Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-101.103.30.52-20140219060142/@comment-24261859-20140907022459

The thing is, most provinces have already left the Empire. Morrowind's independent, and so is Black Marsh. Elsewyr and Valenwood are in the Aldmeri Dominion, and Hammerfell seceded during the Great War. All that's left is Cyrodiil, Skyrim, and High Rock.

And, to reiteriate, the main plot of TESVI will be unlikely to involve a war. There might be martial side quests (like how the Civil War was important, but not the main focus) but the main quest has pretty much always involved a powerful enemy and a mystical artifact or power. Jagar Tharn and the Staff of Chaos, Numidium/Mantella, Dagoth Ur and the tools of Kagrenac and Lorkhan's heart, Mehrunes Dagon and the Amulet of Kings, Alduin and the Thu'um. War and politics are fairly mundane for a TES game, even though I don't deny that interesting stories can be derived from such ideas.