As the game Daggerfall and its predecessor, Arena, this role playing game is also set in the Elder Scrolls world of Tamriel. It has been set during the same time period as the events in Arena. Battlespire’s plot fits well into Elder Scrolls lore.
This game begins with gamers character that enters the Battlespire. It is a testing facility for the Emperor’s personal Battlemage guards. It is to be discovered that it has been overrun by malevolent forces.
A traitor who is working with the archvillain from Arena named Jagar Tharn, has allowed the legions of the Daedra Lord, Mehrunes Dagon, to enter this Battlespire and also slaughter the resident Battlemages. Daggerfall-nostalgic gamers in a hope for another opportunity to explore the vast wilderness of Tamriel, interacts with guilds and even participate in a variety of role-playing lifestyles.
The game has a much more limited scope. It is being a big dungeon crawl along the lines of the Ultima Underworld games from the early 1990s.