So i was curious tonight and decided to read up on some other provinces. I cam across Elsweyr and i read on UESP that there are only a few big cities and every thing else is little settlements, that would make for some borring and lonesome travels. so is this why we don't have TES V: Elsweyr? just asking for ya opinions.

"little settlements" is a relative and easily adjustable term. Besides, Bethesda hasn't shown that much care for the lore in doing new provinces in the past. Vvardenfell was supposed to be complete ashland before Morrowind came out.

Beast races wouldn't be the greatest marketing tool in order to get people to buy the game. Only way I can see Elsweyr being in a future TES is if that TES took place across Tamriel.

Let's not Forget that Cyrodiil was supposed to be mostly jungle, not european forest.

Anyway, how is Elsweyer's lore description different from previous ES titles? Morrowind had a whopping... 5 major settlements (Ald'Ruhn, Balmora, Vivec, Sadrith Mora, and Ebonheart) before the additional DLCs. Oblivion had about 7 major cities, pre DLC, and Skyrim has 9 major-ish cities (some of those I'm only calling a city because they're the capitol of a hold.) Elsweyer would likely have less than 10, maybe less than 5 major cities, and everything else would be like a village.

Most of the cities in Oblivion and Skyrim are little settlements. I'd love to see bigger cities in the next game.

There is no reason to not make a TES game in any of the provinces. Lore, map size, they can all be changed, scaled, adjusted to fit and work for the benefit of game and gameplay.

the reason it isnt elsweyr issssssss because its skyrim

they simply didnt pick the kitty province and went for skyrim, simple as that

dont worry though, kittyland will probably be featured in a future game

There's 8 capital cities listed, and with changing the scale, they could have them as big as they like. Anyway, the real reason, apart from "they just picked a different one because they felt like it" would probably be the copmplexity of creating all the Khajiit subraces.

They've got to do it eventually. They don't need to make them all playable, just have them present. How hard can it be? Most of them would still use the same skeleton, and they could replace horses with Senche.

Yeah, your most likely getting the definition of it in Arena, every province in that game was extremely small o.o
It seem's now that every province has like 7-8 capital cities, Elsweyr's seen http://i44.tinypic.com/1glj5j.png

Are we discounting Arena or not in this thread? Arena had a lot of cities in Elswyr.

Anyways.. They pick Skyrim because they wanted a TES game with Dragons! The whole Dragon-War was in Skyrim and that is where Alduin was thrown into that time rift.. Kinda can't have a Dragon TES Game anywhere else.

Where did you get that map? As far as I knew, Natalia Dravarol only drew the map of Cyrodiil. Are there other provinces depicted in that style?

There isn't an elsewyr game because elsewyr has nothing of importance and is pretty much a minor province. If there ends up being a mod it most likely will have to do about the Thalmor occupation and a strike against the Thalmor by the empire.


Its fan made by a modding community who made the Oblivion Elsewyr mod.

There is no Minor Province in Tamriel, If it's size you mean than i'd have to say that's not really relevant, because i'm pretty sure Skyrim and Cyrodiil aren't just 16 miles in Diameter lorewise.

There's actually a lot of lore on Elsweyr.
But if you were right, I'd personally have to slap bethesda, no Province should be taken any more lightly than another.

Theres a lot of lore but can you see any huge event like what happened in all the other games happening in Elsewyr?

Actually yes, the Five Year War was one.
The Khajiit being put into Slavery in Morrowind, there can be a major event in any province if you want.

The Oblivion Crisis actually took place in all of Tamriel, not just Cyrodiil, there is no actual main place for huge events like these.

One, Oblivion crisis already happened, they aren't doing anything with it anymore plus it would be more interesting to show like Morrowind, summerset isles, and skyrim because more happened there

Two, the slavery of the Khajiit was more of Argonians, Humans and other Khajiit enslaving and selling them to Morrowind due to the fact that Elsewyr was too far for Dres and Hlaalu slaving parties to get too.

Three, the five year war wasn't really interesting and was pretty pointless, it was mostly a land grab thing done by the Bosmer and the Khajiit kept making mistakes that made them look like idiots i.e. the nords telling them to wear heavy armor.

Also they aren't doing TES games in the past except for the MMO which will take place in the common era.

If or when we do get there I hope they give some explanation as to why none of the other races have ever been seen outside of Arena...

so because there hasn't really been any really important events taken place there completely leaves it out to becoming a game focused on it entirely?
your logic here would certainly appeal to Skyrim being under the same concept because nothing really happened there either until Bethesda decided to make it the next game.

I was mentioning the Oblivion Crisis because Big event's don't entirely belong to one specific province, TES Oblivion could of taken place in any province if it wanted too.

and Elsweyr won the Five year war, they mentioned that the Heavy armor wasn't suitable for the Khajiit because they couldn't move well in it.

Edit : I'm also not trying to point out that it should take place in the Past, I'm just trying to say that it's not Impossible for something to take place in Elsweyr.

Actually the dragon-war was lore before TES V as well as Alduin's return being prophesied

I see.

but correct me if i'm wrong again but the Oblivion Crisis wasn't a prophecy, It's story line was made up for the game.
Thing is we cannot predict every future important event.

It was prophesied by Uriel Septim and the mad seer of Solstheim as well as foreshadowed by the Cult of End times in Tribunal.

Meh, I still see no reason to disregard any province as it's own game still though

I'm just saying theres really no reason for the "why not Elsewyr?!" argument because there are a lot more interesting places for example hammerfell, black marsh and valenwood are provinces more fans would want to see. Plus Skyrim was perfect for the introduction into the 4th era.

Uh, dated link? I'm pretty sure it wasn't.