During the madness, Ketch betrays you to make his escape leaving you and other fellow conspirators to be captured. Ketch tasks you with helping plan a prison riot to mask your escape. You are befriended by an fellow inmate named Ketch Varkas, who listens to your creation story and gives you the run down on the prison. The player starts the game in a dark prison mine. Hammerfell must unify if it is to survive these dire threats. In the midst of this chaos the Dwemer, a long lost race, have seemingly returned to Tameriel with monstrous constructs of flesh and steel at their command. Increased hostilities between The Crowns and The Forebears, the leading factions of Hammerfell, has left them open to invasion by the Thalmor starting the Second Great War. The land of Hammerfell is in a weakened state after having cut ties with the Empire. Over a hundred years have passed since the events of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and it is now 4E 316.
The only certainty is Blood and Steel, Tears and Fire.
I know the hand that fate will deal, but not how the cards will be played. You must be wiser than the divided house. Time is against you Seeker, it yawns at your heels.
