I can only tell if you link it so my game can scan it. I mean, some of the early sets are easy to tell; like Argonian/Bosmer/Redguard. But beyond those three - I can't tell by sight.

If this one was to take a screeny of Mira wearing her armor, would someone here be able to identify what style the cuirass is?

Wow that's nice, and Mira looks great!

I have no idea. It looks Nordish with the fur trim and round medal, but I've never seen gold-colored iron with sleeves like that. How improved is it, meaning white, green, blue, etc? I wonder if that changes the appearance significantly.

Yep, that's Nord style armour, crafted using Calcinium or another higher tier material. Not sure why it would say it's iron, unless it's part of a set or something. How strange.

Ok, let's try it:


It's an iron cuirass of some sort but Khajiit is not sure of the style. He really likes it though!

Oh, she is gorgeous!!!

So, do we ever learn the circumstances behind our death? Like were we captured while fighting or what?

We aren't dead! Our souls were taken by Molag Bal (because souls generate power) - along with hundreds of thousands of other souls. (one of the things I like about this game = you are not "the chosen one," and the only reason you are given any importance whatsoever is because - without a soul, you can bypass more barriers than someone with a soul; and have nothing to lose going places where your soul would be forfeit.

Soul-Shriven are the remnants of individuals who have been enslaved by the Daedric Prince of Domination, Molag Bal. They are eternally doomed to toil in torment for the glory and amusement of the Daedric Lord.

Molag Bal's lust for the enslavement of mortal souls is such that at the moment of their death, he employs various methods to divert a mortal's soul from its journey to the afterlife to imprisonment and slavery in Coldharbour, his realm of Oblivion.

Once the soul arrives in Coldharbour, it is exchanged for an essence commonly known as the vestige. The vestige attracts to itself a shapeless but energetic material called the "creatia" of Oblivion. In Coldharbour, this creatia takes the form of a substance known as the Azure Plasm - ubiquitous pools of blue slime.

The Azure Plasm coalesces around a vestige and forms a corporeal body with the semblance of the shape it wore in life. The process is similar to how lesser Daedra reform on their respective planes of Oblivion, after they're banished or slain.

However, since these "soulless ones" are not native to Oblivion, their bodies are mere imitations of their form in life. As such, these facsimiles suffer rapid wear and decay. Scholars have theorized that the reason these bodies are flawed is because they have lost the focusing principle of their Anuic souls, so their vestiges are imperfect patterns.

Where their souls are kept is unknown, but some believe they are contained within soul gems, and that the soul shriven can feel themselves being jostled around as their respective gems are moved from one place to another.

Eternal Torment:

Despite their rapid decay, the Soul Shriven are henceforth tortured in deepest bowels of Coldharbour for the amusement of Molag Bal. Various Dremora administer the suffering in a very structured and orderly manner, going as far as meeting "toil and torment quotas".

The Soul Shriven themselves are subject to meeting certain quotas also.

After years of torment, their minds lose any notion of reality and eventually they succumb to insanity. The oldest of these Soul Shriven are known as ferals. They fear neither pain nor death, and their eternal hunger drives them to attack and eat anything - including each other. The lesser Daedra who roam Coldharbour are said to fear them.

One particular individual didn't become insane, despite supposedly being the oldest of the Soul Shriven. Sir Cadwell, a gallant knight in his previous life, was already insane when he arrived in Coldharbour but now sees the realm as a wondrous place.

Eventually all Soul Shriven die, but due to the nature of the vestige, their body simply reforms upon death and the torturous cycle repeats itself.

According to the Wiki, this is what our lives would have been had we not escaped:

I'm using an Xbox360 controller for my PC game now, and so far it works great. Poor Elke has been my test subject. I've gotten her killed by the guards once. The only issue is that I can't find a good place for the chat box. It blocks the loot text in its lower left spot, and moving it to lower right makes it zoom across the screen from the left bar every time it maximizes. If I can figure out how to move the little bar all the way right, I'll be in business.

Best thing is the keyboard still works for text entry and keyboard shortcuts. *happy dance*

I'm using an Xbox360 controller for my PC game now, and so far it works great. Poor Elke has been my test subject. I've gotten her killed by the guards once. The only issue is that I can't find a good place for the chat box. It blocks the loot text in its lower left spot, and moving it to lower right makes it zoom across the screen from the left bar every time it maximizes. If I can figure out how to move the little bar all the way right, I'll be in business.

Best thing is the keyboard still works for text entry and keyboard shortcuts. *happy dance*

I'm using an Xbox360 controller for my PC game now, and so far it works great. Poor Elke has been my test subject. I've gotten her killed by the guards once. The only issue is that I can't find a good place for the chat box. It blocks the loot text in its lower left spot, and moving it to lower right makes it zoom across the screen from the left bar every time it maximizes. If I can figure out how to move the little bar all the way right, I'll be in business.

Best thing is the keyboard still works for text entry and keyboard shortcuts. *happy dance*