First picture of new Skyrim DLC. Trailer coming on Monday

[Spiritofpower]

I'm gonna buck the trend and call this guy a priest of Hermaeus Mora. The DLC files mentioned his plane of Oblivion, right? And tentacles. Well, Hermaeus Mora is commonly depicted as a gigantic squid with too many eyes, so tentacles make sense, even as an attack one of his priests would use.

Also, I have this to say about Solstheim (and everything else):

YES.

HELL YES.

HELL.

F***ING.

YES.

 

[RedDeadFred]

I don't know why everyone thinks we'll be riding dragons... I'm assuming that we'll be fighting enemies who are riding dragons. The guy in the picture is probably a powerful dragon priest who rides a dragon. Maybe a final boss, maybe a new higher level enemy. I seriously doubt we are riding dragons.

 

[Brotha Desmond]

People keep on saying dragon priest. I have to say that it will more likely be a dragon knight.

 

[Robot Number V]

Looks like a Grey Beard wearing armor to me.

Dude with a vagina for a mouth?

Aaaand now I can't unsee it. Although looking at the helmet's mouth just made me realize that the armor definitely looks made for Shouting.

 

[dagens24]

There def won't be dragon riding in the province of Skyrim; the physical game world wasn't built with ariel travel in mind. If they are going to have dragon riding it would have to be exclusive to a new land mass, possibly Sothowhatever, like the rumours suggest.

 

[Loop Stricken]

I just hope that Silverlock updates SKSE in time. For some reason Steam suddenly decided to opt everyone into the Skyrim 1.8 beta regardless of whether they wanted to or not, so I can't play without crashing. Only people still in offline mode are immune.

Is that what that random 150MB update was?
Balls.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Trailers up now on youtube.


Looks like we will be heading back to Solstheim

 

[AlotFirst]

I think I saw the Apocrypha, and if that was in fact the Apocrypha then it looks a lot different from what I expected.

 

[TheSapphireKnight]

I have to say this looks a lot more interesting with a lot more content than Dawnguard. Does that mean he will be able to kill Odahviing if we can bring him along?

 

[Andrewtheeviscerator]

Trailers up now on youtube.


Looks like we will be heading back to Solstheim

Thanks man, I'll edit it into the op

Interesting the guy said he was the first DragonBorn, wasn't Tiber Septum one of the first, or am I probably getting confused.

 

[endtherapture]

This just makes me want Morrowind remade.

 

[ohnoitsabear]

I saw Televani mushroom houses in that trailer. Fuck yes.

I am so getting this.

Edit: Damnit, it looks like it's going to be another timed exclusive with Microsoft. C'mon Bethesda, you said you wouldn't after Hearthfire. Doing this doesn't benefit your customers at all.

 

[Misterian]

I am all kinds of excited.

But I still want Bethesda to give me the option of:

- Destroying the Thieves Guild (in a manner that is more involved than just going down to the Ratway and killing everybody).
- Wiping the Black-Briar family off the map, either by slaying them all or sabotaging their business empire.
- Joining the Silver Hand to wipe out those dogs and reforge the Companions.
- Telling the Blades where to shove it.

CHOICES Bethesda. Give me substantial, story changing CHOICES in this new DLC, and I will forgive you all your other sins.

I'd vouch for the first 2 and the fourth (don't really see much point on the third).

though what I'd like to see is the option to make the Dragonborn the next Emperor of Tamriel.

'Cause c'mon, it's the Dragonborn we're talking about, most of the known Dragonborns before Skyrim's protagonist have been Emperors, so why shouldn't the one we've been playing as get to be one?

Also, it could work as a good tie-in for a sequel, have the next royal family of Tamriel consist of Skyrim's Dragonborn and his/her descendants, keep their race and gender ambiguous to allow the audience to fill in the blanks (I can see someone wanting to imagine Tamriel being run by a Khajiit Empress, that already sounds awesome). Also, if we'll be fighting the Aldmeri Dominion in the 6th game, It can make for a number of possible reasons for the new emperor to want to go to war with them, such as an Altmer Emperor having a 'My Species Doth Protest Too Much' sort of moment, or a Khajiit Emperor wanting to free his or her people from the Dominion, things like that.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

But seriously, Bethesda, what about the PS3 version of Dawnguard?

I think the general consensus is that the PS3 version is broken beyond repair and there's no point bringing out DLC for it. I caved in and just got it on PC instead...

 

[SajuukKhar]

Edit: Damnit, it looks like it's going to be another timed exclusive with Microsoft. C'mon Bethesda, you said you wouldn't after Hearthfire. Doing this doesn't benefit your customers at all.

No they didn't, they said the first two DLc would be timed exclusive, but made no comment on any DLc past that.

though what I'd like to see is the option to make the Dragonborn the next Emperor of Tamriel.

'Cause c'mon, it's the Dragonborn we're talking about, most of the known Dragonborns before Skyrim's protagonist have been Emperors, so why shouldn't the one we've been playing as get to be one?

Also, it could work as a good tie-in for a sequel, have the next royal family of Tamriel consist of Skyrim's Dragonborn and his/her descendants, keep their race and gender ambiguous to allow the audience to fill in the blanks (I can see someone wanting to imagine Tamriel being run by a Khajiit Empress, that already sounds awesome). Also, if we'll be fighting the Aldmeri Dominion in the 6th game, It can make for a number of possible reasons for the new emperor to want to go to war with them, such as an Altmer Emperor having a 'My Species Doth Protest Too Much' sort of moment, or a Khajiit Emperor wanting to free his or her people from the Dominion, things like that.

You cant keep your players race/gender ambiguous and make them the emperor.

the time of the dragonborn Kings is over, it was the ENTIRE point of Oblivion's MQ.

 

[KissmahArceus]

I am all kinds of excited.

But I still want Bethesda to give me the option of:

- Destroying the Thieves Guild (in a manner that is more involved than just going down to the Ratway and killing everybody).
- Wiping the Black-Briar family off the map, either by slaying them all or sabotaging their business empire.
- Joining the Silver Hand to wipe out those dogs and reforge the Companions.
- Telling the Blades where to shove it.

CHOICES Bethesda. Give me substantial, story changing CHOICES in this new DLC, and I will forgive you all your other sins.

Those are some pretty cool story paths, I also want to destroy the Dark Brotherhood with one of my characters too

 

[KissmahArceus]

Ooh and the Dragonborn trailer looks ace too

 

[xptn40S]

Dude with a vagina for a mouth?

That was roughly my second thought upon seeing the image.

But hey, dragonriding sounds like it might be fun.

 

[ohnoitsabear]

Edit: Damnit, it looks like it's going to be another timed exclusive with Microsoft. C'mon Bethesda, you said you wouldn't after Hearthfire. Doing this doesn't benefit your customers at all.

No they didn't, they said the first two DLc would be timed exclusive, but made no comment on any DLc past that.

That doesn't change the fact that it's complete bullshit. The only reason to do it would be if they were being paid by Microsoft to do it, which is a reason that I honestly can't sympathize with (for the PC DLC, at least. The PS3 version has other reasons that aren't necessarily any better).

Oh well, at least I'll be able to know if it's worth twenty bucks before I get it.

 

[Spiritofpower]

All of a sudden I feel extremely vindicated for getting the 360 version.

Regardless, I guess I was wrong about Mr. First Dragonborn over there. Still, the DLC looks awesome.

Actually, awesome doesn't begin to cover it, my actual reaction was something more like "QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM THIS IS SO AWESOME"

I literally have no words for this. Nothing that adequately describes my feelings about this DLC, at least.