Long post is long.
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Also, is it me or do items that are on shelves respawn too? I was quite sure I had looted the solitude's inn clean of all potions but after coming back after a while it seems there are all there again...
I'm pretty sure the whole cells reload after a while yeah, so that might be what you're experiencing.
Only real problem with that is making proper animations for the Akaviri (who are the snake-vampire people) and that ALL the native humans are either extinct or cattle.
I'm sorry to nitpick, but Akaviri is anyone from the continent, the snake-pires are Tsaesci.
I hope for some mythic era setting, with daedra walking on world and you part of the crafting of those artifacts you find in the third and fourth era games.
The only problem would be that time wasn't really linear back then, so it would be a very confusing experience (but possibly awesome on psychedelics?
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Akavir: It'd require Bethesda to model four new races
It'd also rid Akavir of it's mysterious, shrouded existance and opposition to Tamriel, which is the role it is filling right now.. And I wouldn't want them touching the place anyway as long as the current line of directions remain, knowing Beth, they'd turn it all into one big, stagnant pond of
Wutai blandness, and also screw up their own mythology again.
I'm actually thinking Elsweyr is rather likely, as they smeared it on rather heavily at those caravan-kittehs. I haven't found any other such obvious hyping for a province yet (unlike Morrowind, which had a few, and Oblivion which hyped all the other provinces) so that'll be my guess for now.
Don't know if I want them to, though... They'd probably retcon the 20 different breeds of Khajiit into one, or a few at most, and that would such horribly. Going Elsweyr is probably harder than Akavir, model- and animation-wise.
Elsyr is just the most ****ing hilarious name ever. I was talking to a khajit trader, asked him where he was from, and he goes: "We are from the distant land of elsewhere." I cracked up. "Well, no shit, dude!"
...Yes, Yoink, that is the joke. It has been the joke ever since they created the setting for their tabletop RPG sessions