It seems possible. How could they handle that in a good way? What do you think?

No. No.

well he/she is dragon born therefore has the blood of the septims but no amulet of kings and if I can remember my lore alessia and the septims are somehow related or maybe I'm thinking about the amulet of kings so theirs potential of sorts and advantage being related to 1(maybe 2 if if the goddess alessia) so theirs defently potential

The "new" empire has a king, he's not dragonborn. If you read The Infernal City you would know.

Just... Just no. This is the first time where the PC is going to be an actual important character (Last of the dragon hunters and whatnot), I don't want it to go more than that. Plus if you are king how do continue your adventure.

Uh uh don't you even think about saying Fable 3 did it or I will launch a torpedo right out of your monitor at you.

Not really, the difference between the Septim line and the Dovakiin is that your born a Dragonborn by being selected by the gods as one. The Septim's made a pact with the gods that made all their descendants Dragonborn. If you had a kid he'd be a regular whatever and not a Dragonborn. That would be the only thing that gave you a right to the throne in the first place. Still becoming a king of Skyrim might be possible, but it probably wouldn't happen for the same reason the Greybeards live on top of the Throat of the World, they are far too powerful to be around the general public. It is the same reason the Neraverine left, he achieved godhood and was no longer needed on Tamriel so he went out to face greater challenges. Even the Champion of Cyrodil who was a Dragongaurd and not a Dragonborn sealed himself in the Shivering Isles. If there is another ES game after this it would probably have him ending up as a Greybeard and living a life of solitude, or maybe going off to Atmora.

Quick correction- NOT the blood of the Septims. Dragonborn is a mythic title, not a blood one. It does apparently go through blood, but remember, only the emperor immediately after Tiber was directly descended. The reset were descended from his brother.

That said, no and no. The difficulties involved with later-games dealing with the player becoming the Emperor would be way, way, way too hard to do. If that happened, it would indicate to me that this would be the last game in the series.

Sounds like a lore nightmare—or, at best, a lore hassle.

Four (main) games in, there's a clear precedent for disposing of the PC pretty neatly. Your characters from Arena and Daggerfall were faceless agents, remembered by history only for the role they played in furthering those storylines. Your Nerevarine buggered off to Akavir after finishing his business, and they scooped your Champion of Cyrodiil up as the Madgod.

I can't see any ultimate end for your Dragonborn's glorious ascension to the Imperial throne that wouldn't involve a retconned disappearance or death.

I have read it. There's a sequel and 160 years or so between The Infernal City and TES V. The bandit warlord posing as Emperor could have ended up in the kitchens for all we know.

Morrowind? I'd say that the Nerevarine is a pretty important character, he/she becomes some kind of half god.

YES / NO

I already have this story in my head and God, I hope that I'm wrong.

1- You are Dragonborn.
2- There is only one blades member left, he finds you.
3- You have to do a lot of crap, collect items, speak with the divines and then tell the dragons to go away.
4- The order of the blades is restored.
5- You forge a new empire.

Okay, you're right. I'm wrong.

So important that Azura politely "de-friends" him and he kicks rocks to Akavir without much consequence.

The significance of being Nerevarine and Hortator began and ended with that game's main quest. "Emperor" is a bit more of a full-time gig.

No, No.
That way Bethesda would have to release details on your character one day.
Which is something they don't do.

No

Not likely to ever happen!

Already is a emperor with a new line.

Dragonborn are dragon hunters who have been trained by dudes with grey beards on top of mountains. I can see why you would have thought so.

However awesome that would be, I don't think it would work. When later books or NPC's give details about Emperors/Empresses in the past, what will they say? "There's been almost only Imperials, with one Dunmer, and one person... we don't want to talk about since Bethesda didn't want to canonize a gender and race."

So for the sake of canonizations, nope. You can still be the invincible Dovahkiin champion only known as "Dragonslayer" or something.

I don't know, being the prophecized reincarnation of an ancient hero seemed pretty important to me. Granted, you didn't know you were supposed to be the Nerevarine at the start of Morrowind, but by the end of the game, you would know your role.



That's because the Nerevarine had done what he needed to do at that point. I'm sure that the importance of a dragon hunter would diminish considerably once the threat of dragons burning cities has been dealt with too.

But in any case, I doubt the player will become the Emperor, because then Bethesda has to define a canon identity for the player charater, since while you can justify the identity of a hero who fades into obscurity after his role in the grand scheme of things has been dealt with, it's pretty hard to do so for the new ruler of Tamriel, and Bethesda has always left the identity of heroes from past games in the series up to players to decide, so I doubt they'd stop now, and I wouldn't want to be emperor anyway, because I wouldn't want to have a canon identity defined for the hero of Skyrim in future games that is not a character I could see myself playing, and in any case, I'm not even sure I'd play a character who would want to become the emperor. I think it's best to let players enjoy the glory of being the hero in Skyrim, but still allow characters to fade into obscurity in future games.

Well, one thing they could do is let you become the Advisor/Vazier (sp?) instead of the actual Emperor-- then later games could just say "Emperor so-and-s-, under the advice of the Vazier, did such-a-thing, and was really great!". That way if you REALLY wanted your character to have some kind of important role, it could cover both bases (and if you don't become the Vazier, you just assume someone else did-- the only real issue I can see is morality-- your evil character encouraged the Emperor to do something really good, or vice versa...)

double no for me, I want more adventures, and becoming a monarch just seems so unadventury

When I first read the article the idea did cross my mind. I would say its pretty unlikely that your character will become the Emperor though. I hope you don't personally - it would be a little 'tacky' for want of a better word.

No/No


I'd love to play in politics and possibly end up with a clan or something. But I've no interest in anything remotely related to the emperor.

No to becoming Emperor, as that would be way too difficult and confusing to add to the game. However, I wouldn't mind seeing the player become a Count or something like that.

i think its more of a kingdom than an emperor. plus its 200 years later and the septim line is dead. so no. but i think it would be cool to have the OPTION to become king at the end.