User blog comment:Timeoin/Is 'Redguard' the next Skyrim DLC?/@comment-205.250.160.188-20130105133504

So far the whole game has been concentrating on making the Dragonborn stronger through different questlines and DLC. You have the StormImperial quest, the Guilds, Dragons, Dragonborn DLC, Dawnguard DLC plus this DLC.

What are we building up towards? Why is it that we keep learning new shouts and rewards? Why is it that the fame of the Dragonborn gets bigger and bigger to the point where even Dragons listen to us? What will be the ultimate goal?

I like to think back to Fallout: New Vegas (if you haven't played the game or the DLC, please skip this post entirely). Originally you had the conflict between the New California rebublic, New Vegas and Ceasar's Legion. That was all fine and dandy until the DLCs came out. Suddenly it wasn't about the NCR/CL, it was a different picture: the fight between two couriers and the fate of the Wasteland with nukes headed towards the enemy. What was a simple "tip the scales in a battle" turned into "saving/destroying an entire civilization".

Now I realize that FO:NV was made by Obsidian with the brilliant mind of Chis making the scripts, but it isn't like Bethesda had their backs turned on the entire thing as if it didn't exist. They could be taking this into a whole new direction and used it to influence on where Skyrim if going. We've tipped the scales in a civil war, we've killed leagues of Vampires, we defeted Alduin twice, and we have slain the very first Dragonborn.

What if something is brewing in the middle of a desert? What if the resistance in Hammerfell needed that little bit of a push to claim themselves as an independant state like you can with Skyrim? What if this DLC launches the push to eliminate the Thalmor and the other provinces take Skyrim and Hammerfell as inspiration to rebel?

Or maybe a Daedric god is making a mess in a desert and we gotta stop it. You know, evil and good and all that stuff.

It's 6 am. I haven't slept, this will probably make no sense when I wake up. One thing I am hoping for: awesome desert pyramid temples with traps and crazy stuff that will make me feel like Indiana Jones.