This is the lore issue, by the way, so that you know.
The Relationship between Aela the Huntress and Skjor
When Bethesda dialogue is delivered, my tendency is to delve deeper than what is on the surface and I flesh out the characters significantly, following realistic examples of human behavior. I read between the lines. Based on this, I concluded that they are in a relationship. I still believe that they are. The thread above defuncts this with dialogue analyzed at face value. Humans don't speak that way, we are usually beings spiced with subtext, hidden meanings, and implications. In Straag Rod, I took the very dialogue cited above and spun it in a different direction, which is now not lore-friendly if we follow the train of thought in the above thread.
We all know how hard I work on presenting a story that is as lore-friendly as possible. I see this development as a glaring error in Straag Rod that serves the narrative well, but not the lore. To be honest when I saw the above thread, I considered editing huge portions of Straag Rod, in a similar way to how I changed Altmeri funeral customs. This new mistake gnaws at me and I am disappointed in myself. I also considered abandoning Straag Rod entirely. Yes, I believe that strongly that I am in error. I tried to edit and felt like scrapping it. Lord knows how many pages. I just considered stopping everything. Stopping everything because I was not following lore. I am that way.
Then I stopped myself. Why?
Because editing the story to conform to the lore presented above, IMO, will not make a better story. It'll make a more lore-friendly story, but it will be more superficial. Stopping the story also does my readers a disservice and it isn't fair. It isn't fair to me either.
Still disappointed in myself and I see myself struggling with basic editing and writing for a few days. I'll get over it though. I always do.
PDF will go out soon. Mistakes and all.
This is the lore issue, by the way, so that you know.
The Relationship between Aela the Huntress and Skjor
When Bethesda dialogue is delivered, my tendency is to delve deeper than what is on the surface and I flesh out the characters significantly, following realistic examples of human behavior. I read between the lines. Based on this, I concluded that they are in a relationship. I still believe that they are. The thread above defuncts this with dialogue analyzed at face value. Humans don't speak that way, we are usually beings spiced with subtext, hidden meanings, and implications. In Straag Rod, I took the very dialogue cited above and spun it in a different direction, which is now not lore-friendly if we follow the train of thought in the above thread.
We all know how hard I work on presenting a story that is as lore-friendly as possible. I see this development as a glaring error in Straag Rod that serves the narrative well, but not the lore. To be honest when I saw the above thread, I considered editing huge portions of Straag Rod, in a similar way to how I changed Altmeri funeral customs. This new mistake gnaws at me and I am disappointed in myself. I also considered abandoning Straag Rod entirely. Yes, I believe that strongly that I am in error. I tried to edit and felt like scrapping it. Lord knows how many pages. I just considered stopping everything. Stopping everything because I was not following lore. I am that way.
Then I stopped myself. Why?
Because editing the story to conform to the lore presented above, IMO, will not make a better story. It'll make a more lore-friendly story, but it will be more superficial. Stopping the story also does my readers a disservice and it isn't fair. It isn't fair to me either.
Still disappointed in myself and I see myself struggling with basic editing and writing for a few days. I'll get over it though. I always do.
PDF will go out soon. Mistakes and all.
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