If the next TES happens to have a civil war like Skyrim or even an interprovincial war, I wish they weren't as linear as Skyrim's, where you go to a Hold, do a small mission, take fort and repeat until you reach the major city. It would be much cooler if they involved, first, multiple ways of completing the quests (stealth, negotiations) and more varied quests, like seeking artifacts important to your faction that could be worn by the player or the leader of said factions. Examples could be the player retrieving the Lord's Mail for the Imperial Legion, the Jagged Crown was such an item which could give your faction an advantage. So, feel free to add to the idea or even to counter some points of it.

I was happy that negotiation was at least touched on in Skyrim, but I think that there's a lot more that could be done with it. Getting rival generals or rulers to switch sides through negotiation, or their cities to switch sides after getting them out of the way through assassination, would be very interesting in my opinion. And I think negotiation should have some more serious results than just changing the name of the ruler in a certain city, though I'm not sure exactly what more they could do. And what about the guilds in these territories? Summoning the Dark Brotherhood (or local variant) would be interesting, though I'm not as well versed with the Brotherhood's rules enough to say whether or not it would be within their parameters to kill every enemy general or ruler you don't want in your way. Getting mercenaries from the Fighters Guild (or whatever equivalent the setting demands) could be a minor quest for a faction newbie; the same could be said for getting battlemages from the Mages Guild.

Also, it'd be interesting if the enemy was reacting to what you were doing--if you took City X, they might attack City Y, or ask for a ceasefire in order to negotiate something, etc. I think there are plenty of directions they could take with this, as long as they wanted to focus on it in the future.

It'd also Be Nice if the Stormcloaks and Imperials changed


I want to see.


Bosmer (Wood Elf) vs Imperials/Stormcloaks/Whoever