LE "A Good Death" - Lay the Dragonborn to Rest

[daD3ATHBR1NG3R]

“I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious.” — Vince Lombardi

 

 

 

 

We've all had our fair share of adventures with our Skyrim Characters, but what if we wanted to send them away in style?

 

Throughout the thousands of quests we endure, the amount of beasts we slay, the amount of loot we hoard, we develop a connection with our characters that is infinite.

 

In multiple ways.

 

It's always irritated me that no matter what would happen to you throughout the game, my character would never die. Well of course he would be killed by the inevitable bandit chief, dragon, or disastrous fall, but then you'd count to five and you would respawn. Simple as that. Now I'm not saying I want a permadeth mod. But rather some way to have my character die honorably and permanently. Below are some bullets to help get the idea started.

 

 

• A funeral is held in Whiterun on a rainy day, A bard plays the lute yet doesn't sing along to "the tale of the tongues" (Normal Background music is off) all old followers, friends, and guildmates of the Dragonborn seat themselves among the crowd.
• A large Shrine bearing banners/ weaponry of whatever factions you belonged to is based at the front of the service, if the player has a spouse, they stand at the front of the ceremony, head hung
• You would view the whole ceremony while either being an onlooker, a stationed camera, or even perhaps the ghost of your player.
• A (well-voiced) priest takes the Stage and begins the ceremony; "we are gathered here today to mourn the tragic loss of a great hero..." The priest then reads through the various accomplishments of the player (Archmage of the College, Slayer of Alduin, Champion of Miraak, etc.)
• The ceremony continues on and eventually draws to a close as the bard begins to sing along to "The Tale of the Tongues". Perhaps a few credits could fade across the screen, yet will finish with the two wonderful words we've always wished for:

​"The End."

• This mod could possibly take the form of a quest that would start after slaying Alduin. You have some strange symptoms and must go to a specific priest. The news is tragic. You were mortally wounded by the magic of Alduin and as a result, are dying. The Priest cures you of the relatively mild side-effects, but warn you that you don't have much longer to live. He offers to make funeral arrangements of sorts (which you could perhaps even customize through some sort of menu). You could also refuse to make immediate arrangements and just go on living your life as normal. You could then return to the priest and state that you do indeed believe that if you should die, you wish to have a funeral planned. The menu shows up and you check off various details; who to be invited to the funeral, to be remembered as a hero or villain, what weather you would like, open casket?, shrine?, etc. The screen would fade to black as the funeral scene described above would begin.

 

 

This would obviously be an enormous task for anyone to perform, but I don't think it'd be altogether impossible. Let me know what you all think!

 

-Brenden

Edited August 7, 2015 by daD3ATHBR1NG3R

[tx12001]

My Character is Immortal.....enough said but an interesting idea for mere mortal dragonborns anyway.

Edited August 7, 2015 by tx12001

[BigBizkit]

Interesting. I had the same idea today while playing.

 

Well, my idea was more like having one grand scene that pays tribute to your characters deeds and summerizes the impact they had on things.

 

It is something that could be done, meaning, I would be able to do it, skillwise, however, it is not something I would be willing to put in hours upon hours of work for, which I fear would be mandatory.

[daD3ATHBR1NG3R]

And that's exactly the problem. I have very little skill with modding, but I would still love to see such an idea incorporated to "finish" a profile.

 

Also (but unrelated), big fan of both of your mods!

[Fenryr3001]

I would love to see this!Problem for me is that I don't often play Dragonborns.

[BigBizkit]

. I have very little skill with modding,

 

Well, noone started out knowing everything about modding.

[ElioraArin]

I love this idea for finishing a play through, it would be especially good if you had a degree of choice in your demise - did you get old & die peacefully, fall fatally ill, or have a tragic riding accident? Or were you betrayed, finally defeated in battle or triumphant until the end only to perish of mortal wounds later? I hope someone picks up your idea, it's a good one, & hasn't been done before (that I'm aware of!).

[Fenryr3001]

Maybe adding a dialogue option for NPCs to go to your Funeral.

[daD3ATHBR1NG3R]

I'm loving everything you guys have said. I would love to get started working on something like this, but I just don't know where to begin. I threw this request out there in hopes that somebody would have enough skill in modding to jump start the idea, so does anybody have any resources they could share with me to help get this going?

[vram1974]

It doesn't sound as glorious as you describe but there is a death mod:

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/60179/?

 

Perhaps you can reach out to the mod author and build off the work