The Illusion of Death

Post » Sat Aug 03, 2013 1:45 pm

Found in http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/08/02/the-elder-scrolls-online-gameplay-quakecon-2013 video a little after 7:30. http://i.imgur.com/qNNG0wF.jpg an image. I like it.

The Illusion of Death
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... then, because he had toyed with the ape-maiden Dulsa, did Maruhk spend his Century of Penance upon the Stonemeadows, and his sight was seared, and his tongue was swollen, and his pelt was mottled, and his left thumb pointed ever at the stars of the Tower. And ever did the shade of Al-Esh speak to him, serrated words that rasped his concept organ and brought him to wisdom through affliction.
And he recorded her words in his simian gore with glyphs on the Beseeching Scarp, and the fire in his blood did etch the lithie face with the Seventy Seven Inflexible Doctrines. And though the labor depleted, yea, even consumed his very substance, he stinted not, for he knew that death is an illusion. For did not Al-Esh persist, speaking knives, though dead? And had not Pelin-Al been witness to her death, although dead himself at the death of Umar-Il? Then did Maruhk know a Right Reaching, that one devoted in Proper Life and Ehlnotic Annulment shall persist beyond the illusion of death -- for indeed, the drive to expunge corruption can conquer even the Arkayn Cycle.
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Post » Sat Aug 03, 2013 11:12 am

Nice. The video in general had me excited. Well, until they started doing the dungeon. Then I was indifferent. That kind of combat seems like it will get a bit tedious, even for TES.

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Post » Sat Aug 03, 2013 9:26 am

Nitpick: Pelin-El, not Pelin-Al. At least, so it was spelled in everything else I'd seen where it was written in that manner (which ties in with names such as Chim-el Adabal, etc.).

More importantly, though, this is actually pretty good writing. It certainly name-drops a few concepts and titles that we've seen before (Right Reaching, for instance), and overall is very pleasing to the eye. I have hope that writing like this is the rule, rather than the exception, in TESO. Now I guess I just have to watch the video as a whole...

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