Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5918955-20130620134158/@comment-7153552-20130709155938

The next chapter in TES will always go forward, that's why Zenimax is making ESO in the past, so as to not mix storylines. Bethesda won't make a game backtracking on themselves, as it has the potential to muck around with current established lore that has happened in between the two games. ESO can get away with any potential mucking about by saying that it was a time of turmoil, history wasn't well-recorded and often written by the victors, etc., etc. TES: VI will be after Skyrim, and we don't know if the Aldmeri Dominion will even be present in the game. Much less how far down the road it will be, or what will have happened to undo everything we think we know about the future of the canon. Look at how quickly things progress in Nirn, we defeated a dragon onsluaght to end the world in a matter months (technically), just think of what all could happen in the next 50-200 years that generally spans between games.

Also, I think some of the cons are pros from the list above me, it's all a matter of perspective. There were a lot of Nords in Skyrim, but nobody seemed to complain about that.