Skyrim Expansions: Guesses and desires

[Quixote]

We have played. We have modded. We hath continued to play.

Speculation fever has hit me for Skyrim as I begin to look at an early map of Nirn:

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What do you guys want to see, or think will be the Skyrim expansions? Do you think they will be mostly tiny DLC's? Or large projects which take us beyond Skyrim?

I am surprised many people have said around High Rock. Especially since we already played most of High Rock and northern Hammerfell in Daggerfall.

But I could see Orismer (Orc) lands being an expansion in that case, especially since after Oblivion, the Bretons and Redguard teamed up and decimated their home. Could make an interesting rebuild or redemption kind of story, and a great filler on the Orc legacy, which I feel could use some more depth and background. I would say a trip to the new Argonia, which now covers Morrowind, or a trip to the Aldmeri Dominon, but those almost deserve their own games.

There's lots of stuff happening in Tamriel now, so many things could make a great expansion/DLC. Discuss here!

 

[Goker]

And why can't this be discussed on the Skyrim thread, when you're just speculating?

 

[Sir Prince]

Because he wouldn't be able to whore as much attention.

 

[Quixote]

Because he wouldn't be able to whore as much attention.

This. Also because this is about expansion speculation, which cannot be properly discussed in a gameplay thread about the base game.

 

[Goker]

I'm pretty sure it can be discussed and there has been talk about it many times before.

So I guess it is only this;

Because he wouldn't be able to whore as much attention.

 

[Quixote]

Thought it was a good idea, guess the dicks of the forum say otherwise.

 

[Sir Prince]

I honestly don't care either way actually.

 

[Scully]

I care only a little bit.

 

[Quixote]

Ontopic to the ppl who care:
Just found this DLC info
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/02/08/stuff-that-might-be-added-to-skyrim.aspx

 

[Kevlar]

Morrowind or else.

 

[Ducksrulez]

Ontopic to the ppl who care:
Just found this DLC info
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/02/08/stuff-that-might-be-added-to-skyrim.aspx

looking forward to those Mudcrab animation tweaks

 

[BadabombadaBang]

Wow, I'd honestly pay for most of those things as DLC.

 

[Cookie Eating Huskarl]

Thought it was a good idea, guess the dicks of the forum say otherwise.

Yes, for the last time, we have dicks. Only a few around here have pussies.

 

[Schemer]

I want the last DLC to be where I help the Godhead stop being in torment and despair, letting it realise that I AM/I AM NOT are not both options, and that Anu/Anuiel/Akatosh are wrong while Sithis/Padomay/Lorkhan are right. Where it learns that its dream is an insane delusion, but not a bad one. Instead of the Godhead instantly zero summing out of existence for realising the truth, I want the Dragonborn to achieve CHIM and therefore Amaranth from this realisation. You are the Godhead.

The et'Ada may insist that Vehk is a liar and Love will not defeat the Godhead's torment, but this is false and that is the one sphere not taken. When the Dragonborn is the Godhead, and is no longer sleeping awake in the endless dream but instead simply asleep, this would be an ending to things in TES: V to affect TES: VI. The newfound Godhead would be the highest form of apotheosis possible, and like the current Godhead, able to dream things into being with their own conciousness or alter everything that is not to how they wish. Of course, this would not happen because beings with CHIM or in this case Amaranth are very, very lazy and generally see no point to changing anything, and so a replacement Godhead would affect things very little except with maybe less madness and conflict in the Aurbis. A good chance for Bethesda to mind**** people and explain the lore to the 99.9% of players who do not know it, too.

This won't happen, but I can always hope for a lore-focused expansion or DLC. Shivering Isles was pretty lore focused and had some extremely advanced metaphysics deep into it, but nothing like the Godhead or kalpas.

Morrowind or else.

That would be really silly and pointless. Have you heard of Red Year, the eruption of Red Mountain that destroyed Vvardenfell and a lot of the mainland? Or of the Argonian invasion from the An-Xileel that came in and slaughtered all of the surviving Dunmer, and cut through Tear to as far as Vivec City forging their own empire out of the endless ashlands? In an expansion to Morrowind, you'd see some surviving Dunmer in eggmines and a couple of small Argonian settlements. Everything else would just be bleak ashlands, ruins of cities, and wildlife. It would be Fallout 3: Morrowind. Almost all Dunmer fled their homeland to Solstheim, though some went to other provinces such as Skyrim.

 

[Quixote]

Morrowind or else.

That would be really silly and pointless. Have you heard of Red Year, the eruption of Red Mountain that destroyed Vvardenfell and a lot of the mainland? Or of the Argonian invasion from the An-Xileel that came in and slaughtered all of the surviving Dunmer, and cut through Tear to as far as Vivec City forging their own empire out of the endless ashlands? In an expansion to Morrowind, you'd see some surviving Dunmer in eggmines and a couple of small Argonian settlements. Everything else would just be bleak ashlands, ruins of cities, and wildlife. It would be Fallout 3: Morrowind. Almost all Dunmer fled their homeland to Solstheim, though some went to other provinces such as Skyrim.

Out of everything I've heard the mainland of Morrowind is not ashland waste, only Vvardenfell is complete ashland now. Even so, all of this happened 100 years before dragons in Skyrim, so scant few resettlers are also likely. The Argonians forged their Empire in Morrowind, true, but all the more reason for a captivating setting.

A city like Tear or Mournhold would make a perfect bustling Argonian city for a DLC. Maybe instead of Argonian slaves like you'd see in Morrowind, we'd see Dunmer slaves    Like I said, I'm pretty dang sure the mainland of Morrowind is not ashland waste during this time at all.

But if it were, I think an entire game dedicated to the new Argonian country (Morrowind mainland + Black Marsh) would be more likely, rather than a Skyrim DLC, especially since it has hardly anything to do with Skyrim and it would be the first time an expansion has been off-region, but you never know.

You know, if they started doing 5 DLC's in wake of the Fallout DLC's, and had each one in a random region in Tamriel, I'd be pretty down with that

 

[Schemer]

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That would be really silly and pointless. Have you heard of Red Year, the eruption of Red Mountain that destroyed Vvardenfell and a lot of the mainland? Or of the Argonian invasion from the An-Xileel that came in and slaughtered all of the surviving Dunmer, and cut through Tear to as far as Vivec City forging their own empire out of the endless ashlands? In an expansion to Morrowind, you'd see some surviving Dunmer in eggmines and a couple of small Argonian settlements. Everything else would just be bleak ashlands, ruins of cities, and wildlife. It would be Fallout 3: Morrowind. Almost all Dunmer fled their homeland to Solstheim, though some went to other provinces such as Skyrim.

Out of everything I've heard the mainland of Morrowind is not ashland waste, only Vvardenfell is complete ashland now. Even so, all of this happened 100 years before dragons in Skyrim, so scant few resettlers are also likely. The Argonians forged their Empire in Morrowind, true, but all the more reason for a captivating setting.

A city like Tear or Mournhold would make a perfect bustling Argonian city for a DLC. Maybe instead of Argonian slaves like you'd see in Morrowind, we'd see Dunmer slaves    Like I said, I'm pretty dang sure the mainland of Morrowind is not ashland waste during this time at all.

But if it were, I think an entire game dedicated to the new Argonian country (Morrowind mainland + Black Marsh) would be more likely, rather than a Skyrim DLC, especially since it has hardly anything to do with Skyrim and it would be the first time an expansion has been off-region, but you never know.

You know, if they started doing 5 DLC's in wake of the Fallout DLC's, and had each one in a random region in Tamriel, I'd be pretty down with that

Southern Morrowind has always had an ashland from when the mainland was split from Vvardenfell by Vivec, forming the Sea of Ghosts. That was during the Akaviri invasion, I believe, where Vivec taught the Dunmer to breath water so that he could flood them out. His 36 sermons are meant to be taken literally, they break the fourth wall to talk directly to the player (possible through CHIM). I'm probably wrong on the eruption causing that much ash, it's been a while since I've read the books. Most Argonian territory would be in, near, or surrounding the mainland ashland from ancient times.

Dres territory isn't in it (it's just south near the swampy area bordering Black Marsh), from my understanding, but there's very little that was ever explained about their architecture, culture, and environment. We only really know that Tear once swelled with slaves and that slaves provided their economy as traders. Now, it probably swells with Argonians. That would be the most depressing DLC ever possible for my Dunmer character.

By the book in 4E 40, it's still mentioned that the only surviving Dunmer native to the mainland are in egg mines, which would have food from the kwama and water from underground. By Skyrim's time in the 4th era, the Dunmer would likely see no reason to rebuild yet, what with the Argonian threat and Solstheim being more defencible from it. Vivec's Loveletter from the Fifth Era makes it sound like the Great House system and Morrowind were eventually resettled, though. The House of Sul sounds like it was named after Sul, who helped caused the ingenium in the moon over Vivec City to fail, kickstarting Vvardenfell's destruction.

I imagine the area immediately surrounding Port Telvannis would be the easiest to rebuild, being on a very far eastern island. It would be largely untouched by Red Year and only sacked by Argonians with the mushrooms poisoned and dead. It's far from boat from Solstheim, though. Very far north Redoran territory is another possible option for being slightly rebuilt by Skyrim's time. Dunmer live to a thousand years, so they can wait. They always have time to rebuild.

 

[Efe Karacar]

There is an interesting discovery Here.

 

[Commander Shepard]

Not really. Bethesda made most of the Tamriel heightmap in Oblivion too. The roads are just there to increase the sense of realism, as TES IV's Cyrodiil had no roads to the other provinces, which ruins its plausibility for being the capital of an enormous empire.