Skyrim

My latest thing is an obsession with the 1st person/3rd person RPG video game "Skryim", part of the Elder Scroll series from Bethesda.
The country of Skyrim is a northern most part of the fictional continent of Tamriel, and it has an irrefutable parallel to Scandinavia and Nordic/Germanic lore.

RPGs were never my thing before, I always went for action oriented first person shooters if anything, but this game was not what I expected of an RPG. It handles and plays out very much like a first person shooter for the most part, only with depth of story and a massive game universe, an entire country to explore. The graphics and music are gorgeous.
I love the whole Nord background to the thing; Nords, elves, trolls, draugrs (yes, draugrs!) even an extinct dwarvish species is a main component of the lore. Oh, and dragons. And mead. Lots of mead!
Time to dive back in...