#and i could have done a lot more with raydrin and how dunmer grief might manifest differently | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

nuwanders · 2 years ago

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some things i definitely will go and change though; i want brelyna to be the daughter of a Telvanni mouth as opposed to a councillor proper, and i want cassathra to be coming into her first year of university education, as opposed to having already spent a year studying in ebonheart. instead she spent that year (a) doing 10 months compulsory military service posted as a member of the redoran guard somewhere and (b) doing her pilgrimage to the ashlands. but even that might be too much to go back and change idk. idk!!!!

#if i were to write it again i'd really try and make more of a deal of dunmer ancestor worship #i think i got caught up on the new temple as morrowind's organised state religion and lost sight of ancestor worship as ritual behaviour #which would be partaken in even by characters who aren't particularly pious #esp with raydrin and mathyas. i think mathyas' angsting over his fall from honour would have a lot more to do with his ancestors (and #his dad in particular) than with house redoran #and i could have done a lot more with raydrin and how dunmer grief might manifest differently #what would it mean for example to be suddenly removed from access to your family shrine #i can imagine that being super difficult!!#ugh anyway #the things i would do #i'm lowkey terrified to ever write up jorunn's backstory because i just know i'd run into the exact same thing #text

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