Granted, more like a treacly RA's my-door-is-always-open-policy rather than sworn blood oath...


Tell that to Chaplain. His face never really healed after you glassed him with that Stoli bottle for dissing the Sermons. Looks like somebody stapled bratwurst to a post.



Ah, Nord essentialism. Quaint, but I excepted more and better from you, sister-under-sky. A Nord has but three duties: fealty to king, votives to Shor, and to drink and be merry in the Mjund before Sovngarde Come, to be pursued, as you say, on practical course - that is, but whatever means suit. Be it Bearded Axe, Wyrdfire, or, yes, even by Secret Knife, all are but fair-rutted careers to the same goal. To insist that a good Nord only follow one is fool bravado, un-clever at best, like the crew at viking insisting on guiding their longboat by a dogstar that has retired past the worldsedge for the season.

/end scene

And applied specifically to a weird Cyrodiil mod If you do end up modding, feel free to drop me a line, but I can't guarantee anything (blood-oath or otherwise).

Belvedere or bust.


As for the actual topic:
Research quests for the Mage-y guild(s). Actual discoveries preferred by not necessary.
More references to regional, political, social, religious, etc. variation within the province. Especially as it concerns cues like art style, music, and spoken accents.
More references to the founding and histories of cities (the Songs of Return and Of Crosses Daggers being two good Skyrim examples).

Try the tutorials. I don't get it either, but I made the dungeon and quest.

Getting into actual detail with Aetheriul magic would be nice. We know where it comes from, and we know what it does, but its never really explained how it works. We have Breathing Water, we know that conjuration involves the casters will and or love of the spirits (see the conjuration skill book in the 2920 series), and that's about it. In-game, whenever somebody seems like their about to actually explain something, they say "I won't bore you with the details, but...." which is very frustrating.

Regarding assassin's guilds: I say we need something completely new. The Dark Brotherhood has degenerated into a bunch of knife-wielding hams, the Tong is covered in ash, the Shadowscales are no more, and any other potential guilds are either under the thumb of the Thalmor or just gone. I'm thinking something based around Clavicus Vile; real businessmen and professionals. Or maybe Vaermina, sending people to sleep. Of course, I'm only saying that because of the awesome Tamriel Rebuilt art related to her.

The Tong lives. I suggest reading the trivia, in Skyrim Wiki's Whispering Door page (my head exploded, too). Irileth is a Morag Tong assassin-consort.

Its pretty powerful magic, when you can trap a king, like Olaf trapped Numinex, then sick his own children on him. Reminds me of the time Mephala deceived that orphan, to believe he was an assassin, who then cut the old woman a new one.

The public enjoys their rumors of death cults, because they need boogeymen and conspiracies. There never were any Morag Tong or Dark Brotherhood.

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Whispering_Door
I am in the wrong place, because I don't see anything on Irileth...?

(Did your explode from just being on the Skyrim wiki? )

No, no nothing about Irelith. I'm referring to the foul murder of King Balgruuf.

This implicates her, of course. Besides her proximity to the man, its poetic and right for her to be the Night Mother.

Wait what? What's the in-game source for that? If its true, she just became my favorite character in Skyrim, and my current roleplay isn't all false hope. Maybe that other Dunmer chick at the Drunken Huntsman a spiderling too.

I wondered where this info came from: "Irileth is a Morag Tong assassin-consort."

Same here.

She's Morag Tong, given her counter-espionage aptitude and, well, her race and proximity to the jarl. How do you think the Ebony Blade came to Whiterun? The cult specialized in contracts for murder, but six would be part of her indoctrination through the degrees of the cult. Consort and killer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugireeCoYyU

I also found http://www.giannipc.com/josh/guide/3-27.htm.

Do not remind me of that two-handed atrocity. Its hard to be a sneaky stabby assassin when you're weapon is taller than you.

Its Mephala's vessel and proxy with the world. Its size doesn't matter. The games are inconsistent about that, anyway.

Oh but size does matter. Until she reduces its size, that thing is locked up in Hjarlem. Meanwhile, Boethiah, who actually makes His/Her artifact useful, rejoices in resounding whispers and hidden corpses.

Everyone does. The world's a giant conspiracy. Nothing's real. Duh.

Irileth and Ulfric share a common story: imprisonment, indoctrination, and escape. Except, where Irileth heard the Night Mother, Ulfric holds counsel with his father's ghost. The boy even gave his dead father a pet name: Galmar Stone-Fist. Sounds a bit Hamlet. The boy forces the court to play along, insisting Galmar is very real and nordly. Those who do not comply are given the... silent treatment.

...

True, but...

the Ebony Blade is still too big.

You might want to take into consideration that Mephala likes to say [censored] that just isn't true, in order to cause conflict and weaken bonds of friendship.

Then what does it matter? We're left with one result. What's a lie without enough truth to make it bite?

She also likes to make impractical weapons.

A master troll, that one.

I'll let that one slide, considering how there was a distinct lack of dai-katana's in game .

So there's no evidence?

Evidence to the Tong's existence, or evidence to the veracity of the Whispering Door's rumors?

There's no evidence to suggest the rumors are true, but so long as Mephala exists you can bet that somewhere the Tong exists.

Apparently not.

Introduce two cults:
A Cult of Lorkhan
A Cult of Magnus and the star pantheon (Magne-Ge)

They should be joinable factions, unless the Lorkhan cult is villainous.

Lorkhan cult vs. Talos cult. I would very much like to see that.