"Birthsigns" are confirmed : V - Skyrim

» Wed May 18, 2011 10:02 pm

I can confirm its true.

So now instead of clicking on a spread-sheet list, you have to do something in the actual game. Nice.

any choices you get to make in Skyrim have permanence?

The 50 cap perks and Races (which are more unique) are permanent - and result in more unique chars than morrowind and oblivion.

» Wed May 18, 2011 8:49 pm

I'd find it weird personally if birthsigns were out and stone powers remained, considering aside from The Atronach and The Apprentice most of the birthsigns were pretty much a straight-forward boon to your character. Do any choices you get to make in Skyrim have permanence? <_<

Race and gender? :shrug:

» Thu May 19, 2011 3:47 am

I'd find it weird personally if birthsigns were out and stone powers remained, considering aside from The Atronach and The Apprentice most of the birthsigns were pretty much a straight-forward boon to your character. Do any choices you get to make in Skyrim have permanence? <_<

Race and Perks come to mind.

» Thu May 19, 2011 7:58 am

Race and gender? :shrug:

You never know. :hubbahubba:

:yuck:

:evil:

» Thu May 19, 2011 6:47 am

So like the stone runes in Oblivion right?

Looks like I can play as "The Atronach" after all! :bunny:

» Thu May 19, 2011 5:58 am

The 50 cap perks and Races (which are more unique) are permanent - and result in more unique chars than morrowind and oblivion.

You can't argue that until we play the game. We'll have to see just how unique and game changing each individual perk is.

» Thu May 19, 2011 2:53 am

You never know. :hubbahubba:

:yuck:

:evil:

:rofl:

» Thu May 19, 2011 3:18 am

ehhh stone signs? No thanks I think I'll skip over that part.

» Thu May 19, 2011 4:36 am

hooray birthsigns i wonder how the warrior birthsign will work though with no attributes though

» Thu May 19, 2011 12:30 pm

ehhh stone signs? No thanks I think I'll skip over that part.

word, they needs to be on an easy excel sheet on character creation for the lazy cool kids.

screw finding them stones, who wants to do THAT.

» Thu May 19, 2011 7:44 am

hooray ~~birthsigns~~ stonesigns i wonder how the warrior ~~birthsign~~ stonesign will work though with no attributes though

fixed that for you

Same as in morrowind I assume. Raising your "attack" rather than an attribute.

word, they needs to be on an easy excel sheet on character creation for the lazy cool kids.

screw finding them stones, who wants to do THAT.

Not me evidently.
It's not a birthsign if you're getting it from a stone I never said I wanted birthsigns from an excel spreadsheet..(which I personally have never seen)

» Wed May 18, 2011 8:02 pm

I wonder if you can go to one stone and you can keep that one sign you wanty for your character. I would like that I am not sure I just want to see how it turns out in Skyrim.

» Thu May 19, 2011 8:08 am

Since we can't get an exact quote from the magazine, I'm assuming they mean--or misunderstood--that the Doomstones from Oblivion are returning. You don't "pick your birthsign" and switch between them at will. You just get to pick an extra power to get from the Doomstones.

Very different from your birthsign.

Also, I find it very interesting that Doomstones are returning. They were quite interesting in Oblivion, especially if you listened to the speeches the members of the Arcane University made regarding them. I hope we learn more about them and what they are.

» Wed May 18, 2011 11:46 pm

Well, I dont care if it makes sense or not.
At least we have birthsigns.
Yay.

» Thu May 19, 2011 1:38 am

300 hours to see everything the game has to offer.

I bet someone will beat that.

» Thu May 19, 2011 2:50 am

Since we can't get an exact quote from the magazine, I'm assuming they mean--or misunderstood--that the Doomstones from Oblivion are returning. You don't "pick your birthsign" and switch between them at will. You just get to pick an extra power to get from the Doomstones.

Very different from your birthsign.

Also, I find it very interesting that Doomstones are returning. They were quite interesting in Oblivion, especially if you listened to the speeches the members of the Arcane University made regarding them. I hope we learn more about them and what they are.

Well they said birthsign 3 times, and did say they correlate to 13 constellations. However they are infused in doomstones.

Probably combining regular birth-signs with the birth-sign stones, permanent and more powerful.

» Thu May 19, 2011 12:44 am

Why would they be called "Birthsigns" if you don't "start" with it at birth, seeing you can change it at any time? Unless they'd be called something a little different...

» Thu May 19, 2011 1:05 am

I find this info a bit suspicious....we will wait and see

» Thu May 19, 2011 1:16 am

In Oblivion, there were 21 doomstones (13 birthsign stones and 8 heaven stones). The 13 birthsign stones correlated to the 13 birthsigns of Morrowind and Oblivion: apprentice, atronach, lady, lord, lover, mage, ritual, serpent, shadow, steed, thief, tower, and warrior. http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Magical_Stones#Birthsign_Stones

» Thu May 19, 2011 7:01 am

They are not 'birthsigns' anymore. You won't choose a birthsign during character creation.

They are constellations or asterisms. The article misspoke by calling them birthsigns.

» Wed May 18, 2011 11:04 pm

I dont see how you can change something you was born under either, we will just have to wait and see.

» Wed May 18, 2011 11:49 pm

Well doomstones in oblivion allowed you to do this. When you listen to the mage scholars in the Arcane University, they mention that they are mysterious and our unsure of their powers and how they got there. I guess that's the game's way of making it lore for birth signs to change.

» Thu May 19, 2011 6:38 am

That makes no f* sense

Here here! I concur. Having the option to "choose" your birthsign during actual gameplay? And then picking a different one if you don't like it? What the fudge?! That's like me saying "I don't like being born in September. I'm gonna pick a different birth month and see if I like the astrological sign I am given."

» Thu May 19, 2011 8:37 am

Here here! I concur. Having the option to "choose" your birthsign during actual gameplay? And then picking a different one if you don't like it? What the fudge?! That's like me saying "I don't like being born in September. I'm gonna pick a different birth month and see if I like the astrological sign I am given."

I know right? So, they're Birthsigns...except they've got nothing to do with your birth...and you change them at will at Doomstones you had in Oblivion along with an actual Birthsign... :ahhh:

» Thu May 19, 2011 3:08 am

I read the magazine and I did not read that.

I just read it, it`s in there.