Everyone who follows Pete Hines knows what he tweeted recently:
“I am working on getting a little more info out on Skyrim/DLC. Maybe next week? We’ll see. Also trying to confirm Kinect release date.”
Many fans of Skyrim were disappointed when the big reveal was Kinect integration, which only a few gamers can use and probably even fewer will use. There is some still hope for a DLC , as Bethesda Forum user Karellan dove into some of the latest update files and found some DLC information.
Below are the files he found (taken straight from his post):
Snow elf stuff:
Animations\[b]DLC01\Chair_SnowElfPrinceDialogueA.HKX[/b]
Animations\[b]DLC01\Chair_SnowElfPrinceDialogueB.HKX[/b]
Animations\[b]DLC01\Chair_SnowElfPrinceDialogueC.HKX[/b]
Animations\[b]DLC01\Chair_SnowElfPrinceDialogueD.HKX[/b]
Animations\[b]DLC01[/b]\Chair_SnowElfPrinceDialogueE.HKX
Animations\[b]DLC01[/b]\Chair_SnowElfPrinceFireBall.HKX
Animations\[b]DLC01[/b]\Chair_SnowElfPrinceSitIdle.HKX
Animations[b]\DLC01\SnowElfPrinceAscensionBurning.HKX[/b]
Vampire feeding stuff:
Animations\[b]DLC01\IdleMesmerizes.hkx[/b]
[b]Animations\DLC01\Paired_VampFeedBack.hkx
Animations\DLC01\Paired_VampFeedFront.hkx[/b]
Crossbows:
crossbow_direction_behavior.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_1stP_Run.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_1stP_Walk.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_Aim.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_Equip.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_IdleDrawn.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_IdleHeld.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_Release.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_RunBackward.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_RunBackwardLeft.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_RunBackwardRight.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_RunForward.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_RunForwardLeft.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_RunForwardRight.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_RunLeft.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_RunRight.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_WalkBackward.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_WalkBackwardLeft.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_WalkBackwardRight.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_WalkForward.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_WalkForwardLeft.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_WalkForwardRight.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_WalkLeft.hkx
Animations\CrossBow_WalkRight.hkx
No Idea what ‘RF’ is.
Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_End.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_EndL.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_Idle.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_IdleL.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_LToR.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_RToL.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_Start.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_StartL.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_Talk01.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Guarded_Talk02.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_GuardedToOpen.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Open_End.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Open_Idle.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Open_Start.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Open_Talk01.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Open_Talk02.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Open_Talk03.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Open_Talk04.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_OpenToGuarded.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Playful_End.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Playful_Idle.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Playful_Start.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Playful_Talk01.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Playful_Talk02.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_PlayfulToSerious.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Serious_End.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Serious_Idle.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Serious_Start.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Serious_Talk01.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Serious_Talk02.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_SeriousToPlayful.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Shock01.hkx
Animations\DLC01\RF_Shock02.hkx
The hints of the first DLC hints that the events take place in Skyrim as the player faces the Falmer as they attempt to retake the surface. The Falmer are Snow Elves who were tricked by the Dwemer into eating Toxic fungus, which rendered them blind.
Exactly who the Snow Elf Prince is may play into the setting of the DLC. An in-game tome titled “Fall of the Snow Elf Prince” states that the Snow Elf Prince was a mysterious snow elf who led other Snow Elves into the Battle of the Moesring at the foot of the Moesting Mountains were Snow Elves made their last stand against Ysgramor.
When the battle reached the end, the Snow Elf Price was dead and buried in a freshly dig barrow somewhere in Solstheim. Since the Snow Elf Prince was so important to the Snow Elves before the transformation into the Falmer, it’s probably a safe guess to state that this will play a pivotal role in the Falmer invasion. Since the Snow Elf Prince was buried in Solstheim, it’s very likely that’s were gamers will be headed in the first expansion.
(Via Phasmatis’s Haunt)