Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-77.98.203.197-20130414002939/@comment-24589685-20140227203614

I'd really dig a game revisiting Hammerfell / High Rock / Orsinium, maybe in the Fourth Era with Orsinium as a proper "province", and relations between High Rock and Hammerfell strained by Hammerfell's secession from the empire (and perhaps made even worse from fall-out from the Skyrim Civil War, which could have left High Rock an *isolated* Imperial holding, with no imperial-controlled trade routes back to Cyrodiil)... sort of the same region done in Daggerfall, but done with contemporary graphics and a different era and everything, and exploring much more of the area than you get to see in Online... like getting to visit The Dragontail Mountains, Elinhir, Daggerfall, the Alik'r Desert, Orsinium, The Wrothgarian Mountains and everything too. I doubt they'd go for it, though.

I'd dig an Elseweyr / Valenwood game, but it would be very difficult to make work for a full game, since Bosmer culture is even more alien to human than Dunmer, and they have few permanent settlements (working in migrating cities would be quite a challenge!), and I can't see people who aren't already fans of Khajit enjoying Elseweyr for an entire sandbox-game's worth of play... especially given how it would have a high chance of resulting in the game just OVERFLOWING with Orientalist cliche. Bethesda would have to be *extremely* careful not to end up with a super-racist game that would alienate big chunks of their audience (granted, that risk also exists with Hammerfell, but less so, as Redguards are based much more on real life Moors, in contrast to Khajit, who are based on "The Meeeestick Orient. Land of mystery and thieves! Have some opium, child, and leeeesten to my 1001 tales.").

Summerset / Alinor is a good bet, except for the issue of its size. But since "lore size" and "game size" don't directly map to one another anyway (Skyrim of the canon is much bigger than 15 square miles), it would be no big deal to have Alinor be the same size as Skyrim / Cyrodiil were in the games at the same time as still being smaller in the lore. I just tend to think of the landscapes and cities you see in the game as *representations* of what's really there, anyway. Otherwise I'd have to accept that Skyrim's "major cities" have populations about 1/3 the size of the tiny Nova Scotian village I gew up in.