It's absolutely great Jac! I'll get to making a cover for it later tonight.

Loved it! Great story. Made me smile.

BTW, "matze" => "mazte".

Keep up the good work, Jac!

More ideas:

Comberry Wine-making for Fun and Profit

Brew Your Own Wickwheat Beer - A Step-by-Step Guide

How to Build a Still (For those who are tired of the high import duty on Imperial whiskey)

I like my spelling better.

Thanks for the comment, I'm glad you liked it. B)

I think that could all be combined into a book about making local brews. I'll have to do a bit of research first.

A 'how to make local brews' book would go really well with the Ald'ruhn Council Club mod I'm currently working on. I've given Darvam Hlaren dialogue where he talks in general about how different types of drinks are made. (wikipedia helped a lot!) I've made up 5 beers, 13 meads, 13 wines (so far, plus Surilie Bros. and Tamika's), 1 bitters, 1 rum, 3 tehk'las (tequilas), 7 vouad'kas (vodkas), and 2 whiskeys. Also 3 Bosmeri liquors based on lore from the Imperial Library. And he sells the standard stuff that already exists.

I put Sujamma in the vouad'ka category. Since I haven't been able to determine what it's made from, I just hypothesized ash yam and wickwheat. I haven't made up any new brandies yet, but I may do that later when I've finished creating wines.

I'd love to see that dialogue before I start work on the book. If we could merge ideas, you could make that book available in your mod with no conflict of information.

Kinda been getting really busy off and on of late due to some paperwork that went missing, so I don't know how much work I can do on the orc book after all. Hopefully I'll still have time to work on it, but just in case I thought I'd give a few more ideas.

Dusk
(A vampire's story. Apparently she worked for the temple for a long time, but had her life turned upside down after becoming a wanderer of the night. Details the struggles she faced, and how the very temple she had served tried to kill her. Should be pretty anti-temple.)

Stupid Stories For The Marginally Minded
(Might need a better title, but is a collection of stories about mishaps the stupid have come across. Maybe a series like dance in the fire was. For example, this book may include a story about a woof elf who tries to kill his neighbor by drowning him, trouble is, his neighbor turns out to be an argonian.)

Lost In Plain Sight
(A story about someone gets stuck in an usual place and has to fend for himself. Should include something specific to MW, like perhaps a person who, after a spell goes awry, finds himself stuck on top of a one of MW's many giant mushrooms with no way down. Maybe he builds a house inside the top of it, and occasionally calls out to travelers, but no one comes to his rescue for they think the place is haunted.)

Handbook For Cliffracer Avoidance
(Denotes the problem cliff racers have turned into and tries to teach how to avoid them, however the author's frustration is very clear. At some point he even asks why the local guards haven't done more about it.)

Underwater Demons
(Contains series of very superstitious theories about the dregh and where they came from, something of a sailor tales kind of book)

I like the usage of tehk'las and vouad'kas. B) :thumbsup:
For whiskey how about using Gaelic uisce beatha which has the same meaning as Latin aqua vītae: water of life.

I like that idea. I hadn't gone full bore with giving Dunmeri names to every type of liquor, but I think I'll take your advice on the whiskey. I'll change the spelling a little to make it look more like Dunmeri words. Let me think on it.

BTW, I made up the following translations:

Tehk'la = Cactus Spirit (They're all made from Mournhold cactus fruits)
Vouad'ka = Biting Water (Based on the root word "ouada" meaning river - The Imperial Library)

EDIT:

OK, I have two ideas:

Ouas'ka Beahta = Water of Health (making up a new word for health)
Ouas'ka Sunna = Water of Blessing (Blessed Water) (using a variant of a word from TIL - sunnabe = Blessed Be)

and we could have the slang term for it, Molag Ouada (Fire Water).

The Orc book is already done, Maholix, unless you're thinking about writing a different one.


I wrote about a vampire once in TES, I may see about modifying the story to fit this.


This would be funny if it was done.


I don't know how easy this would be to write. How could someone be trapped on top of a mushroom and survive more than a few days without water? Then again, one could always stick them on island somewhere surrounded by slaughterfish.

lol, well the water is easy. He is up high, so moisture would collect. But anything along those lines, even what you suggested would work as long as it has a strange sense of irony, like people are close by yet he's still lost or something. MW has a few odd ball quests like that, so I'm thinking having an odd ball in a story would fit right in.

As for the Orc book, I meant Dem Goodums. I had intended to research and make a rough draft at least, but I had some important papers go missing that I needed, so I'm playing catch up in real life as I fix some stuff.. it has left me with a schedule where I don't know when I have free time however, so the book takes a back seat I'm afraid.

Ah, right. I had forgotten about that book. :blush:

For the book on brewing, I think I'll stick to liquors in the standard game to make it most accessible to all players. This covers the bases, wine brandy, whiskey and beer (I'm assuming "local brews" like sujamma are kind of beers), and how they're made.

I also wrote a vampire book for Uvirith's Legacy, but because it was quest related I decided to not include it in BoV. Galdin's book on Bloatspore Cultivation is include in BoV, but because the book was a quest reward in UL it's not actually present in the game world. It can be added manually in the CS though.

Excellent idea, of course. I'm adjusting a few aspects of my current mod to work with the brewing book.

For the Dunmeri word for whiskey I've decided on:

Ouas'ka Beahta = Water of Being (or Soul)

Sometimes they say Ouas'kas for short.

I've renamed Bitters to Vakas.

My thoughts are, Nords used to have control of the island (if I remember correctly), so the Dunmer refer to the beer, mead, and rum categories by their Nord names, though they may have Dunmeri names for local brews. Other liquors are usually referred to by their Dunmeri names: Vakas (bitters), tehk'la (tequila), vouad'ka (vodka), and ouas'ka beahta (whiskey). Imperial influence has caused them to use the terms wine and brandy.

I've completed the book on alcohols as well as the book of sayings and book of insults. I've gathered up all the newest books made and have a screenshot of them all together.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/2002/bovcoversnew.jpg

Hmm...looking at them all together, I might use a bigger mesh like the White Guar book for the Blacksmithing book since it's more deluxe than the others.

Those look great! Nice work.



I agree. Especially because a budding blacksmith would probably want to have it lying open as a reference while working - larger book, easier to see.

I love your books! Keep them coming! :clap:

Here are just some ideas I've had:


"Brief History of Tamriel" (A set like the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Brief_History_of_the_Empire books)

"Examining Dunmer Bigotry" - Explain why Dunmer hate other races

"Vvardenfell economic overview" - Describe the economy of Vvardenfell. Agriculture, Ebony, glass, and egg mining, Imperial imports, the slave tade, ect ect

I'm still planning on writing a history book called the Ascent of Mer and Man, but I got a little burnt out on lore research while writing Cosmos, so I'm holding off on that one for now.

I think I'd like to tackle the book on cliffracers next. I originally planned to make a silly poem book about cliffracers. Maybe I'll include the couple poems I wrote at the start of the book to set the general tone. They're more like children's verses because I'm not as talented as Jac when it comes to poetry. I'll have to dig them up.

Really glad you do still intend to tackle that one - being a science buff (and having a love for the basis books), I am very interested to view your methods for making a variant of that (as the Cosmos variant was simply amazingly done).

Anyways, the new books looks very good - can't wait!

If you want, send me your work and I'll give you my ideas about them. Poetry is a very subjective thing, but I've found reviews have helped me with mine.

Loving this :thumbsup:Wow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Man :bonk:

Stuporstar,

There's a small chance I may be writing a short series (2-3) books about a necromancer. I have a character concept in mind, but I don't tend to do well with longer books, so I'll see how this one goes if/when I start it. Don't wait for it, though, because I can't promise when it'll be done.

No pressure Jac. I'm taking a little break from book mods while I play through and eradicate the last few bugs out of UL. The release is not quite imminent yet.

And I won't be reproducing the entire scope of the Ascent of Man. I thought it would be an interesting take though. The Ascent of Man focuses on how science plays a part in human cultural evolution, and I want to write a history of Tamriel that focuses on the importance of the influence of magic on their civilization. So far I have ideas for the early chapters of the book, but don't quite know where I'm going to go for the late eras.

- The beginning will be the Dawn Era and how the "proto-mer" must have lived in a world of chaotic magic before the Earth Bones came into play and Magnus left Mundus.
- The next chapter is the Merithic Era, the nature of the elves, and their advances in magic.
- The third chapter will be the dawn of man, and the beginnings of the First Era

And that's all I've really thought out so far. I think an exploration of the Towers and the Dragon Breaks would be a good area of focus. I don't want this book to be a dry history, so lineages of The Empire, and historical wars will only be covered if it demonstrates a definable turning point in history.