The Elder Scrolls Online (2014)
The Elder Scrolls Online is a 2014 role-playing (rpg) video game made by ZeniMax Online Studios and Bethesda Softworks.
A thousand years before Skyrim, Tamriel is whole and at war, its three alliances grinding toward the same throne. The Elder Scrolls Online sets your own character loose across that continent, free to chase the threat to the world's soul or simply wander into a side tale about a haunted mill or a missing daughter. It carries the series' habit of leaving a book on every shelf and a history behind every ruin, now shared with thousands of other players. Solo questing and large-scale alliance warfare sit side by side in one persistent world.
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What is The Elder Scrolls Online about?
A thousand years before Skyrim, Tamriel is whole and at war, its three alliances grinding toward the same throne. The Elder Scrolls Online sets your own character loose across that continent, free to chase the threat to the world's soul or simply wander into a side tale about a haunted mill or a missing daughter. It carries the series' habit of leaving a book on every shelf and a history behind every ruin, now shared with thousands of other players. Solo questing and large-scale alliance warfare sit side by side in one persistent world.
When was The Elder Scrolls Online released?
The Elder Scrolls Online was released on 4 April 2014.
Who made The Elder Scrolls Online?
The Elder Scrolls Online was made by ZeniMax Online Studios and Bethesda Softworks.
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For sprawling fantasy politics with the same map-spanning scope, Game of Thrones trades crowns across warring houses much as this game trades Tamriel between its alliances. Readers can chase the epic-quest feeling in Brisingr, where a young rider's war stretches across a whole continent.
Continents with more history than any one hero could use
Elder Scrolls Online fills Tamriel with ruins that outdate the alliance war on its surface, and these picks are built the same way: a fellowship crossing a whole continent, houses tearing a kingdom apart over a throne, and small woodland societies with generations of their own lore behind them.
Mythic, orchestral music built for a long quest
The alliance war in Elder Scrolls Online plays out over a soundtrack of grinding conflict, and these records chase the same scale: a prog rock suite built like a founding myth, orchestral themes lifted from an actual quest trilogy, and metal that leans on cold, ancient imagery. Good for the long ride between towns.
Manga sagas where a whole world hides a war beneath it
Elder Scrolls Online treats every corner of Tamriel as a piece of a bigger, older conflict, and these manga do the same: humanity's last stand behind walls, armored fighters chasing a myth across the world, a war-torn empire remade through forbidden science, and hunters mapping a world that hides far worse than they expected.