The timeline of the events that happen in the . Whether things happen in front of the player in-game or off-screen, packs a lot of lore into what happens before, during and after each subsequent game in the series. This is shown by the fact that two hundred years have passed between 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Oblivion and Skyrim.
A lot can happen during a two hundred year period, regardless of if it is in the real world or in the world of gaming. This is especially true for the Elder Scrolls and a lot sure does happen during that period. Here are 10 important thi༺ngs that happened between the fourth and fifth Elder Scrolls games.
10 The Thalmor Rise To Pow🐠er
The Thalmor, high elves with powerful magical skills, establish the Third Aldmeri Dominion not too long after the Oblivion Crisis, the events of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Oblivion's main story, ends. They first plant seeds by claiming they were responsible for ending it, something that is cl💞early false but cannot be proven.
This spread of fake news allows them to have goodwill as the begin 𒀰to push into the mainland of Tamriel in order to take advantage of the Empire's post-crisis struggles.
9 🍎 High Chancellor Ocato Is Assassinate꧃d
A character seen in Oblivion, Ocato filled in as the interim ruler of the Empire after the Septim dynasty ended with Martin's sacrifice. In 4E 10 howevꦇer, his reign came to an abrupt end.
Ocato is assassinated despite being described as an incredibly skilled battlemage. His death, which ღis believed to have been the act of the Thalmor, throws the third Empire into even further disarray.
8 ꧋ 𝓀 Nations Start Seceding From The Empire
Seeing🌄 that the Empire is falling apart amidst the lack𓃲 of a true emperor, several nations start to secede away from the Empire which makes it weaker.
Among these is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the homeland of the Argonians, Black Marsh, who was successful in not only holꦦding back the invading daedra during the crisis, but even managed to push into Oblivion itself. Seeing that they could 𓆉do better without them, they separate from the Empire.
7 Titus Mede Becomes Emperor 🌼 ܫ
Seeing that the Empire was beginning to fall apart, a warlord by the name of Ti🐎dus Mede sees an opportunity before him. Mede invades the Imperial City and becomes Emperor himself.
As emperor, he made the Empire stronger by bringing back some of the nations that seceded back into the fold and held it together during the Umbriel Crisis. He also establ✨ished a new dynasty of emperors with his descendant, Titus Mede II, is the Empire's current emperor during Skyrim's events.
6 Morrowind Is De🌜vasted By Two Catastrophes 🀅
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Morrowind, the land of the dark elves, suffers two great catastrophes. The first is the dreaded Red Year in 4E 05 which sees the provin🌼ce's Red Mountain erupt, covering most of Morrowind and destroying the city of Vvardenfell with many losing their lives.
The second is a devastating war with 🍸the Argonians, the latter of which began pushing into Morrowind in retaliation for centuries of enslavement. Though the dwemer eventually push them out of Morrowind, the damage had still been done. The effects of both of these disasters are still being felt today.
5 The Great Collapse🍃 In Winterhold
Disaster also struck 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the city of Winterhold in Skyrim in 4E 122. During that year, most of the city falls and is swallowed into the S🅰ea of Ghosts in what is now known as The Great Collapse.
Only what the Dragonborn sees in Skyrim and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the College of Winterhold are what remain of the city. It♛ is still unknown what caused this disaster but the survivors belꦰieve to this day that the College is somehow at fault.
4 The G♈reat War 𓆏
After the Empire turns down demands from a Thalmor ambassador, which included disbanding the blades, surrendering parts of Hammerfell and banning open worship of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the divine Talos, the two powers wage the Great War in 4E 171.
It was a bloody four year war that is devastating for both sides. It also sees the Imperial ℱCity get sacked by the Dominion aꦇnd later reclaimed by the Empire.
3 ꦏ The White-Gold Concordat Is Signed
Seeing the devastation of the war, both sides eventually come together to sign the agreement th♏at ends the war with the Empire giving into the demands that started the war in the first place.
Th☂e remaining members of the Blades are forced into hiding while Hammerfel♑l wages a separate war with the Thalmor refusing to surrender their lands to them. The banning of Talos worship is condemned by many, including a young Nord by the name of Ulfric Stormcloak
2 The Markar🔥th Incident 𓆏
A short time after the war ended, Ulfric Stormcloak answers the call for aid from the jarl of the Reach to retake 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the city of Markarth from the Forsworn,💙 who captured it during the war.
Stor♚mcloak retakes the city under the pretense that he would be able to worship Talos again. Inste♍ad, he is arrested for it which is the last straw for him. The seeds were now planted for his next big move.
1 𒁏 Ulfric Stormcloak Assas⛦sinates High King Torygg
Fed up wi♔th being betrayed by both the Empire and country he fought for, Ulfric Stormcloak marches into Solitude and assassinꦡates Skyrim's High King, Torygg and gives himself the title.
He escapes the city which triggers 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Skyrim Civil War between the Empir🍒e and the Stormcloaks, the assassin's supporters. A war that is still being waged at the time of Skyrim's opening.
