Legion's thread on skull collecting got me thinking this morning. I know some of you are in-game hoarders collectors and have a tendency to accumulate things. Maybe it's in part because you just don't want to haul your loot to the nearest merchant... maybe you actually plan to use all that stuff at some point (lol)... but if you've ever collected in-game at all, you're probably like me and have had a few special trophies or a collection at one point or another. Maybe it's an object that when you saw it for the first time you thought... "That thing is coming with me," either for the RP, because you liked it, or thought it was funny.
As some of you may know, I like Torygg's War Horn. Because, well, it's the late High King's freakin' war horn! So, I'm asking: what are some of your favorite things that you've collected in your various playthroughs? A black soul gem filled with the soul of a detested NPC? The weapon of a particular fallen adversary? A dragon claw key? Or do you just prefer a drawer filled with say, every eidar cheese wheel from across all of Skyrim?
Before Dawnguard I would always pick up Soul Gem Fragments, hoping I could use magical super glue to repair them. Once I learned that they were only useful for entering the Soul Cairn...I continued picking them up. I find it funny to scatter them on the floor of my homes or in the street because they look like broken glass and I enjoy ruining property values. Does Skyrim have janitors? Or do the guards pull double duty?
Ah, purposeful collection instead of just comic mischief. Fair enough. Falmer artifacts were one of my favorite things to have. (Note: have. Not obtain. Screw the Falmer). Weapons look like they have little green lights on them and are actually pretty decent. In my RP, I wanted to show how an initially disadvantaged group of people was able to adapt and form functioning societies. To keep with the theme, I would display all of my Falmer artifacts in the questionably lit basement.
I would also pick Jazbay Grapes for decoration. I still do actually.
There was a time when it would be considered treason to pick one of these grapes without express permission from the Emperor himself.
I would say Meli kept specific things because they were given to her, or they were a new enchantment type, so they'd go on a weapon rack. The Axe of Whiterun was never sold, neither was the Shield of Solitude.
Meli is actually quite obsessive about hoarding, and keeps things in reserve in the store room, oh and the books, mustn't forget the books.
Trying to display things though is a nightmare, trying to get the butterfly jars to sit the right way up... dragon claws to stay in the display cabinet (or the children were playing with them, never sure which), and amulets of the divines breaking the laws of physics and penetrating solid glass..