I'm curious about where you'll be starting in Skyrim. We know you start as a prisoner slated for execution. From a couple previews and interviews I've seen ( http://youtu.be/WcLh_cJuRxo & http://www.gameinformer.com/games/the_elder_scrolls_v_skyrim/b/xbox360/archive/2011/08/04/new-skyrim-info-bursts-out-of-quakecon.aspx ) it appears as though you've been captured crossing the border and after you escape, you start in a cave, and the other end of that cave leads to a forest.

I'm going to hazard a guess that we'll be coming over the border from Cyrodiil. This guess is not because Oblivion was the last game in the series, but due to the geological location of Skyrim. Because it's in the north, a lot of it is mountainous and tundra. The Western area of Skyrim, where Marketh Side is, seems to be a rocky canyon area. And as I recall, there was a lot of mountainous terrain in the northwestern area of Morrowind. The northern area of Cyrodiil had mountians on the border, but south of that was a lush pine forest. I found a map in another forum ( http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/402/skyrimmapls.png/sr=1 )that has color coded terrain, so assuming this is correct, it confirms my suspicions on the location of the pine forest area.

Based on this, and the few locations labeled here, I'm going to say we may be starting in Falkreath Hold. The location seems reasonable. Not exactly centrally located, as the starting locations for both Oblivion and Fallout 3 were, but remember, Morrowind started relatively near the border. If the first quest you did pointed you North towards Whiterun you'd end up fairly centrally located right towards the beginning of the game (at least if you follow the MQ right off the bat).

In the footage we have seen, the player started near Falkreath Hold, so I guess that's the spot. I know the demo didn't start the same as the final game, but still, I can imagine the devs putting demo players in a neutral, low level area.

I believe I heard in one of the interviews that the demo started the first time the player enters the overworld, so theres gatta be a cave or something right behind there you start in.

S%*T! *Sigh* I got "spoiled" :sadvaultboy:
Title is a little misleading imo I came in here to guestimate where you would start and got to reading OP and ...well -I'm not blaming anybody its' just a little unfortunate

in the demo we saw whiterun so i will say some where south of that

Pretty sure its in a town called Helgen? I might be mistaken.

I like this the most

I found one of these scans from the pc gamer article on skyrim. and on this page (link below) there is a box which shows where the journalists went in the hour of skyrim. But they all start at the red X. And the writer who was the one of the lucky players said that the demo started at the end of the cave where you start in skyrim. So i'm assuming that the red X is where you enter the fabulous world of skyrim.

Just click on this link.....

http://i.imgur.com/TAyoY.jpg

I was sure something would pop out.
Anyways, scans are not allowed.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1213539-starting-position.