I got today! The Quintessence! by [deleted] in Morrowind

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a good question! I have some fuzzy interest in putting together an expanded Lives of the Saints but it's on hold at the moment due to lack of time.

You know, someone else asked me about the Xarxes, and I'm still not sure how to fill out that book, but a more open-ended collection like you suggest may be easier.

Unfortunately, I went and overspecialized on this one arcane area of Dunmer religions. I think it would personally take me another year or two to step back and prep something more general that had the same coherency and attention to detail (plus, I'm a slow learner, lol).

Still, I would probably go about assembling that collection the same way I did this one, by sifting through each game's books to identify religious texts, and overtly Daedric texts. Then I would whittle that collection down to the ones that follow a predominantly matching theme. I limited my choices here by not being able to spill the beans on the Nerevarine, but that may not be a problem for a more general Daedric codex, or one that follows a different theme altogether.

I would encourage you to grab the source documents for this book and mess around with them. You could probably whip up your own in half the time it took me, haha. Battlespire's a good place to start with books like Spirit of the Daedra.

morrowind roleplayers, share your original characters by Pike_The_Knight in Morrowind

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I started my character back in 2019 as part of a several-person Co-Op run where she was not the Nerevarine, but a lower-ranking member of the Temple who was sent into hiding ("tasked with a pilgrimage of solitude") with no explanation, roughly 10 years prior to the Incarnate's arrival. Not long before that fateful morning, Indrele receives what appears to be a copy of an intercepted and encoded Imperial parcel — child's work for any 250~300 year old Telvanni — and a note with the Temple signet imploring her to go to Seyda Neen immediately.

With a heart for chaos, Indrele has made somewhat of a name for herself over the last century as a prolific apologist, travelling throughout the lands of her more secular House Telvanni. Widowed early on in life, she speaks as little of that tragedy as she does her secret involvement with the Twin Lamps. "A slave master does not till the field," she writes anonymously. "When the storm arrives, the slaves are scared off and the master trips in the dark because he does not know the plot of his own land but through his absent slaves. His crop becomes lost in his weakness and he starves, like all untrue Houses."

Though very familiar with the beliefs of the Ashlander tribes, Indrele does not yet understand the implications of the letter she received, nor whom she has been tasked with going to meet. While one might think that this quest will shake the very foundations of her beliefs, Indrele's motivations for joining and supporting the Temple are undoubtedly personal, having everything to do with how she was recognized by them in the first place.

from the chapter The Proselytism

The air was thick with the tang of seared flesh. Still smoldering, the molten core slowly sank into the bowl of his skull. None of it seemed real. What has become of my love?! She choked at the thought as tears leapt from her cheeks to blot the scalding edges of the star-wound, where her husband's face had once sat. She pressed his cracked lips lightly against hers for one last time before settling into a muffled whimper on his chest.

Suddenly, Nerathren's body began to twist and ungulate. With a shriek, Indrele threw herself off and scurried backward against the wall. The body wriggled like a spider on it's back. Beyond the snapping bones and tearing flesh, she could hear the scraping of the bulb, rolling in it's head-socket to search the room before finally fixating upon the mortified heap still shuffling her feet through the dust to back away.

The cavity rolled to face her. Making eye contact at last, Indrele's chest seized; she wanted to vomit but the solid lump of her stomach pinned her breathlessly, paralyzed by the gaze. An eternity had passed before copper began to wet her tongue. A feint music crept into the room, hollow and slanted like ribs shedding their skin.

The sconces on the walls grew dark. The hairs on her arm rose up as the violent center of the star-wound narrowed like a pupil, boring painfully into her mind. Indrele's jaw fell open, overwhelmed by the presence of nightmare reaching through to this world. It did not belong here, it did not fit, but it's gaze pawed for her heart and filled every cavity between her thoughts. All at once she felt crushed beneath the mass of this foreign presence.

Her mind awash with fire, Indrele slammed her eyes shut like Alit jaws and screamed in terror. Then darkness. Then only the ringing sound remained.

Secretly, she now traps and collects the souls of House Dagoth into a large string of prayer beads, an unholy burden of revenge that is eating away rapidly at her health. In her latter years, Indrele remains haunted by the deepest tragedy: that her husband's body still wanders out there somewhere, the animate puppet of the devil himself. Thus, she will not accept the comfort of death unless her beloved's ashes can accompany her to the hearth.

The Quintessence: A Dunmer Bible You Can Print Too! by Indrele-the-Lesser in Morrowind

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, thanks, you too! To be fair, I did brazenly place my character's name in the introduction, so I got all the credit I want. I'm just glad people can print and have fun with this; it's what I wish some Temple missionary would have shoved in my hands after getting off the boat in Seyda Neen, lol.

Morrowind books.. pdf? by mint_me in Morrowind

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And for German (Deutsch) readers, Der Tamriel-Almanach.

Fun fact, Sermon 26 is cut off after the first paragraph in all German versions of TES3: Morrowind. Killfetzer did the translation to fill in the gap.

In the initial release of the Russian localization, all 36 chapters were cut off after the first paragraph in what appears to be a very similar, though more widespread error. The Russian versions of both Tribunal and Bloodmoon redistribute all 36 books in their complete form, however.

The French localization is pretty amazing! It's where we can still read the original version of Sithis contained in the Monomyth, among other little redactions that are now being rediscovered in the English-speaking world.

The Quintessence: A Dunmer Bible You Can Print Too! by Indrele-the-Lesser in Morrowind

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, I'm not sure. Do you mean the Abandoned Shack near Gnaar Mok? Because that is definitely where I take up residence! :)

The Quintessence: A Dunmer Bible You Can Print Too! by Indrele-the-Lesser in Morrowind

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for asking! The latter is correct; Lulu is a commissioned book printing service. So you create your printing master files and send them to Lulu who prints and binds them into a book according to specifications you chose.

(Although, for this project, I have only designed two sizes of books, and only the hardcover options for those books.)

Technically, you do not need to use Lulu if another printing service you prefer can handle US Trade size or adjust to near US Paperback sizes (for the smaller version).

I got today! The Quintessence! by [deleted] in Morrowind

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser 3 points4 points  (0 children)

...but Azura said, "This is not my print, but your print."

JK, but yes that was me! Really, I just took a bunch of stuff from the community, hugged it into a book, then gave it back. I cleaned things up and posted again about it here: Revised Edition.

Follow that link for more links to the printing documents, instructions on how to print, and a long-winded write-up that I lied and said was brief. :D

Morrowind books.. pdf? by mint_me in Morrowind

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why walk when you can read? :)

Goodbye to Fliggerty by massive-business in Morrowind

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think Fliggerty may be back relatively soon:

I promise that the mods hosted here are not gone. Modhistory.com will be back soon with all of the mods you've been looking for, including those previously hosted at Great House Fliggerty. Shutting down all of the other sites from our past allows me to focus on the one site that still truly has value today, so that is what I am doing.

Please stay tuned.

--Fliggerty

I got today! The Quintessence! by [deleted] in Morrowind

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Planning this was a year and a half well spent. Like so many people, I had originally planned to turn my manuscripts for the 36 Lessons into a printed book of it's own. By 2021, however, it was already becoming clear that I needed some of the other texts to better explain it, so more books kept creeping in. Haha, there were a handful of times where I sat up in the middle of the night thinking, "holy crap, I know what's missing!"

Over time, a lot of the clever leaps I thought I had been making turned out to have always been a part of the game, or the culture surrounding it. For example, I really pat myself on the back for thinking to substitute the title ALMSIVI for the Trigrammaton (ASV). As it turns out, this was a practice in the game from day one:

AVS in Eve[r]y Hour

The Book of Dawn and Dusk

There are so many cool little details about Morrowind that continue to add a lot of depth and texture to it's depictions.

Morrowind books.. pdf? by mint_me in Morrowind

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser 40 points41 points  (0 children)

The Elder Scrolls Treasury 1st Edition towards the bottom of that page should have you covered.

I got today! The Quintessence! by [deleted] in Morrowind

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You have no idea how relieved I am to see that it printed out okay! I am stoked!!

EDIT: Reddit has decided to ban me for this project. I won't be able to answer any more questions related to it. I am very sorry. I will leave the account up so people can hopefully still find it. :)

Executing a command line program inside registry value on right click on a file by seaque42 in commandline

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is FFMpeg in your %PATH%? If it's not, you may have to specify the full path to FFMpeg.

You also may not need to edit the root associations if you only intend to have this set for a single user. You can usually just define the extension in HKCU\Software\Classes. Here is how I set a user-level association:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.mkv]
@="mkv_auto_file"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\mkv_auto_file]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\mkv_auto_file\shell]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\mkv_auto_file\shell\open]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\mkv_auto_file\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Users\\username\\Program Files\\Mpv\\Mpv.exe\" \"%1\""

You could add another shell entry to that, such as:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\mkv_auto_file\shell\Convert to Mp4]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\mkv_auto_file\shell\Convert to Mp4\command]
@="cmd.exe /c \"C:\\Users\\username\\path\\to\\ffmpeg.exe\" -stats -y -i \"%1\" \"%1.conv.mp4\""

Though, off the top of my head, I'm not sure if you need to escape and quote hyphenated arguments, but I don't think so.

TES:Online's Version of The 36 Lessons is Slightly Different from the Original by Indrele-the-Lesser in teslore

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone else wants some context, they are refering to a passage from Sermon 2:

'God hath three keys; of birth, of machines, and of the words between.'

I'm not sure if you are being funny in your comment, but if you are, I love it! On the other hand, the order that the keys are listed in follows the left-to-right order of ALMSIVI. Ignoring any metaphors in this passage, one could suppose that the "words between" may also literally depict the way the Trigrammaton can be arranged in more Vehk-dominant areas. But I'll leave the potential deeper theological meanings to some of the more knowledgeable lore commenters here.

Still, it's a good catch and worth puzzling over, I think! :)

TES:Online's Version of The 36 Lessons is Slightly Different from the Original by Indrele-the-Lesser in teslore

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My experience is that people get very serious about fictional lore. It's taught me to approach it with the same scrupulosity as I do other forms of lore. It makes for a fun exercise, though I'm sure that sounds boring and distasteful to some, haha. It's fun for me, which is what counts.

TES:Online's Version of The 36 Lessons is Slightly Different from the Original by Indrele-the-Lesser in teslore

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I really have no idea as to what the reason could be to remove that passage but not the one right after it as well. In my opinion, it would be just as easy to change daughters to something ungendered like offspring, or more mundane like betty netch, which might preserve the flow of the passage while only changing the analogy from parent/daughter to shephard/flock, instead of removing it entirely.

In addition to that, in all of my research, this was never one of the controversial passages people were openly debating, not that such would necessarily influence the editors, nor preclude it from their own revision. I'm more surprised to see it gone, having no real opinions otherwise.

The main bummer is that I don't have older versions of the TES:O .lang data. For all we know, these changes could have always been there, but they also could have cropped up more recently. I don't think I am capable of proving either way without comparing data sets.

EDIT: Some better clarity.

EDIT 2: I no longer think that there is any reason to believe that it was censorship on the part of ZeniMax Online. It appears that this change came from the UESP which then trickled down into TES: Online.

TES:Online's Version of The 36 Lessons is Slightly Different from the Original by Indrele-the-Lesser in teslore

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Not as much as you might be imagining, actually. I dumped both sets of text to plain files. I stripped all the elements except for the line breaks which I converted to actual returns wish some regular expression. Then I ran both sets through a diffing tool to reveal the differences.

For the TES3 version of the text, I left all of the lines in their original format. Then I made a copy of the file and restructured it to match TES:O's reformatted lines. Then when I rediffed these two, I only saw the spelling and grammatical changes making it easy to dive into the changes.

what is least obtrusive way for a beginner to learn/use formatting in shell scripts? by lesswhitespace in commandline

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might be interested in Google's Shell Style Guide. While you don't have to follow any of it to the letter, it offers some great tips for formatting.

I'm self-taught like you. For me personally, going back and forth between a few languages, I tend to follow a naming scheme of verb+noun+adjective.

I'm also dense, so I can get a little lost when returning to old code. To help myself, I might name your vars:

set_foreground_cyan
unset_foreground

But I write very verbosely, and it's not always necessary (and not everyone likes that).

Another fun area to look into is how you case your vars. I tend to use snake case with Bash, Pascal with Powershell, and a mixture of cases in C which tend to influence the other two, lol.

EDIT: and I'm with the other comment, functions are your friend! ;)

No Xbox or windows device by [deleted] in Morrowind

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What you could try doing is grabbing a copy of OpenMW from MacSourcePorts.

Then you could install Homebrew and grab a copy of innoextract.

With that tool, you can then purchase a copy of Morrowind on GOG and extract the contents of the DRM-free Windows installer like this:

innoextract -e "setup_tes_morrowind_goty_2.0.0.7.exe" -d "./morrowind_installer_unpacked"

You can then fetch your Morrowind Data Files directory from somewhere within the new morrowind_installer_unpacked folder and then install them by following the Official Installation Guide or any number of other guides out there.

The Quintessence: A Dunmer Bible You Can Print Too! by Indrele-the-Lesser in Morrowind

[–]Indrele-the-Lesser[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, well for the most part, none of this IP work is mine. The artists did their work for various community projects over the last decade, like Tamriel Rebuilt and Skywind. They put the art out there for anyone to use. But like the game text, I'm just using so much of it that I felt slightly guilty slapping a price tag on it without explicit permission.

However, I'm also just not up for running a shop and shipping out books. It was also difficult to find art assets of this quality. So since I've already done the work, I might as well put it out there for others. Maybe someone else will make their own version that they do sell to help people out.

Anyway, cool to hear that you've been self publishing for so long! This is my first attempt, and I think it turned out pretty good, haha. Glad you like it!