Skyrim is one of the biggest and best open-world games of the past decade, so there's plenty of reason to put off its main quests, go tearing off into Tamriel's frostiest depths, and spend your time pillaging dungeons, besting beasts, and supping tankards of ale in its many toasty taverns. After all, your main antagonist, Alduin, will be happy to wait until you decide to show up. Or, will he? Not if you pick up a new mod that starts an apocalypse timer ticking when you jump in.
Grasscid's new ominous-sounding 'End Times' mod hinges on a simple but very pertinent question: "Tired of the Dragonborn prophecy's success being a given?" The mod makes it so the elder dragon, 'world-eater' Alduin, won't just wait for the Dovahkiin to finish up all their looting and draugr slaying before he'll live up to his name and swallow Skyrim whole. Instead, the mod adds a customisable timer to your savegame, and you've got until it runs out to get yourself sorted and defeat the dragon.
If you let the number of days attached to your save run out first, "you'll be treated to hellfire raining down from the sky caused by a mega-Alduin soaring overhead, followed by death," the modder says.
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