Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24267938-20130323172448/@comment-2604:6000:1500:4103:C5F5:735A:1558:ACF7-20181005140215

It wouldn’t be that hard for a writer at Bethesda to make the Dragonborn the next emperor and thus make your actions in the civil war moot. BecUse either way you unite the empire once again. And it’s not a big stretch for a player to believe it. DB has the Dragonrend and Bend Will shouts. He already has a couple of dragon that recognize the DBs superiority. The DB flys down to Cyrodil on the wings of dragons, striking awe and fear in all that see them. Sure there might be a small succession war, but considering the awesome unstoppable might of the DB, it would be a short war at that. (There is no skill you can’t master, no spell you can’t learn, no weapon you can’t wield, you are a walking god throughout most of the game. (Let’s face it, most of us had to download mods to make the game hard.) The next TES in the series will most likely take place centuries after Skyrim. All a writer has to do is write up a few lore books in a couple hours. Really not much work at all. And from that you legitimate all the actions in Skyrim. Yes there was a civil war and whoever won it, they would become the basis of the DBs original support. Yes the Emporor was assassinated, which paved the way for the DB to take the throne. In the resulting fight for the throne the DB was able to muster support and take control. This would allow for the Empire to have made a comeback by the time of the next game and have the series set as the world is about to go into another Great War. Boom. DB emperor, and all your choices are still intact and “mattered”. But what about Herma Mora? Easy, Mora tells you that you serve him if you accept it or not is consequential. It also states that you are free to follow your own path for now. So, everything you do is already kinda part of Moras greater plans. You as emperor are able to help spread his influence farther and in greater affect than of you were just another adventurer waiting for an arrow to the knee. Mora just takes you at the moment you are about to die and takes you. Ah but what about the blades bro? The Blades are honestly a trivial matter. What you do is of little consequence. Help them or not. If you do help them and kill Paarthurnax, doesn’t matter cause Paarthurnax isn’t one of the dragons that would support your authority. He believes in the way of the voice and his own form of tyranny. If you don’t help them and leave Paarthurnax alive, Delphine would still probably be just fine going out and finding recruits on her own after you have left Skyrim. So either way the Blades rebuild themselves. They might just not be an official organization of the Empire any longer. Which they aren’t in Skyrim anyway. Pretty sure I’ve covered it. All in all it doesn’t matter what any of us think. Bethesda is gonna do what they want with it. (Sorry Kirkbride but head cannon isn’t cannon. It is Beth’s property and as such what they say happens is what happens, your a nimidium) However, my point is, it’s not a big stretch for the DB to become emperor post game in a few lore books.