@DeMickyD When I first played it, I found the game menu theme so melancholic and depressing that I thought the game would follow the book's plot instead of the movie.
The political situation of Hammerfell going into The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel...
26 years before the events of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Hammerfell seceded from the Mede Empire after rejecting the White-Gold Concordat, which would have required them to cede southern territory to the Aldmeri Dominion. Since then, the provincial powers have split between Hammerfell's two dominant political and cultural groups:
- The Crowns: Traditionalists who hold power in southern regions like Hegathe and preserve ancient ancestral customs.
- The Forebears: More cosmopolitan and assimilated groups who hold power in northern and coastal cities like Sentinel and Rihad.
Rather than answering to a monarch, individual cities and districts were governed by their own local officials following the conclusion of the Great War.
High Queen Iradne would be the first known singular ruler of Hammerfell since the Second Era when Queen-Regent Iszara signed the First Treaty of Stros M'Kai and offically joined the province to the Septim Empire.
@SnarkingIsLegal Not really familiar with all these people, but this whole thing is not really surprising seeing as they're all looksmatched ugly goblins.