"When I grow up, I'm gonna be an Assassin, that way I can help lots of children, just like you!"

―Aventus Aretino

So this is just a short blog about some random thought I had. What if, in the next game (which totally needs to take place in Elsweyr), the leader of the Dark Brotherhood was Aventus Aretino?

I think it would be pretty neat to see him all grown up, now a full-fledged assassin for the Night Mother. Unless the next game skips ahead another century or so, it's entirely feasible. As a child, he is immortal in Skyrim, and seeing him again would be pretty consistent with canon for everybody; even if you didn't do the quest, you could rationalise that someone else eventually took up the contract.