#skyrim dbh

[my-elder-scrolls-shit]

I've been replaying skyrim and- "Uh oh, Aph! Are you getting philosophical about a mid game that you've played 80 billion times now?" Yes, of course I am. Now, my take of the day is Astrid gets a bad rap in the fandom

If you have personal qualms for whatever reason with her (Cicero fan, upset she got everyone killed, her voice, whatever it may be), that's totally fine! However! I just finished the dbh quest line again, and she's honestly not as terrible as we've been painting her, I feel.

When you first join, she's pretty attentive - clearly keeping an eye on you because you're new, but as you prove yourself and she can worry less, she seems to almost losen up. I do think she asks you to do things that she wouldn't ask anyone else because she's testing you or because you're new and she's not as attached yet, but its clear she has some kind if concern for you and your safety. Especially when the Nightmother incident happens, and she thinks Cicero might have attempted to hurt you. Then shit hits the fan (in her eyes)

Now, here's something that might sound strange - I don't think she decides to sell you out until the last possible minute. Why would she ask you to find her husband otherwise? Why would she keep sending you out to further the plot against the emperor and keep rewarding you? These are shows of trust- and while maybe some could be seen as implicating you further as the sole thorn in the side of the emperor, again, why send you to kill Cicero- to help Abjorn? Someone she loves and cares for deeply? Why not send someone more experienced?

I think maybe her paranoia ramps up after the Cicero incident for sure- she gets more flighty and decides right around when you are going to kill the emperor, when things are seriously about to change, does she panic. I mean, imagine you've led a group for years and some stranger you brought into your family like last week, and a jester who brought a sacred corpse with him is claiming the stranger is supposed to be the faction leader and the only one who can hear the dead lady's voice! That's a shit deal! What the fuck!

If something goes wrong, everything will go wrong. She's probably not had a lot of control in her life previously (note: her story about her uncle making "unwanted advances" makes me think maybe it's something that had been happening and she finally decided to kill him after snapping but she definitely glosses over it very quickly in favor of being murder happy which is understandable) and now that control is once again slipping and everyone else can see she's paranoid (multiple members comment on it if you talk to them before hopping in the Nightmothers coffin the first time) so it's not a big surprise that you, the threat to her status quo and control, seem like the one to take out

And it all goes to shit! And she seems so desperately and genuinely sorry on her death bed - everyone she loved and cared for is dead, mind you. This is a woman who has lost everything and is now begging to die for a greater good and a desperate apology to you and to the people she's hurt. The game clearly doesn't want you to forgive her (based on the dialog options it presents), but i wish we could at least say something kind. But I that might just be me

[artsideblogofsorts]

"I must be the only cop in the world that gets assaulted in his own house by his own fuckin' android..."

[pombr33]

Hi I need more people to follow and more followers so here's some fandoms I'm into!

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[pixelpaladin24]

|| I bought a new journal I've found in a shop today. It looks so pretty! I fell in love instantly. 🥰

Naturally, I started to set up a bullet journal system in it, and naturally, my adhd ass screwed it up. I thought damn, I won't tear this page out, I'll try to cover it with stickers and see what comes out of it.

Aaand there was the plot twist.

I loved how it turned out SO MUCH that I did the same on the other side of the future log as well. 😂

Lesson learned: make more mistakes - and be creative when it comes to fixing them. 👏🏻

[nay9on]

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[ciceronskaya]

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[morihaus]

i love when im reading some real loosie goosie tes fanfic and the writer will casually mention some SWEEPING element of their headcanons or worldbuilding that they are 100% uninterested in exploring in any meaningful way. like "blablabla cyrodiil is a nice place to visit now the the empire is gone--" HUH? WHAT? WHAT do you MEAN "GONE" what happened??? what's going on for the people there?? and we just don't have time to address that bc this is primarily oc x canon and we can't stop to talk about geopolitics

[kinghlaaluhelseth]

no this is the funniest modded follower interaction ever. sweet roll killed a man.

[gortrash]

Thinking deeply about how ESO’s Dark Brotherhood questline is themed on the concept of forming emotional attachments and seeing it more as a family than an organisation. It forces you to get attached by sending you on these individual quests for each of the members and allows you some insight into their character.

Then, once you’ve grown used to the character you’ve just gotten to know, it rips them away from you.

Green-Venom-Tongue even warns us when you first meet him about forming emotional attachments to other family members which immediately struck me as some kind of foreshadowing. He definitely said that because of his experience from his old sanctuary, but it still applies.

Everyone mourns each member as they lose them. Some had more reason to be angry than others. Mirabelle’s entire demise is based on her wanting revenge for the death of her lover and that’s what got her killed. Venom’s death is because he wants revenge for the purification of his old sanctuary. We almost lose Hildegard to werewolf hunters because she thought that if she was gone, the family would be safer. Hell, even Elam was super sad about Mirabelle’s death.

Even the villain of this story, the one who kills your brothers and sisters, Lyra, felt immensely regretful and sorrowful about the purification, and the Speaker even scolds her for having formed attachments to the family she just killed. The whole reason she becomes the Black Dragon is to try and atone for the guilt she felt for killing her family.

There’s just so much care amongst all of the members and they seem to treat each other more like an actual family than Oblivion and Skyrim’s DBH. I think to me, that’s what makes it stand out most.

[justashamwithwastedpotential]

Saw this post and it seemed like good meme material for my ocs

[glitter-soda]

Apparently my subconscious likes combining fandoms now, because I had a dream that the Skyrim follower Kaidan was secretly a Detroit Become Human style android

[unstablerk800]

|| Kara is activated 5th November, 3 PM, so I think a game replay is in order, fam. 😏💙

[juniperberries-canisroot]

People who play as a goody two-shoes or some holy paladin who never steal, murder or assult are so much stronger than I am.

I have to make all of my characters excuse stealing or be pro stealing and murdering some annoying NPC, pickpocketing the wandering mercenary for their note that never appears on my inventory (?), or killing them cause for some reason they are decked out in actual my level appropriate armour and I want it, stealing alchemy ingredients from court mages to help the merchant NPCs who need them. All my characters have to be a little shit who willingly does illegal stuff.

Well I have one 'goody two-shoes paladin' but I don't play with her cause she would be really boring.

[angelofdiamond]

*coff coff Professor Layton and Honkai Star Rail...coff coff*

You’re not a real gamer unless you’ve wasted countless hours of your life purposefully walking in the wrong direction to make sure you’re not missing any content

[unironicallytes]

HELLO EVERYONE I HAVE SOME THINGS TO SAY ABOUT ASTRID!!!

(Discussion and sharing of thoughts encouraged even if they're opposing viewpoints, please join me in the sandbox)

In working on Dear Brother's timeline, I've been revisiting a lot of the canon even around the Skyrim era, and I find Astrid so much more compelling and sympathetic nowadays. I used to dislike her a lot, because I was coming fresh off of Oblivion and also hadn't deep-fried my brain in lore yet. I was playing the Skyrim DBh with @orfeoarte last night and we got to talking about her again, specifically about how she's probably having a crisis of faith during the game.

Like, in thinking about the entire Dark Brotherhood questline from Astrid's perspective ... she's the matron of the last Sanctuary. They haven't had a Listener since 4E188 - that's 14 whole years without a religious leader, organizational leader, or any of the Black Hand for that matter. (As far as I can tell, Rasha sounded like a Speaker from Cheydinhal, and he lasted until 4E189 according to Cicero's journals.)

Basically, up until this point, Falkreath stayed functional due to Astrid's leadership alone, and Astrid herself went through that bearing the knowledge that their gods had probably abandoned them. That's a lot to deal with. Imagine the absolute inner turmoil of turning your back on the Brotherhood's religion, because there's no point in holding to a spiritual leader that refuses to lead. Maybe Astrid had spent a few of those 14 years mourning, wondering why she'd received no guidance; but eventually, she had to amputate that part of herself and move on because no one else was going to do it for her. She would've needed to focus on the survival of the order that was left, rather than cling to the ashes of the one that was dead and gone. Besides, the latter seems to have collapsed in on itself because the Hand couldn't even agree on how to move forward, so why would she follow their lead?

All that being said, 14 years pass, Astrid keeps it together, keeps the last remaining family together ... then suddenly out of fucking nowhere, Cicero shows up with the Night Mother herself, spouting the old ways. A bit jarring, a bit poor taste - it's not his fault, he has no idea what this Sanctuary might have been through. He hasn't interacted with family members at all for these 14 years, and he probably expected them to be exactly as he remembered them. And then, barely any time into Cicero's arrival, the Night Mother finally chooses someone, and it's Astrid's newest recruit.

Like, how dare she, after all these years of abandonment? Wouldn't that infuriate you? In Astrid's eyes, the Night Mother hasn't done shit for her. No wonder Astrid's immediate reaction and tone is basically "are you fucking kidding me" followed by "I need time to process this." It makes a lot of sense that she resists the return to tradition, both from a leadership level and from a personal level. No wonder she shatters through Tenet 1 in front of Cicero and everyone, no wonder she tries to get you removed from the equation, too.

Extremely interesting character right there!!! I am spinning her on the microwave plate-- ..... ....... ah, well, uh. I suppose the Penitus Oculatus did that already, poor choice of words.

[ansu-gurleht]

do you have any mod recommendations for morrowind?

i don't use an awful lot of mods tbh. i highly recommend using openmw instead of the base engine, first of all. but here's some mods i do use:

1.) all the official plugins

2.) check out the pb mods, they're all pretty neat

3.) true lights and darkness to make torches and stuff like. not useless

4.) some kind of backpack mod for extra carrying capacity! i use "adventurer's backpack" which does unfortunately use up a shoulder slot but it's worth it imo

5.) juniper's twin lamps for a revamped (ie more complete) twin lamps experience

6.) hospitality papers expanded, which makes it actually necessary to get the hospitality papers to do stuff in sadrith mora

7.) "dark brotherhood attacks once - delayed" is a MUST HAVE for me tbh

8.) book rotate for if you like decorating and hate the way books place!

9.) a mod that increases the store chance on projectiles (basically whether or not you can pick up your arrows/bolts/throwables from bodies or not). i use one that increases the chance to 100% but there's a lot of options

10.) blight bounties! you can collect rewards for killing blighted monsters/animals at ghostgate! you might also want "blighted animals retextured" to go along with this, so you can tell them apart better

11.) bloated morrowind! actually adds bloat plants to the world; in the base game bloat is only an ingredient that you can buy, not gather

12.) solstheim rumor fix (akin to the dbh attacks mod), it restricts how often "latest rumors" will tell you about solstheim. i think it restricts it to certain npcs or something, you'd have to look into it

13.) diseases restored! it fixes some inconsistencies with which animals carry which diseases and what they do etc

14.) oblivion style vampires for a more forgiving mw vampire experience

15.) julan is a great companion mod!

16.) gnisis arch replacer! it puts one of mehrunes dagon's arms hanging from the arch in gnisis :3

17.) red wisdom is a fun ashlander themed quest/dungeon mod!

18.) skyrim: home of the nords is great! and you might also try project cyrodiil, which i hear is also great!

19.) there is a texture replacer called watercolored morrowind, which i really enjoy! it "muddies" the textures a bit to look more, well, watercolored. it still matches the vibe of the og textures but gives it a more stylized spin

20.) there should be a mod that changes plants from containers to simple pickups like it is in oblivion and skyrim. i think it's called harvestable flora? i don't see it in my content list but i know i have it installed, weird

21.) zesterer's volumetric clouds and mists for openmw is a GAME CHANGER esp if you use a higher view distance (openmw supports pretty high view distances, although you might have to fiddle with some .ini files to unlock them)

that sounds like a lot but it's really not. no huge gameplay changes or even graphical ones (aside from the volumetric + view distance). i prefer a pretty vanilla experience tbh.