User blog comment:Kacj321/The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is Enormous IGN Artical Two New Screenshots/@comment-98.148.192.143-20110423005045/@comment-1915112-20110423041101

maybe, but i doubt it. though Oblivion did have a "Mature" rating, that was mainly because of the discovered female nudity hidden in the in-game files more than due to violent content. the Elder Scrolls games have never been quite that violent in any previous games, and i doubt they'll start now

if they do have gore, it likely won't be to quite the extent of the Fallout Series (which has always been hyper-violent, unlike the Elder Scrolls), so no splattered intestines and eyeballs. an interesting question though, if you CAN severe limbs in game, can you cut off a Khajiit's tail?