Me want Skyrim. Don't think the Jerall mountains or Solstheim think a mix of Canada, Norway, Scotland and Schwarzwald in Germany.

http://www.1adventure.com/archives/images/cuillin-mountains-scotland-backside.jpg
http://tmcomponents.travelmarket.com/modules/TM_Imagebank2/upload/377/LysefjordenCasperTybjergInnovationNorway2.jpg

I think these two are what I imagine Skyrim to be like, more or less.

How about Akavir :whistling:

Nah, there's no way they could do Akavir justice. Not to say that Bethesda is bad at making games, it's just that Akavir is so out there and weird that no one could ever do it justice.

Plus, revealing Akavir would kill all the mystery.

I really, really hope Bethesda re-creates Solstheim for TES V, so you can just swim there from Skyrim. It's not that big, after all, and chances are good that by the time the game starts the refugee Dunmer will have built some colonies there.

In an expansion or at release?

At release, of course. Skyrim is very close to Solstheim, as you know, and considering the big role it plays for the Dunmer now, I don't see why Bethesda wouldn't want to include it.

I can picture myself opening the box on release day and seeing "download Solstheim for only $4.99 today".

As to why they really wouldn't, it's a lot of extra work(Bloodmoon had, what, 40 hours of content?) for something that isn't part of Skyrim. I can esily see it being part of the game, but would it be more of an after-thought or are you expecting an island with nothing to rival Bloodmoon in content?

Well it can't exactly be a part of Morrowind, what with it currently having no government, and it being volcanic wasteland and all.

There is no more Morrowind. The southern half of Morrowind, a.k.a. the part not covered in volcanic ash, has been taken over by the Argonians, and the northern half is, well, destroyed. The Dunmer fled to Solstheim, and considering it's so close to Skyrim, I don't know why Bethesda wouldn't include it in the game. I'm not talking about adding it in as an afterthought, I'm talking about just having in the game, no more of an afterthought as anything else. It would be really interesting to see what the Dunmer have been able to do to Solstheim, and it would be a nice change of pace from Skyrim.

Of course, I also want Bethesda to include the island of Roscrea, considering it became a part of Skyrim around the time of Oblivion, but I doubt they will, considering it's so far north. But Solstheim is nice and close.

I really, really hope Bethesda re-creates Solstheim for TES V, so you can just swim there from Skyrim. It's not that big, after all, and chances are good that by the time the game starts the refugee Dunmer will have built some colonies there.

Yes! Or take a boat there via travel services, no need to swim it.

...That'd work too.

Morrowind was pushing it in terms of scale (the world felt a lot smaller once you got leap/levitate abilities and found swamp on one side of some small hills and ash on the other), and Vvardenfell was basically a third of a province. When Oblivion went all the way and put in all of Cyrodiil it literally damaged the experience for me because it was just so ridiculous trying to pretend that small area was supposed to be an entire country. The scale was downright horrible. To compare; Daggerfall was 62 thousand square miles. The area of land on the Tamriel map it encompasses is smaller than Vvardenfell, while Cyrodiil is about four times the size of Vvardenfell. Presenting it in 16 square miles was laughable. I'd like a bigger game world than 16 square miles and, depending on just how much bigger, quite possibly an area of land smaller than Vvardenfell. People afraid that such a thing would somehow stifle variation are, again, failing to imagine it properly. The average real life city has more cultural variation than the games presented so far. The place I live in is hot and grassy, almost never dropping below freezing. A couple hours drive to the east into the mountains, and there's snow. South, and there's a desert. There is absolutely no reason that an area of land far smaller than that in Morrowind or Oblivion couldn't have greater variation of both people and landscape than either game.

Presuming TES V takes place after the books, there won't be much left in Morrowind to explore. At least not on Vvardenfell, and I'm assuming most of the main land.