I'd love to see a huge turnout for this poll. Please limit shitposting and please vote for what you actually believe!

The most interesting thing to me is that - from what I've read into - the guy they named Lead Designer is apparently super into factions and his big desire is to make 'politics impact the world more'. In that his big complaint is, apparently, that you have been able to - in both Oblivion and Skyrim - be the leader of the Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, Thieves Guild, and Dark Brotherhood; and the game world simply doesn't care.

As I understand it, his big hope is to 'Make that impact the game world more'.

So. Here's the points I think will flow from this

• Lilac Bay Setting. A spiritual successor of Daggerfall. Multiple factions all competing in the same region around the same nexus of power.
• I believe there will be more political complexity than 'Good humans vs. Bad Thalmor, you need to like, unite the Good Humans to fight the Bad Thalmor' A Dev who loves faction politics and hates 'Lead everyone. The game world doesn't care' won't be inclined towards 'The Good guys vs. The Bad Guys'. Franky, I think it may even be possible to align with the Thalmor and there may well be factions aligned towards them.
• But that goes against their plans to Destroy Mundus by- That's Kirkbride's story, he ended that story by symbolically destroying the story itself because 'there is no canon' and he no longer works there. Nobody who still holds rank at Bethesda has confirmed that to be the Thalmor goal. Imperial Intelligence in the Elder Scrolls Novels believe that their long term goal is to 'Restore the Merithic Era'
• I believe that the Truce will be the canon ending of the Civil War - But it has worn off, now that Alduin is gone - and the 'answer' to the Civil War will be 'It's ongoing' - and I believe that both Stormcloak and Empire aligned agents will be present in game. If I am not mistaken, Ulfric has dialogue where he speaks to Galmar about sending Emissaries to High Rock seeking to get the Breton Kingdoms to join him, and 'not getting an answer' - I believe the ability to have both Stormcloak and Imperial factional influence present can 'preserve player choice' and tie in to 'I love faction politics. I really want faction politics to impact the game world again' - What happened to the LDB? "Last anyone heard, they travelled to Solthsteim to handle some sort of crisis. Nobody has heard from them since'
• I believe that TESVI will set the worldstate up for a massive Dragonbreak, with far more factions at play than 'Does the Empire win, or loose?' 'Yes.' - I believe "Which faction gained power over the Magical McGuffin and got the remains of The Direnni Clan to use (Insert Magic here) to win the great wars of the Lilac Bay?" "Everyone simultaneously."
• I believe some factions may be as entirely apolitical as "Manimarco wants to be a God."

I believe Bethesda's biggest goal in this game - based upon the guy they put in charge's stated desire for this - won't be "Omg the second great war", at least not in a "Beat up the Thalmor" sense. I believe it will be "Intricate politics and a highly reactive world to those politics" - I believe the ability to be pro-Thalmor is more likely than "Me and the good guys beat up those awful Elves."

I believe the game is likely to aim to be a 'Successor to Daggerfall' in that sense.

Aight. I threw my shit at the wall. In a few years we'll likely know if it sticks.

Let's imagine that we start the game as a convict on a prison island.

At some point, a faction hostile to the island's owner launches an attack, and we take advantage of the chaos to escape.

At the end of the escape, we have to choose character to flee with (just like in Skyrim), this will determine which departing ship you’ll board.

Consequently, this will determine where the game begins for you, since one ship heads to Hammerfell and the other to High Rock. In both cases, you’ll end up in the coastal equivalent of Riverwood in each province.

Both paths lead into their respective province’s regional main quest, eventually converging into the game’s overarching main quest.

Imagine how cool it would be to be moving around loot when you're over encumbered.

If anyone knows the spell to summon the Trademark guy please drop it on this post.

It seems that most people on this sub (myself included) believe that we're most likely going to see the game released at the end of next year, with a full reveal at the June show and hopefully, if we're lucky, some info/a tease at the end of this year at TGA.

If we pretend for a second that this is true - when will we see the subtitle trademarked?

I just made a nice post asking if people thought there might be any news for the 15th anniversary, and it got flooded with angry people and downvotes. For real, what is your problem? The subreddit is specifically for this; if you're angry at Bethesda and convinced their next game is going to be terrible and AI slop, just move on to another franchise and let the rest of us enjoy it.

It would be nice!

i made a new arrangement of stros m'kai from the best elder scrolls game: redguard, in the style i imagine tesvi could have

I like that elder scrolls games don't limit what skills you use to stuff that you've picked in your build, but I do also think there should be skills that you don't have access to at the start of the game. In the mainline games the only real examples of this was the perk trees for vampirism and lycanthropy, as well as the perk for forging stahlrim being quest dependent, but ESO has a bunch of different skill branches that you only get access to after starting a certain quest.

There's so much hidden knowledge in elder scrolls that a level 1 layman should know literally nothing about, like shadow magic, the thu'um (for non-dragonborns), dream magic etc. Also if they had some skills that weren't available at low levels then it would be much less effort to balance them, and it would make it possible to add new skill trees in future updates and Dlc.

Although painfully underutilized, the couple zero g areas Starfield had were really fun. I hope these mechanics are reused to add back levitation even if it's limited to a couple areas

Since there have been a couple of posts on this recently, I decided to share my own views on how blacksmithing should be handled in the game.

My main gripes with previous crafting systems in their previous games:

Skyrim - too grindy, not enough incentive to level "naturally", with repairing your gear for example.

Fallout 4 - the best crafting system they have had so far, not surprising since the entire game was built around it. Though I don't think this formula fits for an Elder Scrolls game. The only significant critique of this system is that it resulted in unique weapons often feeling less unique.

Starfield - similar to Fallout 4 but due to the game not having a "scrap emphasis" and the game having more types of crafting components, the requirements (research materials, crafting materials) for crafting became too tedious to acquire for me.

For TES6 my hope is that we can strip back the layers of barriers to get into crafting specific gear. This could be achieved by recipes not being tied to perks, but rather quests.

Imagine helping an Orkish blacksmith with a request, such as a gambling debt or their family member being kidnapped and in return they teach you Orkish blacksmithing. Later game variants like Daedric or Ebony would have harder or longer quests tied to them.

Blacksmithing perks would focus on maintaining armor and making it stronger, allowing you to pseudo "enchant" it. You could of course pay blacksmiths to repair your armour, provided they are skilled enough to work with the material. This way you would constantly be incentivezed to level up smithing or have something to do with the bucketloads of gold that is usually hanging around in your pockets by midgame.

Let me know if you have any additional ideas for how blacksmithing should work in TES6.

I know it says in the lore that once Kagrenac struck the Heart of Lorkhan, the entire race disappeared from existence and (with the exception of Yagrum Bagarn) haven't been seen ever since, but I really do want to interact with the Dwemmer and do quests for them. Is it possible that somehow,the Rourken Clan survived, since Hammerfell is where they went and its speculated that TES6 is in Hammerfell? What do you think?

With Todd Howard mentioning his goal for TES6 to be the "ultimate fantasy world simulator," a lot of us on here have been wishing for a deep, immersive blacksmithing and enchanting system. We want something closer to dedicated simulators where you actually pick blade styles, hilts, and runes, rather than just clicking "Iron Sword" in a boring spreadsheet menu.

But let’s be honest: not everyone wants to spend hours manually striking an anvil. For a stealth assassin or a scholarly mage playthrough, forcing the player to become a master manual craftsman completely breaks the roleplay.

On the flip side, Starfield proved that abstract, resource-heavy menu crafting gets tedious fast.

I think the perfect middle ground is a diegetic UI coupled with an "Order List / Apprentice" delegation system. Here is how it would work:

* The Bill of Materials: Instead of a floating UI menu, you sit at a drawing desk to design your weapon. You pick the blade shape, guards, and materials. The game then generates a physical parchment scroll in your inventory a Bill of Materials.

* The Apprentice / Commission System: If you don't want to craft it yourself, you walk up to a local blacksmith or hire an apprentice for your player home. You hand them the physical scroll.

* The Economy & Time Loop: The smith gives you a price and a timeline (e.g., "This will take three days"). If you provide the Ebony ore yourself, the fee drops. If you want them to source the rare materials, it costs a premium. You go dungeon-delving, come back a few days later, and pick your custom sword right off the weapon rack.

* Skill Tree Integration: The Blacksmithing/Manager perk tree could directly influence this. Investing points could lower apprentice labor fees, speed up production time, or unlock "Design XP"—giving you a small amount of smithing progress just for architecting the blueprint.

This completely saves the roleplay. A wealthy mage can finally use their gold and influence to commission a legendary staff from a master enchanter, while a dedicated warrior can still choose to spend their nights manually hammering steel at the forge to save money and gain raw experience.

What do you guys think? Would you prefer a system like this that keeps the crafting in the actual game world, or do you prefer traditional, snappy menus?

Do you think Al content will be a major part of tes6?

I wonder if they'll look at ESO for an example of how the playerbase dresses or acts so they know what to implement.

Personally I hope we get some weird goofy shit, like maybe a Jester class of some sort. Or some plague doctor looking stuff.

But most of all I genuinely hope they flesh out and expand the werewolf and vampire gameplay this time around, I just want special dialogue options or maybe skillchecks similar to the Fallout series.

EDIT: Okay maybe not a class system, but starfield traits like I was thinking or at the very least some kind of occupational title you can be referred to as in-game if that make sense.

Adding onto this I genuinely just want to be able to be own my own shop or trading stall so I can sell shit and maybe have that impact the world in some small ways, like you see bandits out in the world with gear you sold or maybe get special orders/quests to fulfill?

It is just the extremist Thalmors with their elite troops, the justiciar and enforcers, or there is the possibility that they bring new groups to the game?

Take care out there, life is full of unpleasant surprises