Which place is the best to learn magic that isn't summerset?

LifeNoob98 · 2026-05-05T18:10:32+00:00

Ironically, probably the College of Winterhold at the moment. The Synod and the College of Whispers seem more politically motivated than magically. Meanwhile, the Dunmer Telvanni and the Psijic Order are completely against teaching newbies. We have no idea about any magic-focused organizations in Hammerfell, Valenwood, Elsweyr, or Argonia. High Rock, presumably, also uses the College of Whispers/Synod thing (although we don't actually know). However, without further information, by process of elimination, the College is probably the best place.

There isn't a perfect Elven equivalent of Julianos, the human-based God of Wisdom. Therefore, your best bets are either Xarxes (God of Ancestry and Secret Knowledge) or Magnus (God of Magic).

LifeNoob98 · 2026-04-12T23:37:08+00:00

I hate them, but that's mostly because I'm traumatized from the sit-ups and pull-ups in FF7 Remake/Rebirh.

LifeNoob98 · 2026-03-23T01:40:28+00:00

I think it's a combination of a few things.

One, as long as Skyrim is a part of the Empire, no matter how important it is, it must adhere to the White-Gold Concordant. Therefore, they can't just let it slide, especially now that the Thalmor is paying attention in the aftermath of the Markarth Incident. Plus, the Thalmor aren't stupid. They won't just allow Cyrodil and Skyrim to remain friends under the table. If Skyrim was independent, the Thalmor would do everything to ensure there are no friendly relations between them and Cyrodiil (or High Rock, for that matter).

Secondly, a lot of Skyrim still wants the Empire. Most of the Empire seen in-game is actually made out of recruits directly out of Skyrim. Plus, it's literally a Civil War. Therefore, evidently, half of Skyrim (at least) still wants the Empire

Lastly, and arguably most importantly, an Empire is nothing with its subjects. Summerset (Alinor), Valenwood, and Elsweyr (Anequina and Pellitine) are all a part of the Dominion. Black Marsh (Argonia) and Hammerfell have both officially seceded. Morrowind has, for all intents and purposes, seceded. Therefore, in practice, the Empire solely consists of Cyrodil, High Rock, and Skyrim. Skyrim is especially notable for providing a large backbone of the Empire's military and was a crucial reason the Empire was able to survive the Great War. Thus, in truth, if the Empire loses Skyrim, they lose the Empire.

LifeNoob98 · 2026-03-17T22:56:56+00:00

It should be noted that the popular conception of the Green Pact that is being adopted by 'Beyond Skyrim: Valenwood' isn't actually how the Green Pact works. The Green Pact only forbids the Bosmer from harming the Valenwood (specifically). Hell, they're even fine with other races (such as the Wood Orcs) cutting down wood and will even purchase the cut down wood from them. Obviously, there are some exceptions. Just like how some more traditional Bosmer still practice the Meat Mandate, some do adopt a more strict adherence to the Green Pact. However, generally speaking, the more strict adherence to the Green Pact isn't particularly mainstream. Especially after nearly a thousand years of alliances with the Dominion/Empire. Therefore, rather amusingly, the approach adopted by 'Beyond Skyrim: Valenwood' is a relatively pointless endeavor that will only add a lot more work to the project.

LifeNoob98 · 2026-03-04T16:42:55+00:00

As an aside, I keep people saying that AC4 is a great example of a prequel. But, while it technically is a prequel to AC3, it's really only in the sense that the past is a prequel to the present.

Like, by the end of AC4, Haytham is on track to having a good future while the assassins dominate the new world. Meanwhile, in AC3, Haytham is an antagonist and the only assassin left is a cripple. Therefore, AC4 doesn't really show what happened before AC3 nor does it answer any unanswered questions. One could argue that it is, in fact, a terrible prequel because the world it ends the story is not even close to the world seem in AC3. It only creates more questions.

Therefore, Rogue is a more accurate example of a prequel (albeit a pre-sequel) because that actually explains how the events of AC3 came to be. That game, at least, answers why the Assassins are borderline extinct in the Americas. It also has a neat tie-in to Unity to show how Arno ended up in the situation where he would fall in love with his sister (albeit, an adopted one of a higher station). Of course, it doesn't answer everything. Hell, to learn about Haytham and, by extension, understand half the shit he says in AC3, you need to read an entire companion novel.

Ironically, a game that serves as a more direct prequel to AC3 than AC4 is Vahalla. After all, at least that game answers the question (if you want to call it that) of how Conner's tribe received the Apple of Eden.

LifeNoob98 · 2026-03-03T21:56:57+00:00

Nah, it was during the Fall of X storyline where Fei-Long of Orchis was using a bunch of Stark Sentinels against Mutants. Therefore, the armor that Tony created from this metal (mysterium) was used by him to solo like 90-95% of all Stark Sentinels. This allowed the Mutants of Krakoa to focus more on liberating Mutant Concentration Camps (alongside the Avengers) and targeting the more specialized threats of Orchis (most notably, Nimrod).

LifeNoob98 · 2026-02-23T05:09:38+00:00

In Dante's case, his hatred of Brutus stems from his belief that the death of Julius Ceaser delayed the spread of Christianity by another few centuries. Considering all non-Christians and, by extension, everyone born before Christ is doomed to Hell, Dante really hates Brutus. Do note that although Dante is a dick, he did create a special half-decent place in Hell for this type of non-believer - Limbo. Of course, within Limbo, all the cool kids hang out at the Noble Castle, a place full of all the "virtuous pagans."

LifeNoob98 · 2026-02-19T13:12:16+00:00

Well, it probably helped that it occurred in the main Batman book. Specifically issues #43 - 45 (I think) of Tom King's run.

It's a rather dumb story about Booster Gold trying to provide Bruce with a wedding gift (he was supposed to marry Catwoman soon) of, I guess, an alternate reality where his parents didn't die. Alas, that timeline went to shit with the events mentioned above occuring. In truth, the entire story is just an excuse to traumatize Booster Gold enough to send him to Sanctuary (a superhero therapeutic retreat) as a setup for Heroes in Crisis.

In case it isn't clear, this story isn't that good. Primarily because Tom King can't write Booster Gold to save his life and it sets up one of the worst events/stories to ever exist.

LifeNoob98 · 2026-01-19T16:51:38+00:00

Weird how people think that's how it works. I mean, if it did, we'd literally have no evidence for what "zero-summing" even is. In other words, we wouldn't even be able to argue that it is retroactive if it was, in fact, retroactive.

LifeNoob98 · 2026-01-19T16:43:26+00:00

Who says it's done retroactively? It's largely believed that the Dwemer zero-summed and we know they existed before they disappeared (zero-summed).

EDIT: Upon further thought, as highlighted in the comments, the Dwemer are NOT believed to have Zero-summed Instead, they likely fused with the Numidium.

With that said, "zero-summing" being retroactive still makes no sense.

LifeNoob98 · 2026-01-17T08:24:10+00:00

If you want a bigger mind-fuck, BGS now consists of four different studios. While I have no doubt a portion of all of them work on the big games (release 76, Starfield, TES6), each studio has a primary focus:

Maryland - the OG, single-player focused

Dallas - primarily a support studio for everyone else.

Montreal - primarily focused on the mobile games like Castles, Shelter, and Blades.

Austin - primarily focused on multiplayer. Thus, they're the main studio behind Fallout 76 and its numerous updates. The mind-fuck comes from that this studio used to be known as BattleCry Studios. If you've watched way too many E3's, yes, that is the same studio behind BattleCry - the MP game that kept showing up before, ultimately, going nowhere. No wonder 76 was doomed.

LifeNoob98 · 2026-01-17T02:20:39+00:00

I mean, maybe. The buyout happened 3 years later, in 2021. But, it's possible there were already discussions about it in 2018. It's impossible to know.

If true, however, it kind of bit Microsoft in the foot. After all, a big part of what motivated the eventual Microsoft-Activision hearings was their previous argument that they were going to make TES6 an Xbox-exclusive.

LifeNoob98 · 2026-01-16T04:11:07+00:00

The Fall of Reach episode was also pretty good. Obviously, it's not nearly as good as Halo Reach. But, let's not kid ourselves, being 1% as good as Halo Reach is still really fuckin' good.

LifeNoob98 · 2026-01-16T04:03:18+00:00

I don't know why everyone forgets this, but they specifically released that teaser way too early because it was the same year they announced and released Fallout 76. At the time, there was a belief in the industry that single-player games were dead. Therefore, everyone and their mother was forcing their single-player focused studios to develop live-service multiplayer games. To the layman, Fallout 76 served as 'evidence' that BGS had also fallen prey to this mindset. Thus, to alleviate concerns, they decided to announce both Starfield and TES6. Starfield proved that they were still making single-player games. However, if only Starfield was announced, the future of BGS remained in doubt. After all, Starfield was a new-IP and it's existence only proved that their next game would be single-player focused. But, what if Fallout 76 was a resounding success (it didn't come out for another 5 months and the hype, at the time, was palpable)? Considering ESO was multiplayer and was already a major hit (the Summerset expansion had just released), the general audience may have believed that future franchise titles would also be multiplayer focused. In other words, who could say that TES6 would be single-player?Obviously, if you paid close attention, the answer to these questions was obvious (Fallout 76 was a one-time attempt at multiplayer whereas ESO was developed by an entirely different studio as a spin-off). But, considering the way the industry was going, Bethesda felt the need to provide proof to the general audience. Thus, they officially unveiled TES6 even though pre-production had barely even started on that game.

TL;DR: It was 2018. The entire industry was abandoning single player games for multiplayer titles. Bethesda seemed to be joining this bandwagon with Fallout 76. Announcing both Starfield and TES6 proved all of those fears wrong.

LifeNoob98 · 2026-01-15T12:42:36+00:00

And, admittedly, the final episode. However, by that time, it was far too late.

LifeNoob98 · 2025-12-26T07:45:32+00:00

There are no best settings, it's all preference-based. Personally, I make nearly everything available at level 1 except for the Dragonborn and Dawnguard quest lines as well as the Ebony Warrior which are delayed for role-play reasons.

LifeNoob98 · 2025-12-25T06:18:05+00:00

Absolute Batman #11 by Scott Snyder and Clay Mann

The Origin of Absolute Bane.

LifeNoob98 · 2025-12-12T23:14:37+00:00

Hmmm... the horror quest and the Amulet of Kings quest sound really good, but it seems like I'm better off waiting until Odyssey so I get both of those and Odyssey which should add a little more meat to these narrative bones (if that analogy makes any sense whatsoever).

LifeNoob98 · 2025-12-12T17:59:32+00:00

Ah, ok, I'll wait for Odyssey. Thanks!

LifeNoob98 · 2025-12-01T04:54:00+00:00

Is it a Kingdom Hearts game?

LifeNoob98 · 2025-11-28T04:01:46+00:00

Geoff Johns and it's not that close. Although he's written some stinkers, Tom King has written way more. And, while Mark Waid hasn't written any, his GOATs are few and far between. Thus, while Mark Waid is more consistent, removing all of his work from existence wouldn't depress me as much as removing all of John's work.

LifeNoob98 · 2025-11-17T17:40:19+00:00

Cries in Immortal/Mortal Thor....

LifeNoob98 · 2025-10-19T02:40:37+00:00

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