Board Thread:Future TES Titles/@comment-4708902-20180108044128/@comment-25073873-20180111103026

The difference here is that player created character without save importing would be scarily immersion breaking for a character. If your Dragonborn was an evil werewolf girl who took the black star, then if a Nord Vampire Guy turned up, it would be weird.

The HoK is unlikely to reappear as anything not Sheogorath. Even if someone mantled him, he would vanish from history because his identity would be well, erased. Jyggalag could go free as he is a different aspect, in a way. But Sheogorath has no alternate identity as of now. Basically the HoK cannot be split unless Bethesda decides to make another retcon.

As for the gaming companies who did that, a lot of them go with preexisting NPCs/Fixed characters. For example, DmC 4 with Dante reappearing, you realize you cannot customise Dante in the previous games, hence it's easy to port him over.

Bethesda doesn't look like the kind to support save importing or spend time on such minute details. Especially when they released Skyrim with loads of bugs. Even in such a case, I would rather they work on core mechanics than import over preexisting characters.

As I said, one very important detail would be the provision of artifacts to the player. Since some artifacts would definitely be kept by the previous hero, Bethesda would have to come up with new Artifacts or simply get them off the hand of the previous hero. Due to of course wanting to maximise player choice, they must get rid of the previous hero, who would definitely cling to their artifacts.

Also, if save imports became a thing, they would need backward compatibility with mods, and they are definitely not going to do that. It would lead to limiting the engine.

If anything related to the previous heroes turn up, most likely it would be to do with their tombs and quests related to recovering unique relics that maybe they obtained some time in their lives. Written instruction, perhaps old journals that record significant events without divulging too much.