A Theory of where we are going for Chapter/4th quarter of next year. The year long theme Ghosts.

Thevampirenight

Earlier I made this thread about next year being Cyrodiil. But in that Thread I saw some posts from people that thought we might see Hammerfell. After doing some things in the chapter like quests and talking to Npcs I'm certain we are going to see both Hammerfell and Cyrodiil.
One quest doe stand out, its the one involving the stuck Boat. The Captain makes mention of the City of Rihad now why is this significant you might wonder look at the map.




The Town borders Cyrodiil and most importantly The Colovian estates where Skingrad is located and it also Borders Kvatch and Anvil being the next port over from Rihad. I think those two locations will be the chapter and forth quarter dlc of 2021.
Now onto the Theme and the Storyline Plot we are likely to see next year.

Though I have not finished the quest helping the Ghost Hunters in Black Reach. I don't know how that one ends yet so don't spoil it but I have this feeling or theory that we have not seen the last of these two Ghost Busters wannabes and I'm certain we are going to see a lot more of them next year. Because I'm certain of one thing about next years theme. Last years Theme was Dragons, This years theme is Vampires, Witches and Werewolves. What will next years theme be?

Last Month was a Statuette of Sithis, The statuette we got this month was of the Mermaid of Anvil and there is going to be a statuette of Ayleid with Eagle. What I'm saying here is that this is no coincidence. Then we got a Quest with Ghost Buster Like Npcs. Then we have the Dragonhome Delve and that Talking Doll that looks like a Casper and the doll does look like a Ghost. Plus I won't spoil it other then saying there is a certain house this dolls quest obviously references from Oblivion.

Anvil had this problem with having haunted places in Tes 4, there was a Haunted Ghost ship and there was a Haunted House. The Haunted Ship was caused by a rogue Dark Brotherhood Member Murdering the Npcs on the ship and by doing this the ship is haunted then we have that house in Anvil that was haunted and we have to deal with the Former Owner who turned himself into a Lich and you kill him. Ayleids have this tendency to show up as Ghosts or Liches for some reason and I think we might see something like that next year.
Hints all around in Greymoor hint towards Ghosts as the Main Plot of Next year. Next year has a very High chance of being Ghost Busters Themed. The Proof, Ghost Busters like quest seen in Black Reach. Npcs keep referencing Ghosts, We have a doll that looks like a Ghost and who's quests is a direct reference to the one quest in Oblivion involving Ghosts , We have killable Npcs that makes references to Ghosts. We have Vampiric Drain that looks something that comes from Ghost Busters.
The Ghost hints are all around Greymoor, Dialog talking about Ghosts pop up quite a bit in this chapter from the Npcs.

So what the plot will be can be anyone's guess but one things for sure I'm certain its going to be both Ghost Themed in some way and possibly themed after Ghost Busters. There is a very high chance we will be seeing the Cities of Rihad and Skingrad Next Year as the chapter and Forth quarter dlc locations. As there is both references to Cyrodiil and Hammerfell in the chapter. We have a direct mention of Rihad which is right next to Anvil/Kvatch and Skingrad.

So what do you think about this?

ArchMikem

The guy that ferried us to an island in i think the Murkmire prologue talked about sailing west of Summerset. We didnt end up going to Yokuda. A glancing mention of some place isnt much to go on.

Iccotak

Continuing the theme of Skyrim & Blackreach

The Reach and/or more Blackreach zone

Ankaridan

Iccotak wrote: »

Continuing the theme of Skyrim & Blackreach

The Reach and/or more Blackreach zone

No thanks.

More of Black Marsh, please. Or proper Valenwood jungles.

Iccotak

Ankaridan wrote: »

Iccotak wrote: »

Continuing the theme of Skyrim & Blackreach

The Reach and/or more Blackreach zone

No thanks.

More of Black Marsh, please. Or proper Valenwood jungles.

I misunderstood the title, I though OP meant the 4th quarter of this year.

Truth is we won’t know next years theme until the 4th quarter.

I hope that it’s Blackmarsh, really liked Murkmire and I think they set up hints back in Elsweyr with the Argonian trying help with the Khnatan Flu & Peryites cultists assault on the Khajiit city

Taleof2Cities

It's way too early for discussion on Q4 2021, @Thevampirenight.

Aliyavana

Next year's theme will center around meridia. They've been hinting at it

Lethallin

Probably somewhere in Black Marsh/Morrowind. They’ll likely cover up Tamriel before going onto other continents.

Tommy_The_Gun

It will be either Breton Chapter (Darien & Meridia) or Argonian Chapter (Black Marsh & its mysteries).

Nemesis7884

im fine with anything but hoping for a new region / faction that hasnt been covered yet i a chapter

Foto1

Ankaridan wrote: »

Iccotak wrote: »

Continuing the theme of Skyrim & Blackreach

The Reach and/or more Blackreach zone

No thanks.

More of Black Marsh, please. Or proper Valenwood jungles.

for valenwood there is no place on the map, unfortunately

cmetzger93

As long as we get a new weapon skill line or spellcrafting I don’t care.

JD2013

Q4 will most likely be The Reach this year.

Cyrodiil seems to be the top favourite speculation for next year's chapter, in which case both story DLC's will likely be Cyrodiil.

Shantu

None of it will matter if we're all playing at a 500+ ping.

TX12001rwb17_ESO

How are Ghosts going to be much of a threat?

They are one of the weakest forms of undead that there are.

Thevampirenight

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

How are Ghosts going to be much of a threat?

They are one of the weakest forms of undead that there are.

Before the dumbing down in Skyrim and Eso. Unless you had magic or a silver sword or Daedric Weapon. You couldn't damage them at all. They had some dangerous abilties as well if you were not careful especially the wraiths. They would be a threat to many normal people that don't have access to such weapons and so ghost could be a legit threat especially in large numbers. Don't underestimate Ghosts because they can be very dangerous.

Zombies would be the weakest form of Undead as you could just use an axe, with a ghost you need something enchanted/ silver and daedric weapons to fight like I said above or even a Fire spell but some types of wraiths have the ability to silence you so you can't cast magic and that even makes them more deadly.

From Uesp
Ghost

A ghost
The souls of the dead trapped on Nirn. They exist as spirits only, and can only be damaged by silver or magical weapons. Most kinds of ghosts possess magical abilities. Ghosts can be summoned by wizards. The Dunmer of Morrowind revere the ghosts of their dead ancestors.

TheShadowScout

Thevampirenight wrote: »

So what do you think about this?

Well, I am thinking someone reads way too much into some things... I mean, IF zos would put that sort of hints as to where they want to go bext into their expansions, we would have had to see khajiit all over Summerset and nords all over elsweyr. Didn't happen.

That being said... Hammerfell does make sense, as would remnants of cyrodil. My guess would be hammerfell first, since we did have a lot of imperial inlence in elsweyr, whos they might want to do something different before they go back to imperial entanglements...

And the deserts of hammerfell are still containing a lot of untouched sands they could make regions out of... so I would suspect we might get hammerfell next, and something of the imperial remnants later. And then... who knows? As it stands now, dominion territory is mostly done (barring falinesti wherever it went to, and a thin strip of elsweyr...), covenant space only really has hammerfell left for doing stuff... but there is still tons of dunmer, argonian and nord lands left to cover... since we recently had greymoor, and less recently murkmire... I suspect they could do some dunmer lands first, then add another expedition into argonian territories before revisiting skyrim again... perhaps mix in some off-tamriel expansion too, there are numerous islands from sunken yokuda to the ones in the padomic ocean between tamriel and akavir... and of course they could also someday make an expansion set entirely in oblivion... time will tell.

As for ghosts... eh. I remain unconvinced. We just had the "gothic theme" with vampires, I would think they might want to do something different... personally, if they go Hammerfell, I am hoping for something less mystical and completely mundane for a change, like the brewing trouble between "crowns" and "forbears", and the slow crumbling of the daggerfall covenant that has been hinted at in Orsinium... of course, the big bad threat for the greymoor fall DLC has a historiuc connection towards southern bangkorai and hammerfell in general, so it could be that they might link stories with that conenction...

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

It will be either Breton Chapter (Darien & Meridia) or Argonian Chapter (Black Marsh & its mysteries).

Well, "breton chapter" kinda has no space left to happen in. Since all regions of high rock are already in the game (except a certain adamantine tower...) So while I suispect that someday they will continue that story... it could happen at any time, and it might actually happen in a oblivion themed expansion...

Black Marsh... definitely a lot of possibilities there. But Murkmire was fall 2018, so it might be a while before they go there again... I would definitely expect a dunmer expansion first, seeing how Morrowind and CWC were in 2017... then afterwards back to black marsh.

JD2013 wrote: »

Cyrodiil seems to be the top favourite speculation for next year's chapter, in which case both story DLC's will likely be Cyrodiil.

Yeah, I definitely expect them to make a "Imperial Remnant" themed year soon. Nibenay as the expansion, and either Blackwood or Colovia as the fall DLC... but as mentioned, we had a lot of imperial entanglements in ensweyr, so... it would make sense if they did something else first, to prevent the feeling of "been there, done that"... so I for one would suspect redguards could be a more likely choice for the next year.

Thevampirenight wrote: »

Unless you had magic or a silver sword or Daedric Weapon. You couldn't damage them at all.

Yeah, back in those days, we all quested with a steel and a silver sword to switch, in case of ghosts... loooong before "the Witcher" was a thing in gaming culture...

indigorune

I agree with you about Cyrodiil. I see some people suggesting Morrowind and Black Marsh... that's highly unlikely, as we have already had DLC in those areas in prior years (with Murkmire being fairly recent). Cyrodiil is way more likely. The DBH DLC came out quite a while ago and the game was in a different place.

Also you are on to something with including Rihad in the 2021 storyline. The Thieves Guild DLC was also an early one.. I like your thinking. With the next TES game likely being in Hammerfell, I don't think they will explore too much of that location, but I could see them using a single city from it. Maybe even using it to promote TES6 (although that's likely not needed :P ).

They have previously but in small quests to hint at the location of the next chapter, with the Nord in S. Elsweyr going on about whales being the hint last time.

bharathitman

Q4 is going to be Reach pretty much (Markarth), there is a road from Western Skyrim pointing towards the Reach

Mettaricana

Ankaridan wrote: »

Iccotak wrote: »

Continuing the theme of Skyrim & Blackreach

The Reach and/or more Blackreach zone

No thanks.

More of Black Marsh, please. Or proper Valenwood jungles.

Please no more argonians im so sick of swamps lizards and mud huts...murkmire, other half of deshaan, shadowfen, all the bs argonian pandering in morrowind.. shadows of the hist enough for a few years

ShawnLaRock

Cyrodiil will be turned into a PVE zone once PVP has been killed off completely, and that will be the last update to the game.

S.

Thevampirenight

bharathitman wrote: »

Q4 is going to be Reach pretty much (Markarth), there is a road from Western Skyrim pointing towards the Reach

When I said chapter/4th quarter I meant the chapter/4th quarter of next year 2021.
Its all but confirmed that we are going to the Reach 4th quarter this year.

Hurbster

Hopefully, nothing until it's ALL fully bug-tested.