5 Main Take-Aways About Elder Scrolls: Blades From Bethesda's E3 Conference
3. The Story
As the game's title suggests, you play a Blade, a warrior of the Imperial army, whom players of Skyrim will be quite familiar with.
As well as the roguelike and player versus player modes, there's also one rather prosaically called 'Town', which houses the story and quests of the game. The bulk of Blades centers around rebuilding and upgrading this town via numerous quests in typical Elder Scrolls fashion.
Town-building and decorating is an important mechanic too - Todd Howard states that you can visit others' towns, so there is likely a lot of area for creativity.