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The Elder Scrolls: Arena (1994)

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The Elder Scrolls is 30 years old, and what better way to celebrate than to take a look back at the title that started it all? In this video, we're going over a bunch of completely useless facts about Arena and seeing what cool bits of info we can uncover from this ancient game.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:52 Thirtieth Anniversary Passed Already?
1:34 Delayed Release
2:15 Gladiator Game Turned RPG
4:29 Why the Title?
5:04 Developer Info
5:52 Province Naming Inspirations
6:46 LOTR References
7:04 Arena Argonians and Khajiit Were Kinda Weird...
8:10 Arena Dungeons in Other TES Games
8:45 Imperialized Names
9:13 Cyrodiil in Arena
9:43 What About Orcs?
9:51 Cut Content
10:43 Drinking Yourself to Death
11:45 Weather Systems
12:21 Exploring the Wilderness
12:54 Game Manual and Eternal Champion Backstory?
15:47 The Amulet of Kings
16:02 French Game Manual Lore
17:04 Why Warhaft?
17:51 Other Manual Lore
18:44 Early Guild Lore
20:10 The Artifacts of Arena
22:32 Conclusion

Art/Image Credit:
Vallenwood Tree by Unknown
Map of Arda by David Day
Morrowind Red Mountain Image by u/harangarish
All other images provided by UESP and The Elder Scrolls Fandom Wiki

Shoutouts/Information Credit:
The Arena page on UESP and its various subpages, as it's where I obtained most of this information, as well as the pages for The Eternal Champion and Talin Warhaft. You can scroll through for other neat info about Arena.

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Arena
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Eternal_Champion
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Talin_Warhaft

Please support the UESP and its authors and contributors!

The Imperial Library for their "Go Blades!" and Game Data pages. You can find the other names of the early gladiatorial teams here:

https://www.imperial-library.info/content/go-blades

Also, another shoutout to Awooo from the BetaArchive forums for their digging up of info from Arena in its Beta and Alpha stages. There's a bunch of awesome stuff here.

https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16245

Game Footage:
The Elder Scrolls: Shadowkey - ToughGamingGuy (@ToughGamingGuy)
Arena Ending and Death Cutscenes - Alexander Grebenkov (@alexandergrebenkov186) and Fast Win Walkthroughs (@FastWinWalkthroughs)

Music (in order of appearance):
From The Elder Scrolls: Arena OST by Eric Heberling
"Tharn's Betrayal"
"Where Dost Thou Hail"
"Winter in Hammerfell"
"The First Seed"
"The Wandering Inn"
"Swimming"
"Arcane Arts"
"Blacksmith"
"The Mages Guild"
"Game Over"

Wind Guide You...

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