The Important Pieces of Paper - Skyrim, I return much more quietly, Part 2

Here we are the second and final post of my recent epic second journey through of Skyrim and man o man it seemed even more epic this second time I reckon. But anyway let's continue

One thing my brother and I do love about this game is the armor sets as we think they look pretty damn cool when your character is fully decked out in them, Since I have now started the Stormcloak mission chain I decided to make myself a set of Glass Armor and two ebony swords as impressive as wielding the Dawnbringer and the Nightingale blade are they just don't do as much damage as ebony weapons

Ebony Weapons I used, the one on the right is the dagger, the sword is one of the oddest designs in the game I reckon

With the Glass Armor I made two sets, one for display the other to wear when I'm out fighting with the Stormcloaks. I recently started the questline which involves a lot of running into castles and forts and actively engaging the empire in full on combat, so suffice to say my Nightingale armor which is built for the theif playstyle, wouldn't cut it as the glass armor has a much higher armor setting. As you could probably guess "Glass" Armor isn't actually made of glass which would be pretty silly now wouldn't it? It's made of Malachite which apparently as well as Ebony, is the blood of a god which is explained in this interesting story and shows why Glass and Ebony armor are one of the strongest in the game.

"When the Divines learned that in order to create Mundus they had to sacrifice their physical forms and almost all of their power, becoming effectively dead or weakened, a lot of them rebelled against Shor and tore out his heart. Akatosh and his strongest lieutenant, Trinimac, assaulted him head on and tore out his heart. When the heart was plummeting towards the seas off the east coast of Tamriel, it dropped its divine blood across the face of the young continent. Since Lorkhan is an inherently split personality, he bled two colors - Ebony and Malachite. The Ebony ore is used to create Ebony equipment and Daedric, and the Malachite makes Glass. Most of these materials are mined from Morrowind, on the island of Vvardenfell that grew up around where the Heart of Shor landed. A lot of it fell across Skyrim on the way down. The reason Glass and Ebony are so damned strong is because they're godsblood."

My Glass armor set, sort of pales in comparison to what the rest of the Stormcloaks wear doesn't it?

You'll notice that I'm still wearing my Krosis, Dragon Priest mask even when it's actually lower armor and has a bonus to Lockpicking, Archery and Alchemy in which two I won't use in a battle situation as I have wasted a lot of arrows trying to hit moving targets as well as hit Imperials and not Stormcloaks and Alchemy I don't even do.I wear it because it looks freakin cool and I don't care if it's lower armor, I like being this faceless guy as no-one addresses me by name anyway,

"Got it from a Dragon Priest, yeh that's right though this armor, I made it myself."

Speaking of the Dragonpriest Masks I wanted to see if I could find a mod that changes the colours and/or the hoods so I could possibly find match it with my armor sets and also to see if I was able to obtain a mask which I could enchant myself, and I certainly found a good mod for that. Psychosteve's DragonPriest Masks provides different textures and colour schemes for the original 10 masks as well as a plethora of new styled masks with Mage style head coverings and well as the same new masks with the classic hood that the originals have, everyone of which are craftable and I can say look pretty cool..I also found this, which was also pretty cool but quite silly.

When browsing through the masks I decided to try a few on, and unfortunately to create them you needed a fairly random collection of items of which I really didn't have the patience to get as I really weanted to see how the different masks looked on my character so this resulted in a lot of console commanding in all the obscure resources that I didn't have in order to find out what various masks looked with my two different armor sets. I soon found that the maks from the mod with custom headcoverings were positioned different and thus I had parts of my face including my quite long elf-nose as well as my cheekbones sticking out through the masks, so unfortunately I could not use any of the custom headcovering masks.

"Sosjot" by Psychosteve looks very cool with the Nightingale armor but unfortunately if you take a closer look (click on picture) you can see my nose and cheeks portruding.

Furthermore I had kind of forgotten that the new masks were also seperated into heavy/lightcategories and some of the best looking ones were heavy armor that I could no use lest I lose my perks of wearing full light armor.

Here are another two, "Ikendov" and "Ved classic" style, both are great looking but unfortunately their both heavy armor so I can't use them anyway.

For my glass armor set I made the "Draal" mask with the classic hood obviously as I think it goes pretty well with my glass armor. I decided to keep the Krosis for my Nightingale armor as though the new texture isn't as dark as I'd like the mask has bth a 20% bonus to Lockpicking and Archery and I couldn't put both of those enchants on if I used another mask unless I had the final enchanting perk of course but since that's at 100 I don't think that'll be happening anytime soon.

"Draal classic" and the newly textured Krosis mask

I am proud to say I have succcessfully upgraded Skyrim to the 1.7 patch  without any hassle and was able to install both the SkyUI mod and the Skyrim Script Extender (skse) that it requires, also you actually have to load the game with the script extender in order for it to work which only causes a small loading problem at the start which isn't too much trouble. SkyUI is pretty good possibly even better then the QD Inventory mod that I was using before, as you can see it sorts things via symbols and has a function down the bottom where you can switch between your inventory and the merchants instead of scrolling all the way across.

(skyUI pic)

Well I've finally got the Daedric perk and can create my Daedric weapons, which I did after travelling across the world a couple of times and a visit to the Gloombound Mine I finally had enough Daedra hearts, Ebony ingots and Grand Soul Gems for creating, upgrading and enchanting them. Speaking of enchanting in case you didn't know the better the Soul gem you use for the enchant the better result and length of time the enchant lasts for (untill you refill it) of course so basically since I've got quite a large pool of money which is usual towards the end of my questing (120.000 gold at one point I think) I've ben purchasing Grand Soul gems where I can. Anyway I had used the sword and warhammer previously and the whole set looks pretty fearsome, the one-handed sword especially.

The Daedric Weapons

*Runs out of house* "Aaaargh! Rrrrgh! made new weapons! must spill blood!"

You'll notice in the last screenshot that I'm actually in Solitude near my Proudspire Manor house, this is because some reason when I'm doing my blacksmithing on my Asteria flying ship the framerate coitnues to drop (as is usual on the deck of the ship) and sometimes freezes the game forcing me to re-open it, I'm not sure why this is but I decided to move all of my blacksmithing material inc gems to my basement in Proudspire manor which of course still is the edited version, the one I'm using is Proudspire Manor Refurbished - ENG/GER by Ghaunador and has a compelte 'smithy' and other amenities with the possible exception of chopping block which was kind of annoying but I found one in Solitude anyway.

Basements, giving you high FPS since 1999

Seriously the wood's there now just get rid of yet another mannequin and place a damn chopping block. Sometimes I wish I had the patience use the Creation Kit.

Oh yes and another word of advice now I think of it, don't use console commands to get yourself another Blades Sword which I because I hadn't gone far enough into the main questline to get to the Temple of the Blades (where more could be found) but for some reason it mucked up my save and I had to revert to an older one. The blades swords aren't as good as the Daedric ones anyway but I just though having two katanas would be pretty cool, I might try again once I can get two of them legitimately but I'll make sure I do some saving beforehand. I was just looking up Daedric artifacts and was most interested in using th Ebony Blade when I make my warrior again to get my katana fix for that character, but probably will just use this mod as I don't like the idea of the enchant that the blade has.

The Ebony Blade, nordic samurai style yo

Stop everything! I've found another house, yes another house the Asteria magnificent as it was is unfortunately gone as I couldn't really work with a house where I couldn't use all the amenities without fear of the game freezing. I also wanted something a bit more huntery this time in which I did try Ranger Ridge by Eldiabs previosuly but it unfortunately wasn't supported anymore  So after a quick search and some testing my new house is the Riverside Lodge with Sauna by Lupus.Yes a sauna complete with a changing room too no less, my brother thought this was absolutley ridiculous but I like it. Many of the chests inside have an auto-sorting option where it has an interface which removes only certain items from yuor inventory for example ore/ingots which is very useful. Also the house is quite interesting as there's this book sitting near the entrance which allows you to customise the basement i.e. you have 3 options

• A room of 3 mannequins and weapon racks with a normal looking hallway with a bookshelf

• A "library" style room with a desk and lots of bookshelves and am "armory" style hallways with 6 mannequins and weapon plaques

• A full armory with 10 mannequins and many weapon racks and plaques

Full view of house, notice the gazebo thing sitting a bit too close to the raging river for my tastes

Multi-level design

Now thats a full smithy if I ever saw one, minus the chopping block of course but thankfully thats just outside.

I chose the library/armory option for the basement, the mannequins and weapon plaques are on the other side and yes all those books I did collect myself.

The "Spa" and Sauna House

The Sauna room, I like the greybeard statue being there like some sort of "Lord of the Sauna"

I'm pretty much on the home stretch now I'm finishing off the Dark Brotherhood and about halfway through the Stormcloaks.I've also done a bit more of the main storyline where you go through the back entrance to the main Blades hideout in Skyrim and I actually went outside into what could possibly be the main entrance of the Blades Hideout though it's on top of a plateau of a sheer cliff so it's possible the Blades could have actually rode Dragons at one point to be able get up there.

"Dramatic music" nice shot of my glass armor with Mask

I got into quite the fight recently when I was travelling to an Imperial outpost in the Reach all of a sudden a dragon attacked (an elder dragon no less) so I decided to just keep running to the war meetup and deal with him with my stormcloak buddies. Though it didn't technically work that way as as soon as I got to where they were waiting they automatically ran forward ansd the imperials started attacking so I had to cut down the imperials while dodging dragon breath then finally down the dragon himself. It was no mean feat and I wish I'd gotten it on fraps though I did manage to get this awesome shot of the dragon combusting.

Dragons: Even the way their bodies decay is awesome

I've got my +30 Archery helm on so I thought I'd take a picture of me actually wearing a full set of armor for once

 I'll add in here that I had another dragon attack while I was attacking an Imperial base, this time I just tried to kill the Dragon first instead of running in which worked alot better though I think it did still some some imperials.

 Well I am now at the pinnacle of armorness yes I have finally made my Dragonscale armor which looks totally badass of course.Got everything upgraded and enchanted fine though I realised that in order to get a light armor enchant I needed to use one of my custom Dragon Priest Masks as they had every enchant availiable enabled on them. So I decided to use the Kinbok Classic mask because it was the right colour and went really well with the Dragonscale. I also made a Dragonscale Helmet and enchanted it with an Archery bonus so I could use it with my :"dragon killing" extreme archery dragonscale gauntlets.

Me in the Kinbok mask and Dragonscale Armor with Shadowmere who is from the Dark Brotherhood Questline

Now I have downloaded the Dawnguard expansion though I just wanted to keep things vanilla at that point. So the only way I was going to get to have any Dragonbone weapons was to hit the Nexus and see what mods were out there, and I found a pretty good one though I noticed another was also pretty cool. Here's a comparison looking at the three main ones I found.

The official Dragonbone Weapons by Bethesda availiable in Dawnguard I especially like the warhammer which seems to be just a dragon's femur with a handle.

Dragon Bone Weapons Complete by KTA creations, I found the warhammer kind of odd lol

Wulfharths Dragonbone Weapons by Ashking Wulfharth, this is the set I'm using atm as you probably guessed I can't get enough of the katana-style sword

Well I'm almost finished goddamn this is taking forever I've just got the Dark Brotherhood, Stormcloak and Main story questline to go and I'm powering through it, I'm almost not even bothering with stealth anymore as with my Dragonscale armor and weapons I'm pretty damn powerful even with light armor. I can't block while wielding two swords but I find I can dodge pretty well and being able to do two attacks instead of just one works better, plus I've enchanted one of my katana's with lifestealing so I get some health back anyway.

Blackreach, The supposed location of the Dwemer capital city

Yep that's what an Elder Scroll looks like people, it's pretty trippy to look at too

Well it's finito, goddamn that took awhile 216 in game days and 46 levels to be exact throughout most of the final bits I just forwent sneaking/stealth killing altogether and just ran around slicing the crap out of things with dual swords. I was pretty damn overpowered having 100 smithing skill and being able to craft a full set of legendary Dragonscale armor compelte with Enchantments, only got up to about 66 for enchanting but thats pretty good I guess, plus the same with the Wullfharths Dragonbone Weapons mod which were pretty damn powerful too.

The second half of the Thieves Guild storyline got pretty interesting and pretty spectacular towards the end Possibly the most entertaining of the Thieves, Guild and Companions, I can't talk for the Mages Guild as I haven't done it. I also finished off the Stormcloaks questline which was the same as normal but while doing this my brother informed me of the below "meeting"


The Season Unending quest with the meeting of the power players of Skyrim.

Apparently this quest is called Season Unending and becomes part of the main questline if the Dragonborne reaches the part of the story where they have to capture a dragon in Dragonsreach but have not completed "The Battle of Whiterun" for either side i.e. so Jarl Balgruff will say to the Dragionborne that he can't help you trap the dragon unless a ceasefire is called, which results in this quest. I think I might do it next time as it  I do enjoy the politics (contrary to the person who made the movie) and it looks quite fun. Also doing this quest is the only way of doing the Blades quest to kill (or not kill) Paathurnax and be abel to recruit blades members.

Finishing off the main questline went smoothly, I found during the final battles up the mountain to the Sovnguarde portal were very heard to use stealth so I basically just used dual swords to slash enemies to peices while dodging arrows also poison, shouts and the Sanguine Rose did help.I killed good ol Alduin with relatively no trouble at all and that was that. Was relatively easy being level 46 and having full Dragonbone armor and weapons. I must admit I really enjoyed stealthing aroundand doing things the quiet way.

In saying that I will definately be back kicking ass again with a 2H Warrior with a new PC and a HD overhaul, oooh yeh, don't think I could ever go 1-hand and shield, too boring though I think I'll have to go a stuck-up imperial this time around too see that side of the story as well as make sure I do the Season Unending quest. My brother thinks the imperials are the 'good guys' though I beg to differ. I leave you now with some pictures of the near-end to the end.

JD

Full Dragonscale Armor

First Time getting the Oghma Infinium Daedric Artifact of Hermaeus Mora, I must look at what other artifacts are availiable from the Daedra.

The Stormcloaks Battle for Solitude

Sup Odahviing?

The aftermath of the Alduin defeat at Sovngarde

"Well I guess that's that Paarthurnax old buddy"

Final stats, thats a lot of Gold found.

I'm a Thief, I'm an Assasin, I'm a Rebel that was birthed by a Dragon.

The Important Pieces of Paper - Skyrim, I return much more quietly, Part 1

I'm going to sneak another post topic in here, since I seem to be playing Skyrim a lot more than I thought and I'll possibly be playing the next Elder Scrolls game too, so I present : “The Important Pieces of Paper” I have also decided since this post is so goddamned huge I'm going to split it up between two parts which I should have done since I took a break in playing GTA4 The Ballad of Gay Tony so this post will be titled "Part 1" because that's so original.

Well I’ve started playing Skyrim again, I thought I’d write this just to detail my new experience through the game as I had to go through it again at least twice. I’d previously played the whole way through as a 2-hand Warrior which was a lot of fun and wrote my Usual Spiel review on the game roughly back in January 2012.

I’d always thought about trying it again playing as Mage as it sounded quite fun to use Magic and fling fire and lightning spells around and it was fun for a little while to begin with. I soon found that even with the new magic kill animations (which looked quite cool I might add) and the two handed lightning and flame throwing and the conjuring of undead and animal spirits to help you wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be. I found myself still reverting to being stealthy and using my bow, I also found that actively fighting with only cloth armor and magical spells to protect me was actually quite difficult, and probably the most annoying thing was all of the spells  you had to juggle around as you could only have one in each hand at the time. It was miles away from the simplicity of being a Warrior in heavy armor swinging around a two handed weapon, also I realized that one of the good points of playing Skyrim is that you could really get the feel of combat swinging your swords and maces around and really feel the “thunk” of your arrows penetrating their skull.


A detailed and well made video on the new "killcam" finishing moves of the 1.5 update, man I didn't even know you could some of these things, unarmed finishing moves? I've never even tried that.

So I thought since I’ve already done a Warrior the logical character type to play would be a Thief, as I’ve always wanted to heavily use bows and this wasn’t the case as a warrior and also I wanted to do some stealth killing with knives Tenchu-style, I decided on a Wood Elf (or Bosmer) for the race as I didn’t really want to go as a Khajit which was the other one of the two suited for the Thief style. It’s been great so far. All the stealth kills with bows and daggers look awesome especially the new arrow kill-cam sequences which gives a great “oh yehhh hwoooo!” feel and I use one or two swords if I have to melee.  Another reason for playing the game a second time around was that I could join the Thieves Guild and possibly the Dark Brotherhood and play through their quest storylines and get the gear etc.

Interesting looking dude aren't I? like some kind of emo indie rocker.

I started to notice however that npc's still weren't exactly that smart (maybe because of the difficulty level) for example if they found a colleague shot with an arrow they can be heard saying "I'll get whoever did this" but when shot themselves they just end up giving up the search and going back to their normal routine often with more then two arrows in them.

For some reason this guy took not one but arrows to the head before he went down, I think he had a helmet on but I don't see how that would make any difference, must have been one tough motherfudger.

This time though I was not going to repeat the same annoying necessity of quick travelling  to several towns in order to sell my collected items, so from the start I used the console commands to give myself two Speech perks: Merchant and Master Trader which allows me to sell any item to any trader and gives all trader’s 1000 more gold for bartering. I did this because I didn’t want to waste any time running around trying to find merchants who still had some bartering gold left. Also last time I went through the game I finished at about level 42 and never ended up getting the higher perks so this time I decided that as I levelled up the skills and the skill the point became available I would get whatever I could right then through the console commands regardless of how many points I had to spend, this would make sure that I could experience all the perks even if I didn’t get to level 50.

My current speech perk tree, notice how the top one is bright but not linked? I'm sorry I just had to

Doing the main storyline is kind of weird since I’m playing as a thief but it’s ok. I’ve found that being stealthy takes somewhat longer to finish missions and also I find if I have to resort to melee using a 1H sword isn’t damaging enough and using two 1h swords and not being able to block with only light armor to protect myself is quite hazardous so I sometimes just melee anyway against weaker opponents just to raise my light armor skill. Plus it’s so much faster just running in and slicing them up and if you have any trouble just use the Sanguine Rose which is a very useful item I can tell you. I feel like I last finished this game so long ago and just want to create a warrior again for fun and go round upgrading my sets of armor and weapons as I go (i.e. Iron, Steel, Plate). With my Thief it seems that my Thieves Guild armor is the best around for a long while and you also have the option to upgrade the enchants which is something I’ve never seen before, not to mention better armor as you progress along the Thieves Guild  storyline, I think I’d better hurry up with it actually otherwise I’ll spend half the game playing in the entry-level guild armor. Once I finished the appropriate mission I chose to upgrade my chestpiece to carry more stuff, as I couldn’t really decide so I just decided to do that.

Me looking out over Whiterun. You can't really see my Thieves guild armor in this picture but it looks pretty cool nonetheless as if I'm lookout out over a town that's ripe for the plucking.

Well I’m back after a brief ‘episode’ (hah!) enjoying GTA4: Episodes from Liberty City, The Ballad of Gay Tony, which I have detailed in this post. I needed a break as I think I’ve taken longer to get through Skyrim this time than on my warrior, most probably because all the sneaking and stealthing around does take longer than running in like a maniac and cleaving your enemies in two. I’ve also started to go all out with my two swords more often now as I get more powerful, it’s unfortunately a bit more dangerous wearing only light armor and not having all the perks but that’s the way it is when your usually sneaking around all the time  I also think I’ve done more missions this time and found more things not to mention I’m doing both the Thieves Guild and the Dark Brotherhood missions. Speaking which I have now finished the Thieves Guild storyline which I’m not going to spoil but was quite the exciting, even got the quite nice looking Nightingale Blade out of it which has a damn good enchant on it but drains it’s power like anything making you constantly having to fill it up, not to mention the Nightingale Bow though this wasn’t as good as my current glass bow.

I also acquired the Dawnbreaker which looks like it’s some kind of opposite of the Nightingale Blade. You get it from cleansing the Shrine of one of Daedric Princes Meridia (who is actually female) this thing one of the best undead killing enchants around, kill an undead with this sword and it creates a fiery explosion that turns or destroys nearby undead.  

My Nightingale Blade and the Dawnbreaker

I also finally obtained the Nightingale Armor this armor was highly recommended by my brother who got it previously which looked awesome and was pretty cool though it had a few flaws, I couldn’t wear the hood as it had “Illusion spells cost 17% less to cast.” And I didn’t cast spells at all plus I had a hard time deciding whether to wear the Nightingale armor which had a stamina increase and frost resistance but looks really cool or my Glass armor which was a higher armor rating and I had put an increased health enchant on it. I decided to switch between the two and use the glass armor for Dragon fights along with my glass gauntlets which have an archery bonus. As I said before I’m not going to spill the questline but I did obtain the Skeleton Key which acts as an unbreakable lockpick which unfortunately you have to return in order to finish the questline, I kind of wish I had waited, though there’s always the “Unbreakable” perk if I ever get up that far.

Here's a shot of me, Brynjolf and Karliah in our Nightingale get-up, I'm wearing the Krosis Mask but you get the idea

I also have joined the Dark Brotherhood and started the quests, which are pretty easy I can tell you with me now having 100 Sneak skill and all the perks for it, I mean when I’m sneaking I’m almost undetectable unless I actually dry hump someone, I’ve killed a few people now and made a few bucks, I can also say that the storyline is quite entertaining and will continue to be from what I've heard.

That giant's in for it, cause I'm such a stealthy guy, oh yeh.

My (dark) brother (ahah!) also informed me of something I’d kind of forgotten, namely the Dragon Priest Masks he said that the Krosis one was very good for Thieves, and if you look at the stats that is quite true, apparently if you collect all the masks you can combine them to create a very powerful one, but since it’s Heavy Armor I’ll wait until I do a warrior again. It’s kind of funny walking around talking to people with one of these things on, they can’t see your face at all I almost forgot to take mine off when I got married, not that your bride kisses you anyway, I guess that’s one area where Skyrim is lacking, no sex, gah a game without sex what’s the world coming to? I suppose Bethesda isn’t as kinky as Bioware, though they had to tone it down for SWTOR no tainting the LucasArts image eh?

"Hey there good-lookin, no this isn't my face, my actual face is pretty damn sexy"

Another thing I have recently tried out is player-made housing after paying a hefty amount of gold for Proudspire Manor in Solitude and yes I know I’m not part of the Imperials I just wanted it as it was the most expensive house and I wanted to see what it was like, and to be honest, it wasn’t all that crash hot, compared to Hjerim in Windhelm, it was smaller and didn’t really have very much amenities such as bookshelves or any display cases for weapons, so I decided I’d go online and try out some more game modifications. Now mods, in case you didn’t know, are a very large part of Skyrim, one of the main websites Skyrim Nexus where I get my mods from has almost 20,000 files worth of player made, mods, fixes and game changes a few of which I’ll recommend below.

These are all pretty easy to install, just remember to read the instructions on the site.

QD Inventory – Makes your inventory interface easier to manage though I might possibly replace it with SkyUI which is quite possibly the most popular mod in the Skyrim Nexus

A Quality World map with Roads – pretty self explanatory adds paths and roads to the map

Glowing Ore Veins – Makes ore much easier to see

Auto Unequip Ammo – helpful mod that automatically removes the arrows from your back when not wielding a bow

Arrowsmith – Create arrows and bows using blacksmithing

Lost Art of the Blacksmith – Adds missing and extra blacksmith recipes

Glowing Ore veins: now imagine how hard that would be to spot wihtout the white paint, and yes I know it's not realistic but you try spotting the ore at night.

That’s only a few and there are a lot more good ones out there, but anyway where was I? ah yes I was looking for a new house, now Skyrim is an easily modified game, I’ve never tried it myself but with the amount of mods and changes people have made to the game it can’t be that hard. Now if any of you have played Skyrim you’ll know that your character requires certain world objects to store items and perform tasks for example you all know you have a carry limit, and those Dragon bones and scales are damn heavy and secondly the profession that your character can undertake inc Alchemy, Enchanting and Blacksmtihing all require certain tables, forges, smelters/etc to do your work, there are already houses in the game that can be bought with some of these amenities in them though this pales in comparison to the convenience, utility and coolness factor of most player-made housing which most often have everything you could possibly need included inside (and sometimes outside) the house.

The blacksmtihing section of the Asteria proving that even on a ship you can still have all of your blacksmithing needs. in the one place

So I had a look through the player-made houses section of the Nexus and found some pretty cool looking hunter/rustic inspired ones incl Ranger Ridge and Riverside Lodge, as I didn’t want some huge castle playing as a Thief/Ranger/Assassin type I also found some utterly ridiculous ones such as the Dragonborn House and some absolutely beautiful looking ones such as Deus Mons. Though my original intention was to find a mod which fixed up Proudspire Manor so I found a good one and installed it and it did make the manor one hell of a lot better as it gave all the things like a full smithy and larger trophy room for all your collected wares and also makes the housecarl room a bit nicer. I had a look at this and it looked pretty damn cool but then had a bit of a revelation, why would I stay in this normal looking, boring house when I could have something so much better free of charge. So had another look through the houses, I decided on Deus Mons for my Warrior (or future warrior) as it was a pretty epic medieval castle with actual NPC’s to fill it with made by this guy called ‘Eldiabs’ whose other player houses were equally as awesomely well made. But there was one which unfortunately for the sake of what realism there is in Skyrim I couldn’t pass over.

The Deus Mons Castle by Eldiabs, large, beautfiul, but functional

The Asteria, is a flying Dwemer Airship which according to the creator is %100 lore friendly which at first would be quite hard to believe, but if you’ve played most of the game you would know about the Dwemer race of dwarves and their steampunk style mechanical creations and the ship itself is entirely made up of objects from game so this thing wouldn’t be too far out of the ordinary.


One of the funniest comments I saw on the youtube video was this one: *gets married* wife: "we can live in my house if you want." me: "bitch, please..... i have a flying mansion." morgatron4639

Speaking of which there is a mod that helps with that which can be found here. I did get married actually and for some reason my bride walked away before the ceremony was even finished, I mean seriously I still have to find her and test out whether this mod works. I’ve noticed that mannequins behave rather strangely in player-made houses, if you can call being alive and moving around behaving strangely. It’s the weirdest thing ever, I walk through the door to the armory room of the ship and their all moving and walking around, some even look like their talking to each other, then about 5 or 10 seconds later they all zip back to their correct positions but stand in random poses, creepy.

Mannequins never learn to stay put do they? However this mod should help.

My brother was starting to play Skyrim again and he was looking for a house to inhibit for when he was first starting his character, something not too outlandish like a giant castle or a mansion on a cliff edge near a waterfall or a flying ship. So he found this snug little place called the Pinewood Cottage which sits in a pretty secluded spot between Falkreath and Helgen and needs no quests or prerequisites to get to and you can warp straight there. We had a good look inside and man it’s quite cramped but then how much room do you need? It almost has everything within arm’s reach apart from the smelter which he took quite a while to realise it was outside the “cottage”, I was wondering why they didn’t just extend the basement to fit the smelter in.It's truly a unique house which I will use if I ever start a warrior again.

The Pinewood Cottage, quaint-looking eh?

Real estate agent "Don't be worried by the size, it's actually quite spacious.... in the basement"

Surely with all the blacksmithing amenities within arms reach they could have done an extension or carved out the wall for the smelter? I mean it does belch smoke and that's probably why there's no forge in there but sure you could do a chimney coming out of the ground or something and not that I'm being picky but you can't forge armor with just an anvil.

So that will be all for now, I'll do another update with the ending of this blabbering journey soon as it'd be too much to read in the one post, hell, there might even be a part 3 the way I'm going.

JD

The Northern Lights, with two moons!

I used to write good one-liners, then I took an arrow to the knee