After Miraak turned evil, he was banished to Oblivion, and he is now trying to return to Tamriel. It’s a substantial download, at over 800 MB, and when you actually start the questline, you realize why: Dragonborn takes place on Solstheim, an island off the coast of Morrowind across the expanse of the island, you will find the geography changing dramatically, from the now familiar snow clad rocky locales of Skyrim, to the more exotic scenery of Morrowind proper, replete with giant mushrooms and the like.ĭragonborn sees you follow the questline of the original Dragonborn, the Dovahkiin Miraak.
With an entirely new set of locales to explore outside of Skyrim, and near fan favorite Morrowind, an entirely new questline that adds substantially to both general Elder Scrolls lore, and specifically, to Skyrim’s backstory, and finally, a lot of fan service to players who played and enjoyed previous Elder Scrolls games, and most notably Morrowind, Dragonborn nails it completely. the newly released Dragonborn, is flat out incredible, and one of the best examples of how DLC should be handled. Thankfully, then, the third major Skyrim DLC release. Unfortunately, the first two major DLC releases gave the impression that the promises would be empty. Dawnguard and Hearthfire were both lacking, and left us wanting for the kind of stellar post game content that Bethesda had provided us with after Oblivion (a game that ironically enough itself wasn’t all that great), and that Bethesda had promised that the DLC for Skyrim would be modeled on. Skyrim was an incredible game, and almost undoubtedly the best game of last year, but it was marred then by some not so stellar DLC.