With all of that in mind, and knowing what Bethesda learned from the infamous Horse Armor DLC for Oblivion, what’s there for Bethesda to release via DLC? We know whatever it’s going to be, it’s going to be big… but could it be as big as adding another province?

Last summer, months before Skyrim released to steal our lives, Bethesda’s Todd Howard went on record stating that DLC is something they’re interested in - you can count on it now after the game’s success - and that it’ll come out in the form of larger expansions, as opposed to many smaller DLC packs.

In November, when some savvy PC players decided to explore outside the boundaries of the land of Skyrim by using console commands to bypass invisible walls, every fans’ interested was piqued upon discovery that Bethesda had built into the game the provinces of Morrowind and Cyrodiil (including its capital city), the locations of the last two games of The Elder Scrolls series. Could these areas be the home of the game’s upcoming DLC expansions? Why are they there? Howard answers this question to Kotaku at the D.I.C.E. Summit last week:

It sounds very possible that DLC could take players to these other lands since by the time any expansion comes out, players will have already explored the majority of Skyrim. Otherwise, PC players with the Skyrim Creation Kit will make use of these lands eventually anyway. Let’s also hope Bethesda includes some of the things the team created for the game for fun post-release, from Werebears, Giant Mudcrabs and Dragon mounts, to new weapons and environmental effects.

And what can you see see? We have views early in the project where you can see into the [neighbouring] province from the other game. We needed to have something [there].

It’s not high detail. If you walk there, from a distance it’s…yeah, the stuff is there. And the thinking is, maybe we’ll use it one day, but our larger worry was, I’m going to climb up on top of a mountain and look that way. What will I be able to see there? We try to cover all those angles as much as we can."

Whenever add-ons do release, we do know that they’ll be timed exclusives on the Xbox 360. What would you like to see added to Skyrim through DLC?

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is available for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

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Source: Kotaku