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Summerset Isles Interview with Rich Lambert - Elder Scrolls Online Videos - MMORPG.com

Elder Scrolls Online will be expanding soon with the Summerset Isle chapter. Players will finally be heading off to the home of the High Elves this summer. We had the chance to chat with Rich Lambert to learn more.

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Lheiah

So, I'm guessing Arteum is the non-dungeon dlc this year similar to CWC last year?

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Torval said:

It's interesting they consider Tamriel a low magic world. Even Skyrim is a pretty high magic game and with all the crazy lootcrate mounts and pets in this game, how do they consider this low magic? People are flinging magic and non-magic skills are "magic". Magic is freaking everywhere in the Elder Scrolls.

All the other stuff seems typical for a chapter release.

No. He said that traditionally Tamriel isn't very high magic. Which is right. The average denizen within Tamriel isn't subjected to the magics of the world. Usually that falls to the rare sort that pursue that high magic career whether in the Mages Guild or solo or perhaps more darker path with dark magic/daedra.

Just explore Skyrim and usually the interactions you have with people are 80% not special high magic people. Your character however is, of course. And in Elder Scrolls Online it is hard to portray a visibly low magic world when every player is that "Chosen one" who are able to harness magic better than the average passerby in that world.

wanderica

I always thought of low magic like Lord of the Rings. Magic is there, but it's not as focused. It's very subtle. Creatures and various things can be magical in nature, but there are very, very, few people in Middle Earth that can harness magic like we see in The Elder Scrolls.

Or do I have this wrong? Could it be more like Game of Thrones where you CAN learn magic, but it is just very infrequent?

Iselin

wanderica said:

I always thought of low magic like Lord of the Rings. Magic is there, but it's not as focused. It's very subtle. Creatures and various things can be magical in nature, but there are very, very, few people in Middle Earth that can harness magic like we see in The Elder Scrolls.

Or do I have this wrong? Could it be more like Game of Thrones where you CAN learn magic, but it is just very infrequent?

Yeah both LOTR and GOT are low magic environments with magic being relatively rare and used infrequently.

But that's the books where the author has 100% control of how common or rare it is and how much he/she focuses on its use. But GOT itself has been progressively becoming more about magic as the books (and TV series) have gone on: the more it becomes about dragons and wights the more it starts to lean toward high magic.

That all falls apart in games though as soon as you allow players to play a magic using class because it'll be everywhere despite whatever low magic roots the source material might have.

Be that as it may, compared to Westeros and Middle Earth, magic is still more common everywhere in Tamriel. What they're trying to emphasize is that magic in Summerset is more a part of everyone's daily life than in other parts of Tamriel.

You can call it medium magic everywhere and high magic in Summerset or if you prefer, high magic everywhere and even higher magic in Summerset It doesn't really matter. The point is that there is more of it everywhere there.

And as a bonus for having read all the way through my post here's a video (25 minutes) from Playstation Underground that shows a lot of Summerset... and it looks gorgeous. Take a look at that Griffon especially around the 18:40 mark.