Legends:Cut Content

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Cut content refers to material that was planned for Legends but removed or changed before release, or never released due to the game's shutdown. It should not be confused with deprecated content, which was once in the game and later removed, such as training or balance changes. This page includes some pre-release content and test cards, as some cases are difficult to distinguish. This approach ensures all information remains accessible.

RealmsEdit

2019 roadmap showing unreleased sixth expansion

Realms was the intended sixth expansion for Legends. The name Realms is known from datamine, but is only a working title, just as Crisis was for Jaws of Oblivion. Several mechanics are known from a later interview. The following ideas were considered for the expansion:

• The set was intended as the second part of Jaws of Oblivion, based around the Daedric Princes and their Realms. They wanted to expand the lore for these locations in ways that the mainline Elder Scrolls games hadn't yet done.
• Invade would have been spread over the two sets. Due to Realms being scrapped, they moved all ideas for invade to Jaws of Oblivion without all the necessary tools, answers, and checks.
• A new card type which would change your player into an avatar of a Daedric Prince, including the change of your character portrait.
• A new mechanic named Colossal which would involve huge Daedra creatures that would take up space in both lanes.

For future sets after Realms, they intended to follow more of the ESO chapters and add more Arena-like game modes.

ArtEdit

A large list of unused art has been found in both Dire Wolf Digital's and Sparkypant's game files. They can be found on the Unused Art page.

Keywords and MechanicsEdit

This is a list of known mechanics that are either from datamines or developer diaries. Official descriptions are in italics.

Name	Card Types	Description	Notes
Approach	Creatures	Pay the Approach cost before playing the creature.
Blight	Unknown	When this deals damage to a player, shuffle that many Ashblights into that player's deck.
Devotion	Unknown	Devotion is a player attribute (like Health) that various cards can increase and reference.
Exerted	Unknown	PLACEHOLDER Exerted
Expert	Actions	After this action has its effect, draw a card.
Forge	Creatures	This creature can spend its turn to create an item.	Precursor mechanic to Mobilize.
Flanking	Creatures	Bonus effect when attacking after a friendly creature in the other lane attacks.
Frenzy	Creatures	Must attack or be destroyed. Glossary: A Frenzy creature must attack during its turn, or be destroyed at the end of that turn.
Inspire	Creatures and Items	When your creature with Inspire attacks, give a random creature in your hand <nobr>+1/+1</nobr>.	Precursor mechanic to Rally.
Lunar	Creatures	Mechanic found on creatures. When you summoned one, a moon became visible in their lane. That moon then progressed through four phases, one by one. When a specific phase met your Lunar creature’s requirements, you’d get a bonus.	Precursor mechanic to Wax/Wane.
Marked	Unknown	When a Marked creature dies, your opponent gets a magicka.
Mooncall	Creatures	Creatures with Mooncall would come into play, then that lane would get a moon for this turn and your next turn. During those turns those variable Mooncall abilities would be active.	Precursor mechanic to Wax/Wane.
Moonphase	Creatures	The first two times you played a Moonphase creature would advance one notch on the moon’s phases return the creature to your hand; the third time you played a Moonphase creature in that lane, it stayed in play	Precursor mechanic to Wax/Wane.
Plunder	Unknown	Destroy a friendly rune Glossary: When you Plunder a friendly rune, that rune is destroyed and you take no damage. You draw a card, and you can play it if it's a Prophecy.
Quest // Reward	Supports	You need to complete a quest, which can be any game actions as described on the card, after which you get the listed reward.	Precursor mechanic to the Jaws of Oblivion quest actions such as The Ultimate Heist and Whodunit?.
Replace	Unknown	Remove a creature and summon another in its place. Glossary: Replacing a creature removes it from the game, and a new creature is summoned in its place. The new creature triggers its own summon abilities, but other cards don't respond to its summon.	Early concept for Transform.
Rout	Creatures	When you rout a creature, return it to its commander's hand.	This keyword was datamined prior to Heroes of Skyrim, it is unknown if this is the official or paraphrased discription.
Scheme	Unknown	Bonus effect at the start of your turn after this card comes into play. Glossary: When you play a card with Scheme, it has a bonus effect at the start of your next turn.
Shield Wall	Creatures	While there are two or more other creatures in this lane, enemy creatures can't attack players.	This keyword was datamined prior to Heroes of Skyrim, it is unknown if this is the official or paraphrased discription.
Soaring	Creatures	Can't be attacked for one turn, until after it lands. Can land in any lane.	This keyword was datamined prior to Heroes of Skyrim, and was potentially intended for Dragons in the set.
Soulbound	Creatures	A keyword that resurrected the creature as a 1/1 upon dying.	A precursor mechanic to Consume. Non-keyworded on Wandering Skeleton.
Spellcast X	Creatures	Unknown
Stealthy	Creatures	This can't be attacked or targeted until it deals damage.	A similar non-keyworded version of this can be seen on cards like Shadowmaster. Potentially a precursor to the Cover mechanic.
Spy	Creatures	You're shown two of your opponent's cards. Choose the one in their hand.	Intended for a Thieves Guild faction in Heroes of Skyrim and later for Imperials in Houses of Morrowind. When no Imperial faction was used, the only card left with the mechanic was Caius Cosades, and later Thief of Dreams.
Austere	Creatures and Items	Immune to enemy Keywords.	Potentially intended as upcoming mechanic for Realms, it is unknown how certain keywords like Breakthrough, Drain or Ward would interact.
Colossal	Creatures	The only colossal test card has the following tags: Can attack other lane, can be attacked from any lane, guards both lanes, immune to cover.	Upcoming mechanic for Realms, it was intended for "huge Daedra creatures that would take up space in both lanes".
Twinstrike	Creatures	Unknown	Potentially intended as upcoming mechanic for Realms

TrapsEdit

Art for Unrevealed Trap with similar background as Out of Cards.

Traps were an early mechanic known from datamining where you could hide cards and surprise your opponent at a later moment during the game. The trap would trigger based on other actions a player or opponent would take. The exact mechanic is unknown, but a lot of the groundwork was already finished. It was a so called "supertype", for which the only other examples are Unique cards. It would have been displayed in the same manner as Ongoing or Shout within the card frame. Several art pieces survived to this day, such as a Pitfall Trap, a Wire Trap and a Net Trap. There was also a Thieves Guild daily quest dedicated to "lay 5 traps". Traps were later introduced as a creature type during the The Ventral Terminus quest with almost no resemblance to the original mechanic.

StoryEdit

An early concept of the story is found with different characters. Only the images for the choices during the story are still available, which means many of the intermediate chapters are unknown. The first part of the story follows a similar premise as the The Forgotten Hero, such as the young wolf and fighting undead in a crypt, but deviates at the later chapters where the old crew even fights inside a dwemer ruin and meets Sheogorath.

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  Preview

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  Chapter 7

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  Chapter 9

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  Chapter 12

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  Chapter 14

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  Chapter 17

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  Chapter 19

Several characters can be identified as the following datamined avatars:

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  The hero seen in all the chapter images.

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  Mage as seen in the preview and chapter 12.

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  Argonian as seen in the preview and chapter 17.

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  Sheogorath

Daily QuestsEdit

Umaril the Unfeathered as quest giver

The game files has a portrait for the daily quest giver Umaril the Unfeathered. It was probably cut in an early stage as no banner or quests are found.

CardsEdit

The following section has three lists of cards that are known to be in the game files. Not all cards listed here are cut content, some are test material or experimental. The first list shows cards that were found the Dire Wolf Digital's and Sparkypant's language files. These only have the names and abilities of the cards. Not other info is known, inlcuding their magicka cost, power and health, or rarity.

Name	Text	Tags	Notes
Ashlander Stormcaller	Drain Summon: Deal 3 damage.	DBH
Breton Necromancer	When a creature is put into your discard pile, Breton Necromancer gets +1/+1.	DBH
Compassionate Jarl	Guard Other friendly creatures can't be damaged by actions.	DBH
Dark Elf Turncoat	Last Gasp: Draw two cards.	DBH
Draugr Necromancer	When a friendly creature dies, return a random cheaper creature from your discard pile to your hand.	DBH
Familiar Summoning	Summon a Familiar with Guard. Its strength and health are equal to the number of creatures you control.	DBH
Hexed Armaments	+5/+5 Guard Summon: Shackle the wielder.	DBH
Skywatch Battlereeve	When you play an action, friendly creatures get +1/+1.	DBH
Swordsmith	Ward, Breakthrough +2/+2 while wielding an item.	DBH
Underworld Tactician	When your opponent summons a creature, summon a 0/1 'Target with Guard in its lane.	DBH
Valenwood Instigator	Pilfer: +1/+1 and Battle an enemy creature.	DBH
Warp in the West	Take an extra turn after this one.	DBH
Druadach Elk	You can't lose the game.	Forgotten
Master Smuggler	Pilfer: Swap this with a creature from your hand.	Forgotten
Purifier	If your deck uses one or less attributes, +3/+3.	Forgotten
Wayrest Swashbuckler	After you play an action, equip a random item from your deck with the same cost to Wayrest Swashbuckler.	Forgotten

The second list of cards are from the so called "set files" from Sparkypants. All stats and abilities are known for these cards, except their intended use.

The third list are cards intended for the Legends Asia Dawnguard expansion. These were released in batches at a time, but the expansion couldn't be completed before the game did shut down. Only their names and abilities are known, similar to the first list.

LanesEdit

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