Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-24696651-20140418130926

Go Dawgs!!!!!! wrote:

90.203.108.39 wrote: it is probably going to be in a mixture of summerset isle, elsweyer and valenwood. based on something shodycast did, but it would be awesome if they inclueded black marsh. They will most likely not do that. Since the graphical improvements they don't need to put more than one province. They won't include a storyline for TES VI that is based on one decision in Skyrim.

I'm sorry, but the graphics will have no influence on Bethesda's decision to include more provinces. They wanted to create more focused game world, unique and interesting. The graphical improvements (I assume you mean them upgrading from the Xngine), were just because they needed to move on from that engine and were also finally making a new Elder Scrolls game. I agree that they could easily only use one province - all the ES games from this millenium were one province, and the size of game worlds compared to each other was not influenced by lore. They will try to avoid a storyline for TES VI that is influenced by Skyrim (specifically, the Civil War), but it may be difficult to avoid mention of it, and unlike Daggerfall they cannot just say it was a dragon break. Thus, whether Bethesda likes it or not, they will have to mention the Civil War eventually.

I think many fans would like to see some sort of fight against the AD, but most would by the game regardless - thus there is no incentive for them to fight the AD in TES VI. Whatever the case, I'm sure we'll find out what they are doing with TES VI in a year or two - the gaps between the more modern Elder Scrolls games were around 4-5 years, and we knew about Skyrim a year in advance. Skyrim was 5 and a bit years, so assuming they take as long with TES VI as they did with Skyrim, we're looking at an early 2017 launch.