The mythology of The Elder Scrolls

When the flame of freedom burns inside a video game, we on fire with desire for exploration, seducing us to discover their innermost secrets, is a virtue that few titles reach the satirical tragedy of those wonders is that in our desire to know , avid explorers lost their way and any notion of argument.
The Elder Scrolls have this curse and often give more credit to his refined nature setting or sandbox that holds, let alone one of the elements that have given more cohesive as a franchise: history. It's a shame, because if there is an element of the games lack, with its frequent rush to entertain and underdeveloped scripts, is credibility. May be made with an immersive experience, exemplary case and masterpieces BioWare Mass Effect and Dragon Age, but it's hard to believe you are wandering in the real world when all you interact with a flash of light emanates, or helpful hints emerge on the screen at every step, or say the relentless, inescapable cinematic sequence that tell the story. True, they are attributes that permeate accessibility to entertainment, and without them they would be frightened countless people closer to taking control, the price is the lack of subtlety, as there are rare times when we are torn from fantasy and transported to real life.
Modern video games are made about player comfort, to the extent of compromising his own fiction, creating circumstances that are guilty of obvious and extremely easy to digest, instead of enriching or rewarding situations. You may be skeptical about this, but just wonder how many times we felt like we were wandering in a real place and not in a series of scenarios carefully designed for your pleasure?
Bethesda has excelled in this aspect, creating successful proposals in areas that others do not penetrate or if they do go astray. Be Fallout or The Elder Scrolls, the world exists independently of you, the player. Evolution of concept and technological limitations have important role, is not the same Arena, the first installment of the series, Skyrim, but in terms of current and incumbent upon us now, the reality of the game continues regardless of your actions, but neither remains unchanged your exploits. In Oblivion, just follow up a merchant to realize that you have a routine to deliver supplies in the imperial city and returns home to refuel, regardless of your presence. It is not the first appeal to this nature, but they do so masterful and largely thanks to the support mythology is built on the franchise.

The Elder Scrolls are scrolls that predict future events in the history of Tamriel, can only be deciphered by people who devote their lives to studying the documents divine


Credibility in the improbable

Myths give meaning to society, are stories that address the fundamental questions and difficult that we do all the time: who and what I am, where I came from, why am I here, how I should live, what is right, what is the meaning of the universe, how it all began. In attempting to answer each question within the gaming experience, we are immersed in a cultural environment that overcomes the barriers of the pixel, a genuinely human elements nourished and just as in the mythologies emblematic of humanity, the exploits of great men, women or beasts charged realism, the evocation of forces of good and evil takes on new meaning and the presence of supernatural entities becomes more dramatic.
The myth is a language that seeks to illuminate the dark times of uncertainty, and in analogy to their usefulness to man, within the pixel based entertainment what we see on screen. In the genre of fantasy and more specific, which concerns the medieval setting, myths, legends, folk tales and prophecies serve as descriptions of past or accurate predictions of events to come, unfortunately is a resource that could be considered cliché , which would not be so sad if not for these qualities are used as mere means and not a basis for building a context.
It has lost much of the fascination with mythical stories, but we are still clamoring for the magic element in our seemingly-rational reality, we eagerly longing for the mystery to achieve balance in our understanding and mastery of the world, in an effort to avoid frivolous become automatons. The Elder Scrolls is an oasis in the desert which integrates mythology and a well-defined culture that fascinates us with its fabulous stories of individuals living with magic in a world untamed.