It seems I can't follow the history, nor find what is supposed to happen in the future, after the events in Skyrim conclude. I've been reading the in-game books, papers, etc., but nothing is consistent.
Can anyone tell me, is there an actual Elder Scrolls time line? What should happen in E/S 6, if there is actually a scroll written? Is the Elder Scrolls team just making it up as they go, every six or so years?

Thanx for the input! ( now: 1.8.12, 17:50 ). I was mainly confused due to the conclusiveness of Alduins Wall. It just seemed too abrupt.
Personally, I've really been curious about the Psijics of Artaeum, as well as the lands of Elsweyr. It would be great to see the E/S continue in those directions!

go the UESP or The Imperal Library they have timelines there.


http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Dawn_Era

there that's the dawn Era start there

Lore section:
http://www.gamesas.com/forum/16-elder-scrolls-lore/

They make it up as they go along. With official and unofficial canon written in between in some places. Some of The Infernal city lore was used in Sky for instance, though Beth checked off on it. At the UESP you can find a legit enough Timeline going through the Eras. Double Ninjad.

You certianly won't find books about the future games......that would make no sense.

Just get interested in thigns you hear in the game, search them, and they lead to even more interesting things.

Beware the Elder Scrolls Library. Unprepared visitors have been known to go missing shortly after entering.

Seriously pack a lot of supplies before delving in the library. You could spend more time there then in the game.


http://www.imperial-library.info/

I always thought the Imperial Library should have been called Apocrypha, after Hermaeus Mora's plane of endless libraries and knowledge.

Like real life history, what really happened depends on who you ask.
In general the UESP has good documentation of what is agreed to be history.
Mind that at several points in the timeline since the Dawn Era time 'broke' and so what happened before or after such an event may be incongruous.

the time-line is long and hard to explain all on a single thread, everything from sithis and his bother during creation to the divines to the roots of (almost) all life (i cant seem to remember their names at the moment )

The future isn't clear. The events unfolding in Skyrim are the "end times", so everything afterwards is unforseen.

That said, it appears the war between Man and Mer (and further back, between Lorkhan and the Aedra) is quickly coming to a head.

I'm just assuming that the E/S writers wrote the E/S timeline with a start and an end; thus I question: Is Skyrim the last of the E/S writings, or are there more prophocies to be told? It seems that Bethesda is making it up as the money roles in. I'm not judgeing, it just seems to be a story line with profits in mind.

Umm 99% of game seires dont have a preset ending made up by the Devs.

There is a letter from http://www.imperial-library.info/content/loveletter-fifth-era-true-purpose-tamriel, so some of the future has been decided on already.

http://www.imperial-library.info/

Or visit the Lore section of these boards.

Mk's writings, while great, about future events should be taken with a grain of salt until said event happens.

It's a shame really. I would love to read the Elder Scrolls as a series of books, bound in leather, and written on vallum. Well, paperback will do just fine!

Making some pre-defined story would

1. ruin future games
2. restrict Devs ideas.

niehter of which is good.

Well, there is a defined end, but it's also left vague. The Eternal Champion killed Jagar Tharn, and saved Uriel. The Numidium created a paradox, and multiple Numidiums appeared and destroyed all lands that did NOT have one. Dagoth Ur, Alamenxia, and Sotha Sil are dead. The Septim line ended, and Mehrunes Dagon was banished back into Oblivion and the Champion of Cyrodiil disappeared afterwards once he entered Sheogorath's realm. Alduin was defeated in Sovngarde, preventing the end of the world.

That's pretty all that's definied. With the guilds, it happened, generally, but it may not have necessarily have been by the heroes.

The first paragraph of The Hope of the Redoran is quite interesting...

"One of the few magical arts the Psijics of Artaeum have kept to themselves, away from the common spells and schools of the Mages Guild, is the gift of divination. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, omens and prophesies abound in Tamriel, some of substance, others of pure folly, and still others so ambiguous as to be unverifiable. There are still other prophesies kept secret, from the prophesies of Dro'Jizad in Elsweyr and the Nerevarine in Morrowind, to the Elder Scrolls themselves.

Nothing is known of Dro'Jizad, but he's paired with the Nerevarine - it might mean nothing, it might be a hint towards a future game.

Its been brought up before

I know. But the OP wondered if Beth have a plan or they just invent history as they go. If one of the next games takes place in Elsweyr and features this Dro'Jizad, it will prove they had at least an initial thought long before they started developing the game.

I wouldn't count on it, though. Right now it's more of a curiousity.

On the first part, I question whether the "end times" were ever truly the end. The Dovahkiin delayed the end of the world, making the prophecy written on Alduin's wall kind of irrelevant. And it's not like the Dovahkiin could circumvent the Elder Scrolls: I'm pretty sure the Scrolls "knew" about this whole timeline, and know what will happen next.

Secondly, I totally agree with you on the war. I wonder if they will make a game out of that, or whether it will just be past, already-established history at the time of the next game. Still, the Civil War quests in Skyrim really set Men up poorly for a confrontation with the Thalmor. It very well might be past because it appears Men are fated to lose.

From a out-of-game perspective, Skyrim can't be the end of times because there's no way they'll stop making TES games after how successful it was.

The Future is uncertain. Not even the Elder scrolls can speak with certainty about what the future holds, they can only speak of possibilities and what may be.