i trust my mutuals to overlook it when i say blatantly self contradictory things. they understand that i am a complex and multifaceted icon on their screen
Not to turn into Gil-Galad but… *takes your hands in mine* Mairon is Sauron. Halbrand is Sauron. Annatar is Sauron. Tar-Mairon is Sauron. Gorthaur is Sauron. Zigûr is Sauron. Artano is Sauron. Aulëndil is Sauron. They’re all Sauron.
shocking revelations on the dash today
Huge if true
sorry if i accidentally uh… exposed some top super secret plan to potentially cause Numenor’s downfall…
People really need to get a grip on what zoophilia is. No, petplay is not zoophilia. Furries are not zoophiles. Therians are not zoophiles. People who find anthros attractive are not zoophiles. Zoophilia is when a person fucks an animal which cannot consent I need people to stop watering down the severity of this by accusing everything under the sun of being zoophilia except for actual zoophilia. Be serious
So Bethesda’s reasoning behind forcing a Miraak kill was that they had failed at creating a compelling dilemma. Originally you were going to trade some sort of tome to Mora, and they realized that no one was going to turn down saving a cool ass renegade cyborg sounding Dragon Priest for their little skill tree bit.
The thing is that this would have been ridiculously easy to fix with an addition of literally ANY interesting mechanic. So being a Miraak stannie, here are a few things the questline itself could lock behind Miraak’s death to make me consider killing him:
Trade Dragon Souls for a Reduction in Shout Cool Down Time - A 1-2% increase for every shout spent. Actually gives the player motivation to seek out dragons and play a Thu"um build.
Trade Dragon Souls for an Increase in Shout Power - Fire Breath is one of the coolest in game shouts, and you get the fire Wyrm if you kill an enemy – yet at higher levels it becomes almost useless. This goes for quite a few shouts.
Stacked Vahlok the Jailor Spectral Follower - A summon isn’t enough to make me want to kill Miraak, but a spectral follower? That’s cool as fuck. It makes sense, since you absorbed Miraak’s soul, that Vahlok would want to follow you. Literally no one in their god damn mind would want to fuck with you and your floating dragon priest ghost going suplex city
Vahlok’s Mask - Locking the final dragon priest mask behind a decision would actually make collectors twitch.
Marry Frea - Stupid as fuck that you can’t marry Frea. Conversely, if you spare Miraak, you should be locked out of any remaining Skaal quests and merchants.
Ability to Craft Dragon Priest Armor - Yeah this would just be unbelievably fucking goated and I think you should get this regardless of decision if you collect all the masks, but whatever.
Bend Will That Actually Works - The ability to create up to two living thralls instead of two dead ones, effectively allowing you to increase your follower count, ie, you could have Teldryn, Serana, and Ralis at once.
Maybe someone who mods better than I do can tell me if these would be difficult to add, but honestly, I don’t think a lot of them are as I’ve seen plenty of mods along these lines.
The pure laziness that went into the Dragonborn DLC – which is fun, but criminally short and contained – in comparison to the Dawnguard DLC is irritating, and it’s even more irritating to know they had the voice lines ready to go and everything and decided to cut an actually good plot point last minute.
Oh, I would give my Spleen for a Vahlok Follower. Dragon Priests serve such Cunt even when they’re all Raisined.
