I’m embarrassed to say that I have encountered this, this particular type of story on multiple occasions… So I got curious, is there a name to this trope?
I’m embarrassed to say that I have encountered this, this particular type of story on multiple occasions… So I got curious, is there a name to this trope?
Oh man, you have no idea how deep the Elder Scrolls lore hole goes.
Can’t find anything on this specifically though
Oh wait, do you mean on the post apocalypse idea? Ehhhh I’m not certain it is. There is a creation story, and then a “do over” in the lore. But nothing like our civ level in the past for it.
There’s probably a lore video about it on YouTube somewhere though.
I’d recommend YouTube for easy to find lore breakdowns. For text stuff look up Michael Kirkbride.
Here’s a bunch of his stuff:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/General:Michael_Kirkbride’s_Texts