The Outer Worlds saw Obsidian Entertainment dive into the world of first-person RPGs for the first time since Fallout: New Vegas released back in 2010. Many fans of the developer saw the release of a first-person satirical sci-fi game as a direct aim at Bethesda and Fallout 's spot in the RPG market. With Obsidian's first-person fantasy game Avowed on the way, many now see the studio making a similar move to fulfill the desire Bethesda fans have for a new Elder Scrolls g

With the release of Murder on Eridanos, Obsidian can move on and reassign its resources to the several other projects it has in the works, with at least one of them being large in scope. The Outer Worlds was a huge success for the company, and there is a chance that Obsidian will look to follow-up with a sequel at some po

Before her overthrow, however, Woedica was the most powerful and dangerous of the gods. The Avowed trailer hints that the upcoming RPG may be set in Eora before Woedica was overthrown. If so, this would explain the difference between the technology seen in the Avowed trailer and the guns and cannons known to exist in Pillars of Eternity . Assuming that technology progressed at roughly the same rate in Eora as it did in Earth's history , Avowed would be set several centuries before Pillars of Eterni

The second and final Outer Worlds DLC, Murder on Eridanos , is set to arrive sometime before the end of the current fiscal year. This means that the expansion should be in the hands of players before April 1, 2021. The story of the expansion revolves around a character known as Halcyon Helen, the star of an in-universe show called Terror on Monarch. Helen is looking to go on a final adventure and looks set to be a solid follow-up to the first expansion, Peril on Gor

This is particularly noticeable in the second game, Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire . The sequel let players get behind the wheel of a galleon and fire cannons, though the first game also had a clear early-modern slant to its technology. In the original Pillars of Eternity , players witnessed the creation of a powerful weapon known as the Godhammer Bomb which combined magical know-how with the expertise of artillery specialists to make an explosive powerful enough to kill a god's ava

Obsidian Entertainment has proven to be a productive developer in the past number of years, with an increasing ability to juggle several projects at once. Obsidian has a long history of making RPG games , and its current projects prove there isn't any slowing down the Microsoft Games Studios developer. Most of the company's current projects are public knowledge, with one secret project and another large game that has been shrouded in myst

Woedica seems to have a lot of influence at the time of Avowed , which may indicate where in the Pillars of Eternity timeline Avowed takes place. The phrase "when Woedica takes back her throne" is a saying in Pillars of Eternity used to refer to events which would only take place in a perfectly just universe. To the religious or conservative, this includes Woedica once again taking her place as the queen of the g

The discovery that the gods were man-made has been made several times in Eora's timeline, before being stamped out by Engwithan Inquisitions. Avowed appears to take place several hundred years before Pillars of Eternity , based on the medieval technology seen in the trailer compared to the early modern tech used in Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 . In theory, this could mean that the entire plot of Avowed takes place without the player character ever realizing that the gods were created in Engwith, though that seems unlikely considering the story of Pillars of Eterni

The deepest The Elder Scrolls -Lovecraft connections, however, require a broader view of the entire Elder Scrolls cosmology. Morrowind 's "36 Lessons of Vivec" reference CHIM, a hotly-debated term in The Elder Scrolls community. CHIM can summed up as a state of enlightenment and godlike power which comes from someone in the TES universe realizing they are merely a product of the constantly shifting, involuntary dreams of a being known as the "Godhead," while maintaining the strength to assert their individuality any

Obsidian's past financial struggles were likely one of the motivations behind taking the setting from Pillars of Eternity and using it for a more mainstream, accessible first-person fantasy RPG like Avowed . While CRPGs remain a relatively niche market, Avowed was almost immediately compared to Skyrim after its announcement trai

The Avowed crafting guide trailer points to the protagonist facing down the machinations of an angry, vengeful goddess. Fighting a deity may seem like an insurmountable task, and unfortunately for the hero of Avowed , Woedica isn't just the goddess of justice, but is ironically known for breaking any rule necessary to achieve her ends. The player character does have one spot of hope, however. Pillars of Eternity reveals that Woedica isn't really a god at