Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24.242.43.77-20130323013330/@comment-173.76.160.189-20140826153616

This is what it think will happen regarding the next game and the skyrim civil war. By 4E 203 or so, the stormclokes will have driven the imperials out of eastmarch, winter hold, the pale, the rift, falkrieth and whiterun holds (this is mainly due to the religious zeal of the stormcloaks and the fact that Nords are more adapted to fighting in the colder climate of skyrim than the legion is). There were major battles at whiterun, windhelm and solitude in 4E 201 and both ulfric and tullius have been killed in the fighting. Of course it never mentions which side the dragonborn fought for, but I guess that they can mention that he did fight in the war and just be very vague about the details. Ultimately the elder council will be forced to negotiate with the stormcloaks. They will request that morthaal, solitude and the reach remain part of the empire, in order to allow for imperial access to high rock. This aria will be under the control of jarl Elisef, while the rest of skyrim will be under the control of either ulfric's son or one of his high ranking officers. The 2nd Great War will be fought from 4E 220 to 4E 225 and will be between free skyrim, hammerfell and high rock (which is eventually annexed or betrays the empire to fight against the AD) and the Empire and AD, with any remaining dragons fighting against both sides. I also think that the argonians will be neutral in the conflict, but maybe some of the Dunmur might form a sort of international brigade to fight for the empire, since the stormcloaks heavily tax them. By the end of the war, most of tamriel is in the toilet, especially cyrodiil and the summurset isles, but the dominion will ultimately be defeated. After that, skyrim and hammerfell form some sort of continent wide peacekeeping organization comparable to the League of Nations of the UN, to prevent something else like this from happening again.

As for location, I'm 95% sure that TES VI will take place in valenwood or the summurset isles or both. I mean, we can rule out skyrim and cyrodiil, since we've alreaghty seen enough of those in skyrim and oblivion. We can rule out mainland morrawind, since it's basically a volcanic hellhole now (or at least more than usual). And as much as i like the argonians, I really don't want to see black marsh be the location of the next game. It's the ugliest Provence. As for high rock and hammerfell, I dunno. I know a lot of people want it to be in hammerfell, but we've alreaghty seen both of them in Daggerfall. The graphics aren't neccicaraly that good, but it's still a great game. Elswyr seems a bit to exotic for me, and the kajiit are a bit weird. I don't think id be able to stand listening to those raspy voices trying to sell me skooma all the time. And all of tamriel, god no. The elder scrolls online ruined that option for me. So I'm pretty sure that is where the game will be set. My personal fave is the summurset isles. of course it would take place after the end of the 2nd Great War, and since most of the cities their were provably destroyed, I suppose it would be kind of like that anarchy idea that was brought up a couple of times. It would also mean that the thalmor were at best completaly whipped out or a least scattered and unorganized like the forsworn, so we won't really need to put up with them much. But geographically it would still be a really cool place to explore. We've never really been that far south, accept for black wood, and I've always pictured the isles as a tropical paradise of colorful rain forests, relaxing beaches, rivers and waterfalls reflecting the glow of the sun and ten thousand year old ruins, filled with ancient and long lost secrets. I also really like the idea of exploring Atreum, since skyrim didn't exactly live up to our expectations regarding magic baced guilds. I want to be able to make my own spells again, and I want new spells, both combat baced and utilitarian. What If their were spells that could charm people into say, dancing randomly or thinking that they were ducks or something, that would be hilarious. I'm tired of just using spells to shoot lightning, fire and ice shards at people.

One last thing, I'm also certain that Alduin will come back, since the dragonborn only destroyed his form temporarily and both the graybeards and paarthanax suspect that he is not entirely defeated. He may just come back in a different form and become the new mehrundes Dagon, which is to say the new major villein of the series.