Skyrim is worse than Oblivion in every way

[Damned Registrations]

Bro, if a dragonslayer that is also duke of your town is forcing people to dance naked in the street, you don't intervene, you walk the fuck away before he makes you into a sex slave for the nearest giant's camp.

Indeed, only truly serious crimes should be punished, such as stealing leftovers from the dinner table or hurting a chicken. In which case DEATH. DEATH TO THE DRAGONBORN! SLAY HIM AT ANY COST!

 

[Wyrmlord]

DraQ, I had an idea similar to yours, but instead of Dragon Shouts, I think those dragons should be equipped with all the schools of magic available.

Ability to become temporarily invisible, summon two dremora lords, use mass hysteria, mass paralysis, or mass berserk on enemies, resurrect dead allies to fight as its zombies, and use restoration magic to heal itself. Also the ability to become temporarily ethereal, if it is taking heavy damage.

Additionally, just to balance it out, keep the dragon's armor rating at zero. When the fight begins, the dragon must cast dragon skin. If you manage to stealth attack a dragon, that means you got to attack it when it was most vulnerable. And if you initiated the fight early, you did heavy damage before the dragon hardened its defenses.

Ideally, dragon fights should be mage vs. mage duels. That is the point of dragons being magical creatures. With fire breath and bite attacks, they are just trolls that can fly. But when they are two magically powerful beings unleashing their entire spellbooks at each other, that is something that should be cause for worry.

 

[Commissar Draco]

Bethpizda games are bland shit without tons of mods... and with them are unplayable mess.

Just reinstalled Morrowind and went through the mod browse, download, install, ritual. Mod list is under 1 GB. You wouldn't believe how proud I am

Tried to do the same but 1.6 patch is not working... Good I mannaged to beat the game 7th Third time before reinstalling. with my confectioner edition as Skyrim goes I have same gameplay after installing 1.6 and 1.7 Dawnguard patches:



With all Humanoid NPC stiff like this and mounting the horse ending in Space launch. Pure Comedy gold.

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

Bethpizda games are bland shit without tons of mods... and with them are unplayable mess.

Just reinstalled Morrowind and went through the mod browse, download, install, ritual. Mod list is under 1 GB. You wouldn't believe how proud I am

Pff. I've been copypasting my entire MW directory since at least three system installs.

Any good mods for MW (Aside from stuff like MGSO)? Preferably quest and gameplay ones.

 

[corvus]

a question brought on by the old tales, if it takes a being such as Talos or the HoonDing to subdue or defeat but a mundane dragon, what hope do men have when their king comes, a beast so large as to swallow mountains?"

Hjalti may shake his axe at the dragon even if the empty heavens above his head are only the monstrous arch of its open jaws

Then, Alduin is the same size as the rest of the dragons in the game. Bethesda fails at delivering something resembling "epic" yet again. lol kill-cam on personification of the end of world

Any good mods for MW (Aside from stuff like MGSO)? Preferably quest and gameplay ones.

Y'know, one of these days someone's gonna have to sticky a Morrowind Mod Thread here. But I guess that wouldn't be prestigious enough

until then, I recommend summoning the Scaly One.

 

[racofer]

A p.good description of Skyrim:

I believe that Skyrim is a Bigfoot pizza from Pizza Hut. Do you remember that pile? It was a massive pizza, like the size of a bathtub, made with the cheapest ingredients anyone has ever dared use in a consumable product. But, this Skyrim pizza, you eat it alone, in a room, for hours and days. Every piece of it sustains you, only so that you can continue on to eat the next piece. Every piece tastes bland, and offers you almost noting in the way of nourishment, but it's still pizza, so you're not upset to be eating it. Pizza is inherently good, but, god damn, the more you eat this pizza, the more you come to hate the taste of it. After a time, it becomes a punishment. "Oh god, not another slice of that same stale-ass shit. There's so much of it, and none of it makes me happy! All this time and not once have I felt satisfied!"

 

[Clockwork Knight]

You either like a game and play it a lot, or you don't and play for a little time. Those "I played 1000 hours but I didn't really like it!" testimonies are deeper in denial than the guy who watches interracial porn and convinces himself that it's not because he secretly wishes to be plowed by hueg black dongs.

"Jesus, this is shit, and I just keep playing...but I have good taste! I can't like shit! So it must be good...but it's shit! So it's shit that tastes kinda good...bittersweet tasting shit! Yeah, that must be it."

Any good mods for MW (Aside from stuff like MGSO)? Preferably quest and gameplay ones.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/morrowind-mods-are-a-fucking-jungle.46808/

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/recommended-morrowind-mods.41805/

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...e-perfect-mod-collection-for-morrowind.65011/

 

[Kraszu]

You either like a game and play it a lot, or you don't and play for a little time. Those "I played 1000 hours but I didn't really like it!" testimonies are deeper in denial than the guy who watches interracial porn and convinces himself that it's not because he secretly wishes to be plowed by hueg black dongs.

Actually in brain there is a different system that cause motivation, and that is responsible for liking something, you might be addicted to something that you don't even like, and people can have avolition when despite normal hedonistic experience they don't experience volition (in general both those system should feedback each other, but that isn't necessary always the case). Agree on the cocks part, that seems like the most logical explanation.

 

[DraQ]

Any good mods for MW (Aside from stuff like MGSO)? Preferably quest and gameplay ones.

I mostly have relatively minor gameplay tweaks.

 

[Sul]

The same dev that teased Skyrim in TES lore forum is now teasing something again:

205 Stendarr's Star
1st Passing

To my friend Tal Marog Ker,

Tis' been near fifty years since last we had chance enough to speak, when I lent the battlemage Dagon's protonymic and my isle was for a short time freed from it's prison. Liberation lasted long enough for me to gaze once more upon Direnni, and see the fall of Tharn, the same span it took for Dagon to reappropriate. I would have warned you earlier had I not been snatched away. I would have relaid it immediately but my mind comes and goes. Have you seen my son? Perhaps I was better off in the void. The void. It wasn't void while I was there...

Your notes on the journal I gave you last we met are terribly poor. Perhaps the journal was poor. I may be able to make clarifications next we meet.

I write to you at the outset of crisis. Old habits die hard [even for a Leaper Demon] but Caecilly is no longer safe from the tempest of Alduin; we were before, hidden away in the skyvaults of the deadlands in the back of the Dagon's mind - a pocket of stasis in a void of chaos, a new Aldmeris waiting to bloom. Numidius would have had his own, Camoran did but did it wrong.

You realize by my writing that Dagon's banishment by the Akatosh-Incaro set Caecilly free once more, though for how long I cannot say - if the Thalmor who came to study it's chapel are correct perhaps forever. But now we're here and the world-eater will find us, soon even, for we're in the north. I've felt since birth that should I ever meet a dragon it would be my solemn duty to slay it.

Yours,
Chimere Graegyn
Isle of Caecilly
High Roc

20 Sun's Dusk, 4E 13
Skingrad Library
Colovia

To Chimere Graegyn,

We scarce can convey the thrill which enveloped us upon returning from lecture to find a vellum stamped with the seal of the old Direnni dynasty lying upon our desk. The orthodox communicate so little with Cyrodiil as of late that we hoped to hear word on these new Altmeri heralds, yet to then note the mark of Chimere! We dare say were our staff not near we may have fallen, which would have dearly upset our aide.

Why have the Inquirers not reported on Caecilly's return? We might have suspected your recurrence were it not for the other matters which now press upon us so daily; it is odd that those who examined the chapel failed to report it. It is both blessing and omen that we receive your letter today. As it happens the University Chair desires that we travel to the Scathing Bay to collect whispers from ancestral spirits. The land is teeming with them as if the gates of Necrom itself burst forth under impact of the moon; Thras no doubt finds it to be the best market they've had since the plague and without the Temple there are none left to enforce the proper rites, but enough of that, your letter would have been enough for him to escape the eastern expedition and make for the west.

What is this talk of Dagon and Camoran? That is behind us. No Mythic Dawn cells remain in Cyrodiil, even if we have yet to expel them from Tamriel as a whole.

No rumors have trickled our way from the north regarding Alduin, were there any we would have been the first to know. Are you well old man? We feel I must see you at once. There are much more pressing matters to concern ourselves with than mannish superstition, should you be up to the task of lending us your foresight.

Faithfully,
TMK

Addendum: We are unfamiliar with your system of reckoning.

Edited by Idhdean of Vindasel, 11 Sun's Dusk 4E17 - 00:00 AM.

232 Stendarr's Star
1st Passing

To Tal Marog Ker,

I am well, or as well as I can be. I'm told for eight years I was a madman but the healers sent from Northpoint were adequate, even if their magicks less refined. Few hallucinations creep in. Forgive my dating. It is of my own design; time in the void doesn't match our own, and I've yet to shrug it off.

Why should the Inquirers care for the return of an Isle with one insane citizen? Those of my clan which have set foot on Caecilly have given me no word on the politics of Summerset, or if they have I wouldn't know, I was far down the golden road at the time.

Am I so early as that? Are the Nords at peace? Events which I barely know I saw in my last moments in Oblivion. I witnessed the Dagonites fall, not from Nirn, but from my place in the back of Dagon's mind. The coming wars occupied the Dagon's thoughts as a plague, though whether in favor or against I cannot say. Rumors and whispers travel like lightning when there is only one divine decree to wade through.

But you write oddly. Are you well my friend? What of Cyrodiil at this juncture? Last time there was one Empire, held strong against it's myriad of cousins within the void. It reclaimed Caecilly, for now at least - the crystal chapel has stopped pulsing, and this is contested ground against the daedra. The Velothi spoke too soon in calling them their ancestors. Or were the Velothi here to soon? With their triadic gods one could never say. Anticipations indeed, but one never anticipates your ensuing immanence to usurp you before its time.

I hope to see you soon, my hand grows pained in writing. Rest assured, the jaws of Oblivion were only the first molars of Alduin's.

Yours,
Chimere Graegyn
Isle of Caecilly
High Rock

20 Evening Star, 4E 14
Stros M'kai
Hammerfell

Greetings again,

Storms set our ship to harbor at Stros M'kai, but we are progressing. We were expecting you off the coast of Northmoor, it seems my journey will be extended. Even our crews become nervous while making the stretch around the southern tip of High Rock, fear of unregistered soul snares. Seeing the airships of Thras on the horizon amidst barely perceptible gnarls of coral makes the bloods of men frost, yet we will deal with that in time; Syrabane's blessing will be upon us, and he will defeat the sload and their god of worms once again.

Men will never be at peace, not until Aldmeris has been re-instituted, and then they will indeed be at peace. Tell us friend, what visions do you hold within that mind of yours, what secrets hidden from the Ysmir Collective and the ambassadors of Alinor? What keeps your mind swiveling around Alduin as it does?

The daedra have their reality, monotonous though it may be; we have seen what has come of Boethiah's followers.

It will be necessary to contact my associates should your suspicions hold warrant.

Regards,
TMK

250 Stendarr's Star
1st Passing

Tal Marog Ker,

I leave motivations up to the councils. I do not know to what ends the gods act, only some of the technicalities of their means.

The scholars read too much into the uniformity of the divines. A man may have conflicting desires, but must choose between them, thus his finitude. Stand on the mythic scale of raw possibility and all such inhibitions are lost, it is only a matter of prominence. The Alessians inaugurated the prominence of Akatosh. The Marukhati tried to exclusify it. Hjalti reinstated it. The Empire upheld it. The Dagonites ended it. The Dragon of Cyrodiil is bound in stone, and in time, The Dragon of the North will no longer be.

To think the daedric realities monotonous, the University pampers you too much my friend. Untold ages I've stood and read the skies of Oblivion, seen it shift and change with the moods of the Prince, or more often with the tides of war between the Markynaz and the Xivilai, or the Mazken, or whoever they were vying for power with at a given time. I personally preferred the ever-so-short period when the Hernai gained favor. The daedra make up for in war and debauchery what they lack in romance. The divines may romance. Man and mer may romance. The daedra may not, for romance requisites division. The ehlnofey knew this, thus they became sundered.

You ask what of the Empire's collapse, of new lords? I will tell you, that is what I am speaking of already. Is not the Talos Cult more persecuted than ever? The cycle need not continue - the end comes by many roads, it may be destruction or fulfillment. Do not listen to the lies. The usurpers of the East, or the West. The triadic gods wars against Talos, and would have him removed, for he sets the stars in stone which could spell their doom. They come before they are anticipated, for unless they do they may never come at all; Alduin is their antecessor, but only if Hjalti fails. Talos holds back the divines of the next world. This is why he became a divine of this one - divine yet unanticipated, thus his uniqueness. He upholds the dividing lines of the cosmos. Defends romance lest we lose it the pit of singularity.

The Princes of this world will follow the lead of the Princes of the last - they will step up and become kings, with Peryite as their chief. This much should be obvious, every Prince Anticipates their future immanence. I can feel the pains of childbirth in the heavens and I rail against it.

I am an old man. I was an old man before. I don't think I'll ever be anything but an old man. It is for our progeny that I write. My son is somewhere.

Yours,
Chimere Graegyn
Isle of Caecilly
High Rock

13 Morning Star, 4E 14
Daggerfall
High Rock

To Chimere Graegyn,

Your time in Oblivion makes things plain to you which confound me.

You should know that if audience with the Council is what you desire I must inform you that you'll first have to suade Idhdean, you may remember him from your time with the Wayrest Lyceum, before it became overrun with the Magnussians. We'll speak at greater length upon my arrival but the dispersal of arcane knowledge - especially that regarding the mythic principalities and patterns - is being kept under the tightest seals. The last inklings of the Guild disintegrate, it was simply insufficient for completing the tasks set upon them by the Council (and with so many of their ranks being indicted under the new provisions against daedric trafficking it was only a matter of time before a split occurred, though there were other reasons). I may be able to aide you through the University's press.

Of the politics of Oblivion I know little, especially now with the harsh barriers in place. Of the politics of Tamriel I know much, and now that you are here I beg you consider them. You say the Thalmor visited you at Caecilly, was there any talk of taking you into the new Dominion? One would think they would seek to absorb one with a heritage such as yours. A number of the Bretonish Direnni are resisting the Thalmor, Balfiera's Castellan most prominently, though I'm not sure how long the resistance can last. From what I've gathered their lack of cooperation draws from a reticence in ceding control of the tower in particularly, rather than an aversion to the policies of their sovereigns.

This talk of prominence has my old mind churning but I believe you leave out a piece of the puzzle. The dragons of Cyrodiil and Skyrim are not the only ones to account for, I would remind you again of the Thalmor who came to visit your isle or the rebirth in prominence of the old Dominion. Is it not they who have helped instigated the policies against the Talos Cult, even if not directly so? Even if the Ysmir Collective and the Orders of Hjalti remain undisturbed for the moment I wonder at how long it can last, the lords of Alcaire can only maintain themselves for so long.

I have procured a copy of Crystal-like-Law so that you may look over it and learn for yourself the current trends of your old clans.

Until we meet,
TMK

Edited by Tal Marog Ker, 02 November 2011 - 06:38 PM.

The Daedra Princes led by Peryite will become the new Aedra in the next kalpa? So what happens with the 8 Divines then? They will flee like the rest of the Aedra in the beginning of the current kalpa?

Prepare the bones of the missing to
Each and every day until the last
Refill the heart signified by the glyph
Y, numbered seven, that times the wise
Is the cross in the Serpent's skin
Twice again the number of the master
Entering the invisible gate that others flee.

Weakest of the princes alright. When shit hits the fan I wonder what place will be safe to hide? Black Marsh under the Hist? Seems likely since they survived the last kalpa.

 

[Brayko]

Skyrim will be a Codex favorite by 2015.

 

[coldcrow]

@MWmods: http://btb2.free.fr/morrowind.html
These are basically the best MW mods. Missing is Galsiah's char-dev. mod though.

 

[Brinko]

https://twitter.com/BGS_Devs/status/264445390592569344

New Skyrim DLC teased, trailer coming Monday. Cannot wait to see the stupid shit they throw in this time.

 

[racofer]

A new pack of dragon priest masks, is that it?

 

[Brinko]

I do love the rumors about this being in Solstheim, because it'll probably end up look exactingly like Skyrim. Forests and grasslands in the south and Mountains and snow in the north. Never change Todd.

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

this is fugly

EDIT: his name is Miraak and he's a Dragon Priest of Hermaeus Mora hurr

better

Also, did they basically released a trailer for a trailer? Todd is so full of shit.

 

[DraQ]

DraQ, I had an idea similar to yours, but instead of Dragon Shouts, I think those dragons should be equipped with all the schools of magic available.

Ability to become temporarily invisible, summon two dremora lords, use mass hysteria, mass paralysis, or mass berserk on enemies, resurrect dead allies to fight as its zombies, and use restoration magic to heal itself. Also the ability to become temporarily ethereal, if it is taking heavy damage.

Additionally, just to balance it out, keep the dragon's armor rating at zero. When the fight begins, the dragon must cast dragon skin. If you manage to stealth attack a dragon, that means you got to attack it when it was most vulnerable. And if you initiated the fight early, you did heavy damage before the dragon hardened its defenses.

Ideally, dragon fights should be mage vs. mage duels. That is the point of dragons being magical creatures. With fire breath and bite attacks, they are just trolls that can fly. But when they are two magically powerful beings unleashing their entire spellbooks at each other, that is something that should be cause for worry.

I'm not against dragons getting impressive repertoire of spells too, but Thu'um is their native tongue, they should simply be fluent in it.

I also disagree with no inherent AR - they have those scaly, armoured hides after all.

Skyrim will be a Codex favorite by 2015.

Not impossible.
Oblivious, OTOH, will never be one.

The same dev that teased Skyrim in TES lore forum is now teasing something again:

205 Stendarr's Star
1st Passing

To my friend Tal Marog Ker,

Tis' been near fifty years since last we had chance enough to speak, when I lent the battlemage Dagon's protonymic and my isle was for a short time freed from it's prison. Liberation lasted long enough for me to gaze once more upon Direnni, and see the fall of Tharn, the same span it took for Dagon to reappropriate. I would have warned you earlier had I not been snatched away. I would have relaid it immediately but my mind comes and goes. Have you seen my son? Perhaps I was better off in the void. The void. It wasn't void while I was there...

Your notes on the journal I gave you last we met are terribly poor. Perhaps the journal was poor. I may be able to make clarifications next we meet.

I write to you at the outset of crisis. Old habits die hard [even for a Leaper Demon] but Caecilly is no longer safe from the tempest of Alduin; we were before, hidden away in the skyvaults of the deadlands in the back of the Dagon's mind - a pocket of stasis in a void of chaos, a new Aldmeris waiting to bloom. Numidius would have had his own, Camoran did but did it wrong.

You realize by my writing that Dagon's banishment by the Akatosh-Incaro set Caecilly free once more, though for how long I cannot say - if the Thalmor who came to study it's chapel are correct perhaps forever. But now we're here and the world-eater will find us, soon even, for we're in the north. I've felt since birth that should I ever meet a dragon it would be my solemn duty to slay it.

Yours,
Chimere Graegyn
Isle of Caecilly
High Roc

20 Sun's Dusk, 4E 13
Skingrad Library
Colovia

To Chimere Graegyn,

We scarce can convey the thrill which enveloped us upon returning from lecture to find a vellum stamped with the seal of the old Direnni dynasty lying upon our desk. The orthodox communicate so little with Cyrodiil as of late that we hoped to hear word on these new Altmeri heralds, yet to then note the mark of Chimere! We dare say were our staff not near we may have fallen, which would have dearly upset our aide.

Why have the Inquirers not reported on Caecilly's return? We might have suspected your recurrence were it not for the other matters which now press upon us so daily; it is odd that those who examined the chapel failed to report it. It is both blessing and omen that we receive your letter today. As it happens the University Chair desires that we travel to the Scathing Bay to collect whispers from ancestral spirits. The land is teeming with them as if the gates of Necrom itself burst forth under impact of the moon; Thras no doubt finds it to be the best market they've had since the plague and without the Temple there are none left to enforce the proper rites, but enough of that, your letter would have been enough for him to escape the eastern expedition and make for the west.

What is this talk of Dagon and Camoran? That is behind us. No Mythic Dawn cells remain in Cyrodiil, even if we have yet to expel them from Tamriel as a whole.

No rumors have trickled our way from the north regarding Alduin, were there any we would have been the first to know. Are you well old man? We feel I must see you at once. There are much more pressing matters to concern ourselves with than mannish superstition, should you be up to the task of lending us your foresight.

Faithfully,
TMK

Addendum: We are unfamiliar with your system of reckoning.

Edited by Idhdean of Vindasel, 11 Sun's Dusk 4E17 - 00:00 AM.

232 Stendarr's Star
1st Passing

To Tal Marog Ker,

I am well, or as well as I can be. I'm told for eight years I was a madman but the healers sent from Northpoint were adequate, even if their magicks less refined. Few hallucinations creep in. Forgive my dating. It is of my own design; time in the void doesn't match our own, and I've yet to shrug it off.

Why should the Inquirers care for the return of an Isle with one insane citizen? Those of my clan which have set foot on Caecilly have given me no word on the politics of Summerset, or if they have I wouldn't know, I was far down the golden road at the time.

Am I so early as that? Are the Nords at peace? Events which I barely know I saw in my last moments in Oblivion. I witnessed the Dagonites fall, not from Nirn, but from my place in the back of Dagon's mind. The coming wars occupied the Dagon's thoughts as a plague, though whether in favor or against I cannot say. Rumors and whispers travel like lightning when there is only one divine decree to wade through.

But you write oddly. Are you well my friend? What of Cyrodiil at this juncture? Last time there was one Empire, held strong against it's myriad of cousins within the void. It reclaimed Caecilly, for now at least - the crystal chapel has stopped pulsing, and this is contested ground against the daedra. The Velothi spoke too soon in calling them their ancestors. Or were the Velothi here to soon? With their triadic gods one could never say. Anticipations indeed, but one never anticipates your ensuing immanence to usurp you before its time.

I hope to see you soon, my hand grows pained in writing. Rest assured, the jaws of Oblivion were only the first molars of Alduin's.

Yours,
Chimere Graegyn
Isle of Caecilly
High Rock

20 Evening Star, 4E 14
Stros M'kai
Hammerfell

Greetings again,

Storms set our ship to harbor at Stros M'kai, but we are progressing. We were expecting you off the coast of Northmoor, it seems my journey will be extended. Even our crews become nervous while making the stretch around the southern tip of High Rock, fear of unregistered soul snares. Seeing the airships of Thras on the horizon amidst barely perceptible gnarls of coral makes the bloods of men frost, yet we will deal with that in time; Syrabane's blessing will be upon us, and he will defeat the sload and their god of worms once again.

Men will never be at peace, not until Aldmeris has been re-instituted, and then they will indeed be at peace. Tell us friend, what visions do you hold within that mind of yours, what secrets hidden from the Ysmir Collective and the ambassadors of Alinor? What keeps your mind swiveling around Alduin as it does?

The daedra have their reality, monotonous though it may be; we have seen what has come of Boethiah's followers.

It will be necessary to contact my associates should your suspicions hold warrant.

Regards,
TMK

250 Stendarr's Star
1st Passing

Tal Marog Ker,

I leave motivations up to the councils. I do not know to what ends the gods act, only some of the technicalities of their means.

The scholars read too much into the uniformity of the divines. A man may have conflicting desires, but must choose between them, thus his finitude. Stand on the mythic scale of raw possibility and all such inhibitions are lost, it is only a matter of prominence. The Alessians inaugurated the prominence of Akatosh. The Marukhati tried to exclusify it. Hjalti reinstated it. The Empire upheld it. The Dagonites ended it. The Dragon of Cyrodiil is bound in stone, and in time, The Dragon of the North will no longer be.

To think the daedric realities monotonous, the University pampers you too much my friend. Untold ages I've stood and read the skies of Oblivion, seen it shift and change with the moods of the Prince, or more often with the tides of war between the Markynaz and the Xivilai, or the Mazken, or whoever they were vying for power with at a given time. I personally preferred the ever-so-short period when the Hernai gained favor. The daedra make up for in war and debauchery what they lack in romance. The divines may romance. Man and mer may romance. The daedra may not, for romance requisites division. The ehlnofey knew this, thus they became sundered.

You ask what of the Empire's collapse, of new lords? I will tell you, that is what I am speaking of already. Is not the Talos Cult more persecuted than ever? The cycle need not continue - the end comes by many roads, it may be destruction or fulfillment. Do not listen to the lies. The usurpers of the East, or the West. The triadic gods wars against Talos, and would have him removed, for he sets the stars in stone which could spell their doom. They come before they are anticipated, for unless they do they may never come at all; Alduin is their antecessor, but only if Hjalti fails. Talos holds back the divines of the next world. This is why he became a divine of this one - divine yet unanticipated, thus his uniqueness. He upholds the dividing lines of the cosmos. Defends romance lest we lose it the pit of singularity.

The Princes of this world will follow the lead of the Princes of the last - they will step up and become kings, with Peryite as their chief. This much should be obvious, every Prince Anticipates their future immanence. I can feel the pains of childbirth in the heavens and I rail against it.

I am an old man. I was an old man before. I don't think I'll ever be anything but an old man. It is for our progeny that I write. My son is somewhere.

Yours,
Chimere Graegyn
Isle of Caecilly
High Rock

13 Morning Star, 4E 14
Daggerfall
High Rock

To Chimere Graegyn,

Your time in Oblivion makes things plain to you which confound me.

You should know that if audience with the Council is what you desire I must inform you that you'll first have to suade Idhdean, you may remember him from your time with the Wayrest Lyceum, before it became overrun with the Magnussians. We'll speak at greater length upon my arrival but the dispersal of arcane knowledge - especially that regarding the mythic principalities and patterns - is being kept under the tightest seals. The last inklings of the Guild disintegrate, it was simply insufficient for completing the tasks set upon them by the Council (and with so many of their ranks being indicted under the new provisions against daedric trafficking it was only a matter of time before a split occurred, though there were other reasons). I may be able to aide you through the University's press.

Of the politics of Oblivion I know little, especially now with the harsh barriers in place. Of the politics of Tamriel I know much, and now that you are here I beg you consider them. You say the Thalmor visited you at Caecilly, was there any talk of taking you into the new Dominion? One would think they would seek to absorb one with a heritage such as yours. A number of the Bretonish Direnni are resisting the Thalmor, Balfiera's Castellan most prominently, though I'm not sure how long the resistance can last. From what I've gathered their lack of cooperation draws from a reticence in ceding control of the tower in particularly, rather than an aversion to the policies of their sovereigns.

This talk of prominence has my old mind churning but I believe you leave out a piece of the puzzle. The dragons of Cyrodiil and Skyrim are not the only ones to account for, I would remind you again of the Thalmor who came to visit your isle or the rebirth in prominence of the old Dominion. Is it not they who have helped instigated the policies against the Talos Cult, even if not directly so? Even if the Ysmir Collective and the Orders of Hjalti remain undisturbed for the moment I wonder at how long it can last, the lords of Alcaire can only maintain themselves for so long.

I have procured a copy of Crystal-like-Law so that you may look over it and learn for yourself the current trends of your old clans.

Until we meet,
TMK

Edited by Tal Marog Ker, 02 November 2011 - 06:38 PM.

The Daedra Princes led by Peryite will become the new Aedra in the next kalpa? So what happens with the 8 Divines then? They will flee like the rest of the Aedra in the beginning of the current kalpa?

Prepare the bones of the missing to
Each and every day until the last
Refill the heart signified by the glyph
Y, numbered seven, that times the wise
Is the cross in the Serpent's skin
Twice again the number of the master
Entering the invisible gate that others flee.

Weakest of the princes alright. When shit hits the fan I wonder what place will be safe to hide? Black Marsh under the Hist? Seems likely since they survived the last kalpa.

Intredasting. Most intredasting.

I do love the rumors about this being in Solstheim, because it'll probably end up look exactingly like Skyrim. Forests and grasslands in the south and Mountains and snow in the north. Never change Todd.

AFAIK, from the materials available, it seems there is going to be a lot of Morrowind-lite in it.
There is going to be at least one token Telvanni tower too.

And quality wise (not quantity, because, you know, expansion) Skyrim isn't worse than BM and at least it has relevance to general lore.
BM had little of that, Skaal didn't even fit into general framework of TES religions.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

@MWmods: http://btb2.free.fr/morrowind.html
These are basically the best MW mods. Missing is Galsiah's char-dev. mod though.

That's because the guy who made the list has his own leveling mod.

Those are Bethesda employees?

I...don't know? They seem...normal.

 

[racofer]

The one in red wants to get raped. I can see it in her eyes.

 

[Sul]

EDIT: his name is Miraak and he's a Dragon Priest of Hermaeus Mora hurr

At first I thought the mask was Telvanni, but then I remembered that Telvanni armor is made of bonemold or insectoid origin. It looks a bit Cthulhu-like so maybe its related to Hermaeus Mora.
It's also good to mention that Hermaeus is the Daedric prince of the past, future, forgotten knowledge and memory so if it's true that he'll present on the next DLC we are up to some heavy lore bomb.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

The last quest reward will be an Ohgma Infinium you can read over and over for max everything. Sweeeeeet.

 

[Sul]

The last quest reward will be an Ohgma Infinium you can read over and over for max everything. Sweeeeeet.

Like the rest of the Daedric quests, forcefully shoved down the player's throat, you can get the Ohgma Infinium by doing a little side job for him during the MQ.

 

[DraQ]

@MWmods: http://btb2.free.fr/morrowind.html
These are basically the best MW mods. Missing is Galsiah's char-dev. mod though.

BTB game improvements or whatever it's called is shit.

Now, the author made a lot of actual and fairly brilliant improvements in it - alchemy with side effects, rebalance of magical effects, etc. etc.
A lot of awesome work to be sure.

Why is it shit then?
Because the author couldn't hold himself and went apeshit with scissors on magic system's scrotum.
Everything that was abusable, might be abusable, or author incorrectly deemed abusable (drain health) has been verbotten.

The problem is that instead of train of thought like this:
Telekinesis is broken because you can make massively overpowered 1s remote theft spells with it -> Increase cost of TK -> make circinate TK spells not autocalculated to offset the inflated cost and balance them like 1s in terms of cost versus reach, but give them longer duration

The author went:
Telekinesis is broken because you can make massively overpowered 1s remote theft spells with it -> Ban TK from enchanting and spellmaking

Repeated for pretty much every interesting magic effect and given that most of the interest in playing a caster involves using spellmaker as spell sequencer it reduces all experimentation and tinkering with magic end enchantements to repeatedly casting fireball at target until effective.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

It's modular like Wakim's Game Improvements, you can simply not use the Spell changes if you dislike them. You can tell someone hasn't been paying attention when he begins his critique with "or whatever it's called"

Spoiler

Like the rest of the Daedric quests, forcefully shoved down the player's throat, you can get the Ohgma Infinium by doing a little side job for him during the MQ.

He eventually tries to take it away from you, to restore the universe's balance as no one can be as awesome as him. Hermaeus has an impenetrable shield that can only be blown away by Fus-Roh-Double, a new shout you unlock through the quest. You then beat Hermaeus in an epic duel (using the Dragon Attack battle theme, to save money).

 

[Deleted member 7219]

You may have noticed another update downloaded itself through Steam the other day... and of course, no patch notes on Steam. I'm damned if I go back to the Bethesda website, but fortunately RPGWatch have them:

http://rpgwatch.com/#20824

Skyrim Update 1.8 (all platforms unless specified)
BUG FIXES

• General memory and stability improvements
• Fixed rare crash when using vampiric grip
• Fixed issue where Arnleif and Sons Trading Company could become permanently locked
• Fixed issue related to duplicate NPCs
• Fixed rare issue where exterior door would not open properly

They still haven't fixed Blood on the Ice. Or that Esbern thing where you can never give him the dragon bones he asks for. My quest journal is filled up with this kind of shit.