#dar'jivay

[bethrnoora]

[bethrnoora]

i lovvvvve getting quests in eso while playing dar'jivay where someone tells me "go find [artifact] i need it for my research/for the queen/for someone who is looking to buy it or get it back" like YESSS that's what my man DOES FOR A LIVING thank you so much for paying him

[bethrnoora]

observing the baby

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For the TES OC ask game: 6 & 10?

6 - If you could give them one modern amenity, which one would you give them and why?

the temptation to give someone a gun...no but honestly i kiiinda wanna give Hiisi a motorcycle. like. i dont know. it just feels really right for him he would be such a fucking menace with it and put a bunch of edgy decals and a custom plate on it. you don't even need a license plate in skyrim but he'd get one just to be obnoxious.

Anfisa gets a smartphone or computer to look up whatever she wants whenever she wants <3 and also send eloquently worded anonymous hate messages to people who don't cite their research properly. and also to ancano if he had a blog she thinks he's a hack excuse for a wizard

10 - What's a seemingly minor decision they made that would up majorly impacting their life?

this one stumped me for a little bit and I think the "easy" answer is the fact that both Hiisi and Anfisa kind of just. wandered over the Skyrim border out of desperation and curiosity, respectively, and then had All That happen to them. but I kinda wanna switch gears to Dar'jivay, my Vestige character from ESO who has admittedly made a lot of um. large decisions that then majorly affected his life. but what comes to mind is the fact that he started taking on jobs as a guide to antiquarians in the area in order to better support his family. it started as a relatively simple decision and task since he's a pretty experienced navigator, but he wound up taking jobs that strayed further and further from his hometown, and led him to be away from his family for much longer periods of time, not even really thinking much of it because he was so enthralled by the experience of seeing new parts of Tamriel.

eventually it just sort of ended up that he never went home one day, and stayed out in the Hammerfell/High Rock area serving as basically a guard for archaeological/antiquarian expeditions. his daughter Zo'aysha grew up without him in the picture for over a decade, and pretty close to the start of the time frame of ESO his wife Rashaavi dies of the Khnahaten Flu and he has absolutely no idea (until Zo'aysha finds and confronts him in Auridon and it all starts to set in that oh shit I fucked up their lives)

[bethrnoora]

im PRETTY sure dar'jivay ends up becoming immortal somehow (jury is still out on whether it's daedra soul magic bs or vampires but I lean towards the former) and somehow proceeds to miss out on every subsequent important canon event in the elder scrolls timeline bc he just happened to be in a totally different part of tamriel at that point

[bethrnoora]

i started out thinking i'd do the dark brotherhood dlc with dar'jivay and make him a silencer but the more i play him and think about his character the more i'm like...i actually don't know if he would bother joining the dark brotherhood?? the thieves' guild certainly and while he doesnt have too much of a problem with killing people to get a job done i dont know if he'd willingly do it for a living especially as part of a cult. like at this point he's a grave robber and a liar but i dont think he's built for worshipping sithis and the night mother.

his daughter zo'aysha on the other hand...she's got the vengeful streak to do it. and having her be a more devoted queen's eye than her father while also being a dark brotherhood initiate (who probably joined initially to get revenge on her father) is sooooo juicy

[bethrnoora]

diversity win! your dad who abandoned the family when you were a little kid got his soul stolen by a daedric lord! and also he's bisexual

[bethrnoora]

bro I am never getting anything done in ESO. I keep getting distracted . was gonna go see my mysterious benefactor to get my soul stolen but wound up becoming the queen's bodyguard and then travelling halfway across the country to throw petals at someone's professor. the fuck

[bethrnoora]

eso bundle is super cheap rn now's my chance !

[bethrnoora]

also yes zo'aysha did try to bring her mom back to life before leaving to find dar'jivay and it went about exactly as well as you think it did

[bethrnoora]

waiting for eso to go on sale again so I can get additional chapters in a sale bundle but excited to make my vestige, who I can only describe as "if a panther became a wwe wrestler" his name is dar'jivay and he's somehow distantly related to hiisi. and he's terrible