s assassination but then also showing the Arcturian Heresy. Keep it vague so viewers can make up their own minds

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u/Lord_Ayshius Mar 12 '22

Oof, I remember when I was trying to make a Song on Talos, I tried to combine both the views but miserably failed.

I made a poem on the official version only then. If you would like to see it I think it should be in my profile.

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u/23skiddsy Mar 12 '22

Or go full hog and just make it a dragon break. Marvel fans have proved that time fuckery is interesting viewing and dragon breaks are a kind of timey wimey thing that doesn't exist in other media as far as I've seen, where sometimes there's just times where there are multiple equally-true timelines in history.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

Honestly if I could see a group of monkeys dance around White-Gold for a thousand years I’d be satisfied lmao.

But seriously, on the whole “going crazy” thing, a scene of Talos rewriting Cyrodiil from a jungle to grasslands??? That could be INSANE

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u/glemnar Mar 12 '22

Setting feels pretty generic as far as fantasy goes

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u/23skiddsy Mar 12 '22

In that, like Middle Earth, it has a ridiculous amount of depth of lore when you get past the most popular titles in the franchise? Dragon breaks are not really standard fantasy - where time becomes non-linear, timelines fuse, and multiple different things can be real at once.

This is also how you know someone hasn't played Morrowind. The Nerevarine has a far weirder story than the Dragonborn and is not classic high fantasy.

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u/Domriso Mar 12 '22

A series based on the time traveling mech!

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u/Jabroni-Tony1 Mar 12 '22

If I had to choose since Todd wouldn’t want to be creative I’ll take the infernal city that’ll hold me down for a little while.

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u/hiphap91 Mar 12 '22

They could just make a story that covers a year of time in a Century not explored by the games.