
My perspective is that I'd define 'winning' as having achieved the goals of that faction. We used to debate this a lot back in beta, and a common argument was "EP wins because Tiber was a Nord". (Sure there are details that are unclear or debated in lore but something big like Molag Bal trying to take over or.dragons appearing in Cyrodiil or an invasion from Akavir would be completely off the table.)Īlso they couldn't go too far back or you'd start to run into issues like the Dunmer not being in Morrowind, the Orsimer not being transformed, the Ayleids still being around etc. It also helps that there's no clear winner (which might bias people towards that faction) and the details aren't clear, which gives them relatively freedom to add events and storyline with DLC/expansions, whereas if they'd chosen something more well known like Tiber Septims conquest of Tamriel they'd have to stick relatively closely to the pre-written version.

I think they want to save after Skyrim for TES VI and they chose this period because they wanted to have large scale PvP so it had to be some point when all of Tamriel was at war. I'd rather it be based on more recent events IE after skyrim, it's not so exciting knowing what happens.

I don't know if I like the place they chose to put this story.
