So *spoilers* but then again if you havent played Skyrim by now...whats wrong with you Anyway

So for the next ES game in line [Not counting ESO I'm talking in succession so ESVI] do you think Titus Mede will have been killed? For the Dark Brotherhood quest in Skyrim your end goal is to kill Emperor Titus Mede II, now in previous ES games [Not counting Daggerfall/Arena, I did not play them] you assassinated people, but never anyone really...idk the word.."main".."essential". I mean you killed some villager, a rapist, a random pirate, some people around Vivec etc and even your own members [Lawl DB] but in Skyrim you actually have the chance to KILL the current Emperor. So I'm curious if him being killed is considered canon.

You could say "Oh its our choice so what I beleive to be true is true" and that almost always works, since in ES games only the major plot points are carried over [Champion of Cyrodill, you become Nerevar etc] but another Emperor being assassinated, with things being so tense with the Thalmor..idk

Is the Emperors death gonna happen regardless? In the next ES game are you gonna hear "Oh Titus Mede II was killed by an unknown assailant", whether it was DB or not. And wouldn't the death of Titus Mede II pretty much assure the war with the Thalmor will start up again? I mean with things being how they are in Skyrim at the time [The Schism, Dragons back, Empire pretty much being Thalmors [censored]]. I just feel they added in a major turning point in the lore without finishing it.

Dont mean to sound like an a*shole, but i wish people would stop asking that question, its only logical to assume that his death will be canon. this is not something that you can let players do then scrap it off in the next game, and it wasnt just a normal side quest. it was the dark brotherhood questline, factions questlines were always canon in the past games.

Here in the lore forum, we don't believe in spoilers.

I don't think that Bethesda would even include the option to kill the emperor if it wasn't going to signify in the next game. Besides, as is frequently noted when this issue comes up, even if you choose to destroy the DB, both Cicero and Babbette aren't present. It's debatable whether they would cooperate or even get Motierre's contract, let alone be capable of pulling off the assassination, but there's enough of a possibility that it wouldn't come across as a completely BS cop out.

That's really not at all assured. What people often seem to gloss over when discussing the assassination is that we know basically nothing about Cyrodiil's political situation as of 4E201. We don't know who Mede's heirs are nor how many there are. We don't know what the various factions in the Elder Council and other important bodies are. We don't know the disposition and deployment of the legions. Et cetera. We just lack sufficient information for anything other than wild speculation.

I haven't played Skyrim....

In Morrowind you were able to kill Vivec and finish the main quest in alternative way with that done. I can't see death of Titus Mede II to be any bigger thing than that. So I assume it's canon both of them are dead.

Recall that Vivec has his ways of getting around being "killed," at least according to his dialogue about "being asleep" (that's how I've always interpreted it, anyway). Mede... not so much.

Since there are Dark Brotherhood members absent if you decide to purge them, it's logical to assume that Titus Mede II's life will be ended by a Dark Brotherhood blade, in terms of future game canon.

How that impacts the events of TESVI - if at all - remains to be seen.