Elder Scrolls novel listing mentions next game, set 200 years after Oblivion

by Griffin McElroy on Oct 24th 2009 10:00PM

Though Bethesda's bigwigs have gone back and forth on the existence of another installment in the Elder Scrolls franchise, an excerpt from online book retailer Waterstone's product listing for Elder Scrolls: The Infernal City seems fairly certain of the series' continuance. The listing -- which was recently edited to remove the following savory quote -- mentions that the novel takes place 45 years after Oblivion, adding that "it partly bridges the gap for the next game, which is set 200 years after the Oblivion crisis."

As promising as this sounds, we find a major flaw with this claim -- see, we've already clocked over 200 years of playtime into Oblivion (and still haven't beaten it!), meaning we're technically playing the sequel right now. We've contacted Bethesda to ask them about the book listing, and to see if 200 years of technological progress will bring about unimaginable advances in equestrian fortification.

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Reader Comments (55)

Morrowind will always be better than Oblivion to me. Still, with that said I'd like to see another Elder Scrolls.

I'm kind of getting worn out on all these sci-fi games. I want to go back to high-fantasy once more with games like Dragon Age and such.

Aha! You say you logged 200 years of game-time, but did not beat the game yet! That means you didn't solve the Oblivion crisis, so it's still going on. The sequel starts 200 years AFTER the Oblivion crisis is over!

...or you can say the sequel will take place somewhere else, which is insanely likely.

OR that's a stupid joke, Joystiq. Stop that.

Maybe in 200 years somebody will have figured out how to swing a sword from a horse?

Morrowind and Tribunal actually had steam-powered enemies and machinery in the Dwemer ruins. The catch is that all the Dwemer vanished and apparently nobody has bothered to research their technology.

I don't think there's going to be guns or anything. The Elder Scrolls take place in a sort of Classical era, like the late Roman Empire... 200 years later the Empire is probably going to be falling apart and splintering. I could imagine them adding crossbows, maces, lances, and maybe adding more of an emphasis on cavalry warfare/cataphracts rather than foot combat.

At least, that's what I'd do if I were designing the next game...

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