2) Could Skyrim actually be Europe from the Fallout universe? I know it sounds ridiculous, but Skyrim somewhat resembles Scotland and Northern England, and in the Fallout universe it is said that Europe is somewhat spared from the Nuclear Holocaust that gripped Asia and North America. The resource wars still hurt it, and that may explain why people have a noticeable lack of plows or other items that could make survival easier. Another idea is the dragons could be representative of nuclear weapons, made into folktales so people could understand, but that could not explain the events of Skyrim.
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Not so ridiculous. Something I thought up once runs along a similar, yet even more radical vein. From an old post in this thread:
What if... The humans present on Nirn are descended from a group that left Earth during a colonization expansion? This took place so long ago that high technologies have long since been forgotten, and the middle-ages essentially occurred again on this new world. All of the Mer, (Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, Giants), resulted from early genetic tampering from specific factions who were in favor of such alteration, either to be better adapted to space travel, or better adapted to a new world, but either way, the factions diverged. In time, the truth of origins became lost in myth, but not before the initial pioneers of the new world seeded Earth-native species into the environment, such as bears, wolves, etc. The Argonians and Kahjiit also descend from the humans of Earth, yet represented the far fringes of ideology in genetic manipulation. Speciation would've occurred within the first several generations. Eventually, the Dwemer would rediscover some of the old-Earth science, and through a revolutionary theory of quantum entanglement, would end up... somewhere else, nobody knows where. Or when.
Many thousands of years have passed since the initial colonization. What we've come to think of as magic, is actually a harnessing of ancient technology, long forgotten, but once commonplace. Even the long dead walk because of it. This nano-technology, which the current inhabitants of Nirn couldn't possible comprehend, permeates the genome of every humanoid form, and has been cleverly weaved into the myths and lore of the land.
