User blog comment:Draevan13/Imperial City DLC ideas./@comment-1992639-20130214200459/@comment-5046408-20130219000926

As I've said in another blog and I will repeat here: I really don't like the idea of the player character becoming king/ruler. Things already make little enough sense with the Dragonborn being able to become a thief (he has the power to summon a storm and fling people into the air with three simple words, yet he can resort to petty thievery to make a quick coin? Is saving the world and working for kings really THAT unprofitable?), it'll make even less sense as a king/queen. A perfect cover story, maybe, but incredibly impractical. Then there's the matter of being the Listener of the Dark Brotherhood and/or selling their soul to one or all of the Daedric Princes...or succumbing to the "non-kingly" occupation of dungeon-diving and quest-taking.

Role Play implications aside, we also have to consider what Bethesda would enable us to DO as king/queen. Judging by past games and DLCs, particularly the Shivering Isles DLC and Skyrim's Marriage concept, I highly doubt "kingly duties" would enable any more in-depth activities besides...

-Collect Tax [1,000 Gold every day/week]

-Call for a Bard/Dancer

-Send Troops and/or yourself to take down reports of hostile [radiant enemy]s at [radiant location]...and get gold from it.

-Sit on a fancy throne.

I know, I know, the throne is very tempting, but I think you can see what I'm talking about.

As for the suggestion of Martin Septim making a revival to end the Civil War and end the Mede Dynasty, I honestly don't see any reason for that. Though I'm down with visiting the statue-ified Akatosh Avatar (assuming it still stands) for a quest (maybe even speaking with the spirit of Martin?). But yeah, Martin coming back and resuming the Septim Dynasty would kind of kill the mood Skyrim is setting, and especially screw up the crisis that was supposed to be set since the ultimately tragic end of Oblivion: the Septim Bloodline has ended, and with it the blessings of the Divines on the Empire (which, of course, is implicitly the reason the Aldmeri Dominion got to rise to power, and why the Mede Dynasty is so "sucky").

Not to mention it would be a quest-killer or plot-ender if you haven't beaten the Civil War questline in one way or another, or if you haven't assassinated Titus Mede II (psst, guys, not EVERYONE joins the Dark Brotherhood with all their good characters. *gasp*).