Placement of the Divines

Post » Fri Aug 03, 2012 6:11 pm

I have a bit of a strange doubt, and was hoping someone could advise me.
I'm doing a mod that sends the player to a "Halls of the Shezarrine" type of room upon his/her death. Whether the CoC is a Shezarrine or if the idea makes sense from a lore point of view is not what I want to discuss, though feel welcome to if you want.

The thing I want to discuss is, it is a circular room similar to the Temple of the One, where I have placed statues of the Nine Divines in the perimeter, who look at the player in the center. The idea is that before abandoning the room the player has to touch a statue, which will apply a temporary penalty for having died, before going through a portal to the place where he/she fell in combat.

Is there any advisable 'protocol' as to how the statues should be placed in the room? The player arrives looking at the portal, which would be the point of reference. For instance, I believe it is fitting that the Talos and Akatosh statues are at each side of the portal, but I don't know who should be left and who should be right. And for the other Aedra, any advice as to the clockwise order in which I should place them?
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Post » Sat Aug 04, 2012 6:50 am

The alcove array in the Solitude Temple of the Divines cold be used as a placement reference, even if it is missing Talos, one can see where he should be.
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Post » Sat Aug 04, 2012 12:10 am

The alcove array in the Solitude Temple of the Divines cold be used as a placement reference, even if it is missing Talos, one can see where he should be.
Talos is put back there after the Stormcloaks win.
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Post » Fri Aug 03, 2012 7:36 pm

Bummer, I don't have Skyrim... thankfully there's http://images.uesp.net/e/ed/SR-interior-Temple_of_the_Divines.jpg, but other that the anvil being Zenithar and the empty altar being Talos, I can't tell which is which.
In any case, I suppose there's no obvious answer to my doubt, i.e. any precedents or lore pieces where some sort of ordering among the Divines appear? I recall a celestial map with the Aedras' planets orbiting Mundus, maybe it could be the order of their orbits... or maybe it's fine to place them however I like :shrug:
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Post » Fri Aug 03, 2012 11:46 pm

Bummer, I don't have Skyrim... thankfully there's http://images.uesp.net/e/ed/SR-interior-Temple_of_the_Divines.jpg, but other that the anvil being Zenithar and the empty altar being Talos, I can't tell which is which.
In any case, I suppose there's no obvious answer to my doubt, i.e. any precedents or lore pieces where some sort of ordering among the Divines appear? I recall a celestial map with the Aedras' planets orbiting Mundus, maybe it could be the order of their orbits... or maybe it's fine to place them however I like :shrug:

The order of aedra planet huh? Here you go.
http://magusverus.deviantart.com/art/Cosmo-of-Nirn-149535257
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