Since many of us is speculating that the player will be or wont be the protagonist, (Dovahkiin), I want to ask you what you want to play as?

1. I want the player to be the Dovahkiin - Like the player was the Nerevarine incarnation in Morrowind.

2. I want the player to assist the Dovahkiin - Like the Champion of Cyrodiil was a great assistant to Martin Septim in Oblivion.

3. Doesn't matter - You dont care.

What is your answar and why?

I might prefer the first option but I'm not sure.

I feel like it's obviously implied so far that the player would be Dovakiin, though I guess I could be wrong. Seems it would be odd though to make this person so mythical only for him to be an NPC.

maybe the dovahkiin would be the antagonist
unless I'm missing something, there's nothing to indicate otherwise in the trailer
maybe you have to help the unlawfully persecuted dragons by defeating the proud glory seeking Dovahkiin

I'd rather he wasn't Dovakhiin, but also wasn't his side-kick. Why can't we choose to be against him?

On one hand I think it will limit the roleplay options for the player if he is the Dovahkiin and we can't choose to be something else, but on the other hand, it didn't bother me much in Morrowind that I was the main guy and could still roleplay easily.

I guess I'm not really bothered, but I have a slight preference for just being a guy who assists the Dovahkiin.

If the Dovahkiin is set to be a major character post-Skyrim I can see why him being an NPC is an option. Having a set gender and race and look will allow him to be featured in future ES games other then being referred to in conversations.

That being said I hope the PC is the Dovahkiin.

This is what i was thinking, maybe even because the dragons fear him they are doing his bidding :shrug:

There are lots of things Bethesda could do with the main quest that'd make either option more or less appealing, but generally speaking I'd much rather the player character was Dovahkiin. I love hidden powers that turn out to be double-edged swords, fated heroes, ambiguous prophecies, etc. that can surround a protagonist, particularly ones that give the protagonist opportunity to confront it (and the similar beings that may be involved), and/or rebel against it.

Needless to say, I loved Morrowind and Tribunal's main questlines and wouldn't mind at all if Bethesda re-use the concept in Skyrim.

As to it being cliché, I really don't see that as a negative point; some of the most tiresome and uninspired fantasy I've encountered has been very new and original... mostly because it wasn't a good enough idea for someone to have done already. In any case, how Bethesda integrate it is more important than what it is, specifically.

This got me thinking, is it possible that the player wont be the Dovahkiin? Because he is a Nord male character?

I'll put it this way: I won't be buying Skyrim if I'm not the Dovahkiin.

Unless, as ISGC suggest, the Dovahkiin is in fact the main villain. I could live with that, since it's like Morrowind, except instead of being a prophesized hero, I just go on a series of adventures and end by kicking some epic bad guy's ass. Works for me.

I dont think that will matter.
I expect the nords view him as a nordic character, just as the dunmer viewed the Neverine as a Dunmer character.
Maybe.

I am also thinkin the Dovahkiin should be some evil guy that forces the noble dragons and that the player is to free the dragons.

Dovahkiin kind of sounds like a gender neutral title like Neverar. Who knows, maybe the wall was simply based on a prophesy carved by mere mortals with a beard worshiping culture.

I would love to be the big hero kicking dragon tail, but with a combat/magic system that actually makes the fighting seem like fighting, this time around.

He's only shown as that in the trailer.

Just as jesus was depicted, in the painting of the last supper, as a white man with long brown hair, it doesnt mean he actually looked like that.

That's what I'm thinking too. Kind of like how the Nords have Shor instead of Lorkhan.

The mural isn't likely contemporary with the time of the game, but from long before it. The vision of the Dovahkiin may have been man and Nord-ified, because that's the ideal hero of the Nords.

I hope to play antagonist, too. It so happened, unbinding the Heart in Morrowind was the linchpin of the Oblivion Crisis, and made way for the assault on White-Gold. Serving Martin lead to the defeat of the Septim line, as Martin sealed the barriers but cut the lineage. You end up sabotaging the Dragonborn you took an oath to protect. Some more gray is good.

Personally, I don't want to be the Dovahkiin. Whether or not i'm his enemy, assistant, worshiper or just a plain citizen; I don't mind. I'd like it if it was dependent on different choices we made throughout the game but i'm sure i'll be happy with whatever Bethesda give us.

It is implied that the PC will not be Dovahkiin. He is clearly a man. How would that work if someone wanted to play the game as an Argonian?

The player will assist the dragonborn.

NOOOO you people dont knoooow! this is a good thing about elder scrolls, your character isnt the chosen one! thats a cool thing! i hate the chosen ones jaja

Dovakiin is male and human (probably nord or imperial) , player can be male, female and non human races therefore you are not Dovakiin.

As has been pointed out several times, the depiction of the Dovahkiin isn't necessarily accurate or a fixed parameter. I'm fairly certain what's shown in the trailer can be found in-game, and is some kind of "Wall of Prophesy", like a wall covered in hieroglyphics that are meant to tell a story that spans centuries. Not every aspect of it is going to hold up so many years later.

It's possible that the Dovahkiin is an NPC, in which case, of course, there goes my interest in the game. But I find it unlikely.

And we all know he didn't actually look like that. Got a point.

I must know-why are you so set on being Dovhakiin? Do you want to be the big hero or something? Will not being that really cause you to not buy the game