Does anyone else miss Archmage Aren? : V

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 10:29 am

Since becoming archmage, I've been in the archmages quarters a lot (enchanting, searching, alchemy). Seeing the chair Aren used to sit in makes me remember all the good times we had together.

*que emotional montage*

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:42 am

You mean the 3 minute conversation.

Good times.

» Wed Dec 18, 2013 10:15 pm

lol

And that's the total amount of time we interacted with him.

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 12:00 pm

Yeah, you don't end up interacting with him very much at all in the game, much like Kodlak in the Companions questline, so it's not like you really get a chance to become best buddies with him.

» Wed Dec 18, 2013 7:59 pm

Who?

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 6:23 am

The only memorable thing about him is that he is the NPC that says "ravaged the area" which Nazeem says in the Gamerpoop.

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 8:33 am

I actually liked him (or at least as much as i can considering how little you talk to him), and a mod I have actually adds

Spoiler

2 memorials to the lawn-thingy of the college, one for him and for Mirabelle.

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 7:00 am

MIRABELLE DIED!!! I'm actually fine with that. She was a B****

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 4:49 am

woops. sorry

Forgot this was the general section and not the other section

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 3:03 am

I miss him. The college seems emptier without him

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 4:26 am

I couldn't tell the difference.

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:48 am

When does she die? Not during the main CoW quest???

» Wed Dec 18, 2013 9:42 pm

I will not spoil anything more, you should find it out for yourself :smile: (unless you REALLY want to know)

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:57 am

Can u just tell me if it already happened and I didn't realize, or if it's like a side quest when she died?

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 2:55 am

Spoiler

When you get back from getting the Staff of Magnus Tolfdir mentions she died defending everyone and allowing them to get away from the ever expanding Bubble O' Doom, you never actually see her die. Though the way she looked, it looked like she did not take that initial blast (the one that killed the Arch-mage) very well

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 1:41 am

Oh, then she's already dead in my game. Wow, I can't believe I haven't noticed that!

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 12:12 pm

If he, like the rest of the questline, were expanded upon so much more, I'd miss him more. But yeah, he was a cool dude

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 1:30 am

I wonder what were you doing for 3 minutes? Repeating the same lines like 5 times? :tongue:

Anyway, same here. Amount of interaction with the guy was pathetic. The whole College of Winterhold is like me joining a political party, president being assassinated after 5 days and since I'm already there everyone are like "Hey dude, you were doing almost nothing at all so we think you'd be a good president, you in?".

Spoiler

Death of Mirabelle was kinda weird since I was connecting her to a chick I know from real life that looked very much like her. :tongue:

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:57 am

My first reaction to the thread lmao.

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 5:42 am

well he never dies in my character's stories, so no, hes doing just fine

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 8:40 am

Labyrinthian is used to test Archmage candidate, so if you survive it you deserve to be archmage. It's in the lore.

Labyrinthian might not be challenging in game but in lore few survive it. It has all kind of challenge needed for an archmage.

CMIIW.

» Thu Dec 19, 2013 3:31 am

This. Pretty much.

It's my main criticism of all of the Vanilla Factions barring the Thieves Guild. You just do not interact with any of the NPCs belonging to the faction to form any true kind of connection with them. The questlines are just too short and force you to complete them immediately, in one two hour go. THen they're finished. The baancing, and integration of Radiant Quests is nothing short of Abyssmal. Bethesda really dropped the ball with these, and it frustrates me that in all tyhe patching in between release and the ebd of Skyrim's development they never spaced these out.