Board Thread:Other TES Titles/@comment-220.239.224.83-20130422031812/@comment-3322638-20130601075444

I seriously think that the entire TESV occurences are going to be irrelevant, except for maybe a few references here or there, now that I am enlightened.

I think that the "severing" of the connections between multiple plains would be partially due to Dragon Breaks. The towers of Snow Throat, Walk-Brass, Red Mountain were deactivated by these Breaks. If all the towers were to fail, then the world goes back to draining the powers of Mundus, Aetherius and Oblivion till whatever plan that Lorkhan made was accomplished, which would mean all dimensions would be....crippled till a perfection of Mundus.

No, whatever the Elder Scrolls is building up to, will be huge. The first 4 were but random games, with some things (like the emperor, factions, etc.) similar, which meant it could be barely called a "series". However, the "series" made many plotlines, like the Towers, Talos, Oblivion, basically everything. However, Skyrim was radically different, breaking some of the plots. The monotony of the game stopped there.

I guess that Elder Scrolls will have 7 games (since it's a nice number, and they didn't stop at 3 or 5). There will be spin-offs, expansions, explanations, non-game revelations and clarifications. They also ran back to Online, which is set behind. This may be to explain some ancient plots.

Skyrim marks a shift in the "series", from beginning to the end. Most probably, the next two games will deal on:

Dwemer

Daedra

Creation of Mundus

Destruction of Mundus

Elder Scrolls

Et'ada

The Towers

Some form of Doomsday

Talos

Thalmor

The War between Empire and Thalmor (or should it be Struggle?)

All the Civil Wars and disagreements

Aetherius

I guess all this COULD be formulated into a plot which goes as follows:

The THALMOR try to destroy the Towers, merging AETHERIUS to MUNDUS, replaying the CREATION OF MUNDUS, but causing DOOMSDAY for most other races and the DESTRUCTION OF MUNDUS so the Altmer can be ET'ADA. To do this, they made WAR BETWEEN THE EMPIRE AND THALMOR, seeing they were reluctant to get rid of TALOS, or cause CIVIL WARS till everyone beat each other bloody. THen they try to wipe the concept of humanity and mortality by using the ELDER SCROLLS to make a Dragon Break and repeat history, like with the DWEMER. Seeing this, the DAEDRA pitch in one last attack, fight each other and so on.

Now we got an amazing mix, everyones fighting, mystery to solve, huge governments to bring down, divine beings to battle, infinite armies to slay, factions to join (many of them) and bajillions of unique quests.

Not the best setting for a book or, gods forbid, a film, but just great for a RPG game. Of course, the entire thing wil be much more detailed, maybe takes a fewgames (3 or 4) to get it all. Although I don't completely disbelieve the fact that a hero may play in two DIFFERENT games, it may happen for the last one.

Of course, it took the TES franchise to get from Arena to Skyrim with some small undetailed games and spin-offs 20 years. From Skyrim to Online to whatever lies beyond may take a decade and half, give or take 5 years.