I can't believe no one has thought of this before now! Actually, I was hoping I would be the first, but hey, second (as far as my searching through the forums goes) isn't bad :biggrin: I would love for Sigurd the Volsung and his story to be a part of Skyrim. I mean, he's basically the greatest of the dragon slayers of the world's myths, right (I'm Swedish by heritage so I can be biased)? I did my college senior project on William Morris' translation and his heroic verse interpretation of the Volsunga Saga (he was the first to translate it into English). You can read both versions here http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu/ for free. There's some awesome rhyming couplets that would make great songs for Skyrim as well. My thought was this: make the story of Sigurd into the alternate start of Skyrim, except have it take place on Earth and such like in the saga - Iceland and Germany (a new island somewhere in the sea outside of Skyrim? I'm not a modder so I don't know how this would work - a small version of Iceland would be easiest to make believable, as the sea is a natural boundary). I guess you could be a preset character as Sigurd? Not sure how that would work. Then from there you go through the saga more like an action adventure game, maybe - I personally wouldn't want the story to change too much, but I realize it could be too rigid for an RPG. Oh well this is only an idea right? Anyway, you, as Sigurd, would go through the whole saga up to the point of your betrayal by the sons of Gjuki, and of course, if you know the story, Sigurd is killed because of his version of Achilles' heel (a spot on his back not touched by Fafnir's blood). After you die, you arrive in Valhalla/Sovngard - but Odin/Shor/whichever Nord god is closest to Odin (in my playing of Skyrim I haven't yet figured out if the Nord gods are different from the Aedra, or just different appearances/names for them). This Allfather figure tells you he is sending you back to the mortal body and says other metaphysical/philosophical talk, then you either find yourself as the war-prisoner at the vanilla start of Skyrim or some other lore-friendly starting point. Oh, and it is just your "essence" or whatnot, so it is totally cool if you decide to come back as a female and not be human even (the story of Sigurd could be reworked so that the Sigurd-character would be female and you wouldn't be forced to play as Sigurd the guy at the start of this hypothetical modquest, I suppose is another option, but to me it sounds like more work...) Then, in your course of being the Dragonborn in Skyrim, perhaps your past life as Sigurd would slowly reawaken? There could be quests to find Gram, maybe something like Nerevarine's quest to reclaim True Flame (if you've played Morrowind!) and perhaps then integrate it with the horse Frost being the seed of Sigurd's horse Grani/Greyfell, perhaps Brynhild the Valkyrie (or the male version, if the mod ends up with a female version of Sigurd) is sent to Skyrim as well as a companion/love interest for you as a Sigurd-reincarnated-as-Dragonborn stud guy/girl?? Oh! And the ability to bathe in dragon's blood and get strength/defense boosts and eat dragon hearts and learn the language of animals and stuff. That would be cool. I have even less modding experience than you, Ohdude, so I guess we need to do some sort of modding outreach program to get this off the ground :cool:
