All of the blue in Taking in the View makes the Sea of Ghosts look almost inviting. Sort of like an iced tropical drink. That circlet looks so pretty with Hrafn’s eyes.

'Taking in the view' and Dawnstar are very pretty! You have a beautiful character.

You had me groaning with all the puns afterword though. I was expecting a Dwemer Centurion with the steamed one.

liliandra nadiar: That is hard hair for you. I guess she should stop putting the quicklime in it to make it stand up?

Acadian: The Falmer are indeed creepy elves. They have been living underground for so long that they are blind, and tend to eat people. They are basically horror movie mutant villains.

Grits: Sadly I accidentally sold that circlet, but she did get another one. The wrong color though, the new one is green.

King Coin: Funny you should mention the Centurion, Hrafn spent yesterday and this afternoon exploring Blackreach, and fought several of those monstrosities.


Evening in Dawnstar

Blackreach skyline

More Blackreach

Putting down a Falmer

Falmer Hunting

Having a seat

The heart of Blackreach

Hrafn made herself some new duds

An alternate view

‘Evening in Dawnstar’ – Very pretty night picture. The snow nestling in the pines. The little cutie in the white top walking up the trail. How the moon picks up the glint off Hrafn’s right boob.

Blackreach - More of the pretty blue jellyfish trees!

‘Putting Down a Falmer’ -Ugh, Falmer have gone from creepy to gross now.

‘Farmer Flamer Falmer Hunting’ – What a beautiful profile shot of our attractive Nord!

Hrafn’s new armor looks very nice. As I've said, metal suits her well.

I just love Blackreach! It’s so strange and beautiful.

Hrafn has been busy at the forge, nice! Ebony is still my favorite axe. It's a shame she can't smith herself a new circlet, but treasure hunts are fun. Fingers crossed that Hrafn finds some blue bling.

Love the big moon on Dawnstar. Your Dawnstar doesn't look as chilly as mine does. That mod at work no doubt.

Blackreach is a fascinating place. Aravi was able to avoid most of the Centurions. You found a certain someone down there from Oblivion right?

Aravi hates Falmer and their bugs even worse. They are almost as bad as spiders in Aravi's book. And a whole lot more deadly.

I love the way Ebony looks in this game. To me it's a big improvement over the way it looked in Oblivion.

@Grits: There are mods out that make circlets craftable.

Acadian: I like that evening in Dawnstar pic a lot. But that profile view of Hrafn hunting Falmer is probably my all time favorite of her. It was actually a kill cam pic of her. You never know what you are going to get when you hit the printscreen button during those. Most of what comes out is just garbage. But sometimes you get a real gem.


Grits: Blackreach was very neat. I reminded me of the Underdark, from D&D. I kept expecting to see dark elves, driders, and the spider queen. I did make myself a crafting mod to let me craft my own circlets, and Hrafn has a couple of new ones in the latest pics. Re-enchanting them meant taking a loss in the effect (since her enchanting is not very high, and she has no perks in it), but they do look better, and that is what is most important after all.


King Coin: Hrafn did find that certain someone, and his journal. Just last night she dropped off the crimson nirnroots with the dunmer near Riften. One good thing about those steam centurions, is that you can put them to use. Hrafn ran across a chaurus reaper near one of the centurion in its rack. She ran back there and turned it on. Then she hid while the centurion wiped out the reaper.

I like the ebony in this game, but I think I preferred the version in Oblivion. I love all the gold scrollwork it has there. It makes it look like something only the ultra rich would afford.


Walking on sunshine

Momma had a baby and the head popped off!

A short vid of Hrafn lending a hand against some bandits

Another short vid, this of Hrafn helping out some wolves

I didn't like it at all. The yellow paint put me off.

I don't think the giants needed any help, but it's the thought that counts right? Aravi just steers clear of any conflict involving giants.

Wow! I wonder where all those atronachs came from? Good thing they don't go out like the fire ones do!

‘but they do look better, and that is what is most important after all.’
Quoted for Truth!

Walking on Sunshine! Hrafn looks like a woman in love with her feet not even touching the ground. Oh noes, now I’m going to have that song in my head. . . .

Start a fire, tap a keg and pop some corn heads!

Vid 1: Kisses and kudos to Hrafn for defending mammoths. They are magnificent! Oh, and how nice to see her using a bow!

Vid 2: Crushed ice anyone? Just axing. . . .

The new circlet looks great! I’m sure that six foot two with eyes of blue Hrafn doesn’t really need the whole enchantment anyway, at least not as much as the right color stones in the circlet.

That was a fun video with the mammoths and giants, with an uh-oh moment when the giant’s health bar popped up. I guess the giants haven’t talked to the spriggans to learn that Hrafn is on their side!

Three Frost Atronachs, what the heck?! Those wolves didn’t stand a chance. Hrafn’s flame enchantment came in very handy! I like the occasional wandering daedra presumably escaped from its conjurer, it reminds me why some people are against summoning in the first place.

King Coin: I believe that was not supposed to be yellow paint on the Oblivion ebony, but gold inlays. I guess they did not do it very well though!

I think the Frost Atronachs are a regular encounter up there. One of my other characters ran across a trio of them in the same general area as well. They just go on a rampage and kill everything around.


Acadian: When you walk around the edges of cliff in Skryrim, you often find your character walking in thin air like that. The game seems to have trouble telling where the ground is. It can be hilarious when you realize it.


Grits: You are right, she did not need much enchantment after all. At that point Hrafn was an awesome monster basher. Edgar and Alan Frog even said so.


As those who have read the Today in Skyrim topic know, I stopped playing Hrafn after a glitch in the civil war questline, that prevents her from going any further with it. Over the weekend I created two new characters that I have been fiddling with.

Kachina is an animal summoner

She is a Native American Redguard, inspired by Lady Saga

Kachina takes a moment to watch the world go by

Chatting with a strangely non-hostile necromancer

Kachina returns to Helgen to find it a much more friendly place

I also created Babd

Meet her skeleton: Rattles

Sorry to hear about the troubles with Hrafn’s game. I had hoped that, as a blonde, she would have more fun.

Kachina’s gorgeous! Inspired by Lady Saga? Who knew our Renee was such a hawtie! Okay, I’m just joshin’ around. I definitely see the Cherokee type influence inspired by Renee’s ideas however. Well done!

Babd looks more the gothie that often animates your characters. That Triss armor looks great on her. I tried the Oblivion version on Buffy but it put about 30 pounds on her and was definitely cut for women of more. . . Nordic proportions. The Sky version looks cut very nicely however. Rattles looks neat and certainly seems to suit his Mistress of the Dark.

Does Lady Saga know she’s set a trend? You did a great job on Kachina. Like Acadian said, she’s gorgeous!

Weird with the necromancer… Did he have anything unique to say? Or was he just another dude?

Babd looks much more creepy. I like Kachina better.

Kachina looks great! I like the one at the standing stones the best. She sounds like a Bosmer without the bow and unfortunate appearance. (My attempts at a female Bosmer resulted in a male Bosmer and a praying mantis.) Is Kachina still unarmed?

Babd looks like she enjoys the company of skeletons. I like her boots!

Acadian: One of the nicer things about Skyrim is that you can actually select a body type during character creation, basically making them either slender or beefy. I think because of that, the clothing tends to be more reasonable, since it has to 'fit' a body type anywhere in that range. But I could be wrong.

King Coin: The necromancer did not have any speech topics. Nothing happened when Kachina clicked on the Talk option, no matter how many times I tried. When she came back out again after clearing the cave he was suddenly hostile, so she had to kill him.

Grits: Kachina is a mage, so she is never unarmed You should play Skyrim on your PC, then you could get the boots, and the rest of the outfit. It is from a Triss clothing mod (I guess Triss is a character from The Witcher?)

Kachina takes a leap


I decided to create a new character, to try at least some of the Companions questline with, and take another crack at the civil war. I disabled my no dragon mod to see if that makes a difference. So it also means doing some of the main quest, at least more then bleak falls barrow.

Meet Ulfdis (meaning "wolf goddess")

Ulfdis was marked by wolves as a child, since then, they have always treated her as one of their own

And this bandit was marked by Ulfdis' sword

Pondering where to go next

Ready for action

Smiting a bandit

Through the heart

A short vid of an encounter between Ulfdis and a Thalmor patrol

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Ulfdis looks great! ‘Nother blonde! Marked by a wolf as a child – reminds me of other young girls similarly marked (Aela by a cave lion, Alawen by a mountain lion) – great stories all! I like the scar on her cheek. That first fighting screen (‘marked by Ulfdis’ sword’) is neat – she gave that bandit’s quiver a drain hole for when it rains. Loved the screen of Ulfdis pondering that wall map. Shot through the heart by Uldis Bongiovi; now I’m gonna have that song stuck in my head. Gee, freeing that guy from the Thalmor didn’t get her much thanks from him, did it?

Looks like Kachina might have found a Daedra Lord? I’ve never seen that before. Doesn’t look pleasant though.

Ulfdis is very pretty. You have a knack for creating good faces. I’ve never been good with face gen.

Those last two screens, Aravi was just there. She went through the inhabitants of the cave very quickly. My favorite screen is the one of her standing in front of them map.

EDIT: You should have let the prisioner beat on the last guard a little more.

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I like Ulfdis’ hair and eye color combination. Great shots against the bandits!

The roving Thalmor are what got Jensa involved with the Stormcloaks. By the time she got to Windhelm to curse at Ulfric, the Thalmor had her ready to join up.

Good luck with the start of the MQ! Do you think that Ulfdis will have a journal? I miss Hrafn's musings.

Acadian: Well she's not exactly a blond. Not a red-head either. She's sort of in between. I wanted a hair color I had not done before, and I was running out!

Aela and the cave lion is where I got the idea for Ulfdis. She is an orphan, who was discovered near Bruma. Her parents had been killed, and she had been cared for by wolves in their absence. The wolves marked her, so that all of their kind would know she was one of their own.

I was also thinking of that same song! I guess some things are just inescapable, Bone Jovi among them.


King Coin: That one of Kachina is from a Nordic barrow south of Falkreath. There is an uber-draugr in it somehow draining the life energy of people. To maintain his unholy existence no doubt.

It is easy to make attractive faces in Skyrim - at least human ones. Much more so then in Oblivion. The presets, combined with the fewer things you can change, mean you cannot mess it up too much. Most of the presets are good to go as they are. Just clean up the dirt and warpaint so you can actually see the face. Then if they need it, do a little tweaking. The main thing to try to do is make sure the features (eyes, nose, mouth) are symmetrical. Keep them regularly spaced, and you will have a face that looks good.


Grits: I took a long time deciding on the color of her eyes and hair. I am glad someone appreciated it. Like I was saying to Acadian, I went with the auburn hair because I have not had a character with that color before. Then I spent a lot of time deciding on the eyes, and eventually I went with the amber eyes because they matched her hair.

The Thalmor patrols hauling off Nords makes it hard for me to side with the Empire. Not to mention the Imperials doing the same. After starting the game on the headsman's block, it is difficult to play a character who feels no empathy for someone else in the same place.

I would like to write a journal for Ulfdis, but I am holding off to see if her game gets borked like Hrafn's did. I don't want to put all that effort into it, just to find out the character is stuck again. If she does get past that point, then I probably will. I just got past the point where Hrafn's game was stuck. W00t! Now I have a lot to write to get Ulfdis up to date.


A soft word and the sword in the back, will get you more than just a soft word...

A talkative bandit

Greeting the Thalmor

Whiterun at night

Morning on the sea of ghosts

Finishing off an invisible foe

Ulfdis briefly teamed up with Erik the Slayer to clear out Bleak Falls Barrow

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Oops on the hair. I figured she just had some of that Skyrim ‘realism’ in it that would wash out. I took another look and agree that strawberry blondish reddish is right. Regardless, she looks nice!

Great screens! I see Ulfdis prefers full metal penetration to talking. The night shot at Whiterun and the picture of the Sea of Ghosts are both very neat. She teamed up with Erik the Slayer? I wonder if that’s where little Slayers come from?