» Wed Dec 08, 2010 2:16 am
If you were a daedric god, what kind of god would you be?
I'd be the Archer's God. Of all things related to the Bow and the Arrow.
What would be your name?
Lord Windcutter
What would be your sphere?
Arts, Fletching, Marksmanship through Bow and Arrow.
What would your realm look like?
A great woodland realm where it is Spring in the valley, Fall in the Forest, and Winter in the Mountains, continuously. The trees would once a year give birth to Spriggan like beings that would gather for a glorious hunt. All spirits who took or murdered an unarmed innocent with a bow would be the objects of the hunt. There are no buildings save one...an immense, longhouse. You enter the Archers Hall and find one extremely beautiful and ornate feast table that seemingly goes on forever. There would be targets at either end where the feasters and servers can just enjoy themselves with crazy feats of marksmanship. There would be paintings and tapestries of every song worthy shot ever taken, and the pictures would cycle where the one you passed would change so that they were constantly revolving and changing.
What sort of people would you attract?
Hunters, natural Archers born with the ability, artisans, and heroes of the bow.
What sort of monsters will reflect you? (ex. Hungers=Sheogorath, Dremora=Mehrunes Dagon)
My messengers would be an albino Hawk that would swoop down and hit a tree turning into an arrow with an enchanted parchment.
My denizens would be Albinid beautiful Sirens that would lure you with their voices, and harvest you with their arrows. They would be incredibly difficult to kill.
What sort of artifacts would you create?
Lord Windcutter's Quiver. It would generate an inexhaustable supply of enchanted arrows that you would never know which type the next arrow would be. You could pull a shock, flame, ice, poison, glass, ebony, or candycane arrow, without knowing until it was knocked.
Lord Windcutter's Bow of the Proficient. A most beautiful bow with an indestructible bowsting spun from the golden hair of Lady Windcutter herself. There is an inscription on the bow, which reads : "What You Cannot Take With Three, Set Free" The bows riddle and curse is that it will improve your Marksman and Hunting greatly, so long as you adhere to the rule. If you are shooting at game or an adversary and you cannot take it with three arrows, you must set it free. Purely an incentive to become a master shot. Knowing your target, and not just plinking arrows with no regard to the wind, the aftershot, or that which you are taking(as in lives).
When the rule is broken, the arrow would disintergrate and return to Lord Windcutter, to be peppered into another place and a quest to attain it. It, the bow, is the living spirit of Lord and Lady Windcutter's daughter, and it seeks to stay with the person who can truly abide by the bows rules. Come the day when the archer can abide by the rules to their end of days, they gain a place at the head of the tables at the Archers Hall to be added to the Song of the Archer, and with this, release the spirit of their daughter from her bow-bound form.
How much would you involve yourself with the mortal world?
All spirits taken by bow would waft in the smoke of Lord Windcutter's pipe. He would see the multitude of shots of valor, killings of rage, and hunting shots worthy of song. His shrines would be salles, like in fencing. Acolytes would become proficient with the bow and the militia would seek out members of the order to teach their archers. Apples, Arrows, and Feathers would be left at the statue, which is of a simple tunic'd archer with a quiver holding two arrows, and one nocked in the quiver. The base of the statue would be of his kinswoman as her hair formed an never ending Celtic/Nordlike knotwork the likes of the great Yggdrassil, the Cosmic Ash. Those who lost the ones they loved to an ill arrow may pray for an intervention, and those guilty are sent for the hunt.
Would you like cheese?
Of course, a Sharp Cheese called Windcutter Cheese. Best cheese made in Skyrim from Nursing Maids who are near the end of the wean.
Describe your history and actions.
Lord Windcutter was one of the first makers of the bow for the Father of All Things. When he would set the sky full of meteors during the Soltices, he would release the Arrows of the All Father from the bow fashioned by Windcutter, who was allowed to ask the Cosmic Ash to provide him with wood worthy of The All Father. When it came time for the string, The All Father asked his kinswoman, the Lady of All Creation to spin her hair with the dust of the stars themselves into the string. Lord Windcutter worked tirelessly for The Father of All Things, but during the last of the great wars of the Realms, his daughter was found killed in the mortal realms of Nirn when she was following her most curious nature of exploring the universe, for the Song of Songs, against the wishes of her parents. She was in a mortal form and was found with three arrows in her chest, placed there by one who sought to possess her for his own. The Father of All Things stilled his grief by capturing her floating spirit, and between Lady Windcutter and himself, they placed it in the Lord Windcutter's Bow of the Proficient. They still hope in vain that an archer would come along, to follow the rules of the Three so that their daughter can be free to join them in the Hall.