Popular science on the historical background of the vast war in "The Elder Scrolls 5"

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Great War/World War (The Great War) is a major historical event closest to the 5th generation of games, and the background knowledge of the vast war should also be regarded as one of the common sense of 5th generation players. Since this incident involves many popular issues and disputes (such as the Skyrim Civil War, the Imperial Party, the Storm Party issue, and the Red Guard issue), it is necessary to learn more about it.

Foreword

Before the beginning of the text, there are the following items:

1. Due to too many translation versions and many mistranslations in this regard, this article except Except for the province name, all names are basically in English. The first time it appears, a Chinese translation will be attached, but thereafter it will be in English.

2. This article is a collection of information + sorting and rewriting, mainly from UESP (Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, Tianji unofficial website) and TIL (The Imperial Library, Imperial Library).

3. The author of the information in this article tries not to include too many personal opinions. If there is, he will separate historical facts from some of the author's own opinions.

Note: The focus of this article is actually the background part. This article strives to let newcomers not only understand a war, but more importantly, understand the grand history of the Elder Scrolls world behind it.

Overview

The Great War/World War (The Great War), the full name is "The Great War Between the Empire and the Aldmeri Dominion". It was an all-out war between the two largest powers in Tamriel.

The war started with the breakdown of diplomacy between the Empire and the Aldmeri Dominion on the 30th of Frostfall Moon (October), 4E171, and ended with the signing of the White-Gold Concordat in 4E175, which lasted for Five years.

Seven of Tamriel's nine provinces took part in the war.

Aldmeri Dominion side: Summerset Isle, Valenwood, Elsweyr

Empire side: Cyrodiil ), Hammerfell, Skyrim, High Rock

Neutral cubes: Morrowind, Black Marsh

< p>The war was divided into two main battlefields, Cyrodil Province on the eastern front and Hammerfell Province on the western front, affecting most of the two provinces.

(Cyrodil)

(Hammerfell)

The number of troops invested by both sides in this war is still unknown, but there may be tens of thousands of people So much. It may be the third largest war in Tamriel in the Fourth Age, and ranks among the top in the history of Tamriel's wars.

War geography, you need to know where this war took place.

Arena Planet - Nirn

(Note: There is no official map of Nirn so far, except for Tamriel and the current Yokuda Islands. There is no official map of the continent, this picture is for reference only)

(The planet Nirn in The Elder Scrolls 2)

Nirn (Nirn) means "competition" in Ehlnofex language Arena. It is the mortal world of The Elder Scrolls.

Currently, the planet is known to have six continents:

Tamriel: means "Beauty of Dawn" in Elvish language. It is the place where the story of The Elder Scrolls series of games takes place, and it is also the most familiar continent.

Atmora continent: Ehlnofex means "Elder Wood". Located in northern Tamriel, the ancient homeland of the Nords. (But the Nords claim that Atmora is only their temporary residence, and their own race still originates from the Skyrim province of Tamriel). It is a cold and harsh land that is difficult to cultivate and inhabited by many wild beasts. The Nords developed their powerful hunting-based civilization here.

There is very little information about this continent. Around the beginning of 1E, after the Nords moved to Tamriel en masse, Atmora became an extremely cold and frozen land. Since then, there has been no news about this continent.

Yokuda Continent: The meaning of the name is unknown. Located in western Tamriel, the ancient homeland of the Redguards. It is a harsh continent covered with deserts and barren mountains, but the Red Guards have gained great experience here and developed an advanced agricultural civilization. This continent is said to have once been more vast than Tamriel, but around 1E 792, Yokuda was destroyed either due to a natural disaster or a war. Most of the land sank to the bottom of the sea, and now only part of it remains, becoming the Yokuda Islands. Now sailing west of Tamriel, you can still find this island across the ocean. This continent is the one we know the most about besides Tamriel.

The continent of Aldmeris/the continent of ancient Ehlnofey: named after the ancestors of the elves, ancient Ehlnofey and Aldmer. The homeland of elves in elven legends. This continent is an area that exists entirely in legends. It can only be seen from the artifacts left by Aldmer that it seems to be a beautiful and strange land similar to Summerset Island. The location of this continent is still unknown. Many adventurers and navigators have tried to find it but failed. Some people speculate that this continent does not actually exist.

Akavir: The meaning of the name is unknown, also known as "Dragon Land". Located in the east of Tamriel, it is an extremely mysterious continent. It is known to the Tamriel people for two invasions of Tamriel in history, but we still know very little about this continent. It is said that the dragon originated from this continent. There were humans on this continent, but they were all "eaten" by the Tsaesc tribe. We only know that there are a few races in this continent, the Kamal tribe (also known as the Snow Demon), the Tang Mo (also known as the Monkey Man), the Ka Po' Tun tribe (also known as the Dragon Tiger Man), and the Tsaesci tribe (Also known as Snake People). Among them, only Kama and Tsaesc have ever come to Tamriel. Among these races, only the Tsaesci have relatively more information about them, and the others are almost unknown.

Pyandonea continent: The meaning of the name is unknown. Located in the southwest of Summerset Island, this mysterious place is surrounded by fog all year round. All ships that enter it never return. This continent is the home of a special elven race, the Maormer/Sea Elf. It is said that this continent did not exist in the first place, but Amor raised it from the sea. This continent is well known to the high elves for having invaded Summerset Island several times in history. The most recent one occurred in 3E110, and the empire gradually learned about this continent after that.

Attachment: an archipelago

Thars Islands: also known as the "Coral Kingdom". The Sea of ??Pearls, located in the southwest of Tamriel, is the home of the Sload people (also known as slugs), a strange orc tribe. In 1E2200, Sload released a great plague to Tamriel, forcing the entire continent to unite to form the All Flag fleet to attack the Thars Islands, killing a large number of Sload and overturning the coral islands, but it is said that some islands were later destroyed by Sload. The mage rose.