The Possible Factions In The Elder Scrolls 6 

I would like it if the Hammerfell Thieves faction was pirates. Less skulking in the shadows, and more raiding merchants for booty.

You see those warriors from Hammerfell? They've got curved swords. Curved. Swords.

The dark brotherhood will definitely be in the game just like how fallout can’t shake the brotherhood of steel

guys if this game fails, bethasda is over. we gave them too much time and feedback for this, if they fail its over

Hammerfell can absolutely have an assassin faction based off of the Hashishi order where the word assassin comes from. If I recall correctly they were very religious and would under go a ritual where you were brought to the afterlife a paradise with rivers of honey wine and what not. Could be cool

I believe the psijic order will have a big play in the Elder Scrolls 6.

All that sounds nice. Sadly, I don't believe they're capable of making a game with factions with interesting beliefs, and complex relationships with other factions. Bethesda is deathly scared of presenting the player with branching decisions that lock the player out of content. Their heavy use of Essential NPCs in Starfield is the best Example of their mindset.

One thing I'd like to see in game when it comes to factions aren't just new factions (I'd want a wildcard bandit faction, pirates would be perfect + a business faction/career, I want my character to be able to buy and rent out property, set up trading caravans), but an inter-faction dynamics system. In Skyrim you normally have faction A vs faction B, C vs D, but you don't get much insight what does A think of C. What does the Dawnguard think about the Skyrim Civil War? What does the Thieves Guild think about vampires? Maybe not have specific missions (although that would be cool), but at least hear members of a faction talk about other factions which aren't their direct competitors. It would make the world feel more alive for me, that factions which may not be direct competitors might still have some influence over each other. I can imagine how the Thieves Guild would have been pro-Empire in Skyrim, since their protector Maven gets promoted to Jarl.

I was 9 when Skyrim came out. When Elder Scrolls 6 comes out ill be done with nursing school and starting my career. Time sure does fly.....

Whatever ends up happening, I just hope they make it a bit more like Morrowind where you really need to work for a high position in the guilds, rather than having it just be handed to you in a few quests. If it is in Hammerfell I fully expect to see a lot of the Crowns and Forebears and all that but my biggest personal hope would be for the Ansei to show up, and that the player character would be able to summon their own Shehai. Guess we'll see in like a billion years.

To your point about the Dark Brotherhood, i’m pretty sure it’s implied the assassination of the emperor is going to be the rebirth of the origination after it spreads and that they’re going to get more recruits because of it. That’s what i took from the story at least. Though It would be cool to have another organisation birthed from the remnants of the Dark Brotherhood. I’d also just be wary of not incorporating the lore of such a major faction in a new assassins guild. That’s not to say your point is invalid cuz it could be cannon that the DB was destroyed and knowing how bethesda works they really could just not give a fuck about their lore, but it seems to me we’d get them back in the next game.

I've said it before but I want to see a full on heist in TES6. Like I want the thieves guild to introduce you to a bunch of different specialists in different towns and cities who can teach you a bunch of different skills related to thievery. Then the last big job is a Ocean's 11, Italian Job, Let's steal the Declaration of Independence, insane job that you have to plan. You put together a crew and get to pick and choose from all the specialist you've met or from the random guys in the guild (some of those guys you meet might not be so trustworthy). It goes wrong of course (because that's how heist stories go) but then of course you come out on top and get the job done.

A bandit or pirate guild would be neat. Perhaps. Bethesda could use some of their wonderful random generation from Starfield to create a variety of scenarios on the open seas that could be pirate based. Microsoft does have Sea of Thieves, they should be able to collaborate to make a cool ship system the player can use.

The Onsi could possibly make a return similar to the dragons returning to skyrim after previously being considered myth.

My gut feeling is that the DB will be in ES6 because whichever DB path you choose in Skyrim Babette will survive. As a vampire she has the ability to survive for centuries and could become the new Speaker of the DB set in Hammerfell. It's possible that it could be partially set in High Rock and she's a Breton so it makes sense for her to go there to rebuild the DB outside of Skyrim.

My main hope is more spells for trees like alteration and illusion, there’s a lot of missed potential in alteration and I definitely hope they capitalize on this

That first dude in thumbnail looks like a "God-of-War" faction foreman lol I'd heard a lot about Hammerfell being TES VI, also including the Black Marsh. Which would be AWESOME.

Your usual videos ARE you sick. Lmao awesome vid. My personal thought on the dark brotherhood would be(depending on how long the difference from Skyrim to tesVI time wise) would be that you help create and establish the brotherhood faction in hammerfell or where ever it takes place, cuz unlike the thieves guild, who just had a rough patch, the brotherhood took massive hits, so ur character being one of the people who make it strong at least in that region would be cool imo

If you don't think it's gonna be all about the sword singers, then oh boy...

I would really like to see some kind of Hammerfell based assassin faction which resembles traditional assassins in Middle East

Daughters of Leki - Could be a cool Women only guild to join, obviously not an entire story line, but fetch type quests etc.

I dunno what factions there will be, but I know I'll be leading all of them oneday.

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Of course there is also the likelihood of TESVI having a "manage your settlements" element that has been around since Fallout 4. Keeping up with multiple knighthoods or outfits of mercenaries would be pretty sweet and bring a taste of what we got in TES online with decorating our bases

In the Companions you got to reach the rank of the circle before later becoming harbinger

hearing Master Neloth swear sounds hella scary... please dont give me the Illdari treatment

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Bebet didn't dyed and even if u choose to destroy DB u can't find her to kill her. She probably survived and still alive being a vampire and reforming the DB so its possible to be present on ES6

It's gonna be the following Imperial Legion (can join) The Sandcloaks (can join) Your own faction, The Sandmen The Thalmor (aggro) Sand Bandits (aggro) Sand Dwemer (aggro) Sand Mer (aggro) Sand Vampires (aggro) Sand Mummies (aggro) Sand Dragons (aggro) Sand Giants (aggro) Sand Werewolves (aggro) Later down the line in DLC, you'll have to an ancient Dwemer and his constructs called the Sand Mechanist and in another DLC you can join an off-shoot of the Sand Vampires or the Sandpire Slayers.

It has been a while since I did the Alik'r questline in ESO, but I do recall the Forebears and Crown faction, i.e. change and tradition. Would be cool to see something like this ES6, either embracing new things or protecting the old ways.

Id be happy with a simple adventures guild hall. Party up with with random npc's or strike it out alone. While working for the guild you could get recruited by other factions

2:08 to be fair... the Fighters/Mages Guild do fit Imperial culture fairly well actually. The Empire is the closest analogue in TES to the Roman Empire and its following entities in Byzantium, the HRE, etc. in which heavy bureaucracy and regulation guided guilds and organizations much more closely than in the societies surrounding them. The Cyrodiilic guilds seeming to have no cultural character is the essence of their character, weirdly enough.

I think another faction or factions to consider are the Orc Strongholds, I mean Orcs are very prominent in Hammerfell, there's bound to be a few strongholds scattered like in Skyrim, but this time we could have it so some stronghold are so that, if you are an Orc, they'll let you in no matter their affiliations, but if you are any race, some may be willing to trade with you but not allow you into the stronghold unless yo do a task for them or an Orc affiliated with them, but some will not tolerate you if are apart of a guild or faction and because of this some strongholds will never let you in.

Since at the end of skyrim per say, dragon dont go away, they stay, so prob a new dragon cult? ;D

good watch.

I hope if tesVI takes place in Hammerfell that the protagonist gets to use those spirit swords you talked about in the "Greatest Warriors" video. That would be dope.

Make your own faction, gain reputation, recruit members

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Change the dark brotherhood to the mage guild. One way to solve the magoc issue, also rule 1 of magic club. You don't talk about magic club, throw in some thief guild beginning quest et voila. New spin on an old trope

One thing that is probable in my opinion on the magic side is the inclusion of Shadow Magic, since it's main practicer Azra Nightwielder resided in Hammerfell toward the end of the 3rd era, as well as a whole town named after him. It would be cool if Shadow Magic was a locked tree that the player can't know about until being taught it or something.

I hope they bring back 2 factions/sides to join. Instead of a good guy/bad guy thing, we can join whichever side we choose.

I just started elder scrolls online, hanging been playing Skyrim since it's release. I was working on a mission and assumed some Thalmor nearby were enemies. I was wrong and now have the title of murderer, but it was an honest mistake!

I'd also like to see some magic faction in Elinhir cuz it's the Redguard's magic city kinda like winterhold

A tiny pocket of Lefthanded Elves just trying to survive instead of planning the downfall of their ancient adversaries could be a neat if subplot. They are so terrified of discovery they go through absurd lengths to remain hidden. It would start with random miscellaneous quests, ghost stories, urban legends of a haunted desert, unnatural sandstorms, and gradually have the player discover them and either turn them over to the Redguards, allow them to remain hidden, recruit them for the forebears/crowns (the lefthanded elves are likely the only people who really know the old redguards history and way of life) or wipe them out yourself (Pelinal Whistrake would be proud). Likely never gonna happen, but I think it would be cool.

The Redguard distrust of Magic is mostly based on lines by single NPC and not certain if it applies these days even, there might also be a difference between how Forebears and Crown areas treat things. I see three options. A Mages Guild remnant/successor based in Elinhir, Stargazers or Psijics as a joinable faction this time.

Personally, for the dark brotherhood, I would like for the story to be. There is a mercenary guild or faction that take "dark" quest for assassination since there is no presence of the brotherhood in hammerfell. But then, while doing an assassination, you get scouted by Babette who since she is a vampire, doesn't age and has been sent to hammerfell to start a base for the dark brotherhood. Then you can join with just like a handful of people and help the faction grow. possibly at the end, start your own base somewhere in hammerfell. By going back and killing the mercenaries, you joined in the beginning, taking over their contract.

After the smash success of Skyrim, I wouldn’t be surprised if BGS made the Player Character “the last of the Soul-Sword people” and had a Word Wall style of collectable that gave your Soul-Sword different powers and attributes. The Thu’um is _cool,_ and it’d make sense to make more new semi-unique supernatural powers for future TES Player Characters.

A cool little detail that I noticed about destroying the Dark Brotherhood is that Babette is absent, so I honestly believe that if the player destroys the Brotherhood it will rise back up thanks to Babette.

I hope there's a graveyard faction, because that's where I'll be before this game comes out.

I haven’t watched jack but I love the elder lore it’s so strange yet so impactful to me I just wanna see how redguards are in their homeland. I love elder lore 😊

But since Hammerfell is no longer part of the Empire and since the College of Whispers and the Synod are imperial institutions, we might not see them if the game takes place only in Hammerfell, or at least we will might see a bit of them but might not join them just like in Skyrim. Same for the Flighters Guild. Unless the game takes place before Hammerfell left the Empire, or after it rejoined it, or elswhere than Hammerfell in an imperial province.

The crowns and forebears are probably political allegiances with many houses underneath, similar to skyrims civil war whereupon everyone picked a side

The potential for faction rivalries and worldbuilding would be huge if the game were like Daggerfall and set in Hammerfell AND High Rock at the same time. A map with the huge bay in the middle, with European-themed Breton lands to the northwest, and North African-themed Redguard lands to the southeast. Would allow for some incredible Mediterranean themed architecture, factions, and so on with rivalries a la Rome and Carthage. Maybe even a pirate or buccaneer faction or two in the ocean between them.

Cicero was fleeing Cyrodil to skyrim, so it's fair to say that there's a possibility that the DBH in Falkreath was just the closest or safest (because of the war and thalmor occupancy) place to go.

Can you please do more of these about other regions?

I think that the dark brotherhood would make a comeback due to the fact that they kind of respected the night mother, and as a result could've made a comeback in Hammerfell. This might be a stretch but since the Redguards respect their fallen ancestors, and look down upon those who have killed their own; it may be possible for a few Redguards to join the darkbrotherhood because of the darkbrotherhoods respect for their "fallen mother" the night mother.

it would be really neat to have a war against the thalmor

I’d like to see you being able to make your own faction and carry on from there or something like that

Are there any forsworn in Hammerfell?

Your random swearing is pretty funny😂

They could make a new assasin faction. Would be a cool twist if at the end of that quest line the dark brotherhood forms again.

How can Master Neloth be sick? Ain't ya got a spell for that? :D

maybe for the magic guild a traditional like redgaurd religious order would be fun maybe. for assassins this may sound weird but what about the restless league same group cyrus was apart, they could do political assassinations and the rival one could be the penitus occultus as a guild of assasians working for imperial interest in secret in hammerfell.

Definitely think the Psijic Order could make an appearance EDIT - I see someone already mentioned them! Also I disagree with you though from being restricted from one faction if you join another.. just join the factions you want if you are role playing imho

Would love to see the withered hand which was in ESO

It'd be pretty cool to rebuild the dark brotherhood in hammerfell

This fking game better be worth the wait. I’m jumping Todd Howard outside his home if it isn’t.

The dark brotherhood will probably still be around in some form. The night mother seems to be very persistent and much more than just a corpse/ghost. Be it a full return, small pockets or literal individuals being directed by the night mother. Or a cool idea is a cult like group where it's actually the night mother controlling or directing the head of the cult.

I have nowhere to put this but here as I've never seen anyone do this anywhere and I just found this out like a half hour ago. IF you get a high pickpocket perk in Skyrim and you sneak successfully up to a Foresworn Briarheart, you can pickpocket them and steal their Briarheart and that immediately kills them without you ever having to land a single blow. Oh and the Mace of Molag Bal quest. If you want to avoid working for the Prince of Domination you just need to kill the Priest of Boethiah that's being held prisoner and you'll fail the quest, thereby making it impossible to complete.

I wonder with the events after Skyrim will the blades play an even bigger role in ES6 as a faction if the main story takes place not so long after the events of Skyrim and if es6 main story is a war against the Thalmor. would the blades side with Hammer fell or does their loyalty still stay with the empire even though there butyral with the Thalmor. or will the empire side with hammerfell against the Thalmor.

I think if the Elder Scrolls 6 is in Hammerfell the Ansei should definitely be in it somehow. The Ansei of old sunk Yokuda with their Spirit Swords so that could be a major story point, or at the very least a dlc.

Another option I would like to see is factions from outside Hammerfell operating within the country to achieve their goals. We've seen the Thalmor try and fail to subdue the province by brute force. Obviously, they would be in Hammerfell to sow division and human disunity. Assassinating Imperial envoys who are there to repair relations with Hammerfell, stoking conflict between the Crowns and Forebearers, sabotaging the redguard military, persuading orc chieftains to make an attempt at founding a new Orsinium. Should the player feel inclined to help them for whatever reason, you would ultimately succeed in weakening the province and isolating it from potential allies, and ready for conquest. Opposing the Thalmor, you would finally be able to join the Penitus Occulatus, serving the interests of the Empire in Hammerfell. Strengthening ties with the Forebearers, who would be more receptive to rejoining the Empire. Protecting the assets of the East Empire Company in the region to replenish the imperial coffers. Smuggling supplies into the region to bolster the redguard armies and navies for raids on the Summerset Isle. And doing your part to ensure that in any future war against the Thalmor, the Empire and Hammerfell will be official allies.

I'm really into being vampires and or werewolf in skyrim I didn't get enough hopefully they do more in depth stuff with supernatural creatures

I really think we’re going to see more than one nation in ES6. I think technology has progressed to a point that Bethesda will be able to have a huge map with overarching storylines.

TBF, I do see the Dark Brotherhood returning. Cicero was still lurking around Skyrim with the Night Mother and when you destroy them, and Babette is nowhere to be seen either. I can see her returning, or being mention in the next Elder Scrolls game.

Quick recovery bro

I'd like to see them do more bosmer stuff

Even if the player destroys the Dark Brotherhood, they never kill Babette or Cicero. I can see them coming back; the Night Mother never gets destroyed, either.

I hope the Elder Scrolls 6 takes place in Skyrim and in hammerfell and Daggerfall

listening to this... we better hope that TESVI includes High Rock AND Hammerfell. Because we were JUST in Skyrim, and Hammerfell just sounds like Skyrim 2: Summer Edition. Favoring warrior playstyles, distrust of magic, strong history of thieves and assassins. At least with High Rock in the mix as a place that values magic, there's some variety between TESV and TESVI.

I think there's 3 possible endings of the the dark brotherhood, "player aided", "player destroyed" and player ignored, if joined, with the fame of assassinating the emperor many people will probably want to join, possibly having a revival and new peak. If the player decides to destroy them then cicero will probably go into hiding and "satiate" his lust, possibly creating a new cult that may or may not have a new listener to steer things back on track, if ignored by the olayer instead, Astrid will probably find a way to kill cicero and take over the cult towards her "new" way and expand the brotherhood, expansion that may result inna new listener that may either be silenced or turn into the player aided end

without a doubt Dark Brotherhood will be there.

Each city should have its own knightly order like Daggerfall did

Hear me out: Nazir went back to hammerfell and rebuilt the dark brotherhood. I mean out of all the people that could’ve survived the DB’s destruction, it’s the REDGUARD and a vampire?

One thing that always bothered me with Skyrim was that you join a new faction, run a fetch quest or two, and then they go and make you their head leader. Makes no sense. There would be nothing wrong with just being a high ranking and respected member. I don’t need to become the master of every single guild.

So another words you'd like the fighters guild to be like the Legion vs the Stormcloaks

We can expect Blades to show up once again as one of the main factions.

If you destroy the dark brotherhood yourself I don’t think you meet Cicero and the night mother right? With them still alive the faction could make a comeback? Unless I’m dead wrong lol

Had this on in the back ground and had to turn my head, if you don’t think the thieves guild or dark brotherhood won’t be around in the next game ur fucking crazy

I'm even more worried about TES 6 after Starfield, tbh. I really hope that game exists in its own little world, because if that's the direction they're going with their games from now on (shitty loot system, weak writing, etc), not even being the next installment in my favorite game series will get me to but it. 😕

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Blued wants a rivalry

The dark brotherhood will probably get a revision. Since there's a new Listener they could recruit anyone sithis sees fit to.

The blades the dark brotherhood the imperial legion the Dominion The alkiri mercenaries potentially a few of the highock kingdoms the thieves guild and I'm sure they'll incorporate some sort of magic guild maybe they'll bring back the mages guild but that seems unlikely.

Is this how you honor the sixth house and the tribe unmourned?

I’m amazed we are getting GTA6 before Elder Scrolls VI

I wanna see a darkborthood or thieves guild knock off faction made by a bunch of random people who felt drawn by the these now dead factions

The fighters guild is unlikely to exist in Hammerfell or High Rock - DEFINITELY NOT in the east and south - Morrowind, Black Marsh, Elsewyer. I hope the sword-singers come out for ES VI, but it could be difficult to translate into a game. It's highly likely we will be involved in the 2nd great war. Also, It wouldn't take the Dark Brotherhood too long to rebuild, so long as they're careful.

I think a Thalmor faction is coming Similar to skyrim where you can pick imperial legion or stormcloaks There will probably be a rebellion fighting the thalmor