Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-1470368-20141112133212

Wlarson55109 wrote: Legoguy451 wrote: If a future Elder Scrolls game was based around the Aldmeri Dominion, I would refuse to buy it. It seems like the kind of thing that belongs in lore, not in an actual game, and the whole concept seems boring to me. The enemies are usually fantastical, magical entities of ultimate power, like Mehrunes Dagon or Alduin, not some big army of fanaticals and zealots. War is a boring topic for an Elder Scrolls game, unless it is going to be a first person shooter, also known as an abomination. It should not happen; it would be boring, unoriginal, an obvious choice of setting and little more than an oppurtunity for some people to vent out some anger they had accumulated since the Thalmor arrived in Skyrim a bit more precisely and devastating. I would hate to see an Aldmeri Dominion game. You know, they could just bring in a Dwemer artifact that causes the leader to be stronger than a Daedra right? There are so many things they could do to make the Thalmor an actual threat. Just saying. The Thalmor already are an actual threat.

The next TES game doesn't need to be a 1st-Person Shooter to make the concept of large-scale battles fun in a TES game. Bethesda just needs to make improvements on the combat system (and reintroduce features from a couple past games that were absent from Skyrim).

Of course there's going to be an existential threat to the entirety of Nirn somewhere in the game, no matter where it's based. I can guarantee you that at least the main [vanilla] game is only going to take place in a single province,

The Elder Scrolls VI is definitely not going to take place in 2 or 3 Provinces, much less the whole Aldmeri Dominion. If it will be the case that the next game does take place in a Dominion-controlled Province? I personally hope that the game will allow you the opportunity to see things from the perspective of the Thalmor (after all, they aren't "unambiguously evil").

ALSO:  I know some folks are going to remain ignorant about this, but neither Elsweyr or Black Marsh will be populated solely by a single native race. Argonians aren't even the only native race to Black Marsh, and Elsweyr can easily have Mer of different races living in it too (Altmer, Bosmer, still-living Ayleids, Orsimer).