An Old Altmer's Tale Options

[Callidus Thorn]

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This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Nov 28 2013, 05:24 PM

[Callidus Thorn]

Hmm. Humans distrusting elves? Is your subconscious telling you to play Skyrim?

Not bad, Thorny Boy, not bad.

Unfortunately I was attempting to convey distrust of Mages, though I suppose that would naturally extend to Altmer. It's mentioned in one of the two books that one of the reasons the Mages Guild collapsed was people distrusting magic, blaming it for the Oblivion crisis.

"Is your subconscious telling you to play Skyrim? :hehe"

That'll teach me to put "whatever else you can think of"

I'll try and make sure the next chapter's better.

I like the premise that the player character is in jail because he planned it that way. But are you suggesting Valne Dreth is an accomplice?

Nope, but I never liked the "mix-up with the Watch" excuse, and thought the easiest thing to do was have all the other cells filled. At this point I'm not even sure Valen Dreth existed in this timeline, have to wait and see if Anaril joined the DB.


@Subrosa: Thanks for catching those, that's an embarassing number of typos. My laptop has a somewhat disobedient keyboard, or maybe just a slow one. And even more thanks for the non-typos and suggestions on fixing them.

An old Altmer. Wow, what does it take for an Altmer to be old? He's probably been around since before Tiber Septim's reign. Ahh, now I starting to suspect that he is recounting the tale in the 4th Era, of what happened to him in the 3rd.

Centuries, undoubtedly. If the old one lied, and is indeed a mage, it could well be 5th Era or later. An Altmer mage could live a very long time indeed.

You would not begrudge an old man his walking stick, would you?
Gandalf FTW!

No power in the universe could have stopped me slipping this in.

Ahh, so it is a 3rd Era tale after all. And apparently not the story of the speaker. Well, perhaps not. I suppose we shall see, won't we?

I'll be honest, at this point I don't even know

Or do I?

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Nov 21 2013, 10:46 PM