FO4 and Skyrim lore?

[Gilibran]

Lately i have been playing both Skyrim and Fallout again. I had to clean up my PC for diskspace and got a new SSD so had to do a fresh install with mods for both games and fresh new characters. Perhaps because i'm playing Skyrim one day and Fallout the other day i noticed something funny. In Skyrim i found the poem "deathblow of Abernanit". It's an interesting read if you just visited Abernathy farm the other day.

 

First part of the poem:

 

Broken battlements and wrecked walls

Where worship of the Horror once embraced.

The bites of fifty winters frost and wind

Have cracked and pitted the unholy gates,

And brought down the cruel, obscene spire.

All is dust, all is nothing more than dust. The blood has dried and screams have echoed out. Framed by hills in the wildest, place Of Morrowind Sits the barren bones of Abernanit.

 

Apart from the obvious name, Abernanit - Abernathy what caught my attention is "Abernanit" was a castle with some sort of spire and here we have Abernathy farm build under a huge powerline "spire" like tower.

 

And then there is the reference to death and destruction around Abernanit which sound remarkably like the after effects of the nuclear apocalypse on the Commonwealth.

 

To me at least it seems more then just coincidence? Anyone noticed similar stuff FO4 vs Skyrim lore? I think it's just easteregg like stuff, or even simply inspiration for the designers.

 

Or are we seeing the Elder scrolls at work here?? Lol

[Ethreon]

If you play Fallout 2 you find a wrecked Enterprise shuttle. Is Fallout Star Trek?

 

 

 

No. The answer is no. It's at most an Easter egg.

 

 

[Moraelin]

The nirnroot plant is also common to Oblivion, Skyrim and Fallout 4. And the Fallout 4 one glows too, btw. Although in FO4 it's called an experimental plant.

 

I think that between that and the dwemer-looking artefact that that guy is wearing on his head, plus magic also working in FO4 now being canon, it's a fair assumption that Tamriel and Earth are actually in the same universe and probably in the same galaxy. Not the same solar system, obviously, but close enough that the zetans could have brought the plant along.

[Moraelin]

If you play Fallout 2 you find a wrecked Enterprise shuttle. Is Fallout Star Trek?

Why not? ST has parallel universes where Earth is very different. The best known is the mirror universe, but other parallel timelines include the one in DS9 and the one in the new ST movies. The Fallout universe would fit very well as an alternate timeline where instead of WW3 ending and humanity discovering warp flight, war dragged on until everyone nuked each other.

[Ethreon]

Why not? Because it isn't. Fallout is fallout, ST is ST, and Skyrim is Skyrim. The apparition of random mentions, references and easter eggs doesn't mean that two different universes suddenly become one.

[crawe1x]

Yeah, it's Easter eggs and nothing more. I've never understood the appeal, but game developers and filmmakers keep throwing them about - there's nothing particularly witty or clever about them. In my opinion, Easter eggs should only be the icing on the cake, once you've done a brilliant job with everything else. You've got to earn. Instead of adding Easter eggs, Beth should maybe focus on properly fixing some of their brilliantly conceived but poorly executed ideas, such as FO4's buggy and superficial settlement system.

[Ethreon]

Eh, come on. Easter eggs are fun to find.

[llamaRCA]

Yeah, it's Easter eggs and nothing more. I've never understood the appeal, but game developers and filmmakers keep throwing them about - there's nothing particularly witty or clever about them. In my opinion, Easter eggs should only be the icing on the cake, once you've done a brilliant job with everything else. You've got to earn. Instead of adding Easter eggs, Beth should maybe focus on properly fixing some of their brilliantly conceived but poorly executed ideas, such as FO4's buggy and superficial settlement system.

 

They're fun to find and build. There is a lot of content that has to be built for a game whether you do a brilliant job with everything else or not and easter eggs are often built with very little to no extra work above and beyond your run-of-the-mill content.

[Moksha8088]

 

Yeah, it's Easter eggs and nothing more. I've never understood the appeal, but game developers and filmmakers keep throwing them about - there's nothing particularly witty or clever about them. In my opinion, Easter eggs should only be the icing on the cake, once you've done a brilliant job with everything else. You've got to earn. Instead of adding Easter eggs, Beth should maybe focus on properly fixing some of their brilliantly conceived but poorly executed ideas, such as FO4's buggy and superficial settlement system.

 

They're fun to find and build. There is a lot of content that has to be built for a game whether you do a brilliant job with everything else or not and easter eggs are often built with very little to no extra work above and beyond your run-of-the-mill content.

 

Is this foreshadowing of some goodie to find in your upcoming super NPC mod, Heather? Hope so. I am really looking forward to that mod. Willow was the best companion of all in the wastelands of the Mojave.

[Mitigate]

It's all just Easter eggs. There's no mixed lore.

In films today, Easter eggs are thrown into terrible films to get fanboys to go watch them. There are people out there that will buy a ticket just to see some reference or throwback to something else. Take the Marvel cinematic universe. Absolutely pointless and garbage films yet people pay to watch them because they feed their sense of nostalgia or fandom concerning certain characters. Majority of 'fans' have never even read a comic book but now feel such a strong allure to Iron Man or Spiderman. Lol, a trailer featuring Spiderman sold most of the tickets for Civil War! And we all should very well know how awful that garbage was!

Easter eggs can still be fun and innocent though. I enjoyed the one in Far Cry Primal nodding back to Blood Dragon. A Million Ways to Die in the West had a brilliant one from Back to the Future...

The ones in TES and Fallout are innocent and fun too.