Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-101.103.30.52-20140219060142/@comment-24261859-20140602233252

The story will never involve something as simple as "Lead army against enemy army." That's just so simplistic; every TES game other than Daggerfall so far has involved some kind of singular, mystic/divine power (Jagar Tharn, Dagoth Ur, Mehrunes Dagon, Alduin) with a grandiose plan to control/destroy the world. The plot generally then involves piecing together bits of the puzzle until you have all the special gear, knowledge, and skill to take on the big bad. If the main plot does involve a war, it'll have to be a heck of a lot more complicated to be interesting. As much as people want to just crush some Thalmor skulls, it probably won't happen.

Perhaps it could relate to a Thalmor sect trying to deactivate the towers, but large-scale war isn't very TES.