Gandalf-the-Fabulous wrote...
naughty99 wrote...
slimgrin wrote...
No Dark Drotherhood? Seriously? Are they f*cking mad!? Dark Brotherhood was the best content in the game.
Dark Brotherhood is confirmed, 100%.
(Confirmed back in January, it was actually the first guild announced.)
Yes the Dark Brotherhood is in Skyrim however nothing has been said on whether or not you can join them.
For all we know they could be an enemy faction like they were in Tribunal and since it has been confirmed that there is only 3 main joinable factions unless the Dark Brotherhood are an enemy faction odds are they wont be playing a big role in Skyrim.
That's speculation. Anything is possible, but it would be extremely surprising for the devs to make non-joinable the faction famous for the most well-written quest in any TES game, and IMO most well-written quest in any RPG I've ever played.
In Oblivion, the three "main" guild factions for warrior, mage and thief classes were the Fighter's Guild, Mage's Guild, Thieves' Guild. There were also a few other joinable factions.
Given that the game is set against the backdrop of a civil war, it would also be very surprising if there was no Rebel faction and Loyalist faction.
Since each of the nine holds has a separate trackable bounty system and is ruled by nine separate clans confirmed in interviews to have distinct individual cultural and design motifs, it would not surprise me if each of these clans is a separate joinable faction as well, or perhaps some of the clans are Loyalist and others are members of a Rebel group.
- There is a new faction system in the game, which the team at Bethesda will be talking about very soon-ish. These "factions" are apparently not the likes we know from Oblivion, such as the Dark Brotherhood. This system runs "deeper". Potentially like the Great Houses in Morrowind.
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