TheShadowScout wrote: »

Well, we got Elsweyr, and we have also gotten a hint of imperial remnant troubles as part of its storyline.

So personally, I think the most likely direction would be continuing that storyline, once they are done with Elsweyr and dragons... and look into some leftover lands from the fall of the empire. Nibenay and Blackwood perhaps, since they are bordering elsweyr. Colovia would make a good "standalone DLC" region I reckon. Possibly even leading the story towards Falkreath sometime, and from there take it further towards western skyrim.

Story-wise... well, we met Abnur Tharn, and his sister Euraxia (half-sister!), while his daughter Clivia is holding together the remains of the empire... and might need help against some threat...
...it could be another daedric prince, there are many minor ones who would love to make trouble and perhaps succed where Molag Bal and the triad conspiracy failed and build up a new empire under their control by infiltrating cultists into Nibenay or Colovia...
...or it could be some forgotten danger from Black Marsh awakened as side effect by the events in Murkmire threatening Blackwood, a host of undead, ancient ayleids or more recently deceased Knarhaten flu victims, led by a powerful lich-lord and bent on revenge against all living things...
...or or could be mundane, like for example imperial commanders in the scattered empire plotting against each other (Colovia vs. Nibenay?) or even the reachmen who might come together in hopes of conquering the empire again and reviving the reign of the longhouse emperors starting with Falkreath... (it has only been a few years since Varen Aquilarios overthrew them after all)

Of course, there are a great many other places where they might make an expansion of things. Western Skyrim and the Reachmen troubles in it alone would make for a grand expansion (possibly with a bardic guild thrown into it, much like Psijics in Summerset?), while there is still a lot of the hammerfell deserts to be covered in accessible regions... who knows what dangers might be hiddern beneath those sands? Or what mundane troubles might brew as the rift beween forebears and crowns get more and more pronounced, and some ambitious people wish to brew it into a civil war to seize power for themselves... Same for Black Marsh, really, but since Murkmire was recently done, I wager they would want a while before they turn their eyes towards that again...

I could easily see an "annual theme" here - imperial remnants 2020, western skyrim 2021, redguard deserts 2022... that's expansions and DLCs for three years, easy! And after that, they could easily go back to Black Marsh and do something there again as well in 2023. Four years of fun, easily!

In the further future, they could even go "offmap" - give us a "High Seas" expansion with piracy and exotic isles (maybe an expedition to the remains of sunken Yokuda, or a visit to Thras, isle-kingdom of the Sload?) and possibly even a maormer playable race, or an "Avaviri Vanguard" expansion covering the three large islands between Akavir and Tamriel, finding out the reason for the recent invasion and preventing the next one? With an option to play as one of the akaviri races?

And they could -always- squeeze in some daedric planes, but really, those might be much better done as CWC-sized DLC rather then as expansion.

Anyhow, those are my thoughts on the matter...