The Famous Five, Heroes and Villains of the Age of Martin Septim Options

[Ceidwad]

Welcome to my fanfic. I've been planning on posting this up for some time now. Now that I have the first 10,000 words or so down seperately, I feel ready to post some stuff up here. I hope you will all enjoy reading it as it develops. I haven't a clue how much I will write eventually, if I manage to finish it. But it will likely be very, very long. Indeed, there's an excellent chance that I'll finish writing a Skyrim fan fiction before (if) I finish this!

The Famous Five is an unusual fan fiction. It takes the form of a historical commentary/synthesised text written some 90 years after the events of Oblivion, and relies rather heavily on my own creative license to fill in some historical gaps in between 4E2, when the stories end, and 4E85 when the book is written (I should add, I have not read any Elder-Scrolls related lore works, such as the Infernal City).

This work weaves together the stories of five different characters that I roleplayed in Oblivion, and I hope to include some of my minor characters in it too. Subject to approval, it may also be nice to include some other chorrol.com members' fanfic characters in it too. It would be entertaining to see the outcome of a meeting between Luther Martinus (who you will get to know) and, say, Buffy or Teresa, for certain!

At present, I regrettably do not have screenshots; however, I hope to add some in future if and when I can get Oblivion for PC.

This is my first attempt at writing a fan fiction. I have thought about it for a while, though. I welcome critique of my writing as well as positive comments. I have not planned most of the fanfic, but have a general plan of how it will pan out. It will include actual in-game events, relationships and quests which inspired my roleplaying, and be supplemented with whatever ideas take my fancy at the time of writing.

Below is the prologue and the first entry. I plan to update every few days to a week, depending on how much I can write. This will vary. At times, I may not update for a while. I do, however, hope to persevere with this and update pretty regularly.

Happy reading!

This post has been edited by Ceidwad: Mar 26 2011, 05:00 AM

[SubRosa]

Poor Gwen, she is indeed getting a taste of what life is like in the Mages Guild. Fetch this! Carry that! Mind the rats! She is lucky the latter was the worst of her problems, and she was not attacked by a wolf or imp. I am sure she will be in time though!

Like Acadian, I enjoyed reading Gwen's musings about Restoration spells that do and do not relieve pain as well as heal. One observation though, if the wound itself is healed, why would there be lingering pain afterward, as there is nothing left to cause it anymore?

I also like how she is counting her septims. That is a nice touch of reality.

[Ceidwad]

Like Acadian, I enjoyed reading Gwen's musings about Restoration spells that do and do not relieve pain as well as heal. One observation though, if the wound itself is healed, why would there be lingering pain afterward, as there is nothing left to cause it anymore?

A fair observation. I suppose that I was trying to imagine how instantaneous healing spells like in Oblivion might effect the psychology of men and mer. In real life, of course, you don't get insta-heals. It seems to me that if you could totally wave away pain in the blink of an eye, attitudes towards getting hurt would probably be different and people would probably be more reckless.

An alternative way of putting it would be that the wound itself is not totally healed, but that any damage which might inhibit movement, or allow a wound to become infected, or otherwise be life-threatening, is healed, but the wound is still not totally healed and remains painful. I have changed that section a bit.

[SubRosa]

A fair observation. I suppose that I was trying to imagine how instantaneous healing spells like in Oblivion might effect the psychology of men and mer. In real life, of course, you don't get insta-heals. It seems to me that if you could totally wave away pain in the blink of an eye, attitudes towards getting hurt would probably be different and people would probably be more reckless.

I agree. If a person could instantly heal themselves, they probably would be much less worried about harming themselves. Although I am sure no one would look forward to being in pain. It is still not fun for one second or days. Lady Syl really highlighted this in her story, at one point in which her protagonist was cutting herself, then healing the wound, cutting again, etc...

I suppose the real question is whether that attitude is a problem? (not Syl's compulsive cutting, that is a problem!) If people are more willing to take risks because they know they can cure their wounds, does that negatively impact your story? If not, there is no point in changing the mechanics. If so, then I can see good reason for trying to limit the effectiveness of healing spells.

On the positive side, I think instant healing makes a good case for people being willing to be adventurers, Gwen especially. If they think they can cure themselves of wounds incurred in the process, there is much less to be afraid of. At least until they are actually doing it and stare a skeleton in its empty eye sockets for the first time. Then they realize that they cannot cure death. Of course by then it is too late.

You should also keep in mind that just because the player character starts the game with a healing spell and a flare spell, that does not mean everyone else in the world does. The ability to use magic of any sort is as limited as you want it to be. Likewise, the price of healing potions or scrolls. If the latter are prohibitively expensive for the common people, and magic only the realm of the gifted, then it will have no effect on society as a whole. Only certain gifted or wealthy individuals.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: May 13 2011, 08:19 PM