Hello, title says it.

Do you think that the dragonborn will become the next emperor of Tamriel?

No. Please no. Oh god, no. Just no.

I highly doubt this. For one, this would mean giving the player character of Skyrim an official name and family. How many people would want the millions of characters for this game they have made to be nothing and how many would be happy with the canon saying the Dovahkiin's then official given name? That would kind of defeat the purpose of character customization.

Skyrim has caused enough political inconsistencies for future games. This would be a nightmare.

I also doubt it but I'm just checking what the forum thinks.

Skyrim may just get the same treatment that the multiple endings of Daggerfall got. They might just omit any of the Dovahkiin's involvement with the events of the Civil War quests. Maybe they will just do what they did with Morrowind's political parts of its story and not make mention of the small stuff that was optional. Maybe the canon will just say the Dovahkiin ended the civil war.

No. Why? Because this isn't Dragon Age. There's not a single path to follow to "import" into the next game. This is one of the quirks of TES that keeps it top notch in the CRPG world. Every game that comes out, every player starts in an equal world, with equal footing. Every player makes the world, and the story, his or her own with every character he/she plays.

The difference here is that the civil war's outcome decides whether or not Skyrim is an Imperial province or not. That's a big deal, and it would be incredibly difficult for Bethesda to get around giving a definitive state-of-affairs. Morrowind ends up more or less the same no matter what, because the Heart is destroyed. The Tribunal lose power, ultimately ending in Morrowind's destruction, and the Nerevarine runs off to Akavir. Yes, there are minor details surrounding the Great Houses and whether or not certain characters were killed, but nothing that effects the overall state of the province.

I don't think so.. Naturally the empire won't wanna give up power to some random person in skyrim.. Its like a dragonborn being found in the Aldmeri Dominion and the Empire makes him Emperor.. Right now they don't trust many people and they are putting trust in less people I believe.. This is only speculation though..

Well, the Dragonborn's current abilities seem to revolve around blindly following orders, and hitting things over the head with variations of weapon/magics.
The last dragonborn to become emporer (Tiber) abilites were being generally brilliant stratagist, backstabbing murderer, excellent insight into the divine, shrewd negotiator and being an all around glorious [censored].

He doesn't really have any legitimate claim to the throne in the eyes of the current dynasty, so he'd need to rally large army to conquer a new empire. Tad too much for a DLC, plus he'd be the start of a whole new dynasty (probably declare a new era too), too much to attribute to a player character.

No, he will become Batman. I thought the MQ made it evident to every player.

Only the Septims were Dragonborn, and the Septim bloodline died with Uriel and Martin. The Mede is the current ruling house, and none of its members are Dragonborn. Being Dragonborn no longer provides a legitimate claim on the Imperial throne.

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I'd love to keep this up but that would be considered spam... :'(

I don't know. I kinda don't see Nords and Cyrodiils crowning an Argonian emperor...

They don't have to. They can just say "Dovahkiin became emperor, had a child name This-and-that, 400 years passed since then". Bethesda is good at not mentioning details. Though arguably it wouldn't work if Dovahkiin was female, because then we might suddenly start an Altmeri dynasty... Dovahkiin died childless?