Monkey, a new thread for your drawings is a fine idea. If you wanted it to just be ESO drawings, this section of the forum would be perfect. If you think you might ever want to branch out to other games or have a bit more flexibility, our 'Fan Art' section of the forums would be a great choice.

Wow! Even your unfinished sketches are awesome! Khajiit = totes jelly of your skill!

After helping to cement Queen Ayrenn's position in Ghratwood, Feng went to on a thieving spree in the other alliances territories.

Question about Champ points:

How come Khajiit's character select screen says he has 21 champ points but when he goes into Mira's champ menu, she has zero champ points to distribute?

Aaaaand I have no talent in drawing.


I still haven't come up with an entirely fleshed out backstory for Cincinnatus yet, but if anyone is interested (maybe no one is, I don't know) here are the basic reasons for why the uncommon name for an Argonian.

Out-of-game/"meta" reasons:
1) The name is just rad as [censored] and I like it
2) Short history lesson: it is the name of an historical figure whose name is Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, often shortened to Cincinnatus. He is a very interesting figure to me because he was chosen to be Roman dictator (back in Ancient Roman times a dictator was actually chosen to the position) and, upon quickly fulfilling the duties tasked to him, immediately and willingly resigned from power. (To be fair, this is according to historical records that are possibly embellished and may not be very reliable.) George Washington (first President of the U.S., in case anybody here is not American and does not know) is often compared to him due to relinquishing of power as chief of the Continental Army and his voluntary retirement after two terms as President (back then there was no codified limit to how long a President could be in office).

In-universe reasons
3) In Arena, Argonians actually had Roman-naming conventions. So it is a sort of reference/call-back to that game, and I like to give Arena a bit of a shout-out.
4) I chose Lilmoth as Cincinnatus's home that he hails from because of a couple reasons. One, I like the location of Lilmoth. Something about cities on the corners and edges of a continent looking out into a vast ocean just appeals to me. Two, there was a lot of Imperial influence in the city even before it was colonized by the Imperials. I want to incorporate that in some fashion to Cincinnatus's backstory.
5) I mostly chose "Cincinnatus of Lilmoth" just to distinguish the fact that he is actually an Argonian, instead of an Imperial as the name suggests, and to shed a little light on his backstory.

Yeah Cincinnatus was a pretty interesting figure! The writers of the movie Gladiator based General Maximus at least partially on the idea of Cincinnatus (in the movie Emperor Marcus Aurelius wanted him to take power after his death in order to give it back to the Senate).

Could you have already distributed them some night after a few drinks and don't remember doing it?







I thought the Fan Art covered all games anyway; doesn't it have Fallout; TES; Pillars of Eternity; Star Wars; (etc.) already anyway?

Lol! No, Khajiit doesn't usually drink enough to forget.

Oooooh, Khajiit needs to check his other characters and see if he can apply the champ points to them! This one thought they had to be lvl50 before they could use champ points!

"I drink to forget but I always remember..."

Anyways, yeah, CP carries over to non 50 characters too. It's like a NG+, which is great. (Only characters at level 50 can earn CP though)


But yea, if I were to start a thread, it'd be in the fan art section cause even though my main game is ESO right now, I'd probably branch out eventually. (I also play Oblivion from time to time right now so)


That aside, today I was confronted with the fact that there's another huge pile of furniture plans to collect in Vvardenfell and yearn for a Daily Writ thing for furniture, too. So we could have a reliable source to get those plans. Cause not only are the documents from the Master Writ merchant too expensive and RNG based to bother with, they don't include Morrowind's furniture.

Ugh.

Granted, I don't really want them that badly, since I already got 99% of the furniture I wanted (and the ones left I can honestly do without). Just the completionist in me crying out in pain.





Honestly, with how much ESO loves to reference Arena, the name fits right in. Especially given the background.

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: Jun 20 2017, 01:31 AM

Yeah, I appreciate ESO's acknowledgement of the game that started it all. The historical references to previous games are one of my favorite things about TES and something I think is very underrated, but poor ol' Arena seems to almost always be forgotten. I like that ESO has stuff like more of the Tharn lineage, Selene's Web, and the Crypt of Hearts, as just a few examples. Obviously most of the changes in TES since Arena have been for the best, but I still think that game has some more to offer for the rest of the series. I want to see some Lizard Men again!

(Although to be honest, I think Sheogorath's line about the Staff of Chaos and rebuilding Numidium during the Mages' Guild questline was a bit ham-fisted.)

Uggggh got "booted from the server". Troubleshooting says to wait a while before trying again.

Khajiit, there is a thread on the official forum with some folks complaining of rather the same thing you describe. Here: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/di...t-hotfix#latest

After yesterday's update, my game kept crashing to desktop from the launcher when I hit Play, giving me an 'error 11'. I looked it up on the official site and followed their troubleshooting procedures (basically moving a file and using the game's 'repair' feature). Happily that worked and no probs so far today.

Thanks A. Khajiit is done playing for today (about to go to work), but if it continues giving me a problem tomorrow this one will try what you suggest.

Right? The best part is how ESO likes working into the current lore and even plays with some of the content that never made it in to begin with. (Specifically, the Blackcasters of Elinhir. IIRC the Battlegrounds also have bits of old Arena lore)

I honestly disliked Sheogorath's involvement in general, but then Shivering Isles sort of ruined him for me. *shrug* Either way, I guess that part's supposed to emphasize Daedric Princes' weird nature? Maybe? ??? (I actually never finished Daggerfall so learning that Sheo was involved in the last part of the Main Quest was interesting, tbh)



Anyways, I learned one of my guildies has the Noble's Conquest set in his house (and that's it) so I went and did those writs for a few vouchers. "Yes, hi, I'm here to use your crafting stations to have vouchers to get these exact same crafting stations."

I wonder what I'll do after this is all done. Aside from levelling Fjotreid. I still have the new motifs to collect, though I'm about halfway done with Ashlander. I'll have to buy Militant Ordinator (and pay much more than Silken Ring/Mazzatun, most 'ikely, ugh) and somehow get a set of Buoyant Armiger.

...and yet I don't feel an overwhelming desire to get them. Huh.

I have been listening to a friend online talk about how many Master Writs she gets every day. She has 12 characters, all of them doing the highest level writs and bringing in - not only a steady flow of Master Writs, but Psijiic Ambrosia recipes, Glass Fragments, etc.

This is not a girl who exaggerates EVER, so following her lead I have started taking my bank mules out one at a time and gathering skyshards with them (to build up enough skill points to sink into the crafting). (Their skill lines levels in crafting have all been at 50 for over a year, they just never left the bank so never had any skill points to spend).

I finished the first one (Calia) 3 days ago, and have already tripled the number of Master Writs I normally get; and got that number twice as often as I was bringing them in before.

So now I'm excited! Started the second bank mule (Mia) and have been skyshard hunting with her for a couple days now. She had much fewer skill points than Calia had; so it will take longer with her than it did with Calia; but she is getting there.

After that: Urgh...Grunting Calia. It will kill me to hear her grunting her way to every skyshard, but to get more Master Writs ... may be worth it.

What to do with all these Master Writs coming in?

I am hoping we will be able to get the Mundus stones for Master Writs (not just buying them with Crowns); but would also like to get some attunable tables for our Guild Hall too one day. (instead of just decorations like I've been getting, kind of make the place more useful to us).

mALX-
As always, your efforts to make your home a functional guildhall for us is very much appreciated!
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Feng is still having a lot of fun practicing his thieving skills.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Jun 21 2017, 08:26 PM

It's been a fairly eventful week for Cincinnatus. He came across a couple soldiers a few days ago who told me a story about how their comrades had been captured by witches while going to pray at a shrine to Kyne in Kynesgrove. As he uncovered, it turned out that the Keepers of the Grove themselves were the witches, and the head Keeper Ormi was the chief culprit.

Now normally in this kind of situation, Cincinnatus would be ready to simply dole out swift, violent justice, but the option to talk to Ormi's son popped up it occurred to him that maybe trying to find Ormi's son would get her to come to her senses and lead the Keepers to stop killing/bewitching people. He couldn't explain such an impulse, but it was a hunch he followed and he located Ormi's son. When the son wouldn't come initially, Cincinnatus trekked back over raring to cave some heads in. But before he could strike a final blow against Ormi in Hagraven form her son finally showed up, prayed to Kyne, and Ormi became normal again. Luckily, she changed her ways and ordered the other witches to spare the rest of the soldiers.

With that wrapped up, Cincinnatus decided to head over to Mournhold and meet up with his waifu old pal Naryu Virian. He has dealt a serious blow to the Maulborn in Mournhold, and next up is Magistrix Vox herself. Unfortunately for him, though, along the way he had to pray to the Tribunal and had to suck it up talking to Almalexia (little did he know that a descendant of his would eventually slay the "Sacred Lady"). Of course he won't make it widely known, but Cincinnatus isn't very fond of the Tribunal.

This post has been edited by RaderOfTheLostArk: Jun 21 2017, 09:01 PM

Khajiit, glad it seems you got your game running okay again. And thieving away, is it? Buffy, in her magsorc mode has quite taken to the fun, thrill and provisioning help of stealing tomatoes and millet when she finds it and thinks she can do so. Then she launders it so Buffy (in her magplar mode) can use in their primary food recipe that boosts magicka and health. The templar won't steal anything though - she is too afraid to risk becoming a fallen paladin. Lol.

Rader, very fun to hear of your adventures and impressions!

At this point the two Buffys (magplar and magsorc) are closely matched in progress as they each leisurely continue their Gold and Silver in Auridon and Stonefalls respectively at the moment. I don't know exactly how she does it, but Buffy can flip from templar to wizard as easily as she changes her hairstyle or outfits.

It's the shoes! It's gotta be the shoes!

Oh, by Azura you are right! One thing Buffy has taught me well is that it is quite simply not possible for a woman to have too many shoes.