Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-98.167.53.36-20141216035539

I read the first 1/3 or so of replies, then it got to be too much. So just a few thoughts.....

1) Having it in multiple provinces is not a big hurdle programming-wise.  Technology has multiplied since the Skyrim days.  Add the PS4 engine in the mix, and the Bethesda boys can do way more than you think.  Size-wise, Valenwood/Elsewyr/Black Marsh is very very doable if they wanted to go that route.  I would love to see it.  The Khajiit have some great lore and it would be interesting to see their life cycles, and get involved in the skooma trade.  The Hist in BM and the moving trees in Valenwood would just be a bonus.

2) I can actually see the next ES going backwards chronalogically more than I can forwards.  There was a whole sub-era IIRC (Middle Merithic?) that had almost no lore written, which would leave the door wide open to create a history there.  Maybe going back to the Ayelids, or even before Aedra and Daedra worship was completely organized would be out of our little comfort zones, but interesting IMO.  They can easily manipulate it to where Lore wouldn't give away the outcome, or they could just break lore like they've done before.

3) Somerset Isles/Yokuda/Pyandonea would seem to be the most likely place IMO to go next.  So much mystery and wonder there, and the events held a huge place in Tamriel's overall history.  Also, magic IMO hasn't taken a very prominent role in the last few series, and die hard magic users have kind of gotten the shaft.  I'm always a Bosmer thief, but I agree that the magic-heads deserve a deeper interface by now.

4) There doesn't HAVE to be a tribal war going on all the time.  It makes for a neat storyline, but there are plenty of other ways to have conflicts.  Everyone seems to wonder which war we're going to be dropped into.  It may not be any of them, and I'm sure they'll still find a way to make it really interesting and fun.  Personally, I'd love to see entire groups of men/mer taken down silenty and covertly rather than some grandiose battle.  I have faith that Bethesda will avoid taking the obvious path in a number of ways and still make it great.

5) Regardless of location, there are changes I hope to see.  First, I want food and money to actually mean something after level 10.  I want race to play a bigger part in how NPC's interact with you.  I want an even deeper alchemy experience, though they've done a great job on that so far.  I want melee fighting to go beyond block-hack-hack or dual-wielding berserking.  And if I get married, I want my wife to take her freaking clothes off when she goes to bed!!!  Damn you, Senna.

I'd love to hear your guys' thoughts on all of this.