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The Breton nightblade was not raised as a zombie he was undead from the beginning

Notice in the first trailer how he seems to carelessly send the orc soldiers and just to check on the defenders response and then without a hint of disappointment goes into being a badass after the soldiers fall onto the chasm. Well here's my take on it he didn't care because they were all empowered by Breton magic remember this are the guys who brought you hagravens and forsworn in Skyrim I wouldn't be surprised of they were all liches from the beginning

• Unlikely, since his face visibly changes when he gets turned by Molag Bal's forces, and then again when he is purified by the Altmer. Also, the Hagravens and Forsworn in Skyrim aren't Breton. They're of the Reach, which is a different ethnic group, featuring in the Daggerfall Covenant questline as antagonists.

TES Online does not take place in Tamriel

It takes place in Coldharbour, which has already been said to be a cruel mirror of the real Tamriel, your characters and others just think they're in Dawn's Beauty rather than Molag Bal's Arena. It handily explains the oddities with the set-up, explains away the problems with the handwave justification for being able to come back and is perfectly in the Corruptor's perview.

• this appears to be jossed with the Coldharbour reveal video
• Jossed.

The third cinematic trailer is going to be the Nord's show.

During the last two cinematics there has been a segment where the sound aside from the music drops out and the focus character in question displays some truly awe inspiring combat feats that ends the serious fighting for that trailer. The first cinematic had the Breton McNinja single-handedly demolish an imperial garrison while the second had the Altmer spellsword obliterate some armored Dremora and destroy Molag Bal's chain gate unassisted. The third is going to feature the Nord trucking through a horde of undead like a superheated buzzsaw through paper mache and end with the zombie Breton getting beheaded.

• This is actually fairly accurate. The release trailer, "Siege", depicts the Ebonheart Pact laying siege to the Imperial city. While the Nord doesn't do much in the way of fighting, we see how clever he is. The Nord uses the Aldmeri woman he pulled out of the rubble earlier in order to rip a hole through the Imperial City wall, ending with a one-on-one confrontation with Zombie Breton.

The Bigger good is going to be The Ebonarm

Or at least there will be a reference to him, Sai or the Citadel.

• Ebonarm has been written out of the lore, as shown in the current version of the Memory Stone of Makela Leki, which no longer contains references to him.

The plot is another in-universe book

Putting together a coherent timeline of Tamriel is already difficult, thanks to the flexible standards of scholarship found in the books scattered through the games. If this game proves unpopular or is rife with continuity issues, Bethesda will simply declare it to be an in-universe work and therefore of debatable historical truth.

• Unlikely, but the matter itself is lampshaded in-game by the openly conflicting books of Lady Cinnabar of Taneth and Phrastus of Elinhir.
  • (not OP here)Sorry to just interject my opinion but good eye and excellent call! I had forgotten about than business because I mentally wrote it off an element of comic relief. It's very weird because smitten Cinnabar is of significant standing, but has basically jotted down a frivolous diary entry out of . . . I don't even know what. Whereas as Phrastus's more serious take and standing make it that much harder to not %100 disregard Cinnabar's recorded pov.

Lord Harkon will appear

He's a devout worshiper of Molag Bal and an immortal vampire. The timeline is also right for Serana to make a cameo, assuming the guess of her imprisonment being second era is correct.

If the game looks like it's going to fail, Zenimax will introduce Tiber Septim himself

It would be a good way to draw more interest and possibly save the game. And if it doesn't work, they can instead end the game with Septim taking over.

• He doesn't show up until roughly the end of the Second Era, though.
  • A little more detail on why this won't happen: ESO takes place in 2E 582 on the Elder Scrolls timeline. The birth of Hjalti Early-Beard AKA General Talos/Tiber Septim does not take place until 2E 830. It's possible that they COULD put Tiber in the game via some sort of future vision from the Scrolls. However short of a massive retcon or time travel any type of long term appearance of Tiber is highly unlikely.

Sheogorath will have a prominent role or at least more than a token appearance

Three reasons. First, with Molag Bal having a prominent role, more of the Princes are bound to be included; Second, he's pretty much the Ensemble Dark Horse of said Daedric Princes; and Third,cheese!

• Confirmed. Sheogorath is the Big Bad of the Mages Guild questline.

Boethiah and Mehrunes Dagon will be prominent Enemy Mine allies of the player characters.

Boethiah hates Molag, and Dagon's driving motivation is the destruction of Nirn- he's not going to stand by and let Molag do it.

• Surprisingly, Molag Bal is at one point aided by a devout worshipper of Mehrunes Dagon.

At some point, Molag Bal, the King of Rape, will hum Singing In The Rain

He IS voiced by Alex DeLarge.

• Jossed.

Elder Scrolls Online is historical fiction

This explains the entire interrugnum as well as the improbabilities of the factions themselves, as well as various other factors. The entire game is historical fiction written by an author in Tamriel!

• Unofficial call: This is ringing "Myst" in my ears way too loudly lol

The second half of the Season of Dragon will take place in Skyrim and Southern Elsweyr

The game makes a point to call the zone for the Elsweyr chapter Northern Elsweyr, which insinuates that they will introduce the southern part later. The DLC dungeon pack that will be released in the third quarter will be mostly in Skyrim, as that is the location most people are familiar with dragons, possibly to learn more about them and the Shout. Then, the mini-zone DLC that will conclude the Season of the Dragon, will take place in Southern Elsweyr. This theory is because, after completing Elsweyr's story, Abnur Tharn says he will go to Southern Elsweyr to learn more about the fake eclipse that happened, and how it will affect the Khajiit who biologically depend on the moons.

• Partially confirmed, the Dragonhold DLC takes place in Southern Elsweyr. Additionally, the third cinematic trailer for the Season of Dragon has a stinger which shows the Nord character back in Skyrim.

Meridia will be the Big Bad of a future DLC, and she will have fully turned the Golden Knight against you.

The final note you receive in Summerset from Darien Gautier explicitly tells you she is a deceiver, not to mention the astonishingly cruel fate she's inflicted upon him. Given that Darien describes being trapped in the Colored Rooms with his mind and willpower slowly slipping away, it seems likely that he will be converted to a fully loyal servant of Meridia by the time you ever cross paths again.

The chapter for 2020 will take place in Skyrim.

Given how the dragons are not completely gone, Zenimax Online mentioned that Winterhold will be a new zone in the future, and that there are a lot of Nordic items in the crown store, it looks like the next Chapter will take place in Skyrim, probably in the Whiterun, Hjaalmarch, Haafingar area.

• Confirmed, the next chapter is called Greymoor and will be set in western Skyrim. Much like 2019's storyline was called "Season of the Dragon", the 2020 storyline has been referred to as the "Dark Heart of Skyrim"

Skyshards are somehow related to "Dragonbreak" phenomena

Something about the wording when obtaining the skill point from the skyshards by "absorbing" made the process stand out from most of the other beneficial mechanisms of the Elder Scrolls universe. Quick recap a Dragonbreak is when something so cataclysmically altering involving souls and massive quantities of Aetherial occurs, that time and reality are altered to fill the schism. Originally a Word of God / Gameplay and Story Segregation tool developed to cover the multiple hero ending possibilities generated by player choices in Daggerfall that would need covering in the upcoming Morrowind. Deep in Elder Scrolls lore it says that the stars are childeren of the Aetherius or some such, that they are actually holes in reality literally leading through Mundus into Aetherius. Given the fact that a Dragonbreak is generated by events on Mundus/Nirn, it stands to reason there would be a Mundus or Nirnly manifestation of the energies, or Aetheria (:/ kind of a pun on the words "a theory" lol :/). Anyway, the skyshards are actually physical representations of the hole leading through to Aetherius and the beam of light is actually flowing directly into there as well. Both the crystals and the beams of light are generating all the energies necessary to establish all effects/phenomena of a Dragonbreak, ie varying accounts of single events, individuals in multiple places at once, record tomes spontaneously physically changing to reflect the "anomalies", and so on. Consequently, due to the Elder Scrolls Online events taking place during a Dragonbreak it would seem the player character is quite privvy to partaking to the effect of spontaneous skill point generation. My apologies for the Spoiler Swiss Cheese . . .

The Order of the Waking Flame is a precursor to the Mythic Dawn from Oblivion

Everyone who has played both games can see the blatent similarities between the two Dagonist cults. Doyalist reasoning aside, it is quite possible that the seeds for the Mythic Dawn came from the deposed Waking Flame. After all, in Oblivion the Mythic Dawn could be traced back to the time of Tiber Septim, and by the Third Era the records for events prior to Septim were spotty at best. Who is to say Mankar Camoran was not inspired by the words of an older cult?