faifh
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The Thalmor will hear about this!
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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.
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The more daggers you enchant, the less gold you get for them. I don't know the exact reason behind this. Your enchantments get stronger but the value goes down. Maybe this was meant as a way to balance economics. The more weapons with a special enchantment are on the market, the lower the price for them.
not for me. there is no market.
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always wanted a sword where i could stab someone and then never be able to pull it back out
This, technically its the most stupid sword ever.
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Because they're Santa's little helpers.
Santa's little cannibalistic helpers apparently.
Larger females than males does not necessarily mean sexual cannibalism.
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So how can he still be an effective guard? doesn't he need full mobility?
He just needs doughnuts.
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Thats just so a story.
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.
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Where did you that get from? Its mentioned the Nords came with a ship (the original companions!), the Foresworn where the actual 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.
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Problem is they aren't the Sons and Daughters of Skyrim anymore than anyone else. The Forsworn were there before them and so too were the Orcs apparently. The Dwemer are gone, but they were there before the Nords. Skyrim was a refined Falmer kingdom before the Nords invaded.
Ulfric goes on about the 'true sons and daughters of Skyrim' and their right to govern themselves - a high irony after you learn that he slaughtered the Forsworn upon his return with his legion buddies for rebelling against the Nords and setting up a government to rule themselves. :rolleyes:
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.
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Anyway, two wrongs don't make a right.
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.
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Fail, there is no "WinterRun" :psyduck: Whiterun or Winterhold?
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This is another argument that is commonly made without proper thinking. " The Stormcloaks are racist!" or " The Stormcloaks are barbaric". How? Okay I agree that a few nords insult other races but that's it. They never go beyond the occasional insult. No prision camps, no genocides not even hate crimes. Any race can join the Stormcloaks if they prove themselves worthy by doing the test to kill the ice wraith whether they be Nord or any other race ( shown by the player character). Also so what if they are slightly racist. Are the other races any better? The poor Dark elves who the Nords insult? They used to be much worse then the nords (which can be seen in Morrowind), they enslaved the Argonians to work for them in toxic conditions. The Imperials? They forced their "Superior" culture on all the other species of the continent.
Anyway, two wrongs don't make a right.
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Beyond that I don't agree with the outlaw of Talos worship, however you must understand WHY it is done. Titus Mede accepted the WGT because he had plans to attack The Thalmor later. It was either die there or take it up the arse for a couple of years only to attack The Thamor later.
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.
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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.
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Legion all the way....if what the bards sing is right in "the age of aggression"...the imperials are the good guys.....
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.
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Talos is also worshipped in Cryodill, so its not that they sold out Skyrim, but considered it a necessary evil for getting peace when they were on the losing side of the war. Actually very little is given about true intentions and workings of the Thalmor.
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.
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Amazing how they make such a big deal out of Nothing and its the same with Alduin, everyone goes on about the World Eater and yet you kill him as he's a Regular Dragon. No Reward afterwards.
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.
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Do racist Nords enlist in the Stormcloak army? Sure. But that does NOT make the Stormcloaks racist. That's like saying the US Army is a bunch of criminals because they allow former criminals to enlist.
:facepalm:
Ha, or otherwise said:
I hear nothing,
I see nothing,
I say nothing,
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I'm having a torrid time with it and I find it really boring. I just finished the first village and did the first dungeon and am headed to Whiterun but I just can't seem to care about the story, my character or anyone'd dialogue. I manage to go about 20 mins before I have to slaughter the whole village for entertainment then reload the save before I did it and carry on.
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.
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All of them are too damn short! And when you talk to other people, it seems that there may be more quests they should give you but no.....
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?
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It is a tough call on what would go into a good starter pack. Mod conflicts because of the fairly fragmented nature of modding tend to screw up attempts to even make a thorough guide.
For the old UI, you should look into using Darnified UI. Change the inventory to grid mode and you'll wonder how you ever used the stock system. Don't forget the unofficial patches to fix the many bugs and possibly fast exit if you are getting crashes after exiting. I also liked Unnecessary Violence II. If you use a lot of custom armors and weapons or get tired of having to empty your inventory and don't mind using a minor cheat, the weight lifting mod is really worth a look.
Unofficial Oblivion Patch
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5296
Fast Exit
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=22410
DarNified UI
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10763
Unnecessary Violence II - Taking Action
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=40310
Weight Lifter
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=15956
The basic leveling system was... underwhelming. For min/max players especially it was a pain to concentrate only on certain skills to max out stats. I don't know about the mods you are using but a general rule of thumb was that you wanted to concentrate on maxing endurance early on in order to max out your HP.
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.
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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)
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Can I remain nuetral?
Yes.
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Actually, there can't be half/half hybrid people.
The child is always the race of the mother, as an example an orc mother and dark elf father would have an orc child.
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.
Whos the emperor
in Skyrim LE
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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.