Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3322638-20130429120723/@comment-178.84.157.56-20140311090250

My guess is that the next installment of TES will be set in a place and/or time that wil make most of what happens in Skyrim's sidequests historically insignificant, removing the need for a Dragon Break. Hell, Viarmo even says that the only significant event from this time will be the return of the dragons.

The Civil War can easily be resolved by having another entity swoop in and take a canonical third option. The Thalmor may well get kicked out of Skyrim regardless since it appears that neither side wants them there to begin with (not to mention the Dragonborn potentially taking revenge for their assassination attempt after Diplomatic Immunity). Even if the Stormcloaks win, it's not guaranteed that Ulfric will be crowned High King, but if that does happen, what's to say he doesn't get assassinated by the remnants of the Legion that are still in Skyrim? Or the Dark Brotherhood, for that matter?

Speaking of which, I believe Titus Mede II will be canonically assassinated regardless of what the Dragonborn did with, to or about them. The main reason for him staying out of Skyrim is the Civil War, which will be 'ended' by the end of the game in either a truce or with either side winning (with history books only needing to mention that "the actions of the Last Dragonborn ended the brief civil war in Skyrim") and regardless of the Brotherhood's presence in Skyrim, the emperor still has a contract on his head and even if the Dragonborn personally takes out the Falkreath Sanctuary, Babette is still out there, able to pick up rumours of the Black Sacrament that Motierre performed (it's surprisingly easy to overhear things as a child) and pick up from there. History would show that shortly after the Dark Brotherhood's presumed estruction, Emperor Titus Mede was assassinated, it is unknown if this was the Dark Brotherhood's doing or that another assassins' guild or rogue individual was behind the assassination.

And lastly, we shouldn't forget that most of the historical accounts we come across in the game world are vague when it comes to describing the details of certain events without it having an effect on the event in question. What will matter to history are the effective outcomes of those events. Alduin is destroyed, the Emperor dies, Skyrim gets a new High King, Harkon is killed, Solstheim is freed, etc. with the exact details of how, why and by whom not changing the outcome and becoming subject to bias and speculation by future historians who will write the in-game books through which we'll be able to glance the events and what they led to in TES VI