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Indeed, especially as Astrid is capable of capturing you and bring you to different shack while you are asleep. Could have just as well tossed you of some mountain cliff. But I suppose this are just the typical game mechanics.

The Thalmor will hear about this!

But a single barred door would put the mightest dovakin out of business. Just put a log over his houses door, and hes imprisoned for good. A sneak attack from Karliah would also kill him as shown in the thieves guild quest, and Astrid (as long she lives) could also just kill him in his sleep. While playing one can get the impression of having become an unbeatable super-entity, I doubt this is the case - lore wise.

not for me. there is no market.

This, technically its the most stupid sword ever.

Santa's little cannibalistic helpers apparently. Larger females than males does not necessarily mean sexual cannibalism.

He just needs doughnuts.

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/pocket-guide-empire-first-edition-skyrim "Throat of the World This is the highest mountain in Skyrim, and the highest in Tamriel aside from Vvardenfell in Morrowind. The Nords believe men were formed on this mountain when the sky breathed onto the land. Hence the Song of Return refers not only to Ysgramor's return to Tamriel after the destruction of Saarthal, but to the Nords' return to what they believe was their original homeland. " ... Again just so story about their beliefs, and conflicts with the companion story to be the original colonizers of Skyrim and the Foresworn story, to be natives.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Children_of_the_Sky "Nords consider themselves to be the children of the sky. They call Skyrim the Throat of the World, because it is where the sky exhaled on the land and formed them. They see themselves as eternal outsiders and invaders, and even when they conquer and rule another people; they feel no kinship with them." Thats just so a story.

Actually the Nords were first. Mankind, except the Redguards, was created on top of The Throat of the World by Kyne, the proto-nords left for Atmora while some stayed and moved south to Cyrodill. Skyrim is the land of the Nords and all Humans as they were the first people there. Where did you that get from? Its mentioned the Nords came with a ship (the original companions!), the Foresworn where the actual natives.

That argument only works if the Stormcloaks themselves are doing anything wrong. If you read my post you would know that apart from WORDS they aren't actually racist or barbaric. They don't discriminate in their army, you can be a dark elf and get a whole bunch of titles and respect if you fight well. The Imperials on the other hand will execute you for being in the same place as the enemy even if your name isn't on their execution list. People denying racism going on, because they close they are ears and eyes "its all just words, never seen it first hand", blah, since it happens another place are a fundamental part of the racism-problems. I have to sit on my hands to not draw any real-life parallels. And talos was warshipped in the whole empire, not just Skyrim. The Stormcloaks beside they oh-so-brave-and-strong-show are actually just little cry-babies that go all whiny over having to warship talos a little behind closed doors instead, while everyone else (including many true sons of doughters of Skyrim Nords within the Legion!) seems to be able to turn their brains a little more on, to see that much more is at stake.

Fail, there is no "WinterRun" :psyduck: Whiterun or Winterhold?

Anyway, two wrongs don't make a right.

Yes, but the Thalmor figured, it will instead eat up the empire form within instead of having to fight them, where Stormcloack works full within their expections. And was likely even been set up by them (without him realizing it) with the Markath incident.

Yes, the 500 investment perk, and the +1000 gold perk for all merchants. There isn't any economy in Skyrim, merchants just restock into and from the void. Considering I created tons of daggers of banishment to make money, I'd never found any of my daggers to be on sell again, or on any NPC that I sold in meny dozends to the vendors. They just vanish and are replaced with gold again :( For a while I hoped that doing business with one vendor a lot might make him richer and have a bigger stock and money supply, but no, aside from the perks to effects.

To be fair there a two versions of this song sung in Skyrim. Here a side by side comparison. The Age of Oppression The Age of Aggression =============================== ================================ We drink to our youth, We drink to our youth, and to days come and gone. to days come and gone. For the age of oppression For the age of aggression is now nearly done. is just about done. We´ll drive out the Empire We´ll drive out the Stormcloaks from this land that we own. and restore what we own. With our blood and our steel With our blood and our steel we will take back our home. we´ll take back our home. All hail to Ulfric! Down with Ulfric You are the High King! the killer of kings. In your great honor On the day of your death we drink and we sing. we´ll drink and we´ll sing. We´re the children of Skyrim, We´re the children of Skyrim, and we fight all our lives. and we fight all our lives. And when Sovngarde beckons, And when Sovngarde beckons, every one of us dies! every one of us dies! But this land is ours But this land is ours and we´ll see it wiped clean. and we´ll see it wiped clean. Of the scourge that has sullied Of the scourge that has sullied our hopes and our dreams. our hopes and our dreams.

I have noticed in the many arguments between imperials and stormcloaks that many people have brushed off the banning of talos as something that was unimportant and how the nords should of just dealt with it. However these people fail to realise that Talos worship is the main religion for them. It would be like a foreign power going into the U.S and banning Christianity. So yes the Empire did sell out Skyrim and no the Stormcloaks are not being naive in being angry about their religion getting banned. In Oblivion Cryodill also mentions serveral times they worshipped Talos as well, it was just as well an necessary evil to get peace. The Nord and specifically the Stormcloaks just got their pants more easily in a twist about this than everyone else.

You get two shouts, you can summon one of the sovengard heros and you can call that dragon that is now friendly toward you. I consider them okay skillups for completing the main quest, considering they shouldn't overpower you for any side-quests you want to do after (ignoring that you are already pretty overpowered with improved armor+weapons). At least the shouts are tons better than any weapon and armor you would just end up stashing somewhere.

:facepalm: Ha, or otherwise said: I hear nothing, I see nothing, I say nothing,

You are likely more suited to ego shooter. If all you expect from a video game is a lot of killing, then yes Skyrim is likely not for you.

I think the thieves guild was a fair one. Biggest bad was the bards college. Bards do tomb raiding? Get me that of this tomb, and get me this of that tomb, bla ... seriously, hadn't they been able to do anything more bardish?

I agree, I suppose agreeing on one "starter pack" might need a quite a big arguing war, what should go in there (Beside I doubt that many of the mods took care to add any reuse license with them, questioning if it would be possible). Anyway, I think all the graphic make-overs would be a good start point, assuming the user wants to play Oblivion on a PC s/he that works with Skyrim also. And I think any leveling/scaling replacement is better than out-of-the-box Oblivion, which is just broken. I don't like the weightlifting hack. I consider it hillarious already, how many swords, shield and armors a normal RPG-protagonist can carry (how big are their backpacks actually?) At least not without any in-story explanation, like D&D who often allowed you to carry "pocket-universes" with you (you actually carry a gateway to another universe, which consists only of you stash). I actually liked the roleplaying element of running through a dungeon and decide for ever item if the value/weight ratio is worth it, instead of ransacking everything.

I had no no problems with any distance. Maybe its tied to the archery skill? With the zooming in and time slowing, I could anything (bandits) that my graphic settings were drawing on medium setting. And contrary to oblivion I also didn't have to aim upward. The only thing, targets moving require you to aim where it will be... I had my problems with flying dragons though, I had always to wait he comes to halt (also halt in air). Also remember sometimes its Alduin that flies over you in the wild, he is invulnerable (at this stage)

Yes.

Thats a nice way to solve that game tech "problem". I'd liked hybrid anyway, having for example half strong benefits from both races. With the oblivion face engine were everything was just more or less stretched it might even been possible to create arbitrary crossbreed by taking half/half settings.