Face it, some of us kinda went either "cool..." or "wat?" when we saw the trailer for Hearthfire. Personally, I think its a neat addon but my first thought after seeing the whole video wasn't about where to have my house or what options to buy for it. It was the Fighter's Stronghold DLC (Battlehorn Castle) for Oblivion.

In that DLC, you the player fight off invaders in return of the deed to the castle. After that, you dump loads of septims to get upgrades and trophies from a taxidermist.

Sounds cool, a tad similar to what we know about Hearthfire...or is it?

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Unwanted_Tenants Not only that but it was unmarked, so it doesn't appear in the journal.

So the question is: Do you think there is something hidden by Bethesda in Hearthfire? Such as building on top of a sacred site resulting in a chain of events? What do you think?

There does seem to be a good deal of stuff...
"Here is the official Fact Sheet for Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Hearthfire released by Bathesda. The Document lists four major playing points in the game along with a general overview of what Elder Scrolls and some new objectives and interactions that will be available in Skyrim Hearthfire. Also released by Bathesda is a new Skyrim Hearthfire trailer which we have linked to below (the ArsenelRobert Version so you dont have to log into youtube to view it).
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Role-Playing
Description: With this official add-on to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim,youcan purchase land and build your own home from the ground up – from a simple one-room cottage to a sprawling compound complete with an armory, alchemy laboratory, stable, garden, and more. Use all-new tools like the drafting table and carpenter’s workbench to transform quarried stone, clay, and sawn logs into structures and furnishings. Even transform your house into a home by adopting children.

Key Features:

• Choose Your Land – Choose from property in the salt marshes of Hjaalmarch, the forests of Falkreath, or the vast tundra of The Pale. For the more ambitious landowner, purchase multiple plots and start building a real estate empire.

• Customize Your Home –Expand your home with a variety of room combinations including an armory, alchemy tower, kitchen, trophy room and more. Grow plants in your new greenhouse, cultivate slaughterfish in the fish hatchery, house your Arcane Enchanter in the enchanting tower, or display your latest conquest in the trophy room. Add additional features like stables, mills, smelters, gardens and more.

• New Objectives and Interactions – Guard your home from unwanted visitors like marauding kidnappers, armed bandits, and skeever infestations. Turn almost any follower into your personal steward to improve and protect your home. Or if you require more help, hire a personal bard or carriage driver to ease the burdens of home ownership.

• Adoption – Transform your house into a home with Hearthfire’s all-new adoption system. Adopt children and discover new ways to interact with your family. Play games with the kids, allow them to have pets and gain new bonuses from having a family."

Interesting, the mention of "marauding kidnappers" would seem to imply the possibility of someone who lives in your home being kidnapped.

If the kidnappers are successful, perhaps it might involve a quest to rescue your spouse or housecarl? In any case, these are some interesting new gameplay features that can be helpful for people working on mods.

could be do know thay planned out the sites to build on and to think you will need people to protect it might leed to stuff.
I also think it might be that lie finding the trothies wont be as easy as one thinks by just buying it or easely making it.
same as planting stuff one will need to get the seeds I think.

Was about to say, I missed that line.

It could be possible that it will lead to a small quest to rescue the victim. Perhaps radiant at least.

Kidnappers x3 I am glad they cant broke in to your house and steal stuff!

well armed bandit might steal stuff you know.
and the kipnaping one is kinda simeler to your wife getting kipnapt by vampires

Dawnguard added that? Or am I missing something here?

I just moved into Battle Horn Castle and I know what your talking about hehe, and its so cool I hope they do the same thing in this new Skyrim add-on.. PS Castle Battle Horn is way cool best money I spent

The DLC is only going to be $5, so it's not unreasonable that it would only be built around one feature. I wouldn't expect much in the way of "secret quests" that aren't directly related to the content that's listed above.

Weren't the Fighter's Stronghold DLC free for a while? I'm sure I got it for free.

jep thay did.
was kinda annoing killed my wife that way, on accident I might add

For the first week it was released, I believe. Now you have to pay (That is if you can find it )

Now you have me paranoid!

For a short while it was.

Found the info, http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Fighter%27s_Stronghold:

Yeah, I expect some radiant quests. There might be quests to unlock the deeds and then quests to save kidnapped stewards, bards and carriage drivers.

Giants might steal our livestock too.

Oh good, I thought I was imagining things again then, I only brought it up because someone in another thread said Beth have never gave anything away for free.

They might also have been completely forgetting/ignoring all the Morrowind content we got for free. And the patch content we've been getting for free with Skyrim.

I hope so.

I do believe so. I see this as an expansion upon Oblivion's "Fighter's Stronghold". Which did, in fact, have a few quests on the side.

it was that was how I got it. plus I put that and the wizards tower as the 2 best home dlcs and really I think atleast wizards tower was the best mage tower dlc or mod.

They did this with the companions, so its very possible to make it so here too.

"Turn almost any follower into your personal steward"
Except for beast races, just calling it now.


I hope there are at least some secrets and surprises.

It look's good to me but personally it does look a tad "suspicious" there might be more but it is only $5 so if there is more there wont be a whole lot.

I'm curious if we can turn faction-followers into Stewards. Can I turn Dawnguard members into my Stewards?