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    Quote Originally Posted by Mcstunner View Post
    well, there's guys like pelinal whitestrake. he'd go from being a hero to periods of homicidal madness. i mean, it's in the lore that dragonborn could be like that... but it just seems like bad writing :/
    Why? If you haven't noticed every TES protagonist starts out as a prisoner. Doesn't being in the prison imply that they aren't such goody two-shoes to begin with?

    Besides, Bethesda does not write your story, you do! They only write the main quest and possibly DLC parts and add it to the canon lore but your motivations for doing it could be anything. You can play as an evil murdering jerk who puts poisons in peoples pockets for laughs.. or even just be a normal person and get caught in all of it.

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    oh i know, my story is my own. that's why i never do the main quest when i'm gonna play a bad character. and the dragonborn may start out as a prisoner, but that's just because he/she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. they weren't trying to be bad, they just got caught in the stormcloak mess. lokir was a thief, but even he wouldn't have gotten caught had it not been for the stormcloaks.

    but what i meant, is like, if they're gonna say the dragonborn stopped alduin, it just doesn't really fit to have him also being a bad guy. bieng the world saving hero and the murderous thief just doesn't mesh imo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mcstunner View Post
    oh i know, my story is my own. that's why i never do the main quest when i'm gonna play a bad character. and the dragonborn may start out as a prisoner, but that's just because he/she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. they weren't trying to be bad, they just got caught in the stormcloak mess. lokir was a thief, but even he wouldn't have gotten caught had it not been for the stormcloaks.

    but what i meant, is like, if they're gonna say the dragonborn stopped alduin, it just doesn't really fit to have him also being a bad guy. bieng the world saving hero and the murderous thief just doesn't mesh imo.
    He could've killed him for his ''glory'' or just to test himself, or maybe for the spoils such a feat could bring, you never know

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mcstunner View Post
    oh i know, my story is my own. that's why i never do the main quest when i'm gonna play a bad character. and the dragonborn may start out as a prisoner, but that's just because he/she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. they weren't trying to be bad, they just got caught in the stormcloak mess. lokir was a thief, but even he wouldn't have gotten caught had it not been for the stormcloaks.

    but what i meant, is like, if they're gonna say the dragonborn stopped alduin, it just doesn't really fit to have him also being a bad guy. bieng the world saving hero and the murderous thief just doesn't mesh imo.
    There is no profit to be made in the destruction of the world.

    And particularly evil characters might prefer the world ends on their terms, not because of some stuck up time dragon god.

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    oh i could totally see a bad guy killing alduin. the problem is the way the story up to the killing is. you don't act like a bad guy at all... you can't make it seem like you're in it for your own reasons and you can't tell delphine to go blow, all you can really do is act like a student to the greybeards and act like a comrade to delphine. the story just sets itself up as more of a hero story.

  6. #7166
    Quote Originally Posted by Mcstunner View Post
    oh i could totally see a bad guy killing alduin. the problem is the way the story up to the killing is. you don't act like a bad guy at all... you can't make it seem like you're in it for your own reasons and you can't tell delphine to go blow, all you can really do is act like a student to the greybeards and act like a comrade to delphine. the story just sets itself up as more of a hero story.
    Look at it as a technical limitation. The game simply isn't advanced enough to account for what you want.

    Hopefully we will get a TES game one day that allows for many more story possibilities.

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    Hopefully we will get a TES game one day that allows for many more story possibilities.
    And fitting consequences that have major and tangible ramifications!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flaks View Post
    And fitting consequences that have major and tangible ramifications!
    Dare to dream, brother!

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    As far as what the Dragonborn does being canon? Well, from what I've read the TES canon is pretty messy. There is also contradictory accounts, like how Tiber became emperor. So while it would be a lot for one guy to do, "lore" seems rather grey about what folks will, or won't, do.

    All the mentions lately, in-game, of Hammerfell mercenaries being about? I wouldn't be surprised if Redguard mostly takes place within Skyrim too. Maybe Hammerfell invades Skyrim?
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    hammerfell would be foolish to do that. because the second their armies turn away from hammerfell, the dominion would swoop in and crush every city the redguards own. no, it'll most certainly take place in a part of hammerfell. i would be very surprised if it's not just a small area of hammerfell too, because that place is probably the 3rd largest province of tamriel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flaks View Post
    And fitting consequences that have major and tangible ramifications!
    The only way I could see that happening is if they release a future TES as a multiplayer game, possible even some hybrid single player/mmo (cities and battlegrounds have other players).

    This is the only way they would want to or be able to do something as massive as that. Otherwise we'd get a very small area and few quests (because there would need to be a lot more options, branching out depending how you solve them) or they would need decades to develop it and it's not worth it unless they want to charge $200-300 for the game. So the only way for it would be releasing subscription fee or regular extra content DLCs and multiplayer to substitute the initial missing content.

  12. #7172
    Played Dragonborn DLC for about 2 hours. Just ran about exploring and killing stuff. The place is...interesting. Need to get into the quests. Been too busy collecting Chitin for the armor.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flaks View Post
    Played Dragonborn DLC for about 2 hours. Just ran about exploring and killing stuff. The place is...interesting. Need to get into the quests. Been too busy collecting Chitin for the armor.
    It's going to take a few more days for me to finish up Dawnguard sidequests and loose ends before starting the DLC but I was actually thinking about doing the same thing.. just going there wearing only normal clothes and leaving all my fancy stuff behind. Otherwise it would be a shame to miss out on all of the new things or be forced to downgrade all those daedric artifacts and enchanted dragonscale and jewelry for those close-to-beginner level items..

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    i still upgraded to that solhiem armor (side grade really)

    i picked that for rp reasons, better to stay a true nord, than become miraak 2.0


    since i was wearing the rigor mask and using dragon armor, i was pretty close IMO
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    I kinda liked the nords too before I got through the Dawnguard main quest and now I don't really know. Reading the history books and talking to the snow elf indicates that the nords just came down from Atmora and committed genocide against all the elves living in Skyrim. They didn't just conquer them, they purged every elf that lived there, even pushed the snow elves to extinction. What's worse is that they are proud about it. They altmer probably deserved it (they kept humans as slaves and killed them for amusement) but the snow elves seemed to be highly developed and peaceful people.

    As for the nordic armor, it's available everywhere in Skyrim as well with Dragonborn installed. I think every bandit chief wears it:P It's decent and looks nice but still not as good as daedric or dragonbone. I was thinking about chitin and bonemold and whatever the Skaal wear.

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    That staltheim armor is butt ugly in my opinion. I'm working my way up to dragonbone as fast as possible so I can equip ebonsteel.



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    Oh I am not that big of a Nord fan either but it doesn't feel right to me to have one of the mer, kittens, or iguanas, be a dragonborn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lizbeth View Post
    I kinda liked the nords too before I got through the Dawnguard main quest and now I don't really know. Reading the history books and talking to the snow elf indicates that the nords just came down from Atmora and committed genocide against all the elves living in Skyrim. They didn't just conquer them, they purged every elf that lived there, even pushed the snow elves to extinction. What's worse is that they are proud about it. They altmer probably deserved it (they kept humans as slaves and killed them for amusement) but the snow elves seemed to be highly developed and peaceful people.

    As for the nordic armor, it's available everywhere in Skyrim as well with Dragonborn installed. I think every bandit chief wears it:P It's decent and looks nice but still not as good as daedric or dragonbone. I was thinking about chitin and bonemold and whatever the Skaal wear.
    that's half the truth. the snow elves and nords lived in relative peace for some time before the fighting started. then the night of tears happened, the snow elves slaughtered almost all of the nords in skyrim. ysgramor was the only survivor of that event, and he returned to give the snow elves the same treatment. it was the elves that instigated the conflict.

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    http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Snow_Elf

    This is a really good website for TES lore, snow elfs were the bad guys

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    I wouldn't take that as complete canon though. TES lore is messy and shows an example or two of historical revisionism. I wouldn't be surprised if a "conflicting" account shows up in a book in a later game.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Malgo View Post
    http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Snow_Elf

    This is a really good website for TES lore, snow elfs were the bad guys
    Not sure if that's the whole "truth". When doing the College quests, you actually discover that the elves sacked Saarthal because of the Eye of Magnus... which is kinda like a weapon of mass destruction. Could be the elves just struck a preemptive strike or wanted to prevent the stupid humans from blowing up Skyrim.

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