» Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:38 pm
My main character from Oblivion (ie the one with whom I completed the main quest), Luther Martinus, is a middle-aged Imperial. So, unless we're talking a timescale of 40 or so years after Oblivion for Skyrim, he probably won't last long enough (may the Nine bless his soul).
If it is a short chronological gap between the games, then it would be cool to bring him back as an elderly man, with a possibly radically different character and play style. I don't think it will be realistic to continue to play him as a melee warrior into his eighties, however, I could see him maybe becoming more priestly and magic-oriented, with political and missionary interests in Skyrim. I'll play through the game, see what sort of scope for roleplaying there is first.
Some of my elven characters would be able to bridge a chronological gap of a couple of hundred years without much problem, but it would be much more difficult for me to imagine a reason for them to actually visit Skyrim, as most are fairly happy where they are in Cyrodiil.