The Empire of Tamriel is on the edge. The High King of Skyrim has been murdered. Alliances form as claims to the throne are made. In the midst of this conflict, a far more dangerous, ancient evil is awakened. Dragons, long lost to the passages of the Elder Scrolls, have returned to Tamriel. The future of Skyrim, even the Empire itself, hangs in the balance as they wait for the prophesized Dragonborn to come; a hero born with the power of The Voice, and the only one who can stand amongst the dragons.
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The in-game book 'Kolb and the Dragon' functions as a playable choose-your-own-adventure story within Skyrim itself, letting the reader pick different paths through the narrative rather than simply reading static text like the game's other books.
The base game features eight named Dragon Priest bosses, each guarding a unique enchanted mask with its own powerful effect. The Dragonborn expansion adds five more named Dragon Priests, bringing the total to thirteen, four of which carry their own unique masks.
A dragon named Vulthuryol can be found sealed within the underground region of Blackreach. Players can summon it by using the Unrelenting Force shout on a glowing orb near the Debate Hall, triggering a rare underground dragon fight most players never intentionally seek out.
At Bard's Leap Summit, a ghostly bard named Azzadal appears and can grant the player a boost to their Speech skill, a small hidden reward tucked away at a location most players only visit for the scenic cliffside view.
At launch, Witcher 3's open world was roughly 20% larger than Skyrim's map, and about 35 times the size of the world in The Witcher 2. That scale goes a long way toward explaining why the map ends up absolutely covered in little question marks waiting to be uncovered.
Up in Senior Scribe Neriah's lab on the Prydwen, there's a tray of experimental plants described as growing near rivers. Sound familiar? It's basically Fallout's version of Skyrim's nirnroot, minus the annoying chime. Thankfully you can harvest it without hunting down that sound for twenty minutes.
Before building any of Fallout 4 itself, the team's first move on the new console hardware was porting Skyrim to the Xbox One, purely as a way of learning the console's capabilities and figuring out the new renderer they'd need. Todd Howard has joked that fans shouldn't get too excited about that particular port.
Skyrim's Dragon language, Dovahzul, wasn't planned out as a full language from the start. It was originally created just to give the game's choral theme song, 'Dragonborn,' an ancient, otherworldly sound, and new words were only invented afterward whenever the writers needed to describe something new in-game.
Senior designer Emil Pagliarulo has explained that as the Dragon language grew, it became too complicated for the design team to use consistently, so verb tenses, conjugation, and apostrophes were dropped altogether to keep it manageable.
