On Jyggalag...

Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:43 am

Back on topic: A Greymarch in Tamriel would be quite interesting. Especially in a province like SUMMERSET ISLE

They would even notice it's happening. We wouldn't even notice it's happening.
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Alexis Acevedo
 
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 4:11 pm

Sheggy [censored] me a bit, to be honest.

Although it's not from a community source, I'm going to quote the almost perenially excellent Eurogamer's http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=74995:
    But anyway, there's a rather more significant problem trotting along behind all this madness stuff, one that does degrade the entire experience. It's this: if you're going to use madness as your core fictional motif, then it suggests you're going to pull out the big guns in terms of story-telling. You know the stuff - paranoia, hallucination, betrayal, trickery, illusion, misdirection, and outright weirdness. A realm of pure madness shouldn't be, well, a teeny bit dull. And that's the problem: The Shivering Isles is mildly eccentric and quite pretty, but it's definitely not ecstatically, brain-boiling insane. As such it's a wasted opportunity. All the characters you meet are supposed to be loonies, but instead they generally just say something a bit odd when you meet them. They have over-the-top character traits, but isn't that a bit like all videogame characters, ever? Instead of making us want to take a step back with this screaming lunacy, or putting a chill in our bones with their grotesque fantasies, they're just a mildly weird. One guy is interested in meat (who isn't?!), another is a bit patronising. One person believes she's going to die, another is worried about diseases. One guy is hungry. Are mad people just hungry? It would explain a lot. One guy - get this - wants a house. The crazy fool!

    All this might be excusable with a grand turn from the prince himself, but he's just vaguely amusing. It's a childish portrait of a lunatic. He's like the evil madman might be in a children's TV show - all camp and without substance. He never really seems threatening, in the way that the truly disturbed do. It's all an act, and thank goodness he's got quests to dispense so you can get back into that exquisite world...

Just to play devil's advocate, Sheo was becoming more sane as the Greymarch approached.
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:44 am

Sheggy [censored] me a bit, to be honest.

Although it's not from a community source, I'm going to quote the almost perenially excellent Eurogamer's http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=74995


I think most people are comparing to Oblivion. :)
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:26 am

Just to play devil's advocate, Sheo was becoming more sane as the Greymarch approached.


If you read Relmyna's letter to Sheogorath, in one paragraph she states: "If it weren't blasphemous, I might venture to say that the world has been slowly going sane. I can almost feel in my bones a chilling presence approaching, like a devouring emptiness."
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:02 pm

I think you might be interested in Rhoark's Tetrearchy. Really interesting stuff about the nature of Jyggalag and Lorkhan in there.

If he is correct, his return could very well mean the end of the Mundus as a whole.
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:33 pm

But there are no Obelisks in Tamriel, Only in The Shivering Isles, And with the happenings of The Shivering Isles, all Obelisks were sealed. So he cannot return. Good thing too, He'd take all the cheese.
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 4:05 pm

I doubt we'll hear from him ever again.



LIAR!!! :stare:
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:41 am

I agree that the Shivering Isles was a wasted opportunity in that it did not explore "Madness" to its fullest potential.

There is, admittedly, the argument that the Isles were "slowly going sane", which would account for many of the seemingly normal qualities of the Heart of Madness. Nonetheless, the Isles do not revert to any a priori condition-state precedent post-Jyggalag vanquishment. Ergo, we must assume that, although the Isles may have been "going sane", it did not seem to "go insane" after the Greymarch ended.

Why?

Was it because the Prince of Order had been freed from his curse to "roam the voids of Oblivion"? Doubtful. Jyggalag did not have a Daedric Realm proper due to the Daedric Principalities only being created post-Mundus genesis.

The Prince of Order had no effect on Mundus' existence, save for the brief periods of Greymarch.

Yours in the Scrolls,


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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:24 pm

Even more than Jyggalag, I'm interested in seeing how they treat Sheogorath in the next game. If they give him any specific appearance it will basically be dictating what the CoC looked like, won't it?
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:19 am

hm, since this topic was pretty necro'd, i think ill ask a mildly related question on jyggy.

the 4th sermon of vivec mentions a "Chancellor of Exactitude" -- could this by any chance be jyggy? the sphere fits well enough.

/grasping at retcon
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:29 pm

Even more than Jyggalag, I'm interested in seeing how they treat Sheogorath in the next game. If they give him any specific appearance it will basically be dictating what the CoC looked like, won't it?

I doubt that. If they even give him an illustration or something it will probably look like the form he chose during SI. But I doubt that he'll have anything to do with the next installment in TES.
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:18 am

I doubt that. If they even give him an illustration or something it will probably look like the form he chose during SI. But I doubt that he'll have anything to do with the next installment in TES.


Even without involvement in the MQ, it isn't like he shouldn't be present. Shrines anyone?
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:27 pm

Even without involvement in the MQ, it isn't like he shouldn't be present. Shrines anyone?

Do they have the same shrines in the other provinces? I'm not too familier on the subject.
If they do have shrines, wouldn't they use the same model as the one in OB? http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/oblivion/images/thumb/3/30/SheogorathShrine.jpg/200px-SheogorathShrine.jpg&imgrefurl=http://oblivion.wikia.com/wiki/Sheogorath%27s_Shrine&h=209&w=200&sz=22&hl=en&start=3&usg=__L7y8ey3SRlaO0l2w4K0yUWX3NiM=&tbnid=OmLnII0dlRbESM:&tbnh=106&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dshrine%2Bof%2Bsheogorath%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26ie%3DUTF-8
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:24 am

Do they have the same shrines in the other provinces? I'm not too familier on the subject.
If they do have shrines, wouldn't they use the same model as the one in OB? http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/oblivion/images/thumb/3/30/SheogorathShrine.jpg/200px-SheogorathShrine.jpg&imgrefurl=http://oblivion.wikia.com/wiki/Sheogorath%27s_Shrine&h=209&w=200&sz=22&hl=en&start=3&usg=__L7y8ey3SRlaO0l2w4K0yUWX3NiM=&tbnid=OmLnII0dlRbESM:&tbnh=106&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dshrine%2Bof%2Bsheogorath%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26ie%3DUTF-8


That's exactly what I'm wondering about. Sheo should logically look like the CoC now (barring the fuddled logic of dragon breaks), so shouldn't the statues follow suit?
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:55 am

That's exactly what I'm wondering about. Sheo should logically look like the CoC now (barring the fuddled logic of dragon breaks), so shouldn't the statues follow suit?


Otherway around, you are Sheogorath so you must look like Sheogorath. You wouldn't be Sheogorath if you didn't.
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:19 am

That's exactly what I'm wondering about. Sheo should logically look like the CoC now (barring the fuddled logic of dragon breaks), so shouldn't the statues follow suit?

How are they going to do that when nobody knows what the CoC looks like?

Like I said, if he has an in-game picture, it will be the form he chose for SI.
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:45 am

How are they going to do that when nobody knows what the CoC looks like?

Like I said, if he has an in-game picture, it will be the form he chose for SI.


You are, again, just stating the question I raised in the first place. Logically, he should look like the CoC, but there is no way to know what the CoC looks like. My wondering was about how they would handle that, so thank you for basically just restating what I started with for the sake of arguing.
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:49 am

Stop with that logic already. You're doing it wrong.

Gods are not persons. They are concepts, they are their sphere, they are their realms, and the lesser Daedra in that divine trinity sense.

To become Sheogorath you must symbolically become him, his staff, his clothes his powers, his appearance. You become Sheogorath, by being Sheogorath.

In otherwords, Sheogorath doesn't change but the Champion of the Isles does.
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:13 am

You are, again, just stating the question I raised in the first place. Logically, he should look like the CoC, but there is no way to know what the CoC looks like. My wondering was about how they would handle that, so thank you for basically just restating what I started with for the sake of arguing.

They'll handle it by not changing a thing because they don't have too. Why would they even pose this question to themselves? I think its a pointless question.

How do you think they would handle it? Or rather, how should they handle it?

The answer is simple. He is most likely going to keep the same form. I don't see any other way around it.
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Post » Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:32 pm

Stop with that logic already. You're doing it wrong.

Gods are not persons. They are concepts, they are their sphere, they are their realms, and the lesser Daedra in that divine trinity sense.

To become Sheogorath you must symbolically become him, his staff, his clothes his powers, his appearance. You become Sheogorath, by being Sheogorath.

In otherwords, Sheogorath doesn't change but the Champion of the Isles does.


I know that is what rightfully should happen, I just figured that since they already broke that logic (understandably) in SI, then it would most likely not carry over.

They'll handle it by not changing a thing because they don't have too. Why would they even pose this question to themselves? I think its a pointless question.

How do you think they would handle it? Or rather, how should they handle it?

The answer is simple. He is most likely going to keep the same form. I don't see any other way around it.


I know he will most likely keep the same form, but I think the devs put themselves in a [censored] situation with this one. I just posed the question to point out that there needs to be a break in logic somewhere along those lines, and in the hopes that someone had a better answer for me than the obvious.
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