How will Bethesda do this?

[shotgun188]

Besides doing a "Warp in the North", how will Bethesda decide who won the civil war in lore?

[Sukid]

It won't matter in the end because the Argonians conquer them either way.

[shotgun188]

The Argonians only attack those who attack them and are weak. They only attacked the Dunmer, the race that had been keeping them as slaves for so long, after almost all of Morrowind became uninhabitable. The Argonians never attacked while the Dunmer while they still had power. Because of all that, it would make no sense for the Argonians to attack the Thalmor. The Thalmor can't touch Black Marsh since only the natives can survive in almost all of Black Marsh. The Thalmor could take the tiny part of Black Marsh they can live in but 1. That's TINY. 2. The Argonians would keep pushing them back until they gave up.

[SubjectProphet]

The lore will probably go like this:

 

The stormcloaks rebelled against the Imperials, but eventually, the Thalmor forced themselves to get involved. Skyrim was taken over, and the Hammerfell resistance took notice and decided to launch a direct attack on the Summerset Isles with the lack of defense there.

 

 

Meaning, the next TES game will probably take place in the Summerset Isles or Hammerfell.

[Tom2681]

Regardless of who wins this little civil war, imperials and stormcloaks will probably unite and fight off the Thalmor together.

What happens in Skyrim is insignificant in the grand scale of things.

[marharth]

The civil war will probably be continued in a DLC, not the next game. Edited February 12, 2012 by marharth

[shotgun188]

The civil war will probably be continued in a DLC, not the next game.

I'm talking about in lore, like in the history books in the next game. How will Bethesda decide which side won in lore? Whichever side they pick, they'll annoy a lot of people.

[Kuramin]

The civil war will probably be continued in a DLC, not the next game.

I'm talking about in lore, like in the history books in the next game. How will Bethesda decide which side won in lore? Whichever side they pick, they'll annoy a lot of people.

Maybe they'll annihilate each other and a new kind of government will be established... or be set so far in the future that the details are sketchy ...or be overshadowed by tales of the Dragonborn and Alduin... :psyduck:

[imperistan]

They'll make it not matter more than likely. They'll purposely obscure who won the civil war by using an even bigger event to obscure it. This will especially be so if the next game takes another 200 years in the future.

 

Whats near certain however is that the storyline will be continued with, and will likely be centered around the Dragonborn taking precedent (and thus allowing the Civil War to go either way) and making who won the Civil War a forgotten quibble.

 

Either one of those things, or Beth will just cave into terrible writing and screw half the players out of whom they chose to support.

[justwannaddl]

The only things we can really take away from Skyrim are

1) The Psijics have the eye of Magnus

2) The emperor is assassinated

3) Alduin is defeated.

 

If you take past TES lore into account, the Dragonborn will most likely become a non-factor shortly after the defeat of Alduin. The civil war will likely be described as an on again/off again conflict, with Ulfric and Tullius both dying at one point or another and Skyrim becoming a fractured ruin for a time. The Thalmor or some other force will probably then overrun most of Tamriel, at which point some trigger happy noble or mage will introduce a magic doomsday device like the before mentioned eye of magnus. While this happens, the Dragonborn's progeny may multiply, spreading the power of the voice throughout Skyrim.