The Next Chapter for 2020 Is Skyrim

Tommy_The_Gun

Beeing realistic, we will most likely get some part of Skrim with either spell crafting (just to cause more inbalance & invetory management horrors) or 1h & spell weapon skill line (because animations & models are already in game).
I doubt we will have new class tbh.

What I would like to see though is:
Spear & Combat staff hybrid weapon skill line.
More Black Marsh:
After Shadowfen & Murkmire I only have more questions. I have seen ruins of stone pyramids & xanameers. Something that once was great. Seeing how right now argonians are depicted in lore, how they dont care about past, how they say "swim as river takes you", saying that you should accept every change and dont try to "fight" the current of the river, but only adapt to it.

I ask myself: What happened ? What caused this fall of civilisation, that once was able to rise huge and sophisticated stone structures in the middle of the swamp. Or use water magic to create underwater "windows" (see lakemire xanameer manor), or even use sun itself to charge sunstones that powered various devices.
Was it religion ? Was it sithis ? Or maybe hist ? Or maybe various invasion attempts of Aliyeds and later Imperials that forced entire civilisation to move deeper into the swamp ? We don't know. All I know is some anwsers could be found in the heart of black marsh. Imgine. Maybe, in the most isolated part of black marsh, there are still undestroyed stone xanameers cities, full of live, thriving...

anitajoneb17_ESO

I haven't read all the pages in this topic, but my guess is that next chapter will be Skyrim, with a new "guild" about the Greybeards and a new skill line associated to them which will be dragonshouts (which will have some sort of "spellcrafting" features).

Faulgor

p_tsakirisb16_ESO wrote: »

Aliyavana wrote: »

Hallothiel wrote: »

RaddlemanNumber7 wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

This one knew that wherever we were going the environment would be very different to Elsweyr yes.

Dragons … well naturally all roads lead to the snowy north.

Hope they give us at least a few choices of snowhat - and ones that fit our ears properly please!

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Hats like this one? What a happy coincidence that this outfit should appear now, just when we are going to need it

What outfit is that?! (On console so no dlc yet 😕)

Skaal from the upcoming new life festival

Yeah that outfit and the name "Skaal" somehow make me guess that next year we going to see a Bard/Minstrel like class also.

What is it about the name Skaal that reminds people of bards and minstrels?

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Skaal

SantieClaws

Faulgor wrote: »

p_tsakirisb16_ESO wrote: »

Aliyavana wrote: »

Hallothiel wrote: »

RaddlemanNumber7 wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

This one knew that wherever we were going the environment would be very different to Elsweyr yes.

Dragons … well naturally all roads lead to the snowy north.

Hope they give us at least a few choices of snowhat - and ones that fit our ears properly please!

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Hats like this one? What a happy coincidence that this outfit should appear now, just when we are going to need it

What outfit is that?! (On console so no dlc yet 😕)

Skaal from the upcoming new life festival

Yeah that outfit and the name "Skaal" somehow make me guess that next year we going to see a Bard/Minstrel like class also.

What is it about the name Skaal that reminds people of bards and minstrels?

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Skaal

Because it's a similar word to Skald.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skald

This one just perhaps hopes for many more things musically herself though She may be seeing something that is not there.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Tatanko

SantieClaws wrote: »

Faulgor wrote: »

What is it about the name Skaal that reminds people of bards and minstrels?

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Skaal

Because it's a similar word to Skald.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skald

I was going to ask this very same thing. I'm not familiar with the term Skald myself, only TES's Skaal. I can see where the confusion might arise for someone who has not experienced Solstheim before

Aznarb

Aliyavana wrote: »

Title literally has the word spoiler in it, you have been warned. Skyrim has been contentiously teased over the past year such as in crown store backgrounds, with this dlc teasing it very hard. Below are just two references from many that have name dropped skyrim, or teased it. This is the same manner elsweyr was teased. I predict Skyrim will release 2020, which many people will argue that it makes more sense for a skyrim chapter to release in 2021 since it would be the 10th year anniversary, but oblivion's 15th year anniversary is also in 2021. So Skyrim 2020, and the rest of Cyrodil 2021.

I've encounter 2 other npc speaking about skyrim, so, y maybe, after all, dragon are here now ^^

Asardes

Whatever they do, I hope they DON'T introduce a new class. Each time they do that they totally wreck combat for months. Morrowind (Warden) and Elsweyr (Necromancer) are clear examples. Skill lines are relatively smooth, Summerset (Psijic) didn't break anything.

SantieClaws

Tatanko wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

Faulgor wrote: »

What is it about the name Skaal that reminds people of bards and minstrels?

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Skaal

Because it's a similar word to Skald.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skald

I was going to ask this very same thing. I'm not familiar with the term Skald myself, only TES's Skaal. I can see where the confusion might arise for someone who has not experienced Solstheim before

Oh this one has travelled to the north lands before yes but always assumed the name of the people there came from perhaps an unexpressed poetic tradition they may have been unwilling to share with strangers from lands of warm sands yes.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

RaddlemanNumber7

SantieClaws wrote: »

Tatanko wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

Faulgor wrote: »

What is it about the name Skaal that reminds people of bards and minstrels?

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Skaal

Because it's a similar word to Skald.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skald

I was going to ask this very same thing. I'm not familiar with the term Skald myself, only TES's Skaal. I can see where the confusion might arise for someone who has not experienced Solstheim before

Oh this one has travelled to the north lands before yes but always assumed the name of the people there came from perhaps an unexpressed poetic tradition they may have been unwilling to share with strangers from lands of warm sands yes.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

I thought it might have something to do with "skål!"

Nords and their drink

SantieClaws

Ok this is the point at which we need someone who speaks Nord to tell us if skal, skaal and skald have any common meaning yes or if it is no more relevant than the similarity between the words jam, ham and pan.

Calling all Nords … !

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Fata1moose

So much potential in Skyrim:

• Bard class

• Vampire Lord skill line

• Dungeons and trials based off of Skyrim's many dungeons

• Winterhold pre collapse

• Whiterun which is one of my favorite cities in TES

• New Nord motifs and furniture

• Mounted combat

khajiitNPC

Skyrim is pretty much the Next hunted chapter (in b4 the naysayers who denied Elsweyr would be a chapter). While I’d like to see other parts of Tamriel, I think the evidence is way to thicc to ignore.

Also we still haven’t gotten the Battlemage class that was data mined years ago. If they wanted to go BIG they’d introduce this class and spell-crafting.

I personally would like a unique class that doesn’t follow the cookie cutter three tree class. Instead IF spellcrafting is implemented, it would be the first class where you could pick and choose your abilities. And with the standardization of abilities and audits in recent patches, I think this would make it more likely. Fingers crossed.

WuffyCerulei

I’ve been giving thought on the reoccuring characters and player heroes in the cinematics lately. We had the Elven hero for Summerset and the Breton hero for Elsweyr. That leaves the Nord hero. And for reoccuring characters, we’re missing Lyris, the half-giant Nord. Skyrim would make sense as a place for these two to reappear. And ESO is set 1000 years before Skyrim, the game, is set. The world would look a lot different compared to the 2011 game. Like Winterhold before it collapsed. Before Talos shaped Nord mythology. And more.

TempPlayer

I was hoping for Shivering Isles.
Let's call it the year of unstable dragon on a stick.

Soella

I agree that Skyrim sounds very possible. Lyris can reappear in this case just as Sai did.

I really doubt ESO will add a new class every year, so most probably just a new skill line. Spellcrafting as skill line from Winterhold college sounds as reasonable idea. Spellsword as skill line and spellcrafting as what? Crafting? I doubt it, though possible.

But who can be the main antagonist(s)? Falmers? Hermaeus Mora? Solitude? The story of rivalry between Winterhold and Solitude (if I remember timeline correctly) could be a main theme of the year. In this case Winterhold as chapter, Solitude as DLC, some Falmer and Draugr themed dungeons or trials as well as probably pirate dungeon and some PvP content (new battleground?) all fit together.

What I personally would really like to have is meaningful housing: gardens with herbs, some mine nodes, ability to show off armors/trophies/achievements/whatever. But no hints in this area

barney2525

they will discover a new race of were-penguins north of east haven

Nemesis7884

people that expect these things will most likely get disappointed

new race - not gonna happen

new weapon - very unlikely as already pointed out by zos a couple times...MAYBE a weapon-themed skill line or 1h+spell because it can be implemented without having to include a new weapon model but unlikely

spell crafting - maybe all the standardization is preparation for this as it has been asked a lot of times BUT lets be real, if it is implemented it will be nothing like people wish it was...it would probably be another crafting skill line that works like alchemy or enchanting but i think its unlikely

new class - i was hoping for a new bard class or any new class but i think this is unlikely as well


what is probably most likely is a new skill line themed around one of the new factions...be it dawnguard or winterhold or bards college or whatever it may be...

aaisoaho

SantieClaws wrote: »

Ok this is the point at which we need someone who speaks Nord to tell us if skal, skaal and skald have any common meaning yes or if it is no more relevant than the similarity between the words jam, ham and pan.

Calling all Nords … !

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Well, there's no similarities between a skald (viking "bard") and skål (similar to "cheers!" or alternatively also means a bowl / a saucer). To my knowledge, there's no translation for 'skaal' in any nordic languages.

And no, I do not speak nord, but I can understand swedish (and by some extent the other nordic languages).

WuffyCerulei

I can see the datamined one-hander+rune being the new big skill line next chapter. It’d make even more sense if the chapter was based around Winterhold (for the love of unborn Talos, please let this be the case).

Shufeltco11

RaddlemanNumber7 wrote: »

There's a Nord lady, Vigwenn Owl-Watcher, who explains it all:

I read this as saying ZOS wanted to go to Hammerfell but can't because they don't have all the ingredients yet. Presumably because ESO Hammefell must correspond with TES VI Hammerfell and the BGS design is not done yet.

So, we're going to Skyrim. With yet another mention of things deep underground. Mole the tinkerer in the Stitches also mentioned going underground in Skyrim.

A Q4 Blackreach zone would be sweet! I also suspect going to the college of Winterhold as it’s one of the only places in Tamreal where Necromancy is legal. Would make for a great guild skill line as well.

Shufeltco11

WillhelmBlack wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

RaddlemanNumber7 wrote: »

So, what do you think the theme is going to be for 2020? Year of the "what"?

Moar dragons!

Frosty toes

Lyris

Mead - most likely "Skyrim - The Season of Mead"

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

What is deep under ground in Skyrim?

Blackreach

DarkPicture

khajiitNPC wrote: »

Skyrim is pretty much the Next hunted chapter (in b4 the naysayers who denied Elsweyr would be a chapter). While I’d like to see other parts of Tamriel, I think the evidence is way to thicc to ignore.

Also we still haven’t gotten the Battlemage class that was data mined years ago. If they wanted to go BIG they’d introduce this class and spell-crafting.

I personally would like a unique class that doesn’t follow the cookie cutter three tree class. Instead IF spellcrafting is implemented, it would be the first class where you could pick and choose your abilities. And with the standardization of abilities and audits in recent patches, I think this would make it more likely. Fingers crossed.

warden is the previous battlemage

AlienSlof

I really REALLY hope not. The whole mead-obsessed Nords thing is getting so very old by now. They have little else to talk about but mead and punching each other in the face.

I loved - and still love - playing Skyrim itself, but the snow-nord-mead-drunk theme is boring now.

Kingslayer513

WuffyCerulei wrote: »

I can see the datamined one-hander+rune being the new big skill line next chapter. It’d make even more sense if the chapter was based around Winterhold (for the love of unborn Talos, please let this be the case).

Link to the datamine? Haven't heard this yet

SilverIce58

Kingslayer513 wrote: »

WuffyCerulei wrote: »

I can see the datamined one-hander+rune being the new big skill line next chapter. It’d make even more sense if the chapter was based around Winterhold (for the love of unborn Talos, please let this be the case).

Link to the datamine? Haven't heard this yet

It was datamined last year when Summerset was being teased. They found it in the game files, but we have only ever seen it on npcs.

BalmoraRatgirl

Shufeltco11 wrote: »

WillhelmBlack wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

RaddlemanNumber7 wrote: »

So, what do you think the theme is going to be for 2020? Year of the "what"?

Moar dragons!

Frosty toes

Lyris

Mead - most likely "Skyrim - The Season of Mead"

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

What is deep under ground in Skyrim?

Blackreach

No... I can't go through it again.... No!

Bucky_13

SantieClaws wrote: »

Ok this is the point at which we need someone who speaks Nord to tell us if skal, skaal and skald have any common meaning yes or if it is no more relevant than the similarity between the words jam, ham and pan.

Calling all Nords … !

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Just for fun:

Skal - shell in Swedish/ shall or must in Danish
Skål - cheers, or bowl in Swedish
Skaal -cheers or bowl in Danish (aa in danish is usually the same as å in swedish)
Skald - poet/bard
So no real connection, unless there's a drunken poet somewhere who surely must live in an old silt strider shell.

Elsonso

BalmoraRatgirl wrote: »

Shufeltco11 wrote: »

WillhelmBlack wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

RaddlemanNumber7 wrote: »

So, what do you think the theme is going to be for 2020? Year of the "what"?

Moar dragons!

Frosty toes

Lyris

Mead - most likely "Skyrim - The Season of Mead"

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

What is deep under ground in Skyrim?

Blackreach

No... I can't go through it again.... No!

My guess is that an ESO version of Skyrim would treat Blackreach as a dungeon or trial. You will be able to ignore it.

luen79rwb17_ESO

People are saying so many cool things in this thread that are getting me hyped! Hope this time it's not a dissapointing delivery like the necromancer class.

SantieClaws

Bucky_13 wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

Ok this is the point at which we need someone who speaks Nord to tell us if skal, skaal and skald have any common meaning yes or if it is no more relevant than the similarity between the words jam, ham and pan.

Calling all Nords … !

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Just for fun:

Skal - shell in Swedish/ shall or must in Danish
Skål - cheers, or bowl in Swedish
Skaal -cheers or bowl in Danish (aa in danish is usually the same as å in swedish)
Skald - poet/bard
So no real connection, unless there's a drunken poet somewhere who surely must live in an old silt strider shell.

But might not the connection be the environment? Would you not usually find a Skald in a place where there are also cheers and drinking bowls? I mean not always of course - they do all sorts of occasions. Also this one can easily see a connection between shell and bowl - one maybe being used as the other no?

Or maybe this is more to do with this one's knowledge of the cruder mead hall culture of the southern Celtic bards perhaps rather that the more refined Skald traditions of the north lands?

Yours with paws
Santie Claws