Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-101.103.30.52-20140219060142/@comment-82.23.138.127-20150211032931

TES VI will be a place, as it has always been. Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion/Cyrodiil and Skyrim (and the Arena, though open world wasn't exactly possible back then). There are a number of regions that are under threat from the AD, particularly Elswyrr and Valenwood.

Why Elswyrr and Valenwood in particular? Well, Elswyrr was won over by the threat of an Aldmeri invasion and the wrath of the Imperial Empire. They didn't exactly like the idea of a war they wouldn't win, but Khajiit are notorious for grudges. If ESO lore is canon in the single player games, then being under the thumb of the Dominion again is just salt in a wound that never healed. (Skyrim and Orsinium/Wrothgarian Mountains were and are an exception when it comes to war. Nords are prideful and it is their divine. Orc clans are Daedra worshippers and a hardy bunch, have fun convincing them. Morrowind is also likely to war against the Dominion, though they're on opposite sides of the Tamriel).

Valenwood. Now, here's an interesting one. The Aldmeri Dominion knew they would never win a war against the Bosmer in their territory, it's a huge forrest with millions of ambush spots on a terrain they're not trained to fight. So, instead, they assassinated several Tree Thanes (similar to Jarls, I guess) and replaced them with Dominion supporters before and during the events of Skyrim. (If you read the books you steal from the embassy in Skyrim, you'll know that the Dominion didn't want the war to end. It provided them a workable distraction to work on other regions). It lays the bricks for a pretty big political scandal story and a rebellion with the protagonist probably leading it as an agent of the Emperor.

The above is why Elswyrr and Valenwood are believed to be the likely candidates for the 6th installment. I personally believe, because we know more of what occured in Valenwood, that a political plot story against the Dominion is likely. Though it's Bethesda, at the end of Oblivion, we believed that Dagon's appearence would cause the Orc clans to follow in the steps of the Mythic Dawn and try to summon Malacath to Nirn. Nope, waaaaaay off.