Like join the Blackwood company instead of the Fighter's guild?

It's not exactly about the name.

Rather then joining a fighters union you would join a mercenary group that is more then just pure fighters. They have some archers and a battle mage too. It's more varied and gives reasons for player types other then fighters to join too. There missions would mostly have to do with combat, but still allowing other skills and mission types to show up. For example, a mission where the company has to rob a armor store to get supplies. It's a robbery ,that is normally a thieves guild type quest, but you go about it a different way. Braking down the door beating up the guards, and threatening the owner.

The thieves guild could have some alchemist (Maybe ran out of the back of a potion shop.), some smugglers, and maybe a small slice of magic too. For a mission you could be asked to brew up some poison and then sneak it into a ship. The hitch is that the ship is already out at sea, so you have to use the guild's mage to gate you to it and back.

I want a smugglers guild.

Wouldn't the "Spy" guild, be an "Agent" guild? In terms of TES.

Could you add a "Ranger Guild"?

lol Bakers Guild...( you have now obtained the rank of Arch Eclair-Maker!!)

i voted for all.

more guilds = more time playing = more fun

All of them, the more the merrier. :wink_smile:

BLADES: If your mentor is the last blade, it would be really awesome if he made you a Blade and you could take over the Blades, recruit and reform the Blades with warriors who want to help defeat the dragons, and then build them up, make them a force to be reckoned with, butt heads with the other factions, and build a big fortress somewhere in the mountains to base them out of.

Daedra cult: At least the daedra aren't dragons, right?

The tribunal didn't worship Daedra... They worshipped Vivec, Amalexia and Sotha Sil....


Morag Tong


Agreed. The vampire thing guild in Oblivion was just... random. It should have been simply a few side quests strung together... not a guild. Same with the Knights of the Thorn, and more. If it becomes a "Guild" I want a full story arch for it, and consequences for joining it.



What I would really like to see is the option to join/help one of several Nord Clans (like the houses in Morrowind) OR a full faction based on your race. (But that might be a bit of a hassle to fit into a game... having to make 10 full story archs when the player can only experience 1 per playthrough...)

I wanna be a spy and go around sayin' "My name is Khiin, Dova-Khiin"

Love to see a reputation for every town. [buy house in town] Sorry you're not what we're looking for. [persuasion and bribery] Soft words from soft southerners don't cut it here. Kill the wolf pack threatening the farm, get a potion from the witch of the no quest marker coven, kill the ghosts of the were-mudcrabs and solve their leaders riddle, then do some snooping and find out who's been stealing all the tan cups, then we'll talk about a house in town and decent prices from the traders.

I always wondered with so much cults and what so religious lore, why there wasn t any religion faction, this would be great, and could bring great twists to the game.

Like Daggerfall, questline for each temple.

I'd like to see a return to politics, personally. A la Morrowind. Oblivion was very cheerful and shallow on the note of politics (brutal subterfuge in order to secure the leadership of the Elder Council after the Emperor's murder, anyone?). This could be played out as conflicts between guilds, conflicts between ruling houses and lairds, tensions between the crumbling Empire and Skyrim and more beside. I would prefer the term guild vanished entirely, and was replaced with 'factions'. It would allow greater potential for joinable organisations.

I mean, I'd love to see a lot of joinable groups with developed stories. A mages and fighters guild, yes. Thieves and assassins, that's a given. I'd like to see a representation of the Imperial Legion, or the current derivative, as well as a dissident rebel group who are fighting them. Lairds who are homed in specific settlements or strongholds could have their own groups, with one perhaps trying to extend their dominion over all Skyrim, or perusing other local goals. Local lairds (representing government) could have such a colourful and ranging display of quests available; protecting their local kingdom from attack, assassinating a rival, undermining hostile lairds, strengthening ties with friendly lairds. Just politics, politics, politics. Yeah, I like politics. :yes:

Having religion being reintroduced would be kinda awesome as well. Various Daedra Cults, the church of The Nine, whatever the local religion was before the Imperials turned up. All that sort of thing could be going on.

All guilds.

Cause I like 'em.

vampire hunters guild.

temple/religious guild.

ranger guild.

imperial legion.

national wereboar appreciation and protection (NWAP) guild.

bandit guild.

some kind of slave freedom fighter group.

this

This X a million. One thing which makes Morrowind a more engrossing world than Oblivion is the presence of location specific guilds - the three great houses, the Tribunal temple, the Morag Tong. It wasn't just the generic fighter/mage/thief guilds, which are designed for specific character builds. We also got guilds which were also designed to enrich the social, cultural, and political context of the game.

So I really hope we get a similar thing in Skyrim: location specific guilds. I'm not sure what they might be, as I don't know the lore well. But Fourtrax mentioned Nord clans, as an anologous option to Morrowind's great houses. Others have mentioned a Skyrim-specific religious faction. And hopefully these will all have quests which play into the secession storyline.

I want to see many more guilds, but not necessary fully fledged guilds with many quests. I think having many smaller factions, each working independently being at different sizes would add more variety to the game. Of course I would also love a return of the Morrowind style of factions, where some cannot be joined depending on your actions.

I really want to see the Imperial Legion return, and hopefully looking more they did in Morrowind rather than Oblivion(more Roman inspired).

Other than that, Explorer's/Archeology Guild would be really interesting, especially since we will have Dwemer ruins.

If you replaced the word "guild" with "faction" in your poll, I would vote for all the choices.

I voted for all the guilds...except OTHER.

I voted for all of them though I doubt they will all be included.

Hell, in a perfect world (game) Ide like all of those.

Though, the guilds that they include would need to be warranted by actual gameplay and the game world.

Ive bartended a lot and Id love a bartender’s guilds, but what would you actually do that didn’t feel tacked on?

Tacked on isn’t necessarily bad, but it is if it detracts from more relevant story lines.

An asassins' guild would work very well, each faction would want you to kill major leaders in other factions, if you manage to get the blame put on another faction it'd spark a war between them, a tactical choice for your employers... I'd like a vampires' guild that has a quest where you slaughter a group of vampire hunters, and a werewolves guild could possibly help you attempt to control changing...