<br>Bethesda is still a huge company, and it will be a long time before its place in the RPG world is completely replaced. Nonetheless, Obsidian’s announcement of Avowed shows that the smaller developer is coming for Bethesda’s crown, and is ready to take advantage of Bethesda’s failures over the last few years. Time will tell if Obsidian is successful, but if both companies continue their current trajectories, Obsidian may well prove the old mantra true: the bigger they are, the harder they f<br><br> <br>In this case, as strange as it seems, Avowed may very well be the first to launch. The Elder Scrolls 6 was first announced 2 years ago , but it was in the absolute earliest stages of development. It's not releasing until well after Starfield, which itself still does not have a release date. Many expect that it won't actually launch until 2024-2025 , which are good conservative predictions, and it wouldn't have likely been announced at all if it weren't meant to offset the reaction to Fallout 76 . Many games are not announced 7 years ahead of time, which is a point for Avow<br><br> <br>Obsidian Entertainment may have shocked its biggest fans when it had not one, not two, but three projects at the Xbox Series X showcase. Proving it is a powerhouse for Microsoft, Obsidian revealed upcoming DLC for the Outer Worlds , a new launch trailer for Grounded , and its next big Obsidian RPG, Avowed Strategy . However, one look at Avowed practically echoes The Elder Scrolls , and given Obsidian and Bethesda's history, this is not surpris<br><br> <br>One thing fans can seemingly count on is the inclusion of playable races. The Elder Scrolls 6 will likely continue the tried-and-true races of the franchise in its game, but Avowed may initially seem like a different story. Yet, it isn't really. It's been confirmed that Avowed takes place in Eora, the same setting as the Pillars of Eternity franchise, which means players will encounter the same races found there...and probably play t<br><br> <br>During Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire , the aforementioned Wheel was smashed to unusable pieces by the god Eothas, effectively halting the cycle of reincarnation until such a time as kith could figure out how to make it function themselves. As such, the end of Deadfire left Eora in a state of rebuilding from the sudden chaos that the gods created. However, the state of Eora post- Deadfire might not even matter - the time period that Avowed takes place in could be long before or after anything in Pillars of Eternity , or the Living Lands could be so far removed from the rest of the world that there's little mention of the previous games' eve<br><br> <br>During the Oblivion Crisis, Dagon’s cult, the Mythic Dawn, assassinated Emperor Uriel Septim VII, and opened a portal to the Deadlands that destroyed the city of Kvatch. At the end of the crisis the daedric prince was defeated by Akatosh, chief of the Divines, when heir Martin Septim used the Amulet of Kings to merge himself with Akatosh within the walls of the Imperial City, destroying both Mehrunes Dagon and Martin hims<br><br> <br>While Mehrunes Dagon appears as purely malicious, Eothas and his followers are fueled by righteousness, making for a slightly more morally grey world where Eothasians can be well-intentioned, while worshipers of Dagon tend to act for purely selfish reasons. Eothas resembles both Mehrunes Dagon and Akatosh in The Elder Scrolls ’ canon in some ways, appearing as both divine and destructive. Waidwen and his sacrifice more closely resembles Martin Septim’s sacrifice to Akatosh in order to defeat Mehrunes Dagon than it resembles Dagon himself. Eothas' full role in Avowed , however, remains to be s<br><br> <br>Pillars of Eternity was Obsidian's love letter to the old isometric RPG genre, including games like the Baldur's Gate saga
