Ever since Arena events have been occurring that lead up to this point; Alduin returning to "eat" the world. (Or at least the lore people at Bethesda have tied the disparate plots of all the games together really well to make it seem like this was inevitable.)

The destruction of the Staff of Chaos, the Dragon Breaks and Warps in the West, the sundering and separation of the Heart of Lorhkan from Nirn, the negation of the pact between Akatosh and the Empire (and also the possible banishment of Akatosh as a part of the tri-soul Alduin/Akatosh/Auri-El)

Skyrim is also to be the last Elder Scrolls Game of this console generation.


I'm thinking that Alduin will succeed in destroying and remaking the world. The Next Elder Scrolls game could be a complete departure from what we know. Tamriel, Akivir, Atmora, and Yokuda may not exists anymore. Races could be wiped out, drastically changed, or new ones could spring up. A huge leap in time to a more advanced (industrial revolution) time, or a step back into something similar to the Merethic era could take place.

I'm sure TES games will always be sand-box rpgs, but the lore and things that are familiar to us could be different when we pick up TES:VI in 10 or so years.

Nope... It won't, hopefully anyway... As if the Elder Scroll prophesies it, it will happen, and the Elder Scrolls have many more prophecies that likely happen after Skyrim, so it will likely stay in Tamriel after the events of Skyrim. That is why there isn't really many multiple endings.

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TES is not ending. They have confirmed via interview they are going to continue the TES games, on the next platform. We know nothing else. This will just be a link in the chain, just like every other TES game.
The story will continue. The saga will not end.

The Elder Scrolls are scrolls of unknown origin, and unknown quantity. That means endless possibilities for the writers of TES lore. :goodjob:

If Aludin eats the world, how will we play post MQ? (which has been confirmed)

they already said you can carry on after the main quest.......would be a ton of work to for the devs to destroy the world and remake it

Yep. Through logical deduction, we can conclude that Alduin will indeed fail to eat the world, since it has been confirmed we can play after the MQ is over.
So my first post stands true.

Dovahkiin will not fail. Ever. You just wait and see.

Not to mention the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APH1LIJaq7A with the 5th era loveletter should the world be destroyed.

But then the Elder scrolls would be destroyed, so how could there be an Elder scrolls game?

From what I understand the universe is doomed to repeat itself over and over and over, so there is no 'end of the world' persay, just a rebirth and repeat. Wash and rinse again you could say. Its not the first time the world has been eaten ya know.

Right. I said the world would be destroyed, and then REBUILT.

I'm just saying that lore, races, continents etc. might be drastically different from every other TES game we've played when we finally reach TES:VI.

A TES game without Tamreil? Would change a whole lot.

Not saying its definite, just speculating speculations.

Reminds me of the LEXX series and it's circular time-cycle. But it was changed after all, so I presume it to happen now in Skyrim.

Why, oh why, does everybody want ES to progress in time, and add guns and cannons? I know you didnt say that directly.
I assume we play the hero in Skyrim. And we're killing dragons... So we're against Alduin... So we're going to win in the end

Probably because the world has remained stagnant for some (three) era's now without any progression in thought or ingenuity?

What would be the cost of victory though? I believe Aludin knows, and by his reaction in the Seven Fight's the consequences could be dire.

Personally, I'd love for TES5 to be the end of a classical TES, and the time after to be an unplayable world full of metaphysical transcendence. The other games could travel back in time and cover the 3000 years we know next to nothing about.

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Then unsheath your sword, my friend. Tomorrow, we will ride out and stop Alduin from renewing the world!

There's a rich enough history to make this both possible and desirable.

Just that, maybe they're giving us two ending choices.

1) Stop Alduin from eating the world and continue after MQ as normal.
2) Help Alduin / Make it possible for Alduin to eat the world and not being able to play post-MQ, or playing a whole different game from there on. Or somehow link with Alduin and play him. (Uh, Shivering Isles.)

People have often complained, for example, how Morrowind should've offered the chance to side with Dagoth Ur, like it was hinted during the game. What if they're making "good" and "evil" endings both possible this time? Then another Warp or somesuch, or making only one out of the two canon?

I Highly doubt we will be going to Akavir anytime soon, We still Have Black Marsh ^_^

I'd like that, I was slightly bummed that I couldn't at least play along with Dagoth Ur for a while, I'm guessing they had quests planned but ran out of time.

There will more than likely never be multiple endings for an Elder Scrolls game. Why? Because Beth tries to keep EVERYBODY'S story canonical, unlike Obsidian, which gives multiple endings, but then later on they tell you which ending is canon. The closest thing to multiple endings in an Elder Scrolls game was in Daggerfall, when you had the choice to decide who gets the Mantella, and even then, the choice you make in Daggerfall falls back into universal canon.

A Daggerfall multi-ending would be kinda cool.

And the world as we know it have been "eaten" a few times already.
So I doubt we'll see the end of this serie (as it looks right now), thou Lady_Ns post is interesting.

He's a dragon. He won't get very far, no matter how big he is. Dirt and rock just don't taste very good.

Well, it's just like you can choose to not do the main quest in any of the games, but if you read the time lines and storylines on The Imperial Library, they say "unknown hero" defeated Jagar Tharn, went to Mantellan Crux to find Mantella to activate Totem to control Numidium, defeated Dagoth Ur, closed Oblivion gates and helped Martin Septim defeat Mehrunes Dagon. But you didn't have to do any of that stuff in game. So after TESV, we will probably be reading "unknown hero, who was the last DragonBorn, defeated Alduin and saved Tamriel from the World-Eater, restoring peace and prosperity to the land."