User blog comment:Blood Reaper/Todd Howard Hinting at Future DLC's and Patches/@comment-67.3.69.168-20120222022801/@comment-4535934-20120223011538

Here's how I think it should work: What you would do is purchase a parcel of land in a Hold from that Hold's Jarl.Then when you get to the site, you would talk to the master mason or architect and you'd basically draw up the plans for the village.E. g.; where the buildings would go (houses, shops, farms, mines, guardhouses, warehouses), where the walls and towers would go(if you decided to fortify the place), y'know, stuff like that.Everything would have a cost in gold and set amount of time it would take to build.Maybe sites in different Holds have access to different buildings?Once you decide what goes where, the NPC labor force gets to work.After a few game weeks, you got yourself your own little village. Then you can hire a contingent of guards to keep the place safe while your away, expand/add stuff when you get more gold, collect taxes from the residents, and enjoy the fruits of your labor from your own government mansion. Done right, this would be one of the coolest features of ANY TES, EVER.