breakwind

I can relate to the opening post as I too have made Nord characters with joining the Stormcloaks in mind, but always revert to joining the Legion. I have only finished the Stormcloak quest once and it just didn't feel right. Meeting up with Ulfric in Sovngarde seems to justify that feeling, and I have always felt that Ulfric was nothing more than a Thalmor stooge. People relate the war to the American Civil War, but I reckon it may be closer to the Spanish Civil War, with a Stormcloak victory meaning that Skyrim would be taken out of the equation when the Thalmor battle the Empire again, as a neutral secret Thalmor 'puppet' state....keeping the Nords out of the Legion as it's priority. Well that's what's in my imagination anyway :smile:

@Georgiegirl, I have had my Steam account since 2005 and have had the same IP for 3 years and even if I use all my on-peak data allowance, it is slowed to 56k which is still good enough to login to Steam. No I swear that everything I have tried all points to the problem being at the Steam end. I can successfully ping their servers so connectivity isn't the issue, just their talking to my computer, which makes me wonder whether or not my account has been hijacked in some way. Of course at the rate that their Support works it might take me a year to find out..... :sad:

@ Hangarspace, thanks for the advice, but didn't work. @ Georgiegirl, yes I am

I was wondering if anyone could help me with Steam, as it's been about 20 days now since I have been able to access Skyrim :wacko: Steam always has the 'Steam Updating' window showing, and a look at my firewall shows Steam with 60 bytes in and 74 bytes out, day after day after day. No error messages or anything, task manager has Steam as 'running'. The cancel button on the Steam window doesn't work and I have to force it to end via the task manager. I have gone through all the usual things like deleting all files except the apps and exe files unplugging the router, disabling antivirus and firewall, deleting potentially conflicting programs etc. I have had a ticket with Steam support for over 2 weeks now and every 5 or 6 days I just get a copy and paste from them from one of their faqs. I installed Steam on another computer with our internet connection, and it is doing the same thing which is telling me the fault is not with my computer. I use satellite internet as I live in the middle of nowhere. twice Steam started working at about 2am Australian Eastern Standard for about an hour and then reverted back to its perpetual updating state. I have Dawnguard downloaded at 80% for weeks now, it is driving me insane...I have to have my Skyrim fix :sad: When I delete client registry .blob file and restart Steam the newly created .blob file shows as 10,241kb for a split second and then quickly changes to 1kb

I just wish I could play Skyrim. :sad: Steam has been 'updating' now for three weeks at 60 bytes in and 74 bytes out Steam Support isn't supportive and I am at my wits end.....I had Dawnguard at 80% downloaded before Steam decided to stop working and start it's 'downloading hibernation' :(

Yep, was pretty funny :)

I killed him, because....I could :whistling:

Yes I am aware of his work and his point of view, but getting back to the debate about Alduin being a 'god', it seems to me that the gods and daedric princes all have some kind of shrine or monument and followers of some sort. Has Alduin? Other than the misguided dragon priests, I mean

Kirkbride left Bethesda before Morrowind was completed

The Ayleid ruins had a unique atmosphere about them, but did feel bland after a while......as I suppose the Dwemer ones will seem when the next installment comes out, but I agree that Blackreach will take some beating in underground size

Yep...insane loading times alright.....to me THAT would be the glitch right there :smile:

Maybe in your game Alduin is a god, but in my game I sent him to the void...a few times. And to date he hasn't came back yet. The heroes of old celebrate his passing in Sovngarde, the dragons realise he is no more, Paarthurnax feels the loss with the pain of losing ones brother, and those I meet in Skyrim acknowledge the 'vanquishing of a great evil'. Looks to me like you are going to have to try to convince them too. As for taking books of lore 'literally', as I have used as an example in a thread before....I was an Agent Of Nightingale reading a book telling me Agents Of Nightingale do not exist, do I believe the book, or the game?

Akatosh created Alduin first, followed by the other dragons. Using your logic they are then all gods. So my character is also a godslayer? As for the book you quoted from I rather gather it is written as fairy tales based on TES lore. I mean really, Alduin belching up farms? I found it quite comical. After playing a bit of Morrowind and quite a bit of Oblivion as well as Skyrim, I have learnt to take the books of lore with a pinch of salt. Lore means truth mingled with myth and legend as well as the point of view of the author....and not law

I don't class Alduin as a 'god', and as for him being dead, well going by the little scene at the Throat Of The World at the end of the main quest, I don't think the dragons think he is still alive anymore. His soul? Who knows, maybe Akatosh reclaims it as that is where it came from. In any case I don't think Alduin is in any condition to swallow the world, so we will never know

Now I may not be the brightest candle on the birthday cake, but having seen Alduin a few times, and also realising the immense size of Nirn.....there may be a slight problem with the physics of Nirn fitting inside his 'mighty gullet' :whistling:

Anyway, as long as there are heads to sever and chests to raid...I'm happy. Better than sitting on a throne all day listening to a court filled with whinging lickspittles and regal wannabes any day of the week :smile:

My take on the Daedric Princes and the Divines is that they cannot kill each other, but transform or banish each other to another realm...if they are strong enough to do so. After the main quest in Skyrim, is Alduin truly destroyed? Or banished to another place? I think he is truly destroyed, and if so then there is no real comparison between Alduin and Daedric Lord in the immortal sense. Also my understanding of Alduin as 'world eater' is more to do with him eating all the life on the world than dirt and rock

You have 2 easy choices. Either play the game or don't. I think Bethesda make wonderful games full of choices and nobody has to follow a certain path..you can be any type of character you want. You can be an alchemist, for example, and never touch any of the main quests other than Helgen...if you so choose

Also you can get a lockpick with your console. Check the cheat codes

I loved Oblivion, but even though it might have had more quest content than Skyrim, they seemed too repetitive. You seen one dungeon or ayleid ruin...you've seen them all. But the atmosphere in Oblivion seemed a bit better than Skyrim. Probably because of it's temperate climate compared to the Ice and snow

In that sense, everyone in the game is probably 'immortal' as when they die their souls go to one place or another

My ~ button never runs out of septims :smile:

The Blades SAY they serve the Dragonborn, but that isn't the same thing as actually serving. You should know something is fishy right from the beginning, even if you never hear Arngeir's warning about the Blades. Delphine blackmails you into contacting her, demands that you prove yourself to her at Kynesgrove, then sends you on a series of missions to carry out HER agenda rather than yours. She says she's "just trying to help", but it turns out that she is just trying to GET help. Your help. Once you've got her set up all snug and cozy in Skyhaven Temple, she has no further use for you unless you're willing to knuckle under and follow her orders. The gloves come off and you can see that they just want to use you. (Granted, Arngeir isn't in a perfect position to be throwing stones, given that he has been concealing information to try to manipulate you. If it hadn't been for your contact with the Blades, you might never have known this. However, he does back down when confronted, and I find the Greybeards far more trustworthy in the long run even if not perfect.) I agree. In Oblivion the Blades seemed an honourable group, while Delphine and Esbern are like gutter rats, who use you for their own ends. Paarthurnax, doesn't 'owe' you anything, yet helps you and ask's for nothing in return other than a bit of conversation. Once I listen to the old fool read the Alduins Wall story, I leave them and never return, but I will one time just to use the Nightingale Subterfuge on them and watch them fight each other for my own amusement :smile:

According to the guards, Tiber didn't fight any dragons, as they said there weren't any around, allthough the Dragonborn Book mentions that the Blades may have killed some around this time. The book also mentions that scholars disagree in the meaning Dragonborn had for his heirs and even whether Reman Cyrodill was in fact Dragonborn or if the Blades just claimed him as such. But as I have found with a lot of books in Skyrim and Oblivion, a lot is just conjecture and I get the feeling it is best that we fill in the holes the way we want it to be, as lore does not equate to law :smile:

And yet none of Tiber Septim's heirs got called up to High Hrothgar to learn the 'Way Of The Voice', also I don't recall ever hearing of them using shouts? I also recall in Oblivion that only those of Dragon blood could light the fires and wear the Amulet. When you first get told by the Whiterun guards that you are Dragon Born, you are also told that nothing like this has happened since Tiber Septim. Maybe there are 2 types of Dragon Born?