The Elder Scrolls Timeline: Every Game in Chronological Order

Posted by Aldo Pusey on Saturday, August 10, 2024

Skyrim starts with the proud Elder Scrolls tradition of placing players in the manacles of a prisoner. This time around, though, Emperor Uriel Septim VII isn’t there to save them. Instead, their execution is interrupted by a surprise dragon attack, which leads them to learn that they are the Last Dragonborn: a person gifted with dragon blood, and the only hero who can save Skyrim from a draconic apocalypse.

To date, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the latest entry in the franchise (chronologically speaking). The game takes place a good 200 years after the events of Oblivion, and the world has changed significantly. The once-strong empire has lost so much power that half of the province of Skyrim wants to secede and is embroiled in a civil war against the half that doesn’t. Needless to say, it isn’t a great time to be alive. Even Sheogorath has gone missing, and his servant, Dervenin (who last appeared in The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles) is looking for him. At least Ulfar the Unending, who showed up in The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon, is having the time of his afterlife in Sovngarde.

Like the two previous entries before it, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim received multiple pieces of DLC, two of which were story-oriented: Dawnguard and Dragonborn. In Dawnguard, the story revolves around yet another one of the Elder Scroll’s prophecies (specifically, the disappearance of the sun). Since sunlight is one of the few things that can harm vampires, an army of undead bloodsuckers wants to make that prophecy come to fruition. players can either join them or stand against them. Dragonborn, meanwhile, takes place on a nearby island that was once ruled by the First Dragonborn and involves his resurrection. While the story is mostly self-contained, players eventually encounter Falx Carius, who initially showed up in Bloodmoon. Since then, he was promoted from Captain to General, was killed, and was eventually revived as an undead soldier. Not the promotion he was looking for.

The Elder Scrolls Travels: Stormhold and Dawnstar

Release Date: August 31, 2003 (Stormhold) and August 26, 2004 (Dawnstar)

Timeline Date: Unknown

The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey was actually not the first in the Travels game created for phones. That game was predated by The Elder Scrolls Travels: Stormhold and The Elder Scrolls: Dawnstar, but good luck telling those two games apart.

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