I mean, off the top of my head, and without being too specific, what I would like to see is...


an Argonian Necromancer who has a past position with the Dark Brotherhood or Shadowscales.

You gain rapport through using the blade of woe, they idolize you and want to better themselves if you tell them you're a Silencer. You only gain negative rapport if you use edicts in front of them to lower bounty, and through paying the fence or guards. Through their quests you learn they are struggling to reconnect with the hist, and you find you can have them either fill that void by connecting with you or you can help them along the spiritual path to reconnect to their Hist tree. Their story arc culminates in a request from their egg-sibling who is fighting to be chief of what's left of their clan, if you push them to voice support, the other chief candidate won't step down and it's a fight to the death.. You get to be the companion and enact a bloody massacre for the leader spot on their behalf, and the ghostly version of either their egg sibling or the opposing chief becomes a house item depending on your choice, and if you do the quest on different characters and get both you can put them near each other and have them argue in their afterlife.

You also either get a Hist Tree home collectable or their hist tree/village as a home depending on your choices.

I want a vampire one.

I want to continue to build my yuri harem, so, more female companions please.

Argonian Shadowscale, yes, that would be nice and an Altmer-Vampire. Both male, of course, to bring the situation back into balance.

KingArthasMenethil wrote: »

A Dunmer Telvanni Necromancer Is what I expect from next year who likes it when you murder people, do Dark Brotherhood and various other evil actions.

Possible if the next chapter really takes place on the Telvanni Peninsula. I hope they'll abstain from a too cliché evil character, though. That might work in fairytales or children's movies, but otherwise it's silly. I could imagine a immoral scholarly type, however, ruthlessly breaking the taboo of disturbing the dead, which is especially strong in Dunmer society with their ancestral veneration.

jle30303 wrote: »

Perhaps they could even be the necromancer-type since Argonians, like Dunmer, seem to have fewer scruples in that direction?

Quite the opposite with Dunmer, actually.

This year we got Isobel & Ember. Last Year we got Bastian and Mirrii.

I think that the cool idea for the next companions is to maybe (since we always get 2 of them) make companions to know each other plot wise ? So we could have companion quests to kinda go back & fourth between them.

For example, imagine a story of Brother & Sister that escape from something and the player character needs to help them etc. It can be depended on the setting the next chapter will be.

For example: An Argonian family (brother & sister) escaping from slavery & slave hunter who is chasing them and the companion quest would basically be to finally face the bad guy & defeat the evil slavers. This could also be an opportunity to introduce something different - for example you would have to increase the rapport on both companions to trigger the final quests, as it would affect them both.

Arox the Mutilator!

Something different than more companions. Four companions is a fair amount. At this point, I have one set up as healer, tank, melee dps, and range dps. I'm good, don't need any more.

One of new companion will likely be tied to whatever next year chapters locations is. So if wood elf chapter then a wood elf. If Redguards chapter then a Redguard. I guessing those are the most likely chapters

I know this is a long way out, but when (maybe even if) we return to Elsweyr for the cities of Torval and Corinthe and the Tenmar jungles, I'd love to see an Alfiq and a Senche Raht as companions. The quests alongside Caska and Sereyne sold me on them as companions long before companions were a thing

Would take a bit of extra work though since motifs and costumes obviously won't be compatible, so they'd need to create a decent enough pool of unique costumes to collect for them through gameplay. And weapons are also not going to work, but I'd also be fine with them each having their own fixed "weapon" if, in exchange, they had four core skill lines each rather than three.

For mounts, the alfiq would hop up with you when you mount up, and the senche-raht would be mountable.

jle30303 wrote: »

Yagrum Bagarn would be a great one as well. Just throwing it out there.

Is he on Nirn currently? Or is he still stuck in some Daedric dimension?

ghastley wrote: »

Two males seems likely, which might eliminate the Clockwork option, as all but the Precursor are nominally female.

Not all. While most are designed female (which has to do with them being based on Sotha Sil's sister), there are a few exceptions. Also, any soul, regardless of gender, can be trapped into a factotum's physical form (people normally go insane during that process, though).

I mainly just want two male ones to balance out the two female ones from High Isle and want them to be well done and interesting characters, who are not just a walking trope or eyecandy.

Though, an argonian would be nice, and having them being a Shadowscale is a great way to add a character who is positive about DB stuff, and also gives an opportunity for more Shadowscale lore.

I would be very disappointed and skip it entirely if necromancer companion would be argonian, the race always turned me off for how unattractive, unrealistic and cartoonish they look + their deep smoker voices sound so out of place.

Ideally i hope for young male high elf necromancer with snobby, sarcastic and a bit cruel attitude. For warden, my pick would be between redguard and wood elf, i just hope they won’t make this companion as noble as other 3, something closer to Ember maybe who don’t mind stealing and killing.

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

This year we got Isobel & Ember. Last Year we got Bastian and Mirrii.

I think that the cool idea for the next companions is to maybe (since we always get 2 of them) make companions to know each other plot wise ? So we could have companion quests to kinda go back & fourth between them.

For example, imagine a story of Brother & Sister that escape from something and the player character needs to help them etc. It can be depended on the setting the next chapter will be.

For example: An Argonian family (brother & sister) escaping from slavery & slave hunter who is chasing them and the companion quest would basically be to finally face the bad guy & defeat the evil slavers. This could also be an opportunity to introduce something different - for example you would have to increase the rapport on both companions to trigger the final quests, as it would affect them both.

Like 2 quests for each, then a shared final and first ones?

Boy, I don't know on this one. I feel guilty leaving Mirri in the dirt and going on with a new companion.