Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-74.109.247.180-20131222005159

I don't believe the next game will occur anywhere around the same time period as Skyrim. That's what we would all want, right? For as much as they gave us, they never give us enough; we want to see the end of the Great War and the resolution of every other unfinished story Skyrim posed (who else wanted to be there when the new emperor was crowned? instead, we got to kill his reletive). However, Bethesda doesn't have to satisfy our desires. In fact, I believe they take pleasure in doing the opposite of what we want sometimes (They could be writing up ideas to avoid based on what we're all talking about here for all we know).

I think it's likely the next game occurs after the whole Great War is all wrapped up and in a place that none of us would expect to be interesting at all - they love to keep their secrets up until the last minute, and doing exactly what we wouldn't expect is a great way to accomplish that. When has continuity ever been a staple of The Elder Scrolls from game to game anyway? Continuity died with Uriel Septim VII. Bethesda will probably start out fresh -- not limitted by the storyline of the previous game. Where will we find our closure? -- in a one volume book of about 15 or less pages that summarizes the Great War, the Moot, etc...

But there is no reason to worry; we'll be too busy enjoying whatever they came up with to read that damn book anyway.