» Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:44 am
Daggerfall had shapechanging Daedra Seducers.
Battlespire, for technical reasons, couldn't keep the shapechanging animation. (They went with hi-res sprites and it took too much video memory or something to store two sets of animation + the transformation animation for just one sprite set.) So, although they were still supposed to be capable to shapechange, throughout the game, they just don't happen to do it. In Battlespire, "Daedra Seducer" is used to designate those that are always in human shape, and "Dark Seducer" for those who are always in demon shape. Still in Battlespire, the Dark Seducers are Dagon's servants. Since Dagon is the Prince of Destruction, Brutality, and Being Not Subtle or sixy At All, his servants are in the shape that is the most pleasing to him: brutal and not subtle at all. The human-shaped Daedra Seducers are their own self, and give a greater importance to looking sixy and human-like.
Are the Daggerfall/Battlespire Seducers the same as the Mazken? Maybe. We could just say that Dark Seducers are Seducers in the employ of a Daedric Prince. Sheogorath is not necessarily big on having feral-looking servants with green-and-red wings, so Sheggy's Seducers are as we know them.