#glenmoril

[duskiily]

where were you when the dragon broke?

[devalius]

Reflecting on the story of Unslaad tonight and I just find it so interesting that both overarching antagonists of the Vicn Trilogy, Molag Bal and Hermaeus Mora, and by extension Hoholaugh and the Black Owls in regards to the latter, each manage to be so horrifyingly villainous while also being the most pathetic characters in the whole story. Each of them is desperately attempting to force you to give them what they need to escape their own destruction, trying with everything in their power to beat you into submission with the worst horrors imaginable, only for them to be practically crawling and clinging onto your ankle while desperately pleading for you to stop and help them by the end. Each seems like an impossible foe at the darkest moments of the story, but when you look back after it's all over you can see just how pitiful they always were.

"Laugh at such matters, Dragonborn. For the Prisoner holds the reins of fate in their hands."

I also think of it as a nice callback to Vigilant that you can defeat Hoholaugh by offering him forgiveness, but with a very different outcome compared to the souls you grant peace in that story, and honestly I think it's the most damning option of all for him. He looks out upon the world and the understanding of what he's done, how he's been used, and all that he was never and will never be able to be part of hits him all at once. That's the key thing, too. I think Hoholaugh doesn't just know in this moment, he understands. Molag Bal will never understand, and neither will Hermaeus Mora. The Prince of Fate is too stuck with his head buried in all his stolen words and, even moreso, his own fear to have any capacity to look at the world and truly comprehend the magnificence of it all. But in the moment after he's freed, Hoholaugh understands, and it destroys him.

"The more I think about it, the more I feel... I could have been a part of this world if only my Lord Herma-Mora participated in its creation..."

The greatest revenge you can have against the Black Owl is to take none at all, and I think there's something brilliant to that.

[wouldyourfavepaychildsupport]

[rollingsim]

more witch hunting business

[mikahooni]

some art for the vicn trilogy

[foamimi]

[lokorum]

lover's embrace

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[cognicent]

sleep in the starving darkness

[wellthebardsdead]

*At witchmist grove*

Aurorwren: *attempting to climb out of Kaidans arms, clawing at his head and shoulders with his nails and flapping his one free wing against him* Guys no please don’t make me do this!!!

Lucien: Youre a bird she’s a bird and she has something we need! Come on just take one for the team!

Aurorwren: I no longer wish for us to be a tea- *fluffs up all his feathers as Kaidan sets him on the log separating the hill from the hags nest* k-Kaidan p-please don’t make me do this.

Kaidan: Go on. *gently nudges the bird elf*

Aurorwren: *sniffles and nervously shuffles across the log, freezing as the hag raven emerges from her nest looking at him* I-

The Hag: …

Aurowren: … *pops open his wings showing the iridescent blue insides*

The hag: *ruffles up all her feathers* Ooohhh~

*a few hours later*

Lucien: *holding nettlebane* That worked out great! I don’t think we’d of survived taking down the whole coven- guys?

Kaidan: *flailing in a panic getting the shit beaten out of him by the ayleid* GET HIM OFF ME!!!

Aurorwren: *slapping him with his wings and missing quite a few feathers* THAT WAS NOT A FAIR TRADE!!!!

[elderscrollsconfessions]

Confession: I still don’t completely understand what a hagraven is. You could tell me they are a completely unique species or just ugly, immortal human women and I’d believe you either way.

mod note: going to be insufferable and explain:

druids and wyresses are Y’ffre-affiliated mystics who are connected to the Earthbones of Nirn, and are arguably the Breton (culturally; not exclusive to Bretons) equivalent of Spinners and similar traditions among the Bosmer

witches (like the Glenmoril Wyrd, but also witches of the Reachfolk) are different, because rather than connecting to Aedra, they connect to Daedric Princes. Hircine and Nocturnal and Namira most famously, but also others (thus far no canon mention of Sanguine witches but like . . . that’s just common sense that no game has implemented just yet). some witches are nice and some are not

hagravens are sort of an ascended form of witches. they’re transformed. some live alone or with others of their own kind. among the Reachfolk, it’s not unusual for them to live within or hold leadership positions within their Reach clans, even retaining a Reachman spouse

you could think of witches and hagravens as one might think of a vampire vs a Volkihar-style vampire lord -- the fulfillment of a promise, and the shedding of further humanity (or whatever, as the case may be) for more power

if you know more than I do and have something useful to add, please do so

[amummy]

I have now finished Vigilant, Glenmoril(of what there is) and next is Unslaad. I need… a break LOL. Act 4 of Vigilant was a massive undertaking but i found it rewarding.

Anyone in the fence about the VICN mods for Skyrim, if you don’t mind the incredibly dark side of TES lore it is an incredible and gruesome journey. I highly recommend it.

[weyrleaders]

i need to play vigilant again

[helgiafterdark]

[rollingsim]

Love, I, and We...

I finished the mod up to the latest update and I can guarantee that I will not be emotionally recovering from the events of Act III anytime soon

[setarmare]

Just downloaded Varrick Veil and Yazakh -- cant wait to play once I get off work!

Not sure if I want to do a fresh run; especially since I've downloaded the open civil war mod last week and haven't gotten round to it. I wish Skyrim had a NG+ so I keep my 80 Archery and Dawnguard completion...