Yeah... that just sounds more like you're deluding yourself. No offense. I started the main quest at level 45, finished around 47. Found it very unsatisfying in comparison to other quests, such as the Wolf Queen one you get in Solitude.

After you get to the Temple to find out about you needing to stop the world eater you can just leave them at their little temple and go to the Graybeards and their master for help from then on OR talk to the blades. As I sided with the graybeards I never went to the blades again.

Ah, I see. I made the unfortunate mistake of having my old allies join them. Kinda annoyed now that I think about it.

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i always assumed after kiling of that dragon guy your next quest is actualy to become thane of all jarls which would them mean you get crowned king at the next moot which would be the real ending to the main quest but the rest seems missed off from what i read here.

I do not see how the Dovahkiin would be crowned king. Assuming you play through one side of the civil war quest line, either Ulfric or Elisif become High King/Queen. A thane is lower in status than a jarl, so you would have to become jarl first. It would be nice to take over as jarl of Windhelm for Ulfric when he becomes king if you followed that side.

But you're dragonborn, that's what all the emperors were, which is why not becoming one doesn't make sense.

I agree the dragonborn has the right to be emperor, thats why the blades don't protect titus because they say the dragon born is the true emperor, i mean we should at lease getta be a jarl or high king, and for all you people who say your an adventurer not a king and you'd be bad at it, i remind you IT IS A VIDEO GAME who cares if the high king takes a break to go kill a dragon or retrieve a lost item for one of his subjects.

But the amulet of kings was destroyed by Martin, marking the end of that era. You point is technically correct: that's what all the emperors were. Those days are gone. We don't know what lies ahead for the Empire or the Blades, and we don't know if a dragonborn will be emperor again.

And face it. Saving empire is a thankless job. Ever notice how no one ever remembers the name of the Nerevarine?

Who?

I don't think being dragonborn automatically makes you qualified to be emperor. I think I remember reading (may have been the lore forums) that potentially all the emperors were dragonborn, but not necessarily because they were dragonborn. After all, not all emperors were related by blood (I think). So dragonborn, but not dragon-blood. Besides, if you make the Dovahkiin emperor, whose Dovahkiin are you going to pick? My Nord Battlemage who is the Harbinger and Arch-Mage and sided with Ulfric, or maybe some other person's character who Was an Imperial loyalist, joined the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood? Do you see the problem with making the player character (PC) the start of a new line of emperors?

While I did enjoy playing the main quest, I would have liked more at the end in the way of video/cut scenes. You know how if you put the Oblivion disc in and if you dont press anything then you see a video montage with the patrick srewart voiceover? After going through so much in the main quest, I would have liked a 5/6 minutes of video cut scenes with a Max Von S voiceover, showing the land of Skyrim and all the different places youve been to/characters youve met in a 'Grand Epilogue' Other than that I enjoyed it.

thats silly...you havent played the other elder scrolls games have you?


ever heard of the warp in the west? go look it up on the wiki.....fact is when the next elder scrolls game comes out you'll find what story line bethesda decided on. as far as an adventurer becoming king...Conan anyone?

and didnt any of you notice they paved the way for the dovakhiin to become emperor in the dark brotherhood quests? now the lore might not make him emperor in the next game but what this boils down to is that tamriel went thru an ugly period where the empire lost power for several hundred years but it will return strong after defeating those damn elves and sticking their foot back on the throat of all the governments.

i think you should have been given the option to tell the blades what to do as the dragonborn....you're effectively a brother to dragons in your soul....why the heck should you be forced to kill one by some scrubs trying to relive their glory days? knife one and the rest will get in line....friggen blades.

This.

I pretty much enjoyed the main quest. Could it have been better? Yes, but it was good enough for me. I don't want people cheering and clapping every time I cross the street.

For Roleplay aspects, my character has earned the right to return to Sovngarde after his death,which is, on one hand, the dream of every true nord, and on the other, a great honor as a Khajiit. That's enough reward for me.
On an item-based point of view...yeah well, if I got an powerfull weapon at the end, every other player around the world would use that one too. That'd break my Elder Scrolls immersion.
When the construction set is released, I'll have some mods in mind to fix that...

I'm not sure why some of you guys say that Skyrim's MQ was worse than Oblivion's, Skyrim's blew Oblivion's out of the water, in Oblivion it was very tedious and redundant, you go into an oblivion gate close it and repeat the process a couple times then you finally do something different with the Mythic Dawn. In Skyrim I found the quest was way better and diverse, yeah the ending was kind of like, "Whoa did I just beat the main quest? That is it?" but it was much better than Oblivion's.I do feel however that this one had a shorter main quest, not sure if it did but it felt like it.

The dragon was the same as every other dragon we fought. There was no real challenge for something that's supposedly as powerful as everyone made him out to be. It was just underwhelming, when compared to the many other better quests.

It is not silly. I am well-acquainted with TES and these forums (for some reason my original handle, Othniel, is inaccessible due to the hacking issues). I started with Morrowind (my favorite), and have finished both that and Oblivion several times. Every now and then I pick at Daggerfall a bit, but the graphics are very hard to get past.

Do you really want to have another Dragonbreak - one that simultaneously features all 10 races being crowned emperor? We have yet to have the Player Character featured in such a role, one that would necessitate being under the historical microscope. Our previous champions have been shadowy figures of whom the details are lost to history. If Bethesda really wants to make the Dovahkiin emperor, I would much rather they make it vague as to who or what s/he was. Perhaps an interim emperor that not many folk new much about, followed by a new dynasty. Honestly though, even taking into account the events of the DB storyline, 200 years is kinda short for the new Mede dynasty. I think they deserve a few more centuries at least. That aside, I very much hope that they do not pull another Warp (in the North this time), though I can certainly see how neat and tidy it would make things. All in all, I do not want the Dovahkiin to become emperor. It would cause too many issues for many to be happy about.

Well...i never expected from Bethesda a good main quest, it is not their strong suite.
But this...i did it once and i never will touch it again, such dissapointment.

Yeah, I know how you feel. My new character hasn't even touched it.

It was SO lame. The god-awful Water Purification quest in FO3 was better.

And it ends so abruptly you're left going..."wait..that's it?"

Not even ONE item from it either. I don't know what would really be appropriate, and it's not like the armor in Oblivion was anything special but it LOOKED cool.

So what if my family didn't conquer a continent? I saved the mother [censored] planet.

If you paid attention to the Blade's oath - it is not "We will protect the Dragonborn." It is "I will hunt down and kill every single dragon on the planet."

The Blades protect the Dragonborn the same way the United States Army protect our nuclear arsenal - it is the deadliest weapon we have against the enemy.

There is no master-servant relationship or even commander-soldier relationship in the [modern] blades.

I had wished for more intrigue from the Thalmor angle. Did they somehow instigate Ulfric into throwing Skyrim into chaos, therefore fulfilling prophecy? Lore-wise, the Thalmor would probably like it if a world-eating took place, but in-game, they seem troubled by the return of the dragons like everyone else. More clarification of their role in it all, if any, would have been nice.

DLC maybe? The story seemed kinda incomplete.

I'm going to have to agree with you.... In this particular thing, gamesas is following that greatest of bards, Tolkien. Frodo and Sam did it to save their world. They didn't expect rewards and when given them, were mightily embarrassed. I suppose you can say the RingBearers got the reward of going over sea.... but that's not like the "rewards" people seem to expect from games today....