Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24.242.43.77-20130323013330/@comment-50.13.147.154-20140716033222

Here's how I think it'll go down

1) The Dark Brotherhood questline will be canon, but the Listener will likely not be specifically mentioned in lore found in books and stuff.

2) The Dawnguard questline will be canon, but not very specific and the lore won't be detailed. Like, in the lore revealed in the next game we could make the presumption that the Dawnguard destroyed the Volkihar Clan or the Volkihar Clan destroyed the Dawnguard but it was put back together later on.

3) The Dragonborn questline sounds like it won't have that big of an impact on the future game, so it may only be briefly mentioned. However, I think Solstheim might rise in importance as part of Morrowind.

4) The lore will mention the civil war, but will be vague on who won. It's likely the next game will involve a war with the Aldmeri Dominion, and I suspect Skyrim's government will be completely different (making who won the war irrelevent) and I suspect Skyrim may just be a province of the Dominion itself. The Dominion will be the 'new Empire' in a sense.

But this is all just speculation. We don't know how far in the future the game will be or where it'll take place (I'm hoping Black Marsh or Valenwood)