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Character Build: The Silencer

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  • Member
    March 8, 2015

    I dunno, seems to me that regardless of pragmatism/practicality, there's a pretty big difference between wearing the helmet of an ancient undead priest you've slain vs. regularly eating raw human flesh straight off the corpse of enemies you've slain. The DB in particular has a pretty inherent affinity for putting the dead on a pedestal; I feel like it's a lot more understandable for a DB agent to wear the armor of a dragon priest for one reason or another, vs. eating the flesh of his marks.

  • Member
    March 8, 2015

    Then you've never tried my mother's beef stir-fry Elysium!

  • March 8, 2015

    Seriously? You have any idea how many diseases probably infested that unliving Dragon Priest? You are taking the mask that has sat on a mummy for thousands of years and putting it on your face. It's touching your lips. You're breathing its freaking air.

    Don't the Bosmer eat their dead (and the flesh of the conquered) as an "honourable" thing? It could be that the Silencer let's them live on (metaphysically speaking) in his tummy. I don't know, I'm just spitballing.

    @Zach
    Orly? That's a special mommy you've got. XD

  • Member
    March 8, 2015
    Awesome build! That Whirlwind Sprint thing is really cool, I have to try it. Do you need to sprint behind an enemy to get a Backstab or something else? Or does it work with all killcams, like spinning decapitation and the like? Also, you ever tried Berserker Rage with the Shrouded Gauntlets and Backstab? I reckon you could at least equal or even beat a dagger sneak attack by using a Potion of Fortify One Handed with the above for taking out a really tough enemy.
  • Member
    March 8, 2015

    The Green Pact is tied to religion, not honor. And even going back to the 2nd era, most Bosmer did not actually practice that specific tenant of the pact; it was pretty much just fanatics and isolated villages. That was centuries prior to the events of Skyrim, and the cannibalism is even less widely practiced now than ever. It's really only part of the Green Pact in the most technical sense. And besides, Orcs are not affiliated with the Green Pact, and a Cyrodiilic-based Dark Brotherhood Orc in particular would have no reason to follow it.

    I'm not saying the Ring of Namira needs to be cut from the build, just that it could benefit from a more defensible roleplay/backstory explanation. Some specific event perhaps, or the Night Mother's influence, or a slowly increasing insanity brought on by the burdens of being the last Silencer in Cyrodiil, etc. I don't think it's totally unreasonable, just not something that seems inherently appropriate to the character, so some sort of explanation would add a bit of character depth and cohesion to the build.

    As for the mask, you could just wash it.  Even in a relatively hygienically deficient culture like Skyrim's, people would probably be aware of lye and similar natural cleaning agents. Or they might be able to use magic or divine blessing to cleanse diseased artifacts. And hell, if the mask has been sitting on what essentially amounts to a skeleton for millenia, any traces of living bacteria/viruses have probably long since died to begin with.

  • Member
    March 8, 2015
    Are you familiar with Howard carter and king Tut's tomb viruses can live almost indefinitely some have even survived the vacuum of space
  • Member
    March 8, 2015

    Can we say for certain that these viruses exist in Tamriel though?

  • Member
    March 8, 2015
    The specific viruses no but we know diseases exist and thus the probability that a similar virus would exist is high considering the simplicity of a virus versus the complexity of dragons but maybe the masks have some magic antivirus on them. But this is a lore debate and shouldn't be muddying up this builds hard work.
  • Member
    March 8, 2015

    This came out awesome! I love taking the shots for it :)

  • Member
    March 9, 2015

    Everyone else has said how great the concept and mechanics are... and while I agree I am just here to say I love the look of this character. I'm playing a character right now that is actually kinda similar. Except I'm rolling with Volsung and regular Thieves' Guild armor because I have OCD when it comes to the clashing of colors and stuff. It is just such a good aesthetic for this kind of character! That is all.

    Great build overall ;)