User blog:Emperor Maximus/Souls of Tamriel - New RP idea

Almost all of the canons on this site are set after Skyrim. Some are a few years after, some are centuries after. And there are a few that go far into Tamreil's future, for example my own canon, Age of Industry. All of these canons tend to go with the idea that Tamriel progresses forward, and gets more advanced and complex.

I was playing Dark Souls, when I had an idea. Dark Souls is set in a kingdom that was once great and glorious, but then all of its great heroes and gods either died, buggered off, or turned mad, and the kingdom descended into ruin. What if that same thing happened to Tamriel, maybe there was a huge war between the Aedra and the Daedra or something like that, and all that was left afterwards was a shattered and broken shell of what Tamriel once was?

Basically, my idea for a new canon was one that was similar to Dark Souls, and the players just wander the dark and gloomy ruins of the settings that we have played in for so long, maybe seeking souls like in DS, or maybe artefacts left behind, I don't know yet.

Also like in DS, I was going to make it brutal, and players die all the time. The biggest problem I have with RPs at the moment is that there is no real threat or danger. You know that, whatever happens, your character isn't going to die unless you want him to. Any heroic actions like holding off the horde while your friends escape lose all meaning when you know that nobody would have died anyway, and the other characters just sneer at you for trying to be a heroic martyr. That's why this canon would involve real danger, and player characters would die a lot, meaning that they have to actually think about whether or not what they're doing is sensible, and whether somebody really does have to die in order for the others to survive.

As many of you already know, I am not very active, and Age is one of the slowest (if not the slowest) RPs on this site. This is because of other things going on, like studying for my exams, and also just because I can't get on very much. However, in a few months time my exams will be over and I will have a long period of time away before I start college. I could easily run an RP then that could be a bit faster.

So, what I really wanted to know is, would anybody be interested in taking part in this? If nobody does then I won't bother even starting it, but if people are interested then please say so, and offer your own suggestions!