Is there any game that shows when the Imperials took over all the countries?

[armageddon]

It's really puzzling to me. It seems the Imperials have occupied the countries since the very first game. What is the history behind that?

[psychotron666]

No all the games take place well after Tamriel was united by the empire.

Basically Tiber septim and his two homies wulfarth (old Skyrim king who was dead many years ago, was the one behind invading morrowind which resulted in them losing and the three gods of morrowind rising to power but was a spirit who accompanied Tiber septim) and zurin arctus took over most of the countries by force or alliance.

When they set their eyes on morrowind, vivec decided to give them numidium (giant robot mech that the dwemer built using the heart of lorkhan/shor to ascend to godhood) but omitted the part about the heart of lorkhan (which the three used to ascend to godhood). Tiber and then didn't know about the heart, and it was required to activate the numidium.
However zurin and Tiber found a way around it, they tricked their buddy wulfarth and soul trapped him, he was a shezzarine (they are people born with a piece of lorkhan/shors soul) so his soul was enough to power the numidium.

Tiber then used the numidium to conquer the summerset isles and broke the timeline by activating it (it's broken the timeline every time it's been used) and used it to unite all of Tamriel.

Elder scrolls 2 daggerfall has to do with finding the numidium and activating it again, and then deciding which faction to give it to. Because it was activated, it broke the timeline again and every ending happened, resulting in the warp in the west (this is a book in morrowind you can read if you want).

The numidium has been missing since then, although in morrowind dagoth ur is creating a second one (which you'll see at the end of the game).

Also the numidium comes back in the 5th era and destroys nirn, but that hasn't happened yet in game timeline and can still be stopped / takes place in an alternative timeline.

[greenraven22]

All the countries? Technically speaking Elder Scrolls Online. It's the earliest game in the entire chronology and a lot of lore stuff happens including Vivic only recently having ascended to godhood.

Hammerfell? Elder Scrolls Adventures Redguard. You play as a resistance fighter during the Imperial occupation.

Originally posted by psychotron666:

numidium

I love all the insane ♥♥♥♥ that happens in the background. The time wars bring so much from a lore perspective. It's on the same level as finding out aliens are behind the Fallout universe.

[theo]

Any Elder Scrolls game has ingame books about it

[Valden21]

Originally posted by greenraven22:

All the countries? Technically speaking Elder Scrolls Online. It's the earliest game in the entire chronology and a lot of lore stuff happens including Vivic only recently having ascended to godhood.

Wrong empire. You're talking about the 2nd Empire, the one founded by Reman Cyrodiil I. That one never conquered Morrowind, so it never had all of Tamriel. OP's specifically referring to taking over all the kingdoms in Tamriel, and the Third Empire's the only one that succeeded at that.

OP, most of the in-game historical information comes in the form of books, primarily A Brief History of the Empire, which you can find in a bunch of different places. According to the timelines presented on the UESP website, Tiber Septim's unification campaign ended in 2E 896, when Morrowind signed the treaty that brought it into the Empire. At the end of that year, Tiber Septim declared that the Second Era was over and the Third Era had begun.

[Nebgama]

Arena 3E
Daggerfall 3E
Morrowind 3E
Oblivion 3E

Geyrim 4E

GEYSO 2E

ESO is the one as the other person mentioned. The Reyman Dynasty 2E took over all province except for Morrowind.

Its not countries either Tamerial is the Country.

Yes Technically since Arena because every game takes place after 2E but the Empire does not control Morrowind fully they have a treaty and are allowed in Morrowind but the Dunmer still own the land for the most part.

They allow the Empire here but they don't own it, its still controlled by the king or queen of Morrowind up until red mountain where its controlled by the Tribunal.

its a strange timeline tbh because they still reported to the Empire.
Even stranger Barenziah was the queen of Morrowind and i am pretty sure the earliest recorded ruler in context towards Dunmer and Empire standings in Morrowind and she came from the Septim family which is Empire, she was an orphaned Dark elf that they took care off.

This is excluding races before Dunmer because it get to convoluted to talk like that.

[Nebgama]

Full circle jerk dragon break like usual, basically you are asking the answer to this and everything in the lore is just this because dragon break
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S972rvXLRwc&t=16s

[Nebgama]

Morrowind is a young land where much of the history is lost, Resdayn the initial name goes back its one of the first places that was contested when beings first started walking on the land but the history is lost.

The heart landed in Resdayn too which is the cause for much of the rest of the word to exist. What i mean here is that Morrowind is a center that everything else stems from in the mortal plane. Like its the meteor that hit the land and brought bacteria life kind of thing.

- 1E 2820 - 1E 2920

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Four-Score_War

Basically they tried to conquer Tamriel since 1E but Morrowind was always a resistant Province. They nearly wiped out the Empire completely and they called a truce, the first truce. The information for this is around but its hard to find probably because of the
flood that occurred in 2E when the Empire returned.

It took 80 years for the first war to come to conclusion. Morrowind Held its ground and the Empire never concurred.

- 2E 572

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Second_Era_Wars#Second_Akaviri_Invasion

They came back 652 years later and tried again, i am just saying 652 because time is weird in Elderscrolls. Mainly a big event happens through dragon break that stops the current centuries timeline and into the new century.

There is points of time missing all over. it will be 652 years without the missing time added what we know of because we don't know exactly as things overlap and happen at the same time in some cases. We will just simplify and say 652 years.

This time the tables turned and Morrowind was nearly destroyed. They wreck Mounhold and many other places and nearly got wiped out.

Basically the Empire were raping and pillaging Morrowind and its Citizen They obtained Queen Barenziah in the wreckage of Morunhold and raised her. I don't even think we know who er parents where in Mournhold because the lore is not well defined before 2E.

The second treaty happens the same year as the second invasion.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:On_Morrowind
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Armistice

The Empire is now allowed in Morrowind officially under a treaty which is the second Truce, The funny part is they put the first Known Queen into her seat which is someone they stole from Morrowind last century.

They are allowed to co govern Morrowind in some ways but the Dunmer own Morrowind still on paper. I think there is more to it like a behind closed doors Empire / Tribunal relations because Tribunal are the false gods which says a lot and the Empire looks to have more governing power than one would think behind the scenes.

What am i gettin at with all this? well as you can see there is complicated and this is the lite version, but basically its a brief in that its something that has been happening since 1E. Therefore the first game counts up until Skyrim as that game to your question. 2E so ESO is going back in time and fleshing out the early lore today.

4E so Skyrim the starting to renounce the treaty because everyone is relocating to Skyrim. The Empire is losing ground nationally and Morrowind gets destroyed by the red year Red mountain, Red mountain got salty and started destroying Morrowind.

what this all means? Pawns on a chessboard and the Empire has never controlled fully Tamriel but behind the scenes there it more going on, a lot of question marks and loose ends only time will tell.