User blog comment:Conor Thompson/The Elder scrolls VI ideas/@comment-71.113.229.239-20130618015912

I personally like the idea of a "race based" beginning. You would start in whichever part of NIRN was home to your race. But what I think would be really cool....

Ancestral Time Travel.

Periodically play through events that happened in the past, as an ancestor to your character(The Atmoran migration and war with the Falmer, or the Rise of the first Empire under Talos, or the war of the elves with the dwemer in Morrowind.)  This would add an alternate quest if you will, and would give the opportunity to explain some the mysteries in the Elder Scrolls Series.