I'm tentatively in this camp right now. For me, BGS games are like magic tricks: they promise something clearly impossible, and then make it feel like they actually did it, at least on the surface. Before Starfield, I was worried that the mainstream success might tempt them to choose polish over ambition, but now I trust them to stay in their niche and keep making their unique brand of fun wreckage
Highrock and Hammerfell duo with the Illiac Bay serving as a navigable body of water filled with Naval fleets, pirates, and merchants would be such a massive hit
I think having the game take place in *a* province is unnecessarily limited. I'd like to see maybe two whole provinces, one controlled by the Aldmeri and one controlled by the Empire, with some independent groups in the middle. It could be very cool to cross a border and enter a completely different culture, not just a different biome. Admittedly, Bethesda is also sort of limited, so them going for the monoculture single province route is also possible.
I agree with you, I think at this point with ESO and how the series has progressed, they need to jump up to potentially 2 or more provinces to really continue scaling
Nah, I'd prefer to have one province but to flesh it out more with different cultures within ONE province. There's plenty of that in lore like in Cyrodiil there are the Nibenese to te east with their colorful outfits and more mage oriented and the Colovians in the West wete supposed to be more militaristic and influenced by the hardy warrior neighbors of Hammerfell & Skyrim and their wars against them. Or the different houses in Morrowind. In skyrim it was supposed to be that the further you go north the more inclined to nature the Nords would be and the Redguards have the ancient Crown vs Forebear divide. There's a lot of that in all the provinces which isn't given enough spotlight in the games. Except for the Houses in Mororowind but there the ashlander tribes were rather underwhelming and could have been fleshed out f.ex.
Nah, look at skyrim and its tiny cities. Making two provinces would just keep us stuck with tiny cities to make up for the two giant provinces. Stick with one province but flesh it out properly.
@@ABardsBallad You overestimate the importance of ESO for the franchise. Most people that played Skyrim has never touched ESO. I'm a fan of the series since Morrowind and I couldn't stand it since I hate MMOs and the monetizing system everywhere. It's just not the same experience. Also, the cities in ESO are bigger but they have no soul at all. And most of them repeat the same assets and thus look very similar. I rather have smaller and more detailed stuff, with more personality. Daggerfall was hard to swallow for me cause of how everything was exactly the same, even though the world was HUGE.
As a member of the daggerfall covenant I agree. Starting out there was great even if I didn’t like ESO a whole lot. The environment would be 10/10 to play in
@@eugenie4075 I always play as a Nord in every ES game because I just prefer to play a human to stay immersed and relate to my characters mind set as much as possible and so I had to travel there after starting somewhere else but I bought my first ESO house there and did most of my business there
@@pyroAdapt I’m always khajiit, not a furry or a weeb I just like the race and lore. I got the special edition of eso just so I could pick daggerfall and play Khajiit on release
The Nerevarine going to Akaviri after Morrowind sounds like what that Ald'run Priest was hinting at. Not only is the Nerevarine a idol hero in Morrowind but they were responsible for uniting the Ashland tribes and the great houses and defeating Dagoth Ur. So they would definitely be chosen to serve as a mediator. Also Todd Howard mentioned how originally Alduin wasn't the Antagonist of Skyrim but one of the Septim Emperors who lead a doomed expedition to Akaviri, he would return to Tamriel leading an Army of Dragons. So it fits with the whole Akaviri Plot.
Unfortunately Todd already said TES VI isn't going to Akavir. There was also an early story draft that the antagonist for Skyrim was going to be Uriel Septim V returning from Akavir with the Tsaesci in tow.
I kinda would’ve preferred that. Alduin and the current lore feels too open ended now but yet not. The world is supposed to end and be born anew, but we’ve soiled the natural progression (after he was pushed forward). Just a headache. Alduin should have either never been a thing or should’ve succeeded. MK11&MK1 explored that, and ESO could’ve been a chronological game to signify the reset. Exploring different events and outcomes has a ton of potential and would be easier on their creative team while also challenging enough to not just repeat things. That said, I do want to fight the aldmeri scum in ES6
@@eugenie4075 I think that's kind of epic though. Yeah, the world is "supposed" to end but if you're a person living in the world you're going to do everything in your power to prevent that. And they actually managed to do it! That's such a huge deal and might have real metaphysical ramifications. Perhaps the Kalpic cycle has been ended for good.
@@James-mp5 I know it sounds crazy given the long time we have waited for another elder scrolls but I wouldn’t mind another Skyrim if it is set either really early in the timeline or thousands of years after Skyrim. It would be so cool to see the world we already know in such a different setting
"Ordinary looking landscape" My brother in Akatosh, there's a giant crater in the middle of the landscape with a city in it, that's not all that ordinary.
Life long ES fan, at this point though even before Starfield, I was thinking with how long it has been since Skyrim the game will never live up to the hype and we will be let down. If you wait 16 or so years between titles you better 💯 knock it out of the park!!
The timescale being a few decades before Skyrim would be so good, if it were set in valenwood you’d witness the thalmor genocide on the wood elves, or in hammerfell the character could be a spy/assassin, tasked with bringing down the red guard monarchy due to hammerfell helping the thalmor, letting them take the southern border as the best place for attacking Cyrodil from the north west. There’s so many ways they could take this that would be so interesting but I’m worried they’re gonna choose something really boring and typical due to the lackluster story’s and games they’ve released over the last few years following from Fallout 4 :/
In fact to make it even more interesting they could branch away from just starting as a prisoner. They could make it so your race choice impacts how your game starts, I.e you choose a high elf you start as a thalmor agent, or if you choose argonian you could start as a thief who’s wanted. That would be interesting and spur players on to choose more varied builds with different races rather than everyone going for the most humanoid looking character. Could also make certain skill chains only fully accessible depending on the race. A nord with maximum destruction or any mage skills doesn’t make sense as they hate magic, but the can max out warrior skills. Bretons could max certain warrior skills and certain mage skills as they tend to make the best battle mages. That would keep people playing for longer as everyone would restart as a new race to see how the game starts differently, and also can try a different approach to the game. Idk just some ideas that could make it a fresh experience 🤷♂️
Elder Scrolls 6 is already made. It is in a giant chest in the Bethesda basement. You have to access it through a secret tunnel in the Washington Underground.
The Towers Theory is the one that has the most support. Kirkbride's lore that is being referred to in that theory was canon lore in Morrowind, and the landmass shown in the teaser from years ago appears to be an area around Hammerfell and High Rock. As you've pointed out, most of the Towers have already been deactivated. The rest of the Thalmor's story in Skyrim supports it. Would it be pretty blunt to make this the main quest of TES VI? Yes. I also think they wrote themselves into a corner for this theory. What I think would be an interesting twist to it would be that the player is the last Shezarrine and an Ansei, and to defeat the Thalmor you would need to reunite the different aspects of Lorkhan into yourself.
possible take: consider they retain the magic chosen one angle like they did in skyrim and starfield. Todd worked on elder scrolls redguard as his first proper game. What if, our pc is the Hoonding? (would explain our prodigous affinity for our sword singing stand in for the thuum)
@@McHobotheBobo well, not necessarily. The Hoonding *might* be a shezzarine under a different name. But it might also not be. I do think its likely connected the same way that Sep, the serpent constellation and Lorkhan are literally the same thing just different tellings from different cultures. But its worth remembering both the yokudans and the left-handed elves (the sinistral elves) came from a previous kalpa. Lore goes deeep. But yeah, in the end all the pcs in the games have been chosen ones of different flavors, doesn't always mean "demigods" as that's a different thing from a chosen one.
The Akaviri invasion idea is probably the most unlikely. The original concept for Skyrim was based around that idea and was scraped for what we got instead. The prediction of need a Hortator to go over to Akavir could be explained as that’s kinda what the Nerevarine is and he did go over there after the events of Morrowind.
The teaser is more of a marketing tool than an actual show of what the game may be. The theory that the player will not assume the leading (tragic) role based on his link to nirn fate is shallow, there not many elder scroll games to say there will be a pattern, like 1 god hero / 1 auxiliar hero / 1 god hero... and soo on. Also the Hero of Kvatch is *SPOILER* the Mad God, soo in a way his existence is tied to the balance of power in the Deadra realms and the continuation of the Mad God works, that are also in a way part of the balance in Nirn.
I have been extremely by bethesda for years now, heck it seems they don’t even test any of their danged content. Just look at the shitfest that is the most recent 76 update, the “game” crashes almost every 15-20 mins
Well, actually starfield is absolutely new game with new lore and so on, it’s irrational to expect that tes 6 will be something kind of that as it already has deeply developed lore and we cannot say at this moment that the game will be trash. Let’s count from Morrowind, there’s no elder scrolls game with definitely awful gameplay and boring story so I would rather say it will be hard to make it that bad
Should be all of Tamriel and you start in the province of your race. Main quest centers around Nocturnal who becomes mortal and her story intertwines with the guilds to make the ending epic by uniting the provinces with the help of Nocturnal, who becomes the best companion in Bethesda games history.
I just hope that the setting is not some generic fantasy setting like the last two games have been and I would love to see the home of the beast races more explored and see their history given that they have been on tamriel longer than the races of man and mer
@@raulserrano3670 Valenwood would be absolutely sick I wanna see a country that’s under the full control of the Dominion and maybe have a quest line that deals with it
I think the best chance for something unique is probably with Hammerfell as the setting. Fantasy Moors versus elves in a peninsula of deserts and jungles, plus a sea contested by pirate republics. I think that idea has so much going for it.
Most people playing elder scrolls online think that is going to be 100% have to do with the new daedric prince "ithelia" she can literally change reality and time. We know todd. Hes going for the multiverse . He smells money
What if the Thalmor/Tower theory is the plot for a DLC including parts of High Rock (such as Wayrest)? I’m sure Todd would like to revisit parts of Daggerfall since this is likely his last TES game.
I think it is safe to say TES 6 will not be fully in Black Marsh or Elsewhere, simply because it would be harder for Bethesda to make us relate if 80% of the npc are not Human or atleast human like (elves). I could see parts that boarder such a zone though.
At the start of Skyrim they tell you if you take Hadvar's path in the intro. After fighting the frost bite spiders Hadvar comments "What's next? Giant snakes?" Now, where are giant snakes at? Akavir. Simple as.
I think it's very plausible that they will use features tried in Fallout & Starfield, like building your own house/fort, making&modifying your own gear, possibly even building your own ship to traverse the seas. It's likely set in Hammerfall where you could be a swordsinger. I think it's possible we might se some otherworldly dwemer descendants(or ascendants?) or Akaviri invaders, maybe Maomer or Sloads? If there's still war between the Thalmor and Hammerfall we're probably going to have battles and possibly frontlines shifting without our participation.
Maybe we can link the idea of being a nobody like in Oblivion but from Hammerfell and our task will be to help a Hortator fighting off the Akaviri invasion. But I think it would be beast to save that from another game and focus on either High Rock or Hammerfell or both because hey are on the same coast than the Summerset Isles
In oblivion the npc’s will state that the nerevarine has taken an expedition into akavir and hasn’t returned. It’s interesting to also hear that the npc in aldruhn speaks of an akaviri invasion and the need of a hortator… I think we will deffo see that in tes6
They should've gone for Elder Scrolls VI to begin with... why was Starfield even bothered with? It's just put the next instalment of the Elder Scrolls back. I don't know about everyone else, but I care more about the Elder Scrolls than Starfield.
I’m 100% OK with being a nobody but what I would like to see is more dynamics on the guilds. If I work my way up to leader, I want to be addressed like the leader and the gameplay reflect that.
10 to 1 fan theories will be infinitely superior to the actual game. Skyrim being set 200 years later was a huge mistake. Remember Oblivion ended with a succession crisis looming after Martin's death. That could have told a fantastic narrative. You could even still have the thalmor and civic unrest as a consequence of Dagon's actions. If anyone seen the Patrician's Oblivion retrospective this would tie directly to his Dagon therory as being his true goal. The destruction and revolution his invasion caused. Remember he his daedric prince of both not just in destroying things. They pushed the princes far too much in the devilish nature making them much less interesting than they were in Morrowind or Daggerfall. Skyrim also disappointed me by not following up on the Shivering Isles expansion. We really should have gotten a Jyaggilag quest. Elder Scrolls 6 will have no skills and no dialogue options if Fallout 4 and Starfield are any indicator (they are.)
Well done with this video. I noticed that you listed theories that you could/couldn't see happening in ES6... but im curious about what YOUR predictions are. I love hearing people talk about the ES6. Just a video idea
I'm hoping the game will take place in Highrock since Bretons are one of my favorite races, and the story revolving around the establishment/destruction of a new Orsinium (Orc kingdom cuz I don't know how to spell it correctly) since Orcs are my other favorite race. I think Fudge muppet said they could see the game taking place in both Hammerfell and Highrock which could be cool as well.
The Thalmor and the Aldmeri Dominion takes over Cyrodiil and tears through weakened Skyrim, on to High Rock to subjugate the hybrid-elf Bretons. The TESVI protagonist takes the title Divine Crusader and starts solo slaughtering the Thalmor elves.
FAN THEORY: PLZ READ!!!! unrelated to es6, but please hear me out!!! The REAL story of talos: talos was a general in akulakanes army and conquered lands for him and made him a great king, but akulakane was scared of all the other kings and generals taking his power and became extremely paranoid... after this he tried to have talos killed, explaining the throat slice from the night blade, but talos made up the story of the night blade in order to protect the man who gave him his power who made him a powerful general and who he may have seen as a father.... he burned the palace to cover up what akulakane had done soo that his memory wasn't tarnished.... he then took over his burgeoning empire and trys to fulfill his original dream b4 the paranoia took overb
I think the chance of TESVI as a prequel is next to zero. They want to have the freedom to create new lore and new stories. I think that's such a fundamental aspect of the design process that I would bet almost anything we will move forwards in time. I think it will be maybe 20-30 years. Enough so that the Skyrim Civil War has time to settle down and not really be a thing on people's lips anymore. Either way, I think the events of TESVI will overshadow whether Skyrim is independent, it will simply not matter to the people in whatever province we end up in. I don't think it's going to be centuries though. I'm pretty sure they only did that for Skyrim so that the world would have moved beyond the oblivion crisis. I don't think we should get used to that level of a time jump. I think the loose threads left by Skyrim around the Thalmor need to be addressed. Sure, they could do it in books and such, but that feels very anticlimactic. That's not to say we will never see more content set in the past. There could definitely be smaller games, maybe more narratively focused, maybe smaller scale. Keep in mind Bethesda was just bought by Microsoft, and they wouldn't do that if they didn't have any plans. Maybe it's just for xbox exclusivity but it seems a bit overkill to buy an entire company for that reason.
I don’t see why people are so “Afraid” or worried (I guess?) of TES6. Bethesda does TES very well. It’s their most popular game(s) and arguably their “Baby” per se. they’d treat it with more care then say.. a first attempt of a space game. They went overboard with SF and didn’t take proper time and care. For TES6 however, I feel they will. It’s not like Elderscrolls was something monumental until their Third installment. Just be patient and wait. Perhaps I’m more optimistic and less.. hateful? (I don’t mean hateful but that’s the only word I can thing of) but nonetheless.. I’m not worried and am still excited whatever adventure we go on for TES6
I'm dreading what's going to get cut next for streamlining. Tamriel as a setting shrinks everytime they want to portray something but decide its just a bit too tricky to do right. Or if continuing the story of an area would require them to actually make a point. My prediction for the civil war is Ulfric wins and is immediately overcome by the empire, resetting to the status quo and leaving the empire in no position to do anything but fight the dominion to a drawn out quagmire. Nothing changes, everything is worse, classic bethesda ending.
I cried when I learned that I won't be able to play Elder Scrolls 6 on my PS5. It's an Xbox and PC exclusive. Which is super bogus. Playstation players deserve this just as much.
I would prefer the next Skyrim game to be one where the player is center of attention, similar to Skyrim. It is supposed to be this grand epic fantasy game. And that doesn’t seem as such when you’re just a nobody experiencing things.
I’m exited for TES 6 but I am not getting expectations too high, they tried something different with star field and it didn’t work. Hopefully they stick to what they know works for the next game
Fan theories are probably going to be better than what the actual game will be, they’ve waited too long to make me think they’ve actually been working on it for this long, something tells me it’s been built and rebuilt by multiple teams and people so I think it’ll be trash at this point but I truly hope not as I love elder scrolls it’s my favorite universe
The throat of the world is Skyrim's "tower". The thalmor helped facilitate the return of the dragons to deactivate that tower's stone, which I believe, they succeeded at. The last 3 elder scrolls games have all had cataclysmic events at the "towers": Red Mountain, White Gold Tower, and High Hrothgar, presumably deactivating these stones and their power, because its not just the Thalmor who want Mundus destroyed, it's ultimately the will of the Daedra Lords who are manipulating mortals and lower beings into self destruction.
An astute observation, I am beginning to think that this could be a central theme (or one of them) in the next game It would make a lot of sense lore wise, because that is the Thalmor's end-game; to become as Gods, and upending the Towers makes their apotheosis very likely, or it could wipe them all out instantly like the fate of the Dwemer .... I love this idea!!
Imma make a video soon on this elder scrolls bc I have like a 90% surety as to what the story of es6 will consist of but let’s see what you got in this video
We hope not starfeild simply has NO SOUL to it. The devs realize this, just look at the new dlc announced for it. So at least theyve learnt. Es6 will probably be hammerfell and highrock. With a new system of ships and sailing. Doing trades and privatering, smuggling and blockades. The alikir desert NEEDS to be done RIGHT.. it has GOT to be dry and barren a system were if you walk around in fully clad heavy armour youl die. Instead when you venture into the dessert youl need cool white clothes and water.
Unpopular (?) opinion but I DON'T want TESVI to be set in multiple provinces. The game is going to have the same volume of content (quests, cities, NPCs...) regardless. I'd rather have one well developed province, than multiple provinces that are shallow and only, like, 2 cities each.
@@rolandsquire6555 completely agree, but with the exception of highrock with hammerfell, when you look at the lore they have both been intertwined with eachother alot. And again with what we know with what HAS happened there during the events of skyrim.
I kinda wish they would give us two provinces in one game like Elsweyr and Valenwood, Morrowind and Black Marsh or Hammerfell and High Rock. It's the 2020's so it's not unresonable to think they could fit two provinces in one game and a story arc that connects the two. Although, it is Bethesda we're talking about so maybe we should just pray it doesnt end up like Starfield and be happy with what we get at this point. lol
Yes being an "avatar" of lorkhan would be awesome. Too bad the story never expands on the idea. it was you the shezzarine dragonborn versus alduin world destroying guy of akatosh who is lorkhans foe etc. Too bad we get none of this and any of the ideas and lore are completely left out. Like wouldnt the mers want alduin to eat the world? If kirkbrides lore about the towers applies then yeah. What about us finding Ulfrics files about being planted by the Thalmor? Why isnt that brought up in any of the questlines like the civil war or even mentioned in the main quest its a part of.
I think I will be Hammerfell + High Rock and center around Breton and Redguard cultures just like the last 3 games were Dark Elf, Imperials and Nords. I even go as far to say it will have a lot of callbacks to daggerfall and the title will even have a similar theme using a single city's name; The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel.
The big issue with sequels is, we already know how they ended. Sure it would be cool to see it first hand and be apart of history, but at the same time going backwards never seems to be what made elder scrolls special. It’s what the future holds that makes every games current events so important.
With Starfield being as big as it is, is it really put of the question that they could do all of tamriel? The fact it doesn't have a subtitle (its just The elder Scrolls VI) is something to think about imo
@@woddlyoats Which plays nothing like an elder scrolls game. Im not saying they haven't done similar things before i just think there is a possibility they could do it again or at least have multiple regions to some extent
@@Jibb3rs idk I think Bethesda has shown that just giving them a large world doesn't mean it's going to be quality. Such as starfield I would rather it be small and focused
I believe the main plot will be about the fall of the towers of creation by the Aldmeri Dominion and when the game starts, the final tower is standing somewhere near Daggerfall, and the game's playable area will be the same as Daggerfall's, the Illiiac Bay.
After the dark brotherhood quest in skyrim, I have always seen the DB becoming extremely dangerous and powerful again. They assassinated an emperor. I can see mephala or namira trying to weasel their way into the organization and trying to bring about darkness and murder on a large scale. Some people think the night mother is mephala anyways and namira is the true daughter of sithis by some accounts. I dont know, just a vibe I personally get. I don't think that's suggested by the story. I do think the dark brotherhood becoming very powerful could be suggested by the story though.
Thank the gods you didn't suggest Hammerfell as a setting. It's been featured in 3 or 4 different ES(afaik) games. They definitely won't have that be the setting in ES 6.
It would be good if the land was split with stained ties between Almeri and empire with concord alliance fractured and stormcloaks have evolved or grown in something else rooted in it
we literally found out back in 2018 the exact location based on the coast line and climate the game is gonna be either entirely in hammerfell or highrock and hammerfell. I'd love to see us basically as the agent from daggerfall some essential nobody who gets involved in all the mess. TES VI is probably gonna take place less than 10 years after the events of skyrim and the dragonborn is probably workin on conquerin the continent and remakin the empire where we're a faithful companion of the dragonborn (hopefully this is right but there's almost a 0% chance it's gonna be before even skyrim) I don't think the morrowind plot idea is viable at all it just doesn't make sense to me all things considered. the thalmor is probably the main enemies in hammerfell as we fight with the local breton and redguard kingdoms against the altmer invaders until the dragonborn invades and saves the region and reignites the war with the elves. the towers theory is probably related to the adamantine tower if it's true because we know based off the map shown in the teaser trailer it's gonna take place around the niben bay which could be a good idea all things considered.
Running my own little theory but what if the next game follows an ESO approach and every 1/2 years we get a province DLC. Todd Howard recently said he'd like to do more expansions with StarField and regretted leaving skyrim so soon. Especially after how successful skyrim was, having this game have 5 or 7 years of expansions. Could easily have an ever expanding story line slwoly revealing a bigger role something would have. Maybe a fight for freedom against the empire, or foiling the plot of a Deadric prince. Maybe an invasion from Akavir instead or some unknown unseen continent instead
They’re going to do half of hammerfell but they’ll stretch it out with a lot of nothing in between the cities so it seems “to scale” or we’ll get full hammerfell but a lot of cities will have been “destroyed” in the war. Orsinium and 1 city in high rock will be the DLC. MAYBE we’ll get 1 island with like 1 Sload on it. You’ll hear in game rumors of an akaviri landing in Morrowind or black marsh but that’s it. Prepare to be wildly disappointed and if you were a stormcloak fan prepare for Ulfric to get dragged, he will either have been crushed like a nothing burger and given passing mention or exiled in hammerfell where he’ll be a drunk and demeaned. Dragon shouts/sword singing for sure and very cheesy. The thalmor/empire war will not have started and you’ll probably have to convince one or both factions in Hammerfell to give either Great War faction support. DLC will be about rebuilding orsinium and some love or orphan who is the real heir type quest in high rock. There are a few pintrist accounts that are associated with designers someone found and posted to Reddit. It not only predicted some DLC for another game they did, but starfield and now hammerfell, it’s mostly all north and Central African architecture they’ve pinned to the account.
7:18 if they made that concept into a game similar to chivalry or nordgau where maybe you premade at least one character per race and it was purely elder scrolls battles I’d probably buy that
More than likely, Elder Scrolls 6 would take place in one area only. But I would love it if it took place in all the previous provinces along with a new one.
Either that or the deep deserts of hammerfell, go deep into the redguard divines, gives a refreshing break from daedra and the gods we have now. Imperials, nords and I think all mer follow the standard gods we currently have. Going into a completely new background and lore would be so interesting
To me the best theory is the Akaviri Invasion + a prequel. There soo much room to work into it. At same time it could be a new oportunity for them to polish even more their faction/base builing engine, wich seems what they are putting in their flagship RPG's since Fallout 4. However i don't have many hopes they will do anything very complex besides the boring sporadic base defense, if it get implemented at all.
I can tell you didnt play tes 3 morrowind. But basically.... You play as the neverine... Whom is ACTUALLY DRAGONBORN BTW, not the reincarnated nerevar indoril... The emperor sent you there to fullfill the prophecy as the result ended with the living gods losing their power ergo more power and control to the empire......anyway ... On your journey through the game you become named hortator ... Basically a 'neutral' (ish) spokesman and spiritual leader for the great houses and there people.... And then in the game of oblivion you hear rumors that the neverine has indeed gone on an expedition to akavir...but hasn't been heard from scince... Cool fact: TES 5 was originally going to be set in akavir.. and be focused around an emperor who tryed to take it years ago and failed.. but has come back mysteriously.
how is the NEREVARine a dragonborn?? it's never mentioned, at all the nerevarine is literally a prophecy you fulfill, that prophecy being that indoril nerevar comes back to get balance to the land 😮💨
@@izzyjevsk804 its literally IN the prophecy From seventh sign of eleventh generation, Neither Hound nor Guar, nor Seed nor Harrow, But Dragon-born and far-star-marked, Outlander Incarnate beneath Red Mountain, Blessed Guest counters seven curses, Star-blessed hand wields thrice-cursed blade, To reap the harvest of the unmourned house. --- Uriel the 7th is wise beyond 'normal means' due to YEARS being stuck in oblivion, trapped there by jager tharn (events of tes 2) he sends you to Morrowind to fullfill this prophecy, resulting in the death of the living gods (stronger grip for empire over MW) "Each event is preceded by Prophecy. But without the hero, there is no Event." - Zurin Arctus, the Underking.
@@chillievansThat "dragon-born and far-star-marked" line in the prophecy could just be there to point out that the Nerevarine was born "under the red dragon banner of the Empire" (e.g., in a province other than Morrowind far away from Vvardenfell). I could see them being Dragonborn, or perhaps even an illegitimate Septim like Martin, but it seems unlikely (imo). The Nerevarine being a Dragonborn isn't brought up again aside from that one line, and if they were Dragonborn it would've been brought up again in some way or form -- either through the Nerevarine having a prophetic dream/vision, or other characters such as Caius Cosades, Nibani Maesa, or Wulf bringing it up
10:10 I think the idea that there are secret references in the games is just fiction. With morrowiwnd it makes sense, since they would’ve been actively making oblivion while finishing tribunal. Not so much with oblivion, it could very easily be a one off reference, or even a reference the ending of the game. Now with Skyrim, seeing as how it will probably be 15+ years later, it makes even less sense.
My favorite (far fetched) theory is that it might actually be good
I'm tentatively in this camp right now. For me, BGS games are like magic tricks: they promise something clearly impossible, and then make it feel like they actually did it, at least on the surface. Before Starfield, I was worried that the mainstream success might tempt them to choose polish over ambition, but now I trust them to stay in their niche and keep making their unique brand of fun wreckage
@@softreyna But... Starfield was just their niche. With the bonus of several empty planets.
Highrock and Hammerfell duo with the Illiac Bay serving as a navigable body of water filled with Naval fleets, pirates, and merchants would be such a massive hit
Raise the black flag!
This is called Daggerfall, and Bethesda will never make anything close to as ambitious as it ever again
@@tea9721 the unfortunate truth
@@tea9721 They just released a space RPG with a thousand planets.
@@Aewon84and 10,000 loading screens
I think having the game take place in *a* province is unnecessarily limited. I'd like to see maybe two whole provinces, one controlled by the Aldmeri and one controlled by the Empire, with some independent groups in the middle. It could be very cool to cross a border and enter a completely different culture, not just a different biome.
Admittedly, Bethesda is also sort of limited, so them going for the monoculture single province route is also possible.
I agree with you, I think at this point with ESO and how the series has progressed, they need to jump up to potentially 2 or more provinces to really continue scaling
Nah, I'd prefer to have one province but to flesh it out more with different cultures within ONE province. There's plenty of that in lore like in Cyrodiil there are the Nibenese to te east with their colorful outfits and more mage oriented and the Colovians in the West wete supposed to be more militaristic and influenced by the hardy warrior neighbors of Hammerfell & Skyrim and their wars against them. Or the different houses in Morrowind. In skyrim it was supposed to be that the further you go north the more inclined to nature the Nords would be and the Redguards have the ancient Crown vs Forebear divide. There's a lot of that in all the provinces which isn't given enough spotlight in the games. Except for the Houses in Mororowind but there the ashlander tribes were rather underwhelming and could have been fleshed out f.ex.
Nah, look at skyrim and its tiny cities. Making two provinces would just keep us stuck with tiny cities to make up for the two giant provinces.
Stick with one province but flesh it out properly.
@@ABardsBallad You overestimate the importance of ESO for the franchise. Most people that played Skyrim has never touched ESO. I'm a fan of the series since Morrowind and I couldn't stand it since I hate MMOs and the monetizing system everywhere. It's just not the same experience. Also, the cities in ESO are bigger but they have no soul at all. And most of them repeat the same assets and thus look very similar. I rather have smaller and more detailed stuff, with more personality. Daggerfall was hard to swallow for me cause of how everything was exactly the same, even though the world was HUGE.
I would happily play in any one of those story theories if they would just Get On With It!!!
I want it to be based in high rock. That land is gorgeous
Teats
As a member of the daggerfall covenant I agree. Starting out there was great even if I didn’t like ESO a whole lot. The environment would be 10/10 to play in
I think it's on Iliac Bay as a whole, the three inlets are part of Iliac
@@eugenie4075 I always play as a Nord in every ES game because I just prefer to play a human to stay immersed and relate to my characters mind set as much as possible and so I had to travel there after starting somewhere else but I bought my first ESO house there and did most of my business there
@@pyroAdapt I’m always khajiit, not a furry or a weeb I just like the race and lore. I got the special edition of eso just so I could pick daggerfall and play Khajiit on release
Imagine if they put a black flag type dlc in which you can explore all the islands of the abecean sea
That would be wicked! I’d be cool with that!
That won’t happen, it just won’t, ever.
@@Jiaqi-p5b they might put ship traveling though
@@morgothbauglir203 I’m currently in the disappointment phase with Bethesda rn, don’t give me hope
Yeah..imagine
Hammerfell pirates vs high elf navy. And the game takes place across the whole west coast including valenwood.
The Nerevarine going to Akaviri after Morrowind sounds like what that Ald'run Priest was hinting at. Not only is the Nerevarine a idol hero in Morrowind but they were responsible for uniting the Ashland tribes and the great houses and defeating Dagoth Ur. So they would definitely be chosen to serve as a mediator.
Also Todd Howard mentioned how originally Alduin wasn't the Antagonist of Skyrim but one of the Septim Emperors who lead a doomed expedition to Akaviri, he would return to Tamriel leading an Army of Dragons. So it fits with the whole Akaviri Plot.
Unfortunately Todd already said TES VI isn't going to Akavir. There was also an early story draft that the antagonist for Skyrim was going to be Uriel Septim V returning from Akavir with the Tsaesci in tow.
I kinda would’ve preferred that. Alduin and the current lore feels too open ended now but yet not. The world is supposed to end and be born anew, but we’ve soiled the natural progression (after he was pushed forward). Just a headache. Alduin should have either never been a thing or should’ve succeeded. MK11&MK1 explored that, and ESO could’ve been a chronological game to signify the reset. Exploring different events and outcomes has a ton of potential and would be easier on their creative team while also challenging enough to not just repeat things. That said, I do want to fight the aldmeri scum in ES6
@@eugenie4075 I think that's kind of epic though. Yeah, the world is "supposed" to end but if you're a person living in the world you're going to do everything in your power to prevent that. And they actually managed to do it! That's such a huge deal and might have real metaphysical ramifications. Perhaps the Kalpic cycle has been ended for good.
@@eugenie4075 I completely agree.
Knowing Bethesda and Todd Howard it will probably be called “The Elder Scrolls VI: Skyrim II”
Would complain about that, Skyrim was a masterpiece
@@James-mp5 I know it sounds crazy given the long time we have waited for another elder scrolls but I wouldn’t mind another Skyrim if it is set either really early in the timeline or thousands of years after Skyrim. It would be so cool to see the world we already know in such a different setting
"Ordinary looking landscape" My brother in Akatosh, there's a giant crater in the middle of the landscape with a city in it, that's not all that ordinary.
I would say for Tamriel’s standards it is lol
Life long ES fan, at this point though even before Starfield, I was thinking with how long it has been since Skyrim the game will never live up to the hype and we will be let down. If you wait 16 or so years between titles you better 💯 knock it out of the park!!
Huge mountains, rocky climate and dry environment. O look a tiny "wetland" area at one corner of the land 😲. Omg its black march 🤯
The timescale being a few decades before Skyrim would be so good, if it were set in valenwood you’d witness the thalmor genocide on the wood elves, or in hammerfell the character could be a spy/assassin, tasked with bringing down the red guard monarchy due to hammerfell helping the thalmor, letting them take the southern border as the best place for attacking Cyrodil from the north west. There’s so many ways they could take this that would be so interesting but I’m worried they’re gonna choose something really boring and typical due to the lackluster story’s and games they’ve released over the last few years following from Fallout 4 :/
In fact to make it even more interesting they could branch away from just starting as a prisoner. They could make it so your race choice impacts how your game starts, I.e you choose a high elf you start as a thalmor agent, or if you choose argonian you could start as a thief who’s wanted. That would be interesting and spur players on to choose more varied builds with different races rather than everyone going for the most humanoid looking character. Could also make certain skill chains only fully accessible depending on the race. A nord with maximum destruction or any mage skills doesn’t make sense as they hate magic, but the can max out warrior skills. Bretons could max certain warrior skills and certain mage skills as they tend to make the best battle mages. That would keep people playing for longer as everyone would restart as a new race to see how the game starts differently, and also can try a different approach to the game. Idk just some ideas that could make it a fresh experience 🤷♂️
One can only dream
Has a new ES ever went back in time from the previous one though?
I'd like to see them do something with Black Marsh or Elsweyr. I'd like a big Skooma quest too.
Elder Scrolls 6 is already made. It is in a giant chest in the Bethesda basement. You have to access it through a secret tunnel in the Washington Underground.
Down we go my friend!
Sounds like a Nick Cage movie imo
The Towers Theory is the one that has the most support. Kirkbride's lore that is being referred to in that theory was canon lore in Morrowind, and the landmass shown in the teaser from years ago appears to be an area around Hammerfell and High Rock. As you've pointed out, most of the Towers have already been deactivated. The rest of the Thalmor's story in Skyrim supports it.
Would it be pretty blunt to make this the main quest of TES VI? Yes. I also think they wrote themselves into a corner for this theory.
What I think would be an interesting twist to it would be that the player is the last Shezarrine and an Ansei, and to defeat the Thalmor you would need to reunite the different aspects of Lorkhan into yourself.
possible take: consider they retain the magic chosen one angle like they did in skyrim and starfield. Todd worked on elder scrolls redguard as his first proper game. What if, our pc is the Hoonding?
(would explain our prodigous affinity for our sword singing stand in for the thuum)
@@blakebrown3888That's exactly what a Shezzarine would be: an avatar of Shor/Shezzar/Lorkhan, which the Hero of Kvatch likely was
@@McHobotheBobo well, not necessarily. The Hoonding *might* be a shezzarine under a different name. But it might also not be.
I do think its likely connected the same way that Sep, the serpent constellation and Lorkhan are literally the same thing just different tellings from different cultures.
But its worth remembering both the yokudans and the left-handed elves (the sinistral elves) came from a previous kalpa.
Lore goes deeep. But yeah, in the end all the pcs in the games have been chosen ones of different flavors, doesn't always mean "demigods" as that's a different thing from a chosen one.
The Akaviri invasion idea is probably the most unlikely. The original concept for Skyrim was based around that idea and was scraped for what we got instead. The prediction of need a Hortator to go over to Akavir could be explained as that’s kinda what the Nerevarine is and he did go over there after the events of Morrowind.
The teaser is more of a marketing tool than an actual show of what the game may be. The theory that the player will not assume the leading (tragic) role based on his link to nirn fate is shallow, there not many elder scroll games to say there will be a pattern, like 1 god hero / 1 auxiliar hero / 1 god hero... and soo on. Also the Hero of Kvatch is *SPOILER* the Mad God, soo in a way his existence is tied to the balance of power in the Deadra realms and the continuation of the Mad God works, that are also in a way part of the balance in Nirn.
I’m kind of glad Starfield was trash, I no longer have any hype for TES 6
Same here I pretty much expect TES 6 to be trash
I guess the good part is everyone’s expectations are super low now, if we’re lucky we might be surprised at what we get 😂
Yall are trippin.
I have been extremely by bethesda for years now, heck it seems they don’t even test any of their danged content. Just look at the shitfest that is the most recent 76 update, the “game” crashes almost every 15-20 mins
Well, actually starfield is absolutely new game with new lore and so on, it’s irrational to expect that tes 6 will be something kind of that as it already has deeply developed lore and we cannot say at this moment that the game will be trash. Let’s count from Morrowind, there’s no elder scrolls game with definitely awful gameplay and boring story so I would rather say it will be hard to make it that bad
My fan theory is that TES6 is going to be just as lukeworm as every other game Bethesda has released in the last decade.
Should be all of Tamriel and you start in the province of your race. Main quest centers around Nocturnal who becomes mortal and her story intertwines with the guilds to make the ending epic by uniting the provinces with the help of Nocturnal, who becomes the best companion in Bethesda games history.
Let this person cook
I just hope that the setting is not some generic fantasy setting like the last two games have been and I would love to see the home of the beast races more explored and see their history given that they have been on tamriel longer than the races of man and mer
I like that generic high fantasy setting as well . But as you said , the last two games already had that setting . Time for a change I think
it will be generic because that will most probably sell well
@@raulserrano3670 Valenwood would be absolutely sick I wanna see a country that’s under the full control of the Dominion and maybe have a quest line that deals with it
I think the best chance for something unique is probably with Hammerfell as the setting. Fantasy Moors versus elves in a peninsula of deserts and jungles, plus a sea contested by pirate republics. I think that idea has so much going for it.
Most people playing elder scrolls online think that is going to be 100% have to do with the new daedric prince "ithelia" she can literally change reality and time. We know todd. Hes going for the multiverse . He smells money
Ohh no.., what are they doing with eso..
What if the Thalmor/Tower theory is the plot for a DLC including parts of High Rock (such as Wayrest)? I’m sure Todd would like to revisit parts of Daggerfall since this is likely his last TES game.
I think it is safe to say TES 6 will not be fully in Black Marsh or Elsewhere, simply because it would be harder for Bethesda to make us relate if 80% of the npc are not Human or atleast human like (elves). I could see parts that boarder such a zone though.
At the start of Skyrim they tell you if you take Hadvar's path in the intro. After fighting the frost bite spiders Hadvar comments "What's next? Giant snakes?" Now, where are giant snakes at? Akavir. Simple as.
I think it's very plausible that they will use features tried in Fallout & Starfield, like building your own house/fort, making&modifying your own gear, possibly even building your own ship to traverse the seas.
It's likely set in Hammerfall where you could be a swordsinger.
I think it's possible we might se some otherworldly dwemer descendants(or ascendants?) or Akaviri invaders, maybe Maomer or Sloads?
If there's still war between the Thalmor and Hammerfall we're probably going to have battles and possibly frontlines shifting without our participation.
Maybe we can link the idea of being a nobody like in Oblivion but from Hammerfell and our task will be to help a Hortator fighting off the Akaviri invasion. But I think it would be beast to save that from another game and focus on either High Rock or Hammerfell or both because hey are on the same coast than the Summerset Isles
In oblivion the npc’s will state that the nerevarine has taken an expedition into akavir and hasn’t returned. It’s interesting to also hear that the npc in aldruhn speaks of an akaviri invasion and the need of a hortator… I think we will deffo see that in tes6
They should've gone for Elder Scrolls VI to begin with... why was Starfield even bothered with? It's just put the next instalment of the Elder Scrolls back. I don't know about everyone else, but I care more about the Elder Scrolls than Starfield.
Yeah, nobody wanted starfield
Fun fact, Todd Howard has said that instead of coming out with fallout 4, he wishes he could go back and immediately start on the next elder scrolls
You ever think the people making these games might want to make something other then two fantasy or post apocalypse every five years?
I’m 100% OK with being a nobody but what I would like to see is more dynamics on the guilds. If I work my way up to leader, I want to be addressed like the leader and the gameplay reflect that.
10 to 1 fan theories will be infinitely superior to the actual game. Skyrim being set 200 years later was a huge mistake. Remember Oblivion ended with a succession crisis looming after Martin's death. That could have told a fantastic narrative. You could even still have the thalmor and civic unrest as a consequence of Dagon's actions. If anyone seen the Patrician's Oblivion retrospective this would tie directly to his Dagon therory as being his true goal. The destruction and revolution his invasion caused. Remember he his daedric prince of both not just in destroying things. They pushed the princes far too much in the devilish nature making them much less interesting than they were in Morrowind or Daggerfall. Skyrim also disappointed me by not following up on the Shivering Isles expansion. We really should have gotten a Jyaggilag quest. Elder Scrolls 6 will have no skills and no dialogue options if Fallout 4 and Starfield are any indicator (they are.)
There won’t be any uproar. There are so many marvel/Star Wars fans that will praise w/e Bethesda makes, good or bad.
Theory 1: I’ll die before the game comes out so who cares
if it is a prequel, I'd expect the theme to be 'the past is not what it seems'
Well done with this video. I noticed that you listed theories that you could/couldn't see happening in ES6... but im curious about what YOUR predictions are. I love hearing people talk about the ES6. Just a video idea
I pray for badass knight armor & RDR2 quality horses, PLEASE !!!!
In every game we are or become a blades agent im sure in tes 6 we will play a blade again
The blades could certainly make an appearance again and we could be helping them out
The Tower Plot is far more likely than any other narrative listed in here. That said, Bethesda will probably do their own thing.
I'm hoping the game will take place in Highrock since Bretons are one of my favorite races, and the story revolving around the establishment/destruction of a new Orsinium (Orc kingdom cuz I don't know how to spell it correctly) since Orcs are my other favorite race. I think Fudge muppet said they could see the game taking place in both Hammerfell and Highrock which could be cool as well.
The Thalmor and the Aldmeri Dominion takes over Cyrodiil and tears through weakened Skyrim, on to High Rock to subjugate the hybrid-elf Bretons. The TESVI protagonist takes the title Divine Crusader and starts solo slaughtering the Thalmor elves.
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unrelated to es6, but please hear me out!!!
The REAL story of talos: talos was a general in akulakanes army and conquered lands for him and made him a great king, but akulakane was scared of all the other kings and generals taking his power and became extremely paranoid... after this he tried to have talos killed, explaining the throat slice from the night blade, but talos made up the story of the night blade in order to protect the man who gave him his power who made him a powerful general and who he may have seen as a father.... he burned the palace to cover up what akulakane had done soo that his memory wasn't tarnished.... he then took over his burgeoning empire and trys to fulfill his original dream b4 the paranoia took overb
It'll be in hammerfell because of DEI
I think the chance of TESVI as a prequel is next to zero. They want to have the freedom to create new lore and new stories. I think that's such a fundamental aspect of the design process that I would bet almost anything we will move forwards in time. I think it will be maybe 20-30 years. Enough so that the Skyrim Civil War has time to settle down and not really be a thing on people's lips anymore. Either way, I think the events of TESVI will overshadow whether Skyrim is independent, it will simply not matter to the people in whatever province we end up in. I don't think it's going to be centuries though. I'm pretty sure they only did that for Skyrim so that the world would have moved beyond the oblivion crisis. I don't think we should get used to that level of a time jump. I think the loose threads left by Skyrim around the Thalmor need to be addressed. Sure, they could do it in books and such, but that feels very anticlimactic.
That's not to say we will never see more content set in the past. There could definitely be smaller games, maybe more narratively focused, maybe smaller scale. Keep in mind Bethesda was just bought by Microsoft, and they wouldn't do that if they didn't have any plans. Maybe it's just for xbox exclusivity but it seems a bit overkill to buy an entire company for that reason.
I don’t see why people are so “Afraid” or worried (I guess?) of TES6. Bethesda does TES very well. It’s their most popular game(s) and arguably their “Baby” per se. they’d treat it with more care then say.. a first attempt of a space game. They went overboard with SF and didn’t take proper time and care. For TES6 however, I feel they will. It’s not like Elderscrolls was something monumental until their Third installment. Just be patient and wait.
Perhaps I’m more optimistic and less.. hateful? (I don’t mean hateful but that’s the only word I can thing of) but nonetheless.. I’m not worried and am still excited whatever adventure we go on for TES6
Do you plan to make a update video about sutch since it appears in ESO's new dlc?
I'm dreading what's going to get cut next for streamlining. Tamriel as a setting shrinks everytime they want to portray something but decide its just a bit too tricky to do right. Or if continuing the story of an area would require them to actually make a point.
My prediction for the civil war is Ulfric wins and is immediately overcome by the empire, resetting to the status quo and leaving the empire in no position to do anything but fight the dominion to a drawn out quagmire. Nothing changes, everything is worse, classic bethesda ending.
I cried when I learned that I won't be able to play Elder Scrolls 6 on my PS5.
It's an Xbox and PC exclusive.
Which is super bogus. Playstation players deserve this just as much.
I would prefer the next Skyrim game to be one where the player is center of attention, similar to Skyrim.
It is supposed to be this grand epic fantasy game. And that doesn’t seem as such when you’re just a nobody experiencing things.
I’m exited for TES 6 but I am not getting expectations too high, they tried something different with star field and it didn’t work. Hopefully they stick to what they know works for the next game
Fan theories are probably going to be better than what the actual game will be, they’ve waited too long to make me think they’ve actually been working on it for this long, something tells me it’s been built and rebuilt by multiple teams and people so I think it’ll be trash at this point but I truly hope not as I love elder scrolls it’s my favorite universe
The throat of the world is Skyrim's "tower". The thalmor helped facilitate the return of the dragons to deactivate that tower's stone, which I believe, they succeeded at.
The last 3 elder scrolls games have all had cataclysmic events at the "towers": Red Mountain, White Gold Tower, and High Hrothgar, presumably deactivating these stones and their power, because its not just the Thalmor who want Mundus destroyed, it's ultimately the will of the Daedra Lords who are manipulating mortals and lower beings into self destruction.
An astute observation, I am beginning to think that this could be a central theme (or one of them) in the next game
It would make a lot of sense lore wise, because that is the Thalmor's end-game; to become as Gods, and upending the Towers makes their apotheosis very likely, or it could wipe them all out instantly like the fate of the Dwemer ....
I love this idea!!
It would be great for story to be around thalmor , a shezzarine as player character and last dragonborn as an emperor
I genuinely dream that they would expand on the kirlbride lore and find a new crackhead to create some more for the next installment.
I want it to be nothing less than "The Elder Scrolls VI: Tamriel"
Imma make a video soon on this elder scrolls bc I have like a 90% surety as to what the story of es6 will consist of but let’s see what you got in this video
I believe we will visit more than one province they are going to do a sort of starfield game
We hope not starfeild simply has NO SOUL to it. The devs realize this, just look at the new dlc announced for it. So at least theyve learnt.
Es6 will probably be hammerfell and highrock. With a new system of ships and sailing. Doing trades and privatering, smuggling and blockades. The alikir desert NEEDS to be done RIGHT.. it has GOT to be dry and barren a system were if you walk around in fully clad heavy armour youl die. Instead when you venture into the dessert youl need cool white clothes and water.
@@chillievans If you think anything will change your delusional AAA is dead
Unpopular (?) opinion but I DON'T want TESVI to be set in multiple provinces.
The game is going to have the same volume of content (quests, cities, NPCs...) regardless. I'd rather have one well developed province, than multiple provinces that are shallow and only, like, 2 cities each.
@@rolandsquire6555 completely agree, but with the exception of highrock with hammerfell, when you look at the lore they have both been intertwined with eachother alot. And again with what we know with what HAS happened there during the events of skyrim.
please dont mention starfield lol
Isn’t it taking place in hammerfell confirmed
I think it’s been heavily implied, but not 100% sure if it’s confirmed
I think the player has to be the "choosen one." If he is just a random guy, it doesnt make sense him to be op at the end of the game.
It’s hor ta tor. Not hortater
Cheers! Couldn’t find how to pronounce so just went crazy with it
@@ABardsBallad i swear it would have been said in oblivion, and quite often too. But it’s fair, i probably would have done the same.
No1 ever sees my comments, but i hope it has to do with the thalmor plot to dismantle the towers, and i hope we get to see the adamantine tower
I kinda wish they would give us two provinces in one game like Elsweyr and Valenwood, Morrowind and Black Marsh or Hammerfell and High Rock. It's the 2020's so it's not unresonable to think they could fit two provinces in one game and a story arc that connects the two. Although, it is Bethesda we're talking about so maybe we should just pray it doesnt end up like Starfield and be happy with what we get at this point. lol
do you want them to extend development by 6 more years?
Todd has said that the akaviri will remain a mystery and they have no plans to explore akavir in any game
I've heard a theory that the dragon born in Skyrim was intended to be a shezarrine.
Yes being an "avatar" of lorkhan would be awesome. Too bad the story never expands on the idea. it was you the shezzarine dragonborn versus alduin world destroying guy of akatosh who is lorkhans foe etc. Too bad we get none of this and any of the ideas and lore are completely left out. Like wouldnt the mers want alduin to eat the world? If kirkbrides lore about the towers applies then yeah. What about us finding Ulfrics files about being planted by the Thalmor? Why isnt that brought up in any of the questlines like the civil war or even mentioned in the main quest its a part of.
As was the Hero of Kvatch. Indeed, perhaps all Player Characters are
@13:23 Civil War = Skyrim, Crisis = OBLIVION CRISIS!!! ITS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLL!
Here is my theory: If Bethsoft doesn't get their shit together it's gonna be shite.
I wonder how many fans have passed while waiting for 6 to release
I’d be happy if it was same as Skyrim in different location and more quests
Will there really be one
Let’s hope so!
I think I will be Hammerfell + High Rock and center around Breton and Redguard cultures just like the last 3 games were Dark Elf, Imperials and Nords.
I even go as far to say it will have a lot of callbacks to daggerfall and the title will even have a similar theme using a single city's name; The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel.
The big issue with sequels is, we already know how they ended. Sure it would be cool to see it first hand and be apart of history, but at the same time going backwards never seems to be what made elder scrolls special. It’s what the future holds that makes every games current events so important.
With Starfield being as big as it is, is it really put of the question that they could do all of tamriel? The fact it doesn't have a subtitle (its just The elder Scrolls VI) is something to think about imo
They already did that in elder scrolls arena
@@woddlyoats Yes but this time it would have more than 4 pixels
@@Jibb3rs also we got elder scrolls online
@@woddlyoats Which plays nothing like an elder scrolls game.
Im not saying they haven't done similar things before i just think there is a possibility they could do it again or at least have multiple regions to some extent
@@Jibb3rs idk I think Bethesda has shown that just giving them a large world doesn't mean it's going to be quality. Such as starfield I would rather it be small and focused
I believe the main plot will be about the fall of the towers of creation by the Aldmeri Dominion and when the game starts, the final tower is standing somewhere near Daggerfall, and the game's playable area will be the same as Daggerfall's, the Illiiac Bay.
After the dark brotherhood quest in skyrim, I have always seen the DB becoming extremely dangerous and powerful again. They assassinated an emperor. I can see mephala or namira trying to weasel their way into the organization and trying to bring about darkness and murder on a large scale. Some people think the night mother is mephala anyways and namira is the true daughter of sithis by some accounts. I dont know, just a vibe I personally get. I don't think that's suggested by the story. I do think the dark brotherhood becoming very powerful could be suggested by the story though.
Thank the gods you didn't suggest Hammerfell as a setting. It's been featured in 3 or 4 different ES(afaik) games. They definitely won't have that be the setting in ES 6.
It would be good if the land was split with stained ties between Almeri and empire with concord alliance fractured and stormcloaks have evolved or grown in something else rooted in it
we literally found out back in 2018 the exact location based on the coast line and climate the game is gonna be either entirely in hammerfell or highrock and hammerfell.
I'd love to see us basically as the agent from daggerfall some essential nobody who gets involved in all the mess.
TES VI is probably gonna take place less than 10 years after the events of skyrim and the dragonborn is probably workin on conquerin the continent and remakin the empire where we're a faithful companion of the dragonborn (hopefully this is right but there's almost a 0% chance it's gonna be before even skyrim)
I don't think the morrowind plot idea is viable at all it just doesn't make sense to me all things considered.
the thalmor is probably the main enemies in hammerfell as we fight with the local breton and redguard kingdoms against the altmer invaders until the dragonborn invades and saves the region and reignites the war with the elves.
the towers theory is probably related to the adamantine tower if it's true because we know based off the map shown in the teaser trailer it's gonna take place around the niben bay which could be a good idea all things considered.
My fan theory after all these years... I have no expectations.
I just wanna be able to kick the Thalmor butt in the next great war, that’s all I want oh and better magic magic was nerfed real bad in Skyrim
Running my own little theory but what if the next game follows an ESO approach and every 1/2 years we get a province DLC. Todd Howard recently said he'd like to do more expansions with StarField and regretted leaving skyrim so soon. Especially after how successful skyrim was, having this game have 5 or 7 years of expansions. Could easily have an ever expanding story line slwoly revealing a bigger role something would have. Maybe a fight for freedom against the empire, or foiling the plot of a Deadric prince. Maybe an invasion from Akavir instead or some unknown unseen continent instead
i think it will be a daggerfall remake. so high rock and hammerfell regions
They’re going to do half of hammerfell but they’ll stretch it out with a lot of nothing in between the cities so it seems “to scale” or we’ll get full hammerfell but a lot of cities will have been “destroyed” in the war. Orsinium and 1 city in high rock will be the DLC. MAYBE we’ll get 1 island with like 1 Sload on it. You’ll hear in game rumors of an akaviri landing in Morrowind or black marsh but that’s it. Prepare to be wildly disappointed and if you were a stormcloak fan prepare for Ulfric to get dragged, he will either have been crushed like a nothing burger and given passing mention or exiled in hammerfell where he’ll be a drunk and demeaned. Dragon shouts/sword singing for sure and very cheesy. The thalmor/empire war will not have started and you’ll probably have to convince one or both factions in Hammerfell to give either Great War faction support. DLC will be about rebuilding orsinium and some love or orphan who is the real heir type quest in high rock. There are a few pintrist accounts that are associated with designers someone found and posted to Reddit. It not only predicted some DLC for another game they did, but starfield and now hammerfell, it’s mostly all north and Central African architecture they’ve pinned to the account.
The background music will make or break it
7:18 if they made that concept into a game similar to chivalry or nordgau where maybe you premade at least one character per race and it was purely elder scrolls battles I’d probably buy that
The Nerevarine went to Akavir after the events of Morrowind, probably what Loros was talking about.
Theory 4 was the original basis for Skyrim. Can’t remember the video I watched on it but it was supposed to be until they pivoted
I hope there's a red year dlc for es6 where we get to see the ruins of Vvardenfell similar to solstheim in dragonborn
I want it to be set early enough to see the dwemer themselves cos I find them fascinating
Patiently waiting? Who? Not me!
The Godhead got a small shock, and he's half woken up making the entire universe erupt in chaos, then he falls back to sleep.
Would love akavivri theory because we can possibly get few new races to play.
More than likely, Elder Scrolls 6 would take place in one area only. But I would love it if it took place in all the previous provinces along with a new one.
Loo it's would even be more mass produced generic dungeon crawl questing than skyrim if they did that
Bruh with the graphics capabilities that studios have today Valenwood would be perfect, can only imagine how cool that landscape would be
Either that or the deep deserts of hammerfell, go deep into the redguard divines, gives a refreshing break from daedra and the gods we have now. Imperials, nords and I think all mer follow the standard gods we currently have. Going into a completely new background and lore would be so interesting
Would love. An atmorrah one
To me the best theory is the Akaviri Invasion + a prequel. There soo much room to work into it. At same time it could be a new oportunity for them to polish even more their faction/base builing engine, wich seems what they are putting in their flagship RPG's since Fallout 4. However i don't have many hopes they will do anything very complex besides the boring sporadic base defense, if it get implemented at all.
second theory is bonkers
I can tell you didnt play tes 3 morrowind. But basically.... You play as the neverine... Whom is ACTUALLY DRAGONBORN BTW, not the reincarnated nerevar indoril... The emperor sent you there to fullfill the prophecy as the result ended with the living gods losing their power ergo more power and control to the empire......anyway ... On your journey through the game you become named hortator ... Basically a 'neutral' (ish) spokesman and spiritual leader for the great houses and there people.... And then in the game of oblivion you hear rumors that the neverine has indeed gone on an expedition to akavir...but hasn't been heard from scince...
Cool fact: TES 5 was originally going to be set in akavir.. and be focused around an emperor who tryed to take it years ago and failed.. but has come back mysteriously.
I haven’t played it actually, you are correct! Appreciate the info! I did read that Skyrim was originally going to be based in Akavir!
how is the NEREVARine a dragonborn?? it's never mentioned, at all
the nerevarine is literally a prophecy you fulfill, that prophecy being that indoril nerevar comes back to get balance to the land 😮💨
@@izzyjevsk804 its literally IN the prophecy
From seventh sign of eleventh generation,
Neither Hound nor Guar, nor Seed nor Harrow,
But Dragon-born and far-star-marked,
Outlander Incarnate beneath Red Mountain,
Blessed Guest counters seven curses,
Star-blessed hand wields thrice-cursed blade,
To reap the harvest of the unmourned house.
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Uriel the 7th is wise beyond 'normal means' due to YEARS being stuck in oblivion, trapped there by jager tharn (events of tes 2) he sends you to Morrowind to fullfill this prophecy, resulting in the death of the living gods (stronger grip for empire over MW)
"Each event is preceded by Prophecy. But without the hero, there is no Event." - Zurin Arctus, the Underking.
@@chillievansThat "dragon-born and far-star-marked" line in the prophecy could just be there to point out that the Nerevarine was born "under the red dragon banner of the Empire" (e.g., in a province other than Morrowind far away from Vvardenfell).
I could see them being Dragonborn, or perhaps even an illegitimate Septim like Martin, but it seems unlikely (imo). The Nerevarine being a Dragonborn isn't brought up again aside from that one line, and if they were Dragonborn it would've been brought up again in some way or form -- either through the Nerevarine having a prophetic dream/vision, or other characters such as Caius Cosades, Nibani Maesa, or Wulf bringing it up
All I want to see is Hammerfell and Orsinium
I think Orsinium would be so cool to see!
Ordinium will be DLC, and the game will have both Hammerfell and High rock. Conflict before forebears and crowns. I work at bethesda this is a leak
@@Sweet_Clodsure you do. And I was operating Santas Sleigh last Christmas. 🎅
i hope we get to see the dwarves on TES6
Unless the game is set thousands of years before Skyrim it won't happen
I think 6 should take place in Akavir
10:10 I think the idea that there are secret references in the games is just fiction. With morrowiwnd it makes sense, since they would’ve been actively making oblivion while finishing tribunal. Not so much with oblivion, it could very easily be a one off reference, or even a reference the ending of the game. Now with Skyrim, seeing as how it will probably be 15+ years later, it makes even less sense.
"It's going to suck ass, because BGS has gotten lazy, & greedy." ~6th Fan