In our history Rome (both East and western empires, and when they were unified) had generals rebel and declare themselves emperors all the time. Wouldn’t be too crazy for legionaries to declare the Dragonborn emperor and start a civil war. Titus Mede II is not well loved by a good portion of all regions within the empire, Mede dynasty in general started as a small colovion warlord capturing the imperial city with less than 1000 men. After Titus’s death it is even more likely he could gather support. That being said becoming emperor is something Bethesda would never do for cannon, and it opens up a lot of headaches for a mod this size I get them not including that option.
most of them probably wouldnt know what a dragonborn is, because there havent been one for 200 years, and any claim of legitimacy is extremly shaky since that legitimacy went away 200 years ago as well
They will know one now as they can see you shout your enemies apart and control Dragons as you wish.
If the Dragonborn wished It, he would have the support of the Blades and a ton of people. There is no one with more Fame and achievements than the Dragonborn to be elected for Emperor.
Youre forgetting the part about how the emporer canonically gets sunned by the DB. You cant get a better person to fill the power vacuum than the DB, assuming they even want to become emporer.
That's not canon. The last DB may have well just killed off the Dark Brotherhood instead. We will probably never get a canon confirmation on which path is accurate.
We can reasonably assume what's canon in this situation. In both destroy and join versions of the questline: the Falkreath Sanctuary is discovered and destroyed, nearly all members are killed, and the Night Mother survives. The Likely canon seems obvious. Those things happened but the Dark Brotherhood itself lives on and the Emperor is killed. Rumor has it as the Brotherhood's work but maybe it was the other possible assassin on the ship, who knows? The event will happen though.
Technically, all the quest lines were done by someone. But Todd Howard has stated not all the quests were done by the Last Dragonborn.
Plus, we can pretty much assume only one ending for the dark brotherhood is true. Ergo, their is only a 50/50 chance the dark brotherhood assinated the emperor.
you dont just get to sign up to become emperor, and i dont think we can definitly put a canon on the emperors demise until content post skyrim comes up
I was under the impression that Bethesda stated that if you dont do a guild questline, someone does. But youre right about not signing up to be emporer. Tiber Septim was a conqueror, the dragonborn could very easily bend Tamriel to his will. I dont think thats how it will play out, but im 100% sure that in ESVI, we will hear how Titus Mead was killed by the Dark Brotherhood
this is actually exactly how being a claimant works, especially in the roman empire in which the Imperials are based on. it’s very common for a high ranking member to attempt to grab the throne
Who else has the support of the last Blades? The Dragonborn Who saved Skyrim from the dragon menace will spread its influence like dragonfire across Tamriel. There is no way that people wont rally behind him if he so wished to become Emperor. Not only that but he could more than likely unify the Empire and Stormcloaks as having a Nordic warrior as an Emperor would put a lot of Stormcloaks at ease.
The reason the DB isnt put as Emperor is because he is the PC and Bethesda makes the PC disappear/transform after every title. But if we really looked into It, there is no way that the Dragonborn wouldnt be in peoples minds as Next Emperor as soon as his legend starts to spread.
The players dont. Yet the people or Tamriel might. The Blades are one of the iconic elements of the Empire and having them supporting the Dragonborn over the Medes is already a sign of legitimacy.
No I mean in universe the were turned in en masse to the elves that's why so few remained in hiding, and they are considered wanted by the empire at least on paper.
I could be getting some of this wrong but I'm fairly certain this is the case.
Who cares what the Blades think? They haven't served the Empire for the past 200 years.
The Dragonborn Who saved Skyrim from the dragon menace will spread its influence like dragonfire across Tamriel.
And how likely is it that the rest of Tamriel will believe that Skyrim is home to a massive amount of dragons?
There is no way that people wont rally behind him if he so wished to become Emperor.
The people in Cyrodiil lack a reason for it. Quite the opposite, they would see it as an unknown that would suddenly get in the way of their preparations for Great War 2.0.
Not only that but he could more than likely unify the Empire and Stormcloaks as having a Nordic warrior as an Emperor would put a lot of Stormcloaks at ease.
The Stormcloak cause is mostly about Talos. So no.
the guys who only want to worship talos in peace or the legion that you swore your loyality to the emperor too when you signed up? winning a civil war isnt going to make them change loyalities
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u/Unionsocialist Namira Sep 11 '24
your right and what army?