Bethesda has release a new character description for its upcoming The Elder Scrolls Online. The new character featured in the post is Ayrenn the Unforeseen Queen, the reigning matriarch of the Aldmeri Dominion.
But Bethesda didn't just release a brief paragraph about Ayrenn, the game company has a release a short story that tell the character's entire history from her birthday to her ascension to queen.
It seems she was a very unusually heir to the throne and disappeared for a while leaving the kingdom to her younger brother. But on the day of his coronation, she mysterious returned to the kingdom and took her rightful place as queen.
You can read the six-page short story on the game's official site here.
The Elder Scrolls Online is an upcoming massively multiplayer role-playing video game developed by ZeniMax Online Studios. The game is expected to release in early 2013 and will be the first open-ended multiplayer installment in the franchise.
The game will be set on the fictional continent of Tamriel, and will not connect directly to other games in the series. The game takes place 1,000 years before the events of the previous game in the series, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim,
Here is the game's official synopsis from Bethesda:
"It is a time of strife and unrest. Armies of revenants and dark spirits manifest in every corner of Tamriel. Winters grow colder and crops fail. Mystics are plagued by nightmares and portents of doom.
Four years ago, in 2E 578, an arcane explosion of energy in the Imperial City set off mystical aftershocks that swept across Nirn. Mages died or went mad. Supernatural abominations from the plane of Oblivion, the Daedra, appeared in greater numbers than ever before. The constellation of the Serpent grew so large that it dominated the night sky.
So began the grand scheme of Molag Bal, Daedric Prince of domination and enslavement. His Dark Anchors, vortexes of evil magic, weaken the barrier between worlds, threatening to merge Nirn and Oblivion into a single, nightmarish hellscape.
In the midst of this chaos, three alliances vie for control of the Imperial City and the White-Gold Tower. High Rock, Sentinel, and Orsinium stand as one, united under the rule of the High King in Wayrest, Valenwood and Elsweyr have forged an alliance with Summerset, and Black Marsh, Morrowind, and Skyrim have joined forces and formed their own uneasy pact.
The Daggerfall Covenant. The Aldmeri Dominion. The Ebonheart Pact.
Three armies will take up arms against the Empire, and against each other, to wrest control of the Imperial City and White-Gold Tower from the dark forces of Oblivion itself."
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