Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24.242.43.77-20130323013330/@comment-62.142.156.182-20130423081646

Allright, this will be a long post so thanks for anyone who actaully reads it through.

...Can someone please agree with me that the next TES should be complete Anarchy? I agree. I have already a picture in my head of several rivaling factions with military camps all around (and I mean real camps, not like those scout tents you see in Skyrim) and the landscape of burned farms and collapsed fortresses. I don't know how likely this is going to happen as I believe most players enjoy free exploring and lively cities. I think Skyrim is an awesome game but I never really liked how the civil war is handled in the game. I seems to affect very little and I was hoping to see more misery. Ok, this sounds a bit sick but seem to crave for misery!

However, I'm not a fan of the idea of army battles in the future TES VI. I know it sounds cool but I fear it would be disappointment and break immersion, just like it did in Skyrim (this is a personal opinion). The problem is that TES VI will be a next generation game and most likely very demanding for your hardware. Hundreds of soldiers running around would propably result a huge fps drop unless you have a very high end gaming platform. The other option is to make the battles more like scripted events but that doesn't suit the idea of free gameplay of the TES games.

I agree also with Psijic Thied and I believe the civil war in Skyrim will have very little effect in the next game. It all depends on the time scale also. If the next game will be after 5 years from the events in Skyrim, it is harder to just vaguely write a time line that summarises the final outcome of the conflict (Even though one of the factions would win in Skyrim, it doesn't mean the war is over. Remember: it is not just the Empire figting Stormcloaks but people of Skyrim fighting against each other).

But if the next game will set, lets say after 200 years after Alduins defeat, Bethesda can just decide to write some murky description and pretend that the details have already been forgotten. Maybe Thalmor will eventually invade Skyrim and its people are again united against the common foe, and the whole silly civil war is forgotten.

I believe some have hopes that the Dragonborn will have a major role in Tamriel's history after defeating Alduin, like by becoming the Emperror, a great Warlord or even the hero of the next game. But I don't think any of this will happen. The heroes in Bethesda games have been quite disposable and I understand this. Therefore I predict that the Dragonborn will disappear or somehow become a mystery character. This is mind I also believe that any Dragonborn's allegiances with Skyrim faction (the civil war, Companions, Dark Brotherhood, Dawnguard etc...) will be somewhat ignored in the future canon.

However, I believe the faction storylines will be made canon, like the events in the College and the assassination of Titus Mede II. Then the players are free to think "ha, that was the Dragonborn, but those silly people just don't know it!"

Of course, this is all just depate and speculation; we cannot possibly know what Bethesda is up to, but maybe they have little spies reading these pages and take notes what the players think, and just MAYBE Bethesda will listen.

P.S. I'm personally interested what will become of dragons. Will the Blades just hunt all of them down again? That would be sad.