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General Discussion => The Speakeasy: OOG/Off-topic Discussion => Topic started by: Graelyn on 13 Nov 2011, 10:52
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Since everyone is playing it, I'm curious to know what yours is like.
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Name:
Ca'lahabim
Race:
Argonian (duh).
Primary Fighting Style:
Pure heavy armored, 2-hand-weapon wielding, 1-hit-kill damage dealer (no magic whatsoever)
Secondary Fighting Style:
Bow sniper.
Morality:
Good guy, high honor, high trust.
Civil War Faction:
Stormcloaks (trying to prove the value of foreigners to the Nords during their run for independence from the rotted, crumbling Empire).
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Name: Uruk of Rime
Race: Orc
Fighting Style: Dual wielding swords or axes up close, bow at range; heavy armor
Morality: Bushido
Civil War Faction: Stormcloak friendly, but as yet undeclared
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Name: Mizhara Del'thul
Race: Dunmer
Primary Fighting Style: Arrows from the shadows, Light Armor, Stealth Specialist.
Secondary Fighting Style: Fast and furious dualwielding daggers, evasion over block/endurance.
Morality: Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, no qualms about very public murders or killing off everyone within ear/eye-shot of the target.
Civil War Status: Standing on the side for now, but will fight for the Stormcloaks to stop the Thalmor from doing to the Dark Brotherhood in Skyrim what they did in Cyrodiil and elsewhere. Has a fondness for the Nords and their grim ruggedness and wishes to use them in the future.
Might try to get an action shot of Miz later and add Arnduir Fairhair as well.
Edit: Added Miz with Daggers, Dark Brotherhood armor/hood and Miz with Bow and Dark Brotherhood armor without hood. There's a hood without a mask available too, but I didn't have it in my inventory at the time.
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I hope so. I wanna see your armor (Everyone's seen the heavy stuff).
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Name: Izzy
Race: Breton like a boss
Fighting Style: Kill it with ALL the spells! And one sword for stabbing. Conjuration = instant friends.
Morality: Usually nice but will probably play with Dark Brotherhood cuz they're cool brahs.
Civil War Faction: Don't care, killin dragons. And other things.
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Name: Norman Valhala
Race: Redguard
Fighting Style: Shout, hit with shield, hit with sword, repeat. Heavy armor and fuzzy muttonchops FTW.
Morality: Honorable, but I did get in trouble for Shouting in the city and scaring people
Civil War Faction: Imperials
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Name: Seriphyn
Race: Brotha Redguard
Fighting Style: Magic with one-handed swordsmanship
Background: Travelled from Hammerfell to join the College of Winterhold, as do many other mages in Tamriel
Morality: Currently neutral, focused on personal goals for now
Civil War Faction: Undeclared, partial to Empire. As a Redguard, can not possibly regard himself as a "son of Skyrim", and notes the racism of Nords against non-Nords (especially in Windhelm, centre of the rebellion).
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Added more MizPics. Is Ossum. Will edit in Arnduir Fairhair here later.
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Miz, how did you get the camera to face the front of your char with weapons drawn?
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Hold F. Move mouse. Same as in FO3/NV. You need to position the height and range of the camera first, since that's locked once you begin turning the camera holding F.
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<cries.>
But I can't take a picture of mine! D:
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PRNSCRN to screenshot.
Will be saved to main game directory in the Steam Folder.
Host it somewhere.
Bam!
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I play on the PS3 like a normal person. :/
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Skyrim Graelyn looks like an angry duck D:
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Skyrim Graelyn looks like an angry duck D:
You'd be angry too if you were cold-blooded and living in a tundra.
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I play on the PS3 like a normal person. :/
Wow, are you going to miss out on hundreds of hours of awesome playermade mods.
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I play on the PS3 like a normal person. :/
Wow, are you going to miss out on hundreds of hours of awesome playermade mods.
Eh. I like console versions better, for a number of peculiar reasons. vOv
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I play on the PS3 like a normal person. :/
Wow, are you going to miss out on hundreds of hours of awesome playermade mods.
Eh. I like console versions better, for a number of peculiar reasons. vOv
Agreed. Among them, I'd never have gotten my wife to try it on the computer, and having it up on the TV in the living room makes it just that much more communal.
Also, while I did play, and enjoy, Oblivion mods on my PC, when it comes right down to it I'm just not much of a fan of fanfic. I much prefer exploring the hell out of the canonical setting.
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Name: An'valien
Race: Nord
Fighting Style: Stealth, Dual-Wield Daggers, Bows on Occasion, and using Alteration and Illusion Magic as a tool.
Morality: Being good is fun, but look the other way while I pick your pockets please.
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Name:
Grimnir
Race:
Nord
Primary Fighting Style:
Dual wielding fighter with light armor. Using Thu'ums to create/control space. Occasionally shield if absolutely necessary.
Secondary Fighting Style:
Destruction magic, mostly ranged lightning attacks.
Morality:
Neutral but honorable.
Civil War Faction:
Stormcloaks
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Name: Unknown.
Race: Unknown, presumed Breton due to accent.
Primary Fighting Style: Fire, Ice, Lightning, Summoning. Have also been seen using Shouts. Possibly Graybeard apprentice or the Dragonborn.
Secondary Fighting Style: None. Never seen armed or armored.
Morality: Unknown. Have been seen performing acts of both kindness and unspeakable cruelty.
Civil War Faction: Unknown. Have acted for and against both. Seems mostly active in matters relating to Dragons, Thalmor and the Blades.
Identifying Features: None. Always wearing a mask hiding her face and an Arch Mage robe. Inquiries at the Mage's College is met with silence.
Another note: Magic in Skyrim is batshit awesome. Destruction alone has enough firepower (literally) to reduce anything to a pile of corpses and even from the first few minutes in the game you're a freakin' Sith Lord. Shooting fire with one hand and ice with the other? At the same time? Sure thing. Lightning and Fire? Lightning and Ice? Lightning and summoning Atronachs? Whatever you desire. Gain a little skill in the school and you get to dualwield the same spells, adding even more power to them. Yet another perk gives dualwielded spells a stagger effect as well. AoE? We got that. One of my personal favorites is launching a fireball at a tight pack of enemies, then as it's on it's way to ruin their day I also launch a chain lightning at them. If anyone's alive, I can finish them off with a nice little Ice Storm. If there's too many to handle alone, eh. No problem. Summon Atronachs (damn Fire Atronachs are nicely designed in this game. They look awesome.) to keep their attention while you stand back and pick them off at range.
And that's just the pure magic user, which I favor. There's also the heavily armored melee fighter with magic skills, or the sneaky thief with magic and so on. The possibilities are nigh endless.
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Nice, who is your friend up there? :D
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Who? Up whe... OH SHIT! DRAGON!
(Won't tell who that is. Spoilerth.)
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Told you magic is batshit awesome :P
(though I feel compelled to play a Nord wilderness hunter for some reason. Environment begs for that sort of character)
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Destruction magic was pretty shit in Oblivion, so it makes me super happy that it's fixed in Skyrim. I'll post pic this evening when I get home from work.
Name:
Fintan Loingseachan
Race:
Breton
Primary Fighting Style:
Destruction magic
Secondary Fighting Style:
Bow + Stealth
Morality:
Righteous.
Civil War Faction:
Undeclared (Leaning towards Stormcloaks because my guy worships Talos)
Pics:
This one's buggy. I'm supposed to be wearing a boss mask, the same one Miz has in her photo. This pic makes me look like a headless Wizard, which is neat I guess.
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And, sans mask:
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Destruction magic was pretty shit in Oblivion, so it makes me super happy that it's fixed in Skyrim. I'll post pic this evening when I get home from work.
Name:
Fintan Loingseachan
Race:
Breton
Primary Fighting Style:
Destruction magic
Secondary Fighting Style:
Bow + Stealth
Morality:
Righteous.
Civil War Faction:
Undeclared.
Uh, what? When I played Oblivion, destruction magic along with a bit of illusion or alteration could pretty well set you up as a destroyer of worlds. Of course, you had to play as a Breton or High Elf with the Mage sign at least, but it was still pretty powerful.
Anyway, I'm very much enjoying my mage, but I think my second play through will be an assassin-style character who uses some destruction.
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Helmetless with dragonscale armor:
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Nightingale sneakybeaky armor:
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Name:
Sköld
Race:
Nord (no shit, huh?)
Primary Fighting Style:
Big fuck-off hammer.
Secondary Fighting Style:
Big fuck-off hammer side-power-attacks to sweep everything in front of him+firebreath shout to watch them all burn.
Tertiary Fighting Style:
Uselessly lobbing arrows that rarely hit at dragons that are too cowardly to land and fucking fight me already goddamnit.
Morality:
Leader of the thieves' guild (translation: if it's not nailed down, it's mine. if it's locked, it's not locked long). Rarely kills anyone innocent that doesn't piss him off. Married a merchant in what some might whisper was more of a financial move than a romantic one.
Civil War Faction:
Stormcloak
Other:
Werewolf, leader of the Companions, leader of the Thieves' Guild, Nightingale, Agent of Mara. Thane of Riften and Whiterun.
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Destruction magic was pretty shit in Oblivion, so it makes me super happy that it's fixed in Skyrim. I'll post pic this evening when I get home from work.
Name:
Fintan Loingseachan
Race:
Breton
Primary Fighting Style:
Destruction magic
Secondary Fighting Style:
Bow + Stealth
Morality:
Righteous.
Civil War Faction:
Undeclared.
Uh, what? When I played Oblivion, destruction magic along with a bit of illusion or alteration could pretty well set you up as a destroyer of worlds. Of course, you had to play as a Breton or High Elf with the Mage sign at least, but it was still pretty powerful.
Anyway, I'm very much enjoying my mage, but I think my second play through will be an assassin-style character who uses some destruction.
I found that you would run out of Magicka in about 5 seconds if you tried to cast most destruction spells. I was forced to change my tactics to conjuring Daedra and then hiding/running in circles and healing myself while the Daedra killed everything.
In Skyrim, the perks mitigate the magicka cost of the spells to a huge amount as do a number of the items you come across, so I almost never run out.
I only played Oblivion through three times, but the difference in my experience and what I've done in Skyrim, was huge for mages.
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Name:
Heimdall
Race:
Nord
Primary Fighting Style:
Two-handed weapons, mainly Greatsword.
Secondary:
Destruction magic
Morality:
Neutral Good good I guess would suit this feller. Does what ever works to attain the greater good or to help those in need.
Civil War Faction:
Heavily leaning to over to the Stormcloaks.
As a side note. Skyrim's been ok, I've enjoyed it a decent bit, but it is hardly the holy grail some peeps have been painting it. Still, once someone fixes the appalling UI, I will put down some money to actually buy this one. While it's not quite worth the hype and noise, it's still a good game... Once they fix the UI. It seriously is such utter crap.
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Name:
Kalahari Wayrest
Race:
Nord (with maybe some Redguard >.>)
Primary Fighting Style:
Light armour, dual wielding axes (love the decapitations SO much :D )
Secondary Fighting Style:
Don't really need one. She has archery for dragons, but she's a crapshot and they somewhat smugly ignore her arrows and fly away.
Morality:
Generally good, but hot-headed.
Civil War Faction:
Stormcloaks (she joined the companions too but got bugged in their quest line :()
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Name:
Sho Djinn
Race:
Dark-elf/Dunmer
Primary Fighting Style:
Fireball in one hand, sword in the other.
(which isn't working out that well for him...the idea being to weaken things from a distance with fiyah and finish them off with a sword. cept he doesn't have the sheer damage he'd get from dual wielding either destruction magic or two swords, and he doesn't have the protection of block :/ think I might add conjuration to his repertoire for bound weaps and armour)
Secondary Fighting Style:
Running away.
Morality:
Amoral, but not neccesarily 'evil'. Somewhat self-centred and uncaring.
Civil War Faction:
None.
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Name:
Aureus Vulpine
Race:
High-elf/Altmer
Primary Fighting Style:
Spells! (generally dual flames atm, but will also summon aid and use fury to make npcs attack eachother)
Secondary Fighting Style:
...Scrolls!
Morality:
Unsure yet, other than she looks perpetually furious :D
Civil War Faction:
Nothing so far, she's just joined the Mage's College. Wondering if you can ally yourself with the Thalmor at any point?
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Name:
Raakel
Race:
Khajiit
Primary fighting style:
Sneaky Bows OP
Secondary fighting style:
Dual wielding soul trapping daggers
Morality:
BIG DAMN HERO
Civil War:
Neither.
LOL @ being the only Khajiit posted thus far
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I play on the PS3 like a normal person. :/
Thanks for slowly killing the Elder Scrolls series :)
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I play on the PS3 like a normal person. :/
Thanks for slowly killing the Elder Scrolls series :)
You're welcome!
And thank you, for holding it back from greatness for so long.
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You're welcome!
And thank you, for holding it back from greatness for so long.
I was willing to keep a sarcastic discussion going, but I'm lost now.
My original post was referring to the belief of myself and a lot of others that Oblivion and Skyrim could have been better if they were developed for one specific platform (in our case, the PC) rather than trying to develop it for several. Of course Bethesda's wallet has a solid argument against platform exclusivity, but from an idealist standpoint I feel that a lot of shortcomings could have been avoided with a narrower focus.
Some of the arguments for PC exclusivity are improved graphics (not that I think Skyrim needs improved graphics), more content (not sure it was a problem with Skyrim, but there have been games in the past that had to cut out certain things in order to fit on consoles, on one disc at least) and better optimization, though that could be said for any of the platforms.
A lot of Bethesda fans dislike that it has become a primary console developer. Morrowind was the first TES game to be developed for a console, though it was developed for PC first. Both Oblivion and Skyrim were developed for Xbox 360 first and then ported to PC and PS3. This has limited the PC versions of both Oblivion and Skyrim by limiting CPU usage to 1 core and 2 cores respectively, which is seen as a hard blow for PC owners with more modern processors because both games were optimized for older hardware which is incorporated into consoles. That is my main complaint with console games now, that they limit the PC versions because you can't upgrade a console's hardware as easily. I prefer to play most games, especially any first person games, on the PC because I prefer the controls and customizability over consoles.
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Did you just accuse me of assisting in the degradation of a series I've faithfully followed since Morrowind and then act outraged when I countersnarked?
I think that's what happened.
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Did you just accuse me of assisting in the degradation of a series I've faithfully followed since Morrowind and then act outraged when I countersnarked?
I think that's what happened.
I was joking when I said that, and I don't think I acted outraged.
I was just curious to hear your perspective about how non-console players held the series back from greatness.
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Name:
Raakel
Race:
Khajiit
Primary fighting style:
Sneaky Bows OP
Secondary fighting style:
Dual wielding soul trapping daggers
Morality:
BIG DAMN HERO
Civil War:
Neither.
LOL @ being the only Khajiit posted thus far
He seems like such an attractive catman. I wonder why Lydia wont give him the time of day...
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Name: Tyrvain
Race: Nord
Primary Fighting Style: Dual wielding longswords
Secondary Fighting Style: Destruction/Conjuration Magic
Morality: Apathetic Mercenary
Civil War: Imperial
Other: Archmage, Thane of Whiterun, Winterhold, Markath, Legate of the Legion
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Name: Blodhgarm (Kudos for people who recognise it)
Race: High Elf
Primary Fighting Style: Destruction Magic
Secondary Fighting Style: HUGE FRACK OFF WARAXE aka [spoiler]Wuuthraad[/spoiler]
Morality: Noble rebelious
Civil War: Stormcloak sympathiser, Thalmor rebel
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Name: Blodhgarm (Kudos for people who recognise it)
:D Where's the fur?
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Name: Blodhgarm (Kudos for people who recognise it)
:D Where's the fur?
Damnit I knew I should have kept that fur armour! :P
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Just starting playing Skyrim earlier this week. I'm enjoying it, when I manage to wrestle the game away from my husband. :lol: Sadly, like Senn, I'm playing it on the console, so no pictures of my toon. Unless I find the digital camera. :oops:
Name: Tsen Di'sun
Race: Dark elf/dunmer (female one)
Primary fighting style: Destruction magic (more fire focus right now)
Secondary fighting style: Sniping (it's just fun to shoot unsuspecting bandits in the back :P)
Morality: So far, honorable hero
Civil War: No sides taken at this time.
Other notes: Often takes a while getting from point A to point B, mostly for exploring purposes or stopping to pick crafting items/alchemy ingredients up. Best to make your own potions and stuff rather then relying on merchants.
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I'll take screenshots later.
Name: Raaji, Raaji the Scoundrel, Raaji the Thief, Raaji the Cat, Raaji the Wastrel, that damn cat, hey you and STOP THAT CAT!
Race: Raaji is Khajiit. Very sad for Raaji, but Raaji accept that the Gods are cruel.
Primary Fighting Style: Raaji doesn't fight. Raaji hides. Sometimes uses arrows for distraction. Sometimes has to scratch meanies.
Secondary Fighting Style: Raaji still doesn't fight. Raaji sometimes hides. Sometimes shoots. Sometimes scratches.
Morality: Raaji has heard of this. Don't understand. When do you or Raaji ever have a choice? Very sad when Khajiit.
Civil War: Very scary. Will have to find out which side has the biggest people to hide behind.
Excerpt from journal:
Raaji doesn't understand why the big Nords are so angry. Don't mind much, people are usually angry when Raaji is there. Usually because Raaji has somehow found their valuables for them. Not this time. Can't understand why they are talking about windy cloaks. Raaji doesn't have one, they're too expensive. How do you weave wind to become cloaks anyway? Strange Nords. Nice that they're giving free rides though.
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Raaji apologize for writing but Raaji is a little shaky. The smoothskins (and the Nords) weren't giving Raaji a lift after all! They were trying to kill Raaji! Very sad, but Raaji has almost come to expect it from all smoothskins. Made a friend, though. A big bird must like Raaji because it scared off the smoothskins. Sad that so many dies for Raaji, but big birds are stupid and probably don't know that killing is bad. Raaji will have to try and find the bird again, once this noisy smoothskin goes away. Oh, a village.
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Raaji tired of walking. Had to deliver message for arrogant blond Norde. Mean woman tried to foist all kinds of garbage on poor Raaji too, as if Raaji wanted to dispose of her trash. Raaji has lead on big bird though. People call it "Dragon". Strange name for a bird. Raaji will call it 'Bawk'. It will like that. Now to find stone for hooded man.
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Raaji does not want to talk about spiders. Raaji does not want to talk about mean dead Nords. Raaji does NOT want to talk about wet fur from waterfall and cold northern lands.
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Of course it rains on Raaji. Very sad but Raaji used to it. Noisy hooded man and noisy bearded man wants Raaji to follow dark elf woman. Raaji doesn't want to but maybe they'll have food. Might as well stick with them. They're being noisy and yelling and stuff, but Raaji doesn't mind. Raaji minds the rain and focuses on that instead. Very sad. Oh, we're running now. Will have to talk later. Raaji hates the rain. Wet fur.
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Dark elf mentions Dragon! Maybe Raaji find the big bird today after all. There's even fires to dry Raaji's fur. Oh look, a bird.
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WET FUR IS GREAT! RAAJI ELABORATE LATER!
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Wasn't big bird. Was different bird. Raaji is sad now, but these smoothskins are exited. Maybe they'll feed Raaji now.
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Name: Faraelle. Last name not known or not given. The bards will have to invent an epitaph for her.
Race: Imperial
Primary Fighting Style: Light armor Spellsword with Destruction magic, healing spells and shouts
Secondary Fighting Style: Dual-cast magic. May break out the bow for a lark.
Morality: Pragmatic Hero. Do no evil...but if you must do evil, do it for the right reasons. Destiny has come knocking after you were so sure the gods had forsaken you; don't screw it up and don't squander it.
Civil War: Neutral until Alduin has been delt with. When the threat passes and the cease fire falters, she will probably join the Imperials; though she sympathizes with some of the Stormcloak's grievances, she doesn't think a divided Empire can stand against the Thalamor, and even faded, the ideals of the Empire are worth trying to save.
Other affiliations: Thane of Whiterun and Hjaalmarch, wandering student of Winterhold (saving the world eats into study time), champion of Mareida. Thinking of joining the Companions.
The disfiguring scar on her face that she adamantly does not talk about and premature grey hair hints at a disturbed past; she was driven to Skyrim as a refugee when she ended up on the wrong side of a raid and a prison wagon to Helgen. Is attracted to The Way of the Voice as a discipline, if not the pacifism; it's a little oasis of calm in the storm. Does worship all Nine Divines, lately favoring Talos and Kynnereth (Kyne), but keeps finding herself embroiled with Daedra, of which only Mareida has been an especially positive experience. Has settled in Whiterun where she's respected as a hero, neighbor and public figure. Has something resembling friendship with Jarl Idgrod Ravencrone of Morthal, with whom she sees eye-to-eye better than most Nords, and appreciates her honesty and frankness. She will travel sometimes with followers, but prefers to tackle "dovahkiin business" on her own.
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Sky above, voice within...
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Slight derail of thread topic but Skyrim related.
First official game add-on for Skyrim announced:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PjBSicSVqI
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He seems like such an attractive catman. I wonder why Lydia wont give him the time of day...
That aint no man.