User blog comment:OccupySkyrim/New Elder Scrolls game ideas!?/@comment-92.51.253.33-20130816015015

I know this conversation has been dead a LONG time, but i just wanted to get this off my chest. :L

Bethesda will almost definitly not do anything directly related to the events of skyrim. I mean, Skyrim was set 200 years after the previous game, Oblivion, and thats the shortest time span they've had between game settings. They'll do something completely unexpected. Could you have imagined the Great War, the white gold concordat, the aldmeri dominion, the de-canonising of the 9th god Talos, or a skyrim civil war after closing the gates of Oblivion? There will be a completely different set of political situations, racial relations, and issues of the day come elder scrolls 6. Likely, the tamrielic nations will have settled their differences and there will exist two states living peacfully, or a newly united empire. Also I've noticed a lot of people are talking about going into the past for the next installment. This is something I'm sure Bethesda will not do. The large time gaps give them so much freedom to create a new world, in the same universe, to suprise and amaze us, as well as spiking our curiosity to explore the new world presented to us. And going into the past hugely restricts them to following the lore and canon already created in the series through books and dialouge. The hardcore fans would already know whats going to happen, and that just ruins the fun doesn't it? Like watching the end of a movie before the start.

So many people are thinking about Akavir, that I think Bethesda will actually listen. I expect that Tamriel will be re-united, under the Empire, or a newly liberal aldmeri dominion that believes in an equal society between men and mer. Anyhow I think we could see the player placed somewhere in Tamriel, possibly black marsh as it is in the east, as the ruling power of the day prepares to invade Akavir. Perhaps the game will be based on the shores of Akavir, maybe in Ionith, just after a d-day style invasion. The player could be a prisoner of war, accidently freed in a skirmish when one side attacks another in the vicinity of a prisoner of war camp. We know Bethesda will want to stick to the idea of being a prisoner with a second chance to live their life. Of course that will infact not be the main story. The main questline will have to be some kind of mystic, other worldly event that we simply cannot predict, and I am totally unfamiliar with akaviri races and lore. Perhaps the invasion could have unearthed or angered some kind of ancient power in akavir. I'm just spitting an idea out now, but maybe something could have been buried deep underground and unearthed by some kind of modern, 5th era explosive bomb style assault by the tamrielic invasion force. The skyrim book, "Report: Disaster at Ionith" surely offered some interesting magical/mystical goings on in Akavir, that could be explored.

Like I said I'm just spitting out and idea here, infact I might even contradict myself and say that Akavir might actually be too predictable, BECAUSE everyone is asking for it. Bethesda want to do something unpredicatable, to keep us on our toes. If it is set in Akavir, maybe Akavir, or a part of it, will infact have assimilated into the ruling empire of tamriel, or the ruling state of eastern tamriel at least.