Board Thread:Other TES Titles/@comment-220.239.224.83-20130422031812/@comment-7153552-20130712234714

Contrib 74.193.110.239, you had a wonderfully thought out post until the end. You fell into the trap that most people seem to fall for. The Companions, the civil war, the Thieve's Guild, the Dark Brotherhood, Blades (to lesser extent), the Dawnguard, etc. are not vital points to the overall lore progression. Let's say you did the quest to destroy the Dark Brotherhood, fine. You didn't kill Babett(sp?) or Cicero. . . therefor it still lives. Whether you sided with the Vampires or the Dawnguard, the ultimate outcome was the same. And no matter what happened to the civil war, there was strife and we still don't know how it finalized, we just know that one of the leaders was killed. Think on a grander scale though, does the civil war in Skyrim mean anything to the rest of the empire? No! If it did, Tullius wouldn't have been complaining about not being given reinforcements. The Empire doesn't think he needed extra forces, it's a small-time event in the whole Tamriel. It's possible that the next lacation we go to, doesn't even know it happened. Not to mention, as to your last point of contention, odds are we'll hear several rumors about the Dragonborn. What happened to the Neravarine, or to the Hero of Kvatch? We don't know, at least not our character in game. We, in reality, assume the HoK became Sheogorath (if you played Shivering Isles), and we hear about the Neravarine going to Akavir, but he's never heard from again. The Dragonborn will have similarly vague rumors and stories.