I mean in the next elder scrolls game?

I would hate it if it turned out to be a "thing of the past". Like Bethesda sets a game 100 years after it happens.

How would you feel if that happened? Would you be surprised?

I wouldnt be surprised if TESVI has nothing to do with them honestly.

That would be some [censored]... They build up all this hype to destroy the Thalmor and then just skip it like it doesn't matter.

Same, I think they should make it right after you take Solitude from Stormcloaks or Windhelm for Imperials and it goes like this. The Thalmor have started to invade Tamriel and you are put in Skyrim or possibly Cyroddil and have to crush the Thalmor once and for all or even join them and take Tamriel.

A time jump like 200 years has never happened in the series, all previous 4 games are based in the same era, with the same emperor and empire. Skyrim really opened a whole new chapter and radically changed the political structure of Tamriel with all this. That being said, I quite believe the next few games will incorporate the similar conflict between the empire and the dominion, I'm just not sure how big a role it will play.

That would imply being the Dragonborn again.

No thanks.

I wouldn't want TES VI to have anything to do with them, at least as a key plot point. I want a whole new experience that calls it out in a lore book, or has standing cultural and political influences.

Still, I want to play a part in the resolution. Maybe more TES adventures, like Redguard?

This, although...

This too.

I wouldn't care.

Yep.

I honestly wouldn't care, either. I'll be glad to put this mess behind me in TES VI.

Who still plans to discuss the civil war after TES 6 comes out?

*raises hand*

I'd prefer that we didn't. As much as I'd like to kick the Thalmor in the tender parts in this game, I don't want the next game to feel like a continuation of Skyrim. What I would like is to pick up a book in the next game and learn that they got their butts handed to them in the interim.

Not me. I never want to hear the words "civil war" again.

Nah man, we're moving on to the Crowns vs. Forebears argument.

It seems more likely that we will fight FOR the thalmor in TES VI

Meh...

If there's a prominent ancient Yokudan Lich of yore... *ahem* Primitive modern day heretical Redguards anyone??

Imperialism vs Independence in Skyrim is one thing.....

on the other hand Liberal (forebear) vs conservatives (crowns) omg like we don't have enough of that in real life. Those political philosophies have existed around 300 years in our world and they've already produce so much crap, just imagine in TES where those kind of ideals have existed for nearly 4000 years!!!

I'd be very disappointed. As someone who leans Imperial, I want some Thalmor action.

Sometimes, I imagine you're some prisoner in the next TES, you're freed by some Imperial Soldier during an assault on a city, right as someone is about to attack the Imperial soldier, the blow is deflected by a Stormcloak. Then you see the Stormcloak defended by the Imperial soldier. Ad you escape the prison, you see the Legion and Stormcloaks along with whatever is on their side fighting against the Dominion.

That's would be nice in my opinion.

tl;dr

Bethesda better make the Dominion/Thalmor a part of the next TES or I will go bat [censored] crazy all over them.

Crowns 4 meh. They'd be the more rugged unique ones. Desert dwellers. Not imperialized.

The Desert Dwellers are mostly Forebears or at least their vassals groups.

I predict...

Next game will be in Summerset. A coalition is formed to take the fight to the Thalmor's home turf. They are deposed, but not fully eradicated. This happens before the game even starts, like the Great War was for Skyrim They become the enemy in the shadows, like the Mythic Dawn.

The Big Goods will be the Psijic Order... but a schism will be forming in their ranks: those who insist on noninterference and those who say that doing so is detrimental and Summerset needs them now more than ever.

I am probably alone on this, but I don't want the MQ in any TES game to be about a war.. even if its a war against the Dominion...

to me it would just feel... out of place for a TES game...

only way I would really play a game focusing on a war, even if its against the Dominion, would be if its another spin-off title... Like Redguard.. TES is long past due for another "Adventures" title....


But as part of the main series? no thank you...

Pleased. They're nothing but mustache-twirling villains, about as interesting as Alduin was.

I thought the forebears occupied the richer coast, where its not so deserty? I'm pretty sure they do. Thats the Imperialized richer area.

They occupy most of the coasts as well. It's not like Skyrim where you have a clear line dividing the borders between the Stormcloak and Imperial territories. Crown and Forebear territories and cities are scattered all over the damn place. The poor Crowns only have like three cities.

Now High Rock on the other hand is "King of the hill" taken literally....