Everything You Need To Know About Avowed s Setting Eora

Like all daedric princes, Mehrunes Dagon rules over a plane of Oblivion. Dagon's plane is the Deadlands, a hell-like realm of crumbling towers and pools of lava that the player character raids in Oblivion . Mehrunes Dagon believes that Nirn, the physical realm in The Elder Scrolls , is another plane of Oblivion that’s rightfully his, and he longs to conquer it, and has attempted many times in the p


Bethesda has name recognition that will go a long way in determining how good The Elder Scrolls 6 actually performs and how well it is received, but Obsidian Entertainment isn't that far behind. It's hard to say which will be better, Avowed or TES 6 , but there's one thing for sure: Obsidian is catching up in this race, and it may only take one slip-up to set up Avowed as the next Skyr


During Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire , the aforementioned Wheel was smashed to unusable pieces by the god Eothas, effectively halting the cycle of reincarnation until such a time as kith could figure out how to make it function themselves. As such, the end of Deadfire left Eora in a state of rebuilding from the sudden chaos that the gods created. However, the state of Eora post- Deadfire might not even matter - the time period that Avowed takes place in could be long before or after anything in Pillars of Eternity , or the Living Lands could be so far removed from the rest of the world that there's little mention of the previous games' eve


The Outer Worlds proved that Obsidian still has the capacity to create new and interesting IPs as well, something Bethesda has not demonstrated for some time. With The Outer Worlds considered to be one of the best games of 2019 , the developer’s announcement of Avowed has not only excited fans, but seems directly targeted to seize the opportunity left open by Bethesda’s failure to maintain marketing momentum for The Elder Scrolls 6 and the diminishing faith fans have that the larger developer is still able to deliver the go


Eora uses pretty conventional fantasy world standards, with a few defining traits that make it unique. We know already that Avowed takes place mostly in the Living Lands, which neither Pillars of Eternity nor Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire ever explored beyond mentioning it here and there. The Living Lands are set on a northern frontier island, said to be a place of unpredictable weather, fantastic beasts, with a landscape riddled by oddities never before seen by mortal eyes. The racial makeup of the Living Lands is fairly diverse compared to others (which is a good sign for those hoping Avowed 's character creator offers the same amount of race choices as Pillars ), though not everybody lives in harm


Just as Mehrunes Dagon is responsible for the Oblivion Crisis, Eothas is behind one of the biggest events in the Pillars of Eternity timeline, The Saint’s War. The Saint’s War took place between the Free Palatinate of Dyrwood and the Divine Kingdom of Readceras, a theocratic dictatorship led by Saint Waidwen, a prophet of Eothas who became his avatar until he was killed by a bomb at the Battle of Halgot Cita


Pillars of Eternity was Obsidian's love letter to the old isometric RPG genre, including games like the Baldur's Gate saga; Avowed , on the other hand, looks like it'll be quite different - more in the vein of Skyrim and the forthcoming Elder Scrolls 6 . Nevertheless, using Pillars of Eternity 's Eora for the setting of Avowed is an interesting move, as there's already a whole treasure trove of established lore waiting to be expanded upon. As such, here's an overview of Eora as we currently know


A player can sink hundreds of hours into Fallout 4 compared to The Outer Worlds , which, when comparing their reception, suggests many fans now prefer depth over breadth in their RPGs, considered to be one of Obsidian’s greatest strengths compared to Bethesda. Fallout 76 cemented what many considered to be Bethesda’s poor instincts, with the multiplayer game receiving poor reviews and facing a slew of technical issues. As Bethesda flounders, it appears that Obsidian has taken the opportunity to fill in the gaps in the mar


One big question that should be addressed is simple: which will be played first? One common determiner when it comes to a fan-favorite video game, especially those that are similar, is which was played first. Many who played Fallout 3 first will argue that it's better than Fallout New Vegas , while many who played the latter first will argue that it's better than Fallout 3 . There's a lot of psychology behind that, and it's not a blanket statement—it's not true of everyone. But when it comes to Avowed and The Elder Scrolls 6 , there may be a lasting impression if one of them manages to get out there and truly impress fi


While Mehrunes Dagon appears as purely malicious, Eothas and his followers are fueled by righteousness, making for a slightly more morally grey world where Eothasians can be well-intentioned, while worshipers of Dagon tend to act for purely selfish reasons. Eothas resembles both Mehrunes Dagon and Akatosh in The Elder Scrolls ’ canon in some ways, appearing as both divine and destructive. Waidwen and his sacrifice more closely resembles Martin Septim’s sacrifice to Akatosh in order to defeat Mehrunes Dagon than it resembles Dagon himself. Eothas' full role in Avowed Weapons , however, remains to be s