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  • Member
    November 8, 2018

    Yes I also love DnD sorcerers and of course I gave him a bloodline. If you also look into bloodlines in ES there is some sort of bloodline, blood magic rituals in the lore here and there. An example of a "gifted" bloodline perhaps that actually exists in Skyrim is in Morthal with the Ravencrone family if you pay attention to what Idgrod Ravencrone, Idgrod the Younger and Joric say. Oh yes Pathfinder I was looking into it and it has that oldschool feeling to it and the variety in classes is amazing I always wanted to get my hands on it and play it, I will probably do so at some point.

  • Member
    November 8, 2018

    Oh that 's a really nice addition to the roleplay to add your character in certain factions, never thought of that to be honest, nice one Mook! :D

  • November 9, 2018

    Duvain said:

    I was wondering do you people use console commands in order to set up your character from a roleplay perspective?

    For example I 'm playing characters sometimes that require this in order to feel... immersive(?) due to their backstories so I do not consider it cheating when I use console commands to add a spell or something along these lines to my character when I 'm starting the game, do you?

    I do. Most of all when I play Thalmor. When I create yet another black-and-gold fellow, a certain set of console commands is a must. And I usually give sll my characters various equipment according to their backstory.

    Duvain said:

    When I think of a character I go in make him, customize him with console when needed, save the game and exit then when I get some motivation to begin the playthrough and I go in to play the character I 've already set up according to his roleplay it is much more immersive rather than going about it casually buying basic spells and learning them and all  that when he already has a past and it's not possible not to know a few things things already.

    I do the same thing, but sometimes - like with my main (who is also my first) I explain the lack of spells and equipment in the story.

    @Mook, Forsworn (or even Bretons) don't worship Kyne. If your Breton was one of them, why would she do that?

    Duvain said:

    Yes I also love DnD sorcerers and of course I gave him a bloodline. If you also look into bloodlines in ES there is some sort of bloodline, blood magic rituals in the lore here and there. An example of a "gifted" bloodline perhaps that actually exists in Skyrim is in Morthal with the Ravencrone family if you pay attention to what Idgrod Ravencrone, Idgrod the Younger and Joric say. Oh yes Pathfinder I was looking into it and it has that oldschool feeling to it and the variety in classes is amazing I always wanted to get my hands on it and play it, I will probably do so at some point.

    Idgrod's family aren't mages, they are seers, which is a slightly different thing. However I'd think that an affinity to magic can very well be passed in a bloodline.

  • Member
    November 9, 2018

    Yeah Idgrod's family fall into this category with the gifts of a seer passing on in their bloodline. The Orcs have made use of such type of not exactly bloodlines but blood rituals mostly and the theme of the power passing on from one to another is in there. 

  • November 9, 2018

    "@Mook, Forsworn (or even Bretons) don't worship Kyne. If your Breton was one of them, why would she do that?"

    1. My PC served the Earthbones, as she understood this to mean. She honored Kynareth, and Jauffre (again, as she understood them) for their sacrifice in  "creation". . Her life's work was to learn how to release the magick in her, in the world to serve and protect. She believed she was being led to deep places and high .

    2.She was born in Markarth (mother Breton, father Reach) though her and her mother fled in the aftermath of the Markarth Incident. (I believe her mother was the one that fingered  Braig. ) My PC believed that Ulfric blew her father and friends to bits (she was very young when they left). 

    So her response to Madanach was purely political. Afterwards, she accepted the hospitality of the Reach, to delve for knowledge. Hagravens seemed very -different-; her own worship was  self sacrifice. She began to back away when she got involved with looking for the young Sybil. It made her think of the slaughter of her young friend Aethra at the hands of the Stormcloaks, was this any different?

    The complete break came when she found a spriggan sacrificed at Orphans Rock.

    Never the less, after she's saved the world, I hope she will still join Tullius in Windhelm and Fus Roh Dah Ulfric  and lots of Storm cloaks to bits and burn the bits to cinders. The only time she will choose to use that foulness (the Fus, not shouts in general).

     

    edit Annnnd....I haven't answered the question. I chose the Kynes Peace shouts to help her walk lightly through the land, killing as little wild life as she can. That's why I'm trying to faction with the Spriggans too, so she can spend time in the sacred places.

    Don't ask me what her theology of shouts is, it's a very incomplete jigsaw. Certainly nothing to do with filthy nords and their Fus.  Alduin and the dragons are her teachers, and the Skaal, and Miraak......she is slowly putting together some sort of picture. It's almost time to send her up the mountain, maybe.

     

  • November 9, 2018

    Ah, I see. Still, for Bretons it's Kynareth, not Kyne. While they are actually one and the same, the connotation is different.

    So this is a sort of culture clash. Cool, I like.

  • Member
    November 26, 2018

    I'm trying to figure out why a non-sneak archer would join the Volkihar, aside from "accidentally contracted vampirism and joined for survival".

    All I've got so far in terms of roleplay: He was born in the Imperial City, and lived a (fairly) mundane life suffering anti-Khajiit discrimination. He initially wasn't sure what he wanted to do with his life, but then decided to follow in his father's footsteps and be an archer. He doesn't like blood, which is another reason for using archery instead of his claws.

  • Member
    November 27, 2018

    @mitch blatt - The accidental vampirism kinda works.

    You could also roleplay that his vampirism gave him arcane powers and that was what tempted him and start using something like the bound bow (especially if you have perk mods that improve bound weapons) or restoration which is always helpful with vampirism, Volkihar are also a bloodline gifted in frost magic. 

    Or he was tempted by the fact he won't age and die by natural causes.

    The anti-Khajiit descrimination could play a part here as well, you could say he had some sort of inferiority complex and when he came to see the power of a pure blooded vampire he chose to take it.

  • November 27, 2018

    mitch blatt said:

    He doesn't like blood, which is another reason for using archery instead of his claws.

    Ummm... I've read that average arrows leave a hole the size of a golf ball. So if I was someone who doesn't like blood, I'd rather be a mage instead, or an alchemist)))

     

  • Member
    November 28, 2018
    My assumption was that archery would drop foes far enough away that the archer wouldn’t get any blood on himself.