As far as racial abilites go yeah, they're better, but they're also slimey and cold blooded, I much prefer a warm furry kitten to a wet, scaly handbag!

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1342269-future-of-the-dark-brotherhood/page__view__findpost__p__20238476 DB SPOILERS inside!

A lot of people are saying they aren't dead and can rebuild, I never said they couldn't I just think it is unlikely for them to become as feared and influential as they were. It will probably rake them awhile to get back to their former glory.

To be honest I love the DB, but I would like to see an assassin guild that is kind of like vigilantes and they take contracts to kill people only if the person that needs to be killed wronged the other person, but if the coin is good enough they will break that rule or moral code.

The Dark Brotherhood are too useful to be allowed to wither away. The only reason they've not been eliminated yet is their potential to cultivate friends in high places. Someone, somewhere will keep them alive, just like Maven and Motierre did in Skyrim.

I think you mean Elder Scrolls Series Ghost Town of Unanswered Questions. I've never seen more than 8-10 active users in that board. It's no surprise people milk the newest game release's board for all it's worth. Happened with Oblivion, happens here too.

It's pretty difficult to fully kill off something that has Sithis/Padomay as their Patron...

One of the two original beings in the multiverse... yeah, something tells me that the Dark Brotherhood will be around for quite a while. Which is fine with me as Assassin type characters are my favorite to play and the Dark Brotherhood is easily my favorite Faction! In Morrowind, all of my characters that I ever created were in the Morag Tong. In Oblivion and (now) Skyrim, it has always been the Dark Brotherhood.

With my Dunmer Assassin leading the Dark Brotherhood as the true Listener, and the Emperor's blood still fresh on my blades, how could the Dark Brotherhood not rebuild and make the public fear it all across Tamriel once again? The public in Skyrim's cities already whisper the name of the DB in fearful tones. Even the random guard greets me with a "Hail Sithis" (though I do apparently need to work on my anonymity...). Soon, all of Tamriel will once again shudder in fear at every flickering shadow.

The Dark Brotherhood will most definitely be back, though I wouldn't mind having an Elder Scrolls where most of the Assassin's don't get nuked during the Questline... that would be a nice change.

The Thalmor even have their own extermination/assassin squads, maybe have the Dark Brotherhood take offense to this as encroachment in their territory/industry and start wiping out these Thalmor Squads. Or on the flip side, that Thalmor start hiring the DB to take out those who are impeding their plans.

As long as Sithis wants Souls, there will be a Dark Brotherhood.

Honestly, I hope they find a way to bring back the Dark Brotherhood. I love them.

However, it is still the place for threads like this one. Moving it now.

Lol, goodbye to responses to this thread.

The Morag Tong. The dunmer in the Thieves Guild, whom was a former Morag Tong member, says they vowed to come back together again.
This to me is a hint of them possibly being the next big Assassin's Guild in TES. And I know I'd like to see them back, as they were awesome.

Depends, where will the next Elder Scrolls take place?

-Troll Face-

I for one hope they keep the Dark Brotherhood in the next game for the fact that it is the only guild to have been in every Elder Scrolls game, even if you couldn't join it in two of those games.

The Brotherhood doesn't operate out of Sanctuaries everywhere in Tamriel. In High Rock for example, they just use unmarked houses so they can blend in.

You're missing something here. Sithis (and Padomay and Anu) aren't beings and they aren't powerful. They don't exist in any form capable of acting and never really did. Their patron is just some sort of ghost lady.

The Dark Brotherhood should stay in because it seems to jar Bethesda's creativity when making quests, even if it sends their writers back to 8th grade goth fan fic.

You mean the Night Mother?

Yes. "Some sort of ghost lady" seems to be the only certain fact about her.

I love the DB and wouldn't mind them being in the next game, but I thought with the events that occurred in Skyrim I thought Bethesda was trying to put the DB to rest and start a new guild or bring back the Morag Tong.

The Morag Tong probably doesn't exist any more.

I don't see why assassins need a guild. It would suit the game better if you could make short-term service arrangement with various competing noble or commercial factions.

I really wish it would be the Shadowscales, and the game set in Black Marsh, but alas they were and I can't see them coming back.

Afraid to say that we'll probably just get another dose of the Dark Brotherhood, I hope at least they're back to being a big organisation rather than in tatters.

It'd be cool if Bethesda went out on a limb and made a new organisation, but one can only hope.

As much as I enjoy the DB I feel it is time for a new assassin type guild, unless they can bring the DB back being a big organization like in Oblivion and maybe give us the option to go to different sanctuaries with different members.

That's the thing. They either build something new, or make the DB massive so that there are more than just a handful of NPC's and one sanctuary. Which is what we've had in the last two games.

And for once I'd like the questline not to the whole guild.

Hopefully the Morag Tong and hopefully it stays more to the Dunmer lore and identity.

I think it adds more feel and reality if all the elders and chiefs are Dunmer. Its like working for the Chinese Triads or the Italian Mafia. You expect to see families of Chinese & Sicilians at the top.

Yes for once I want to have a DB questline that does not end the way the last two games have ended.

Firstly, I would love the morag tong to make a return, my fav faction so far. However, I have a feeling that TES 6 will take place in the Summerset Isle/Alinor, based around the Aldmeri Dominion vs the dwindling Empire. In that case, the Penitus Oculatus would make a good assassins guild IMO.

Bethesda could do another time leap like they did in Skyrim, and in that time, the DB could make a triumphant return. You never know.

Maybe in a DLC region...? Because the game will most likely be set in another era or beyond that of Dovahkiin's lifespan