What is the Battlespire? (Early TES game lore)

What is the Battlespire? (Early TES game lore) - The Elder Scrolls Lore

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@AWACS_Snowblind Жыл бұрын

Everything between Daggerfall and Morrowind feels like a fever dream. Probably because it was.

@ericmonaco4509 Жыл бұрын

Yeah i would think what happen between Daggerfall and Morrowind is what an author would write in a book

@cy3125 Жыл бұрын

The entrance to the battlespire possibly being in hammerfell is the first thing I've heard that would explain why the thalmor put so much attention, forces and resources into taking it before others; besides their prowess. They could hide there during an apocalypse or try to return to aetherius from there.

@thalmoragent9344 Жыл бұрын

Well, either that or they wanted the resources under Hammerfell's deserts, as well as a way to enclose more of Cyrodil As well as get closer to the Adamantine Tower

@yummyjellyjam3781 Жыл бұрын

The battlespire was something that I’d wanted to learn more about for a while now, and this video basically covered everything i wanted to know about it. Also, could you do a video on the Umbriel Crisis? Besides that, great video!

@LadySeraphineCC Жыл бұрын

I really wish ESO would bring back the Battlespire! I mean that would be a great DLC! 🥰

@badluck5647 Жыл бұрын

An Oblivion waystation run by powerful mages who serve a defunt Empire Sounds like a great setting for some fun storytelling and world building.

@lukasp5892 5 ай бұрын

I love the Elder Scrolls precisely for weird and creative high fantasy concepts like the Battlespire or the Dwemer or all the crazy lore regarding Aedra and Daedra. And nobody presents it better than you

@KingScream63 9 ай бұрын

It would be interesting if the rock the Spire is located on is a dragon's skull. Not just a normal dragon though, what if there was a physical incarnation of Akatosh as a dragon, and thats his skull?

@cesare_1302 7 ай бұрын

Like Akatosh before the middle dawn event (the 3rd dragon break iirc) in which men cast out his elven aspect Auri-El from him? You might be onto something

@NovoCognition Жыл бұрын

1st; the word slipspace makes me think a lot about Halo. 2nd; With a dragon being in service at the Battlespire and another being around in ES Redguard, I wonder how many Dragons were there in service of the Septim dynasty of the Tamrielic Empire? 3rd; The idea of the Battlespire being the ES equivalent of the International Space Station is interesting. 4th; I also ponder on how many other access points to the Battlespire there are? Overall, it would be neat to see more of this installation.

@warlick752 Жыл бұрын

Take everything im about to say with a huge grain of salt Because the info I'm remembering is quoting an old forum post made by Micheal kirkbride but while in the planning phase for oblivion they intended to have dragons as functionaries in the imperial legions as soldiers

@cesare_1302 7 ай бұрын

Tbf the fact you can fly down to mundus via dragon or airship sort of imply it's in space/high atmosphere (at least when talking about the mundus part overlapping with aetherius and oblivion). And this would not contrast with existing lore since another way to view at mundus is a geocentric (nirncentric?) solar system with planets and stuff

@Shahanshah_Xeno Жыл бұрын

One of my fav TES games, so glad you're giving the lesser known ones attention! I'm glad you decided to still do it even without the ability to directly capture footage

@TeCHnORiOT Жыл бұрын

It would be cool to see a full remake of the game with modern graphics and mechanics. Shame Bethesda isn't keen on doing remakes, and idk if they would even be okay with fans remaking any of their past spin-off games.

@Shahanshah_Xeno Жыл бұрын

@@TeCHnORiOT idk about modern mechanics, i feel like modern tes mechanics would remove most of the cool elements about this game, i'd rather see a Daggerfall Unity style remake personally. I love these fan remakes, same with OpenTESArena and Redguard Unity

@phyrr2 Жыл бұрын

It's the only game that truly immerses you in with all forms of Daedra. They could've used this as a way to REALLY flesh them out in future installments, but they failed to do that. Such a wasted opportunity. I would love to work as an agent for the Dremora or the Seducers as the basis of a game and get the same visits like you do in BS.

@DalesFresh Жыл бұрын

I really like these lore videos, I love the elder scrolls universe and try to learn as much about it as humanly possible, keep up the good work!

@Callisto_Arcas Жыл бұрын

Great video! So informative. Answered a lot of my questions. Thank you for the time you put into the research!

@justinterry8894 Жыл бұрын

Would love to have a zone on the battlespire and connected realms in eso since the battlespire would already be gone by the time of ESVI.

@acolyte1951 Жыл бұрын

thanks for the lore video

@boomslick2436 Жыл бұрын

Imagine if the BattleSpire shows up in TESVI

@davidmarcucci3388 Жыл бұрын

Damn, could be a main story.

@jdm8702 Жыл бұрын

And the dwemer have been hanging out there

@naidr0x 10 ай бұрын

battlespire walked (or rather miserably crawled) so that oblivion could run

@vaznook3226 11 күн бұрын

this could be a tough DLC for elderscrolls 6 if its in hammerfell

@MrChristmas. Жыл бұрын

Great video

@MrChristmas. Жыл бұрын

loved it

@Ninja1Ninja2 3 ай бұрын

battlespire should come back as the dlc of tes vi

@Noctuam734 Жыл бұрын

I tried playing this game for a very long while, never managed to make it work. I'm actually glad because i hear that this whole game in a painful experience.

@Ian-nl9yd Жыл бұрын

It's on Steam now, and GOG of course. It's pretty fun, if a bit tricky and obtuse at times.

@Hero_Of_Old Жыл бұрын

The setting is pretty damn cool though

@phyrr2 Жыл бұрын

It's worth it for the lore and it doesn't take long to get used to the controls. It's the #1 game for learning what all the Daedra are about. No other installment has nearly enough info or world building with the Daedra. You also get to meet Mehrunes Dagon as well as a slew of other known daedra characters.

@tjk-goix8513 Жыл бұрын

What I want to learn is what year does battlespire take place

@Evarakeus Жыл бұрын

3E 398, according to UESP, so a few decades prior to Morrowind

@whoeverest_the_whateverest Жыл бұрын

@@Evarakeus 29 years, to be exact

@jadonderby2599 Жыл бұрын

sadly the daedra in battlespire doesn't get much love even in mods. i know beyond skyrim are having vernai but thats about it.

@user-un5xj1wl6p Жыл бұрын

oblivion has a few mods for those daedra

@ifunnyuser6838 11 ай бұрын

Funnily enough this game can easily be played on xbox pc gamepass

@LandStrider23 Жыл бұрын

Would make an awesome local in TES VI

@darnellsimpson4413 Жыл бұрын

No wonder, it got over shadowed.

@ingurdizstation5680 Жыл бұрын

I wish TES would go a little more back to this era of theme and lore. Planescape-esque. A Science fiction that thinks it is a fantasy.

@TheVioletBunny Жыл бұрын

The one game ive played but never could finish same with redguard(it’s a shame on redguard because the lore is so interesting but the game play is just so bad this is the one tes game that truly needs a remake)

@spotlight1677 Жыл бұрын

If that game got a remake, it would probably play like Uncharted or Tomb Raider with minor rpg elements which wouldn't be bad at all. I would love to see Bethesda actually make the spin off, The Eye of Argonia.

@Buzk_4 Жыл бұрын

So... One can say battlespire is International Space Station

@elfinflame6244 Жыл бұрын

For me battlespire only worked in window mode not full screen

@jdm8702 Жыл бұрын

The Dragon Balls are on Kami's lookout... I mean battle spire

@Ratich Жыл бұрын

So the game never released for Windows machines in spite of it coming out in 1997 but it did release for MS-DOS which means you could get it to work through the emulator Dos-Box

@f.b.l.9813 Жыл бұрын

so it's kinda like Tamriel's Skylab or ISS

@frankoceanfan3157 Жыл бұрын

Based and remanpilled

@phyrr2 Жыл бұрын

Notice the Battlespire is built in the skull of a dragon with a missing horn.

@Felahliir Жыл бұрын

I hope TES 6 has the battlespire restored

@colbyboucher6391 Жыл бұрын

Only semi-relevant, but one of my favorite TESLore posts ever was basically a guess at how the heck Tamriel can be this crazy sci-fantasy setting in a lot of ways, but most people are still stuck living with a high medeival quality of life. The long and short of it was that Tamriel doesn't industrialize because they simply don't need to. A group of skilled mages can make all the advanced creature comforts they need for themselves (Instantanious long-distance comunication fancy tick-tock mirrors, teleportation, flying, probably air-con, etc.) , so why bother with the herculean effort required to start a technological revolution? They certainly wouldn't do it for the sake of poor people. The other point was that Tamriel having "space programs" for a while in the 1st Era was because magic sucked then, so they *did* need to come up with mechanical solutions (Mananauts, Sunbirds) wheras since the Mages' Guild became a thing, there's plenty of chumps around who can just... open a portal to Oblivion. The Battlespire is a special case designed for longer-term contact and research.

@davidmarcucci3388 Жыл бұрын

With the disdain and , well, realism of the world, I think your right about the upper class and rulers.

@colbyboucher6391 8 ай бұрын

@@ArmadilloArmada A pretty basic principle with most magic systems is that "ritualistic" magic that takes a long time to complete is significantly simpler and more primitive than achieving the same effect instantaneously. It's like the magic equivalent of miniaturization. Also "incredibly complex" seems like a big assumption. It's true that really they were mostly dropped because of the "difficulty of reaching magic through magic", but something that annoys me is people's assumption that Tamriel is mysteriously on a LotR style mythic decline. That happened in LotR because _god wanted it to happen_ and LotR was partially conceived as the mythical history of Earth. Not so for Tamriel.