Recorded using FRAPS, this is the opening cinematic for Elder Scrolls Online that is shown to the player right after login, preceding the character creation and selection screen.
Each expansion has changed the beginning. But this is the one I liked the most. And of all the characters i have created over the years, only 1 remains that experienced this intro.
I really enjoy this intro, and the introduction that you, the character you were is dead, killed by Mannimarco and the one you now play as is a mimic, a copy of everything that mortal once was, a Daedric vessel, a vestige. But not decayed like the other soul shriven, intact, a rare case, a perfect copy. At the end of this, does this make the Vestige a Daedra? Or simply immortal. The soul shriven are given bodies by Azure Plasm, the same stuff Daedra are made of, but now, this vestige has a mortal soul, but a immortal body.
I play through the original intro then get soul trapped and watch this video before and pretend that’s where I started from. I think it’s objectively a better set up narratively speaking.
“It is the 582nd year of the second era, the drums of war are sounding. This is where our journey begins.” This line read will never cease to give me chills, I miss it so.
