The game is set 200 years after the events of Oblivion, and takes place
in Skyrim, the northernmost province of Tamriel. Its main story focuses
on the player's character, the Dragonborn, on their quest to defeat
Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon who is prophesied to destroy the world.
Over the course of the game, the player completes quests and
develops the character by improving skills. The game continues the
open-world tradition of its predecessors by allowing the player to
travel anywhere in the game world at any time, and to ignore or postpone
the main storyline indefinitely.