History VideoGame / TheForgottenCity

The mod's developer, Nick Pearce, has since decided to take the project further by separating it entirely from ''Skyrim'' and ''VideoGame/TheElderScrolls'' setting, expanding it into a full stand-alone game made in the Unreal 4 engine and [[DivorcedInstallment set in its own universe]]. The game is currently planned for a late 2019 release. The official site can be found [[https://forgottencitygame.com/ here]].

''The Forgotten City'' is a mod for ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' released in October 2015.

* AdaptationExpansion: The remake is set to greatly expand upon the mod's plot, with the developer promising that it will be longer and contain more twist and turns and MultipleEndings.

The mod's developer, Nick Pearce, has since decided to take the project further by separating it entirely from ''Skyrim'' and ''VideoGame/TheElderScrolls'' setting, expanding it into a full stand-alone game made in the Unreal 4 engine and [[DivorcedInstallment set in its own universe]]. The game is currently planned for a 2019 release. The official site can be found [[https://forgottencitygame.com/ here]].

The mod's developer, Nick Pearce, has since decided to take the project further by separating it entirely from ''Skyrim'' and ''The Elder Scrolls'' setting, expanding it into a full stand-alone game made in the Unreal 4 engine and set in its own universe. The game is currently planned for a 2019 release. The official site can be found [[https://forgottencitygame.com/ here]].

* DivorcedInstallment: The remake changes all Dwemer reference to Roman.

The mod's developer, Nick Pearce, has since decided to take the project further by separating it entirely from ''Skyrim'' and expanding it into a full stand-alone game made in the Unreal 4 engine and set in its own universe. The game is currently planned for a 2019 release. The official site can be found [[https://forgottencitygame.com/ here]].

* SettingUpdate: The remake moves the setting to an ancient Roman ruins and in the surface, the game will set in the present day Earth.

!!This mod provides examples of:

* DivorcedInstallment: The remake changes all Dwemer reference to Roman.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Jarl Metellus' face and voice seem to be based on Creator/PatrickStewart. [[spoiler: Ironic, given that Stewart isn't known for playing villains.]]

One day, you are going about your business as usual when a courier approaches you with a letter. The letter woman is from a woman named Cassia, who has heard great things about your problem solving skills. She asks you to help her investigate a Dwemer ruin. She tells you that the ruin bears an inscription promising riches beyond imagining. But as you show up at the ruin it turns out that Cassia didn't tell you the full truth. She was not doing research into the ruin on her own. In fact, she was working on the task alongside her brother, Altrius. Altrius climbed into the deeper parts of the ruins and has now been missing for days on end. And indeed, Altrius' own notes on the place reveals something quite foreboding; for while the inscription does indeed tell about riches beyond imagining, it also contains the warning that anyone who enters the ruins may never return to the surface. Regardless, Cassia begs you to follow in her brother's footsteps and bring him back to her.

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Metellus. Sure he's polite and actually listens to you once you give evidence you're from the future, but that doesn't change the fact that he kidnapped Maisi and kept her for the purpose of being his SexSlave.]].

* DownerEnding: Occurs if [[spoiler:Metellus dies before creating the time portal. A TimeParadox occurs and you are thrown back into your time. You meet up with Altrius (who also never travelled back as a result) but the city is destroyed and it's inhabitants are dead. The two of you manage to escape the city, but Altrius will lament the loss of the people who lived there.]]

* EvilSoundsDeep: [[spoiler:The Arbiter]]. Subverted with [[spoiler: Metellus, who sounds like [[Creator/PatrickStewart Patrick Stewart]]]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Metellus]] never once seems to consider that seeking to maintain the Dwarves' Law while [[spoiler: tampering with the statues used to enforce it so that he can keep Maisi as a SexSlave in flagrant violation of it]] might bite him in the ass.

* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: Whoever gets sent to the past winds up causing one where the Dwarves' Law ends up broken (either presumably at the hands of a gang of marauders sent to kill a former Dark Brotherhood agent in the city or by the time traveler themselves) and the person who originally traveled through time gets sent back again. The only way out is to force a TimeParadox.]]

* SpotTheThread: While you're reading through the citizen arrival log that Metellus directs you to, note how many times the word "potential" is mentioned and who it's associated with. [[spoiler:The "potential" relates to whom Metellus would consider to be his potential sex slave - he goes with Maisi.]]

* TomatoInTheMirror: Ultimately, [[spoiler: YOU are the one]] who breaks the Dwarves' Law. Although this gets subverted if you discover that [[spoiler:Metellus has been breaking it in secret. The only reason he hasn't caused the City to be killed off is because he figured out how the Dwarves' Law is enforced.]].
** In fact, while the game doesn't openly says it so, this was the reason [[spoiler:Altrius committed suicide at the story's beginning. Unable to cope with the guilt that, no matter how dodgy or wrong the ApatheticCitizens of the City were, none of them broke the Dwemers' Law or were in risk of doing so... Except for the "[[SerialKillerKiller Looter]]" party, who were the original responsibles for triggering it. It was, from that point, always a paragon or a hero who cared enough to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong that, in an attempt to save them, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero instead killed them all. Over. And over. And over. And over again]].]]
* TransparentCloset: It becomes fairly obvious that [[spoiler: Rykas' blatant homophobia]] is a cover for their suppressed homosexuality. [[spoiler:In the good ending, he comes out and starts a relationship with Vernon.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Ultimately, The Arbiter created the Dwarves' Law in an effort to prevent the abuse of the massive deposit of Aetherium in the City's mines, as well as to keep things peaceful.]]

One day, you are going about your business as usual when a courier approaches you with a letter. The letter woman is from a woman named Cassia, who has heard great things about your problem solving skills. She asks you to help her investigate a Dwemer ruin. She tells you that the ruin bears an inscription promising riches beyond imagining. But as you show up at the ruin it turns that Cassia didn't tell you the full truth. She was not doing research into the ruin on her own. In fact, she was working on the task alongside her brother, Altrius. Altrius climbed into the deeper parts of the ruins and has now been missing for days on end. And indeed, Altrius' own notes on the place reveals something quite foreboding; for while the inscription does indeed tell about riches beyond imagining, it also contains the warning that anyone who enters the ruins may never return to the surface. Regardless, Cassia begs you to follow in her brother's footsteps and bring him back to her.

One day, you are going about your business as usual when a courier approaches you with a letter. The letter woman is from a woman named Cassia, who has heard great things about your problem solving skills. She asks you to help her investigate a Dwemer ruin. She tells you that the ruin bears an inscription promising riches beyond imagining. But as you show up at the ruin it turns that Cassia didn't tell you the full truth. She was not doing research into the ruin on her own. In fact, she was working on the task alongside her brother, Altrius. Altrius climbed into the deeper parts of the ruins and has now been missing for days on end. And indeed, Altrius' own notes on the place reveals something quite foreboding; for while the inscription does indeed told about riches beyond imagining, it also contains the warning that anyone who enters the ruins may never return to the surface. Regardless, Cassia begs you to follow in her brother's footsteps and bring him back to her.

One day, you are going about your business as usual when a courier approaches you with a letter. The letter woman is from a woman named Cassia, who has heard great things about your problem solving skills. She asks you to help her investigate a Dwemer ruin. She tells you that the ruin bears an inscription promising riches beyond imagining. But as you show up at the ruin it turns that Cassia didn't tell you the full truth. She was not doing research into the ruin on her own. In fact, she was working on the task alongside her brother, Altrius. Altrius climbed into the deeper parts of the ruins and has now been missing for days on end. And indeed, according to Altrius' own notes on the place reveals something quite foreboding; for while the inscription does indeed told about riches beyond imagining, it also contains the warning that anyone who enters the ruins may never return to the surface. Regardless, Cassia begs you to follow in her brother's footsteps and bring him back to her.

One day, you are going about your business as usual when a courier approaches you with a letter. A woman named Cassia and her brother Altrius have begun to investigate a Dwemer ruin, but Altrius has disappeared. The ruin bears an inscription promising riches beyond imagining, but warning that anyone who enters will never be able to return to the world above. Naturally, you go seek this out.

Upon entering the ruins, you find Altrius's dead body - aged almost beyond recognition - hanging from a tree in the center of a darkened courtyard, surrounded by burned corpses. On his person is a suicide note, saying that he has spent a lifetime in this place and realized that death is preferable to continued existence here. He urges you to follow his lead - and warns that whatever you do, [[SchmuckBait you should never open the mysterious cabin on the lake]]...

!This mod provides examples of:

** In fact, while the game doesn't openly says it so, this was the reason [[spoiler:Altrius committed suicide at the story's beginning. Unable to cope with the guilt that, no matter how dodgy or wrong the ApatheticCitizens of the City were, none of them broke the Dwemers' Law or were in risk of doing so... Except for the "[[SerialKillerKiller Looter]]" party, who were the original responsibles for triggering it. It was, from that point, always a paragon or a hero who cared enough to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong that, in an attempt to save them, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero instead killed them all. Over. And over. And over. And over again.]]

* TomatoIntheMirror: Ultimately, [[spoiler: YOU are the one]] who breaks the Dwarves' Law. Although this gets subverted if you discover that [[spoiler:Metellus has been breaking it in secret. The only reason he hasn't caused the City to be killed off is because he figured out how the Dwarves' Law is enforced.]]

* Hypocrite: [[spoiler:Metellus]] never once seems to consider that seeking to maintain the Dwarves' Law while [[spoiler: tampering with the statues used to enforce it so that he can keep Maisi as a SexSlave in flagrant violation of it]] might bite him in the ass.

* PermanentlyMissableContent: [[spoiler:Taking the persuade option with The Arbiter the first time around prevents you from getting his helmet, which is a Dwarven quality helm with a powerful enchantment (free shock spells) as well as a power that causes fear in most anything you encounter.)]]

* Hypocrite: [[spoiler: Metellus]] never once seems to consider that seeking to maintain the Dwarves' Law while [[spoiler: tampering with the statues used to enforce it so that he can keep Maisi as a SexSlave in flagrant violation of it]] might bite him in the ass.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler: The Arbiter]] originally established the Dwarves' Law to maintain peace and order. This quickly turned into repeated instances of genocide.

* LostForever: [[spoiler: Taking the persuade option with The Arbiter the first time around prevents you from getting his helmet, which is a Dwarven quality helm with a powerful enchantment (free shock spells) as well as a power that causes fear in most anything you encounter.)]]

* SchmuckBait: Go ahead and buy that "Super-Jumping" potion from [[SnakeOilSalesman Deglund]]. Of course it'll work, he's the most [[BlatantLies honest guy in the city!]] This trope also holds true for [[spoiler:the city itself; there are riches beyond imagining (an absolutely colossal [[Unobtainium Aetherium deposit]]) in it... in an unreachable cavern filled with radiation and the angry Dwemer who created the Dwarves' Law. Oh, and there's no way out of the city once you're there either.]]

* TransparentCloset: It becomes fairly obvious that [[spoiler:Rykas' blatant homophobia]] is a cover for their suppressed homosexuality. [[spoiler:In the good ending, he comes out and starts a relationship with Vernon.]]

* LostForever: [[spoiler: Taking the persuade option with The Arbiter the first time around prevents you from getting his helmet, which is a Dwarven quality helm with a powerful enchantment (free shock spells) as well as a power that causes fear in most anything you encounter.)

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Metellus]].

* DrivenToSuicide: You'll find Altrius' corpse hanging from a tree when you first enter the destroyed city and fight his ghost to get the lighthouse key. Notably, he's aged to an old man [[spoiler:as a result of going through the time portal repeatedly, over a period of 30+ years, failing time and time again in saving the city]]. In either ending, [[spoiler:he'll appear again as a still alive and much younger man, having never gone through the portal]].

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: You are sent seven years into the past to figure out what caused everyone in the city to die and keep it from happening. It's a good thing you get unlimited do-overs, since [[spoiler:you are required to trigger it at least once in order to escape the city]].
* SchmuckBait: Go ahead and buy that "Super-Jumping" potion from [[SnakeOilSalesman Deglund]]. Of course it'll work, he's the most [[BlatantLies honest guy in the city!]] This trope also holds true for [[spoiler:the city itself; there are riches beyond imagining (an Aetherium deposit) in it... in an unreachable cavern filled with radiation and the angry Dwemer who created the Dwarves' Law. Oh, and there's no way out of the city once you're there either.]]

* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:The Arbiter will flat out refuse to tell you where the rest of the Dwemer went if you ask him about them.]]
* TimeParadox: It's brought up in discussions with Brol that the only way to get back to your timeline is to cause one of these. [[spoiler:It's true.]]
* TomatoIntheMirror: Ultimately, [[spoiler: YOU are the one]] who breaks the Dwarves' Law. Although this gets subverted if you discover that [[spoiler:Metellus has been breaking it in secret.]]

* TheWoobie: Half the city's inhabitants qualify, but the most obvious one would be Dooley.