the first elder scrolls came out in 1994.
when did the first elder scrolls come out?
1994
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the elder scrolls: arena is an action role-playing video game developed and published by bethesda softworks. the first game in the "elder scrolls" series, it was released for ms-dos on march 25, 1994. like its sequels, "arena" takes place on the continent of tamriel, complete with wilderness, dungeons, and a spell creation system that allows players to mix various spell effects.





























in 2004, a downloadable version of the game was made available free of charge as part of the tenth anniversary of the series.





























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the elder scrolls: arena
information about the elder scrolls is sparse and often contradictory. they are thought to be relics from the creation of the aurbis and the mundus by the aedric et'ada who are legendary beings similar to daedra that sacrificed their immortality to create the world. the scrolls usually cannot be translated nor transcribed. there exists a sect of monks—the order of the ancestor moths—who devote their lives to the reading and interpreting of the elder scrolls. reading the scrolls exhausts the monks' vision. senior monks who read the scrolls wear blindfolds when they are not divining the scrolls' content, and retired moth priests are rendered completely blind. attempting to read the elder scrolls without proper training invariably results in failure and immediate blindness. cosmically important individuals, or individuals that are subjects of prophecy, have been able to see the deciphered writing on the elder scrolls without the associated rituals or resulting blindness. a book entitled "lost histories of tamriel" provides further insight on the elder scrolls, stating when any event has actually occurred, it sets itself unchangeably into the scrolls, and no action, magical or otherwise, can alter this.
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