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High Hrothgar - Skyrim, artwork by Bethesda Softworks

High Hrothgar - Skyrim - High Hrothgar is official concept artwork used by Bethesda Game Studios for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The image was made by Senior Concept Artist Adam Adamowicz (1968-2012). This limited edition Certified Art Giclee print is part of the official The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim fine art collection by Cook & Becker and Bethesda Softworks. The print is hand-numbered and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.\n\nHigh Hrothgar is an ancient monastery found on one of the largest mountains in Skyrim. This concept art piece shows the entrance and exterior of the secluded building. \n
‘High Hrothgar’ is official concept artwork used by Bethesda Game Studios for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The image was made by Senior Concept Artist Adam Adamowicz (1968-2012). This limited edition Certified Art Giclee™ print is part of the official The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim fine art collection by Cook & Becker and Bethesda Softworks. The print is hand-numbered and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

High Hrothgar is an ancient monastery found on one of the largest mountains in Skyrim. This concept art piece shows the entrance and exterior of the secluded building.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks November 2011. It is the fifth main installment in the ongoing The Elder Scrolls series.

In the game players are able to freely roam the large, lush land of the Skyrim province, a rough, ‘Norse’, Viking-like fantasy world defined by wide stretches of barren wilderness, medieval human settlements, hidden dungeons, and huge dragons roaming the skies. The game’s main story involves the player-hero’s quest to defeat the dragon Alduin the World-Eater, a dark God in the Elder Scrolls mythology, set to destroy the world.

Skyrim, that took over ten years to develop, was rightfully praised for its open-world approach, its ‘deep lore’ and attention to detail. Upon release, it surpassed other games of its time with its scope and its coherence, artistic vision, and tonality. Everything in the game, from rustic settlements to heroes’ armour and from cups and plates to dragon designs, flows from the idea to build a ‘hardcore viking fantasy’, and lives up to that. The natural environment is a rugged one, with heavy, snow-covered mountains, to the effect it truly feels like ‘a home of the Nords’.

Key to understanding the tonality of Skyrim, is the ‘epic realism’ in its world design. Earlier, Elder Scrolls games adhered to cleaner and more generic representations of European fantasy lore. Skyrim broke free of this mold, by staying as close to historical (Scandinavian) references as possible. Fantastic elements are depicted in ways that would feel ‘authentic’ in an ancient Nordic context, and are the opposite of the type of supermagical elements you’d find in more dreamlike fantasy worlds. The same design rule helped in finding the right type of dragon for the game: a shiny purple air lizzard would spoil the effect of the animal being ‘real’ in any sense. Rather, the art team looked at animals that would look like the dragons you’d expect, but without references to high-fantasy art styles. To achieve this effect, the team studied tons of footage on eagles, bats, and various reptiles, building their dragons from their findings.

In the end, the ‘epic reality’ design rule paid off. Wherever a player travels in the wide open world of Skyrim, there are amazing dramatic vistas to behold, epic temples, but also a ton of detailed artefacts like armour, cutlery, or anything else, that simply feels like it belongs to this world. The myriad of details, set in a natural world that feels convincing, often kept players away from their tasks because they will simply stand somewhere, taking in the scenery. Only to be surprised by a passing mammoth or a huge dragon blacking out the sky.

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Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Softworks is an American video game developer and publisher. Best known for narrative-driven and critically acclaimed titles Dishonored, Fallout, and the Elder Scrolls series (Skyrim), it publishes other major game titles as well, most notably id Software’s Doom and Wolfenstein games.
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High Hrothgar - Skyrim 2017

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