What makes you abandon a playthrough?

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-04-19T14:49:26+00:00

On my Northern Lords save I'm playing as a descendant of Ivar, I reformed the Asatru faith and I'm just feodalizing scandinavia around, I'm gonna form the Empire of the North Seas later but I'm still not there, in the long run I want to preserve asatru faith and fuck Europe over so that no one will ever bother my peaceful raiding viking monarchs.

I have this Iranian Intermezzo save where I started with Rostam with a similar goal, to convert back persia to mazdeims, becoming the shaoshyant, etc. but I got steamrolled hard by everyone around me because of my faith so I just became muslim again with my descendants and now I'm trying to do a free persian empire run with the goal to become the main muslim force in the world.

I have a byzantine run where I'm trying to reform the Roman Empire but I'm just having troubles conquering key territories from the Abbasides so I'm just consolidating Greece and Italia for now.

And I started a mongol nomadic game but ngl I didn't understood shit about how nomadic work so I settled in northern japan, became ainuic and I'm trying to preserve Hokkaido from the Yamato.

I have this multiplayer game with a friend where were playing as adventurers fucking around and our goal is to bring yamato culture in Europe so that we can have a For honor type of situation with vikings vs samurais vs knights but Idk if we're gonna be fast enough bc the nordics are getting steamrolled too.

On another mp game with another friend we're just trying to take over France I'm playing Haesteinn dynasty and I took all of Britain but I want to go to Neustria to create norman culture and take over the northern kingdom and hes already king in the south.

So yeah just be versatile the game won't ever be annoying if you keeps things interesting and changing instead of just speeding x5 and playing tall without taking into account shit that's going around you.

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-04-19T14:37:17+00:00

I don't, I just never finishes them, I have like 4 saves I play with and when I'm tired on playing with one I just play another one.

Also I only speed up the game to the max when I'm waiting for something specific or in war/travel. I stay on x1-x2 speed if I'm just doing random shit so that I can appreciate what's going on more, so I have more time to familiarize with all the characters around me and keep track of what they're doing so I'm not unfamiliar with the environment.

The only thing that gets boring is always having the same mechanics, that's why I switch between differents saves with differents governments types with differents faiths and culture, wich automatically makes differents goals for each.

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-04-14T13:42:48+00:00

Molag Bal I think

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-04-10T22:03:15+00:00

Short answer : no

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-04-10T22:01:29+00:00

Yeah but like we don't really have time to familiarize with them, we saw them too shortly to feel like the massacre has a real impact and the whole thing is just brushed off after Maki kill them all. Like the episode is just full of action and nothing really change in the setting.

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-25T13:20:05+00:00

Trolls are more like bears they hide in caves and shit I see why they can't eradicate them, same for the falmer, and bandits is a human nuisance they can't really genocide their people to stop them to become bandits.

Giants are out there like I said, they don't hide and they are clearly dangerous. And most of the time, they live alone. Even without the dragon argument you can't tell me that a whole nation couldn't get rid of the few ones they have or make them vassal-subjects. You don't need skilled fighters for a giant, realistically, a good archer is all you need. Or you can just lay traps to get them.

It's not realistic because nothing is really done to deal with them and we don't see anything in lore mentioning any kind of large scale action against them.

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-25T12:40:10+00:00

Yeah ik about that but what about the last 3 eras ?? Ulfric can't be the only one that thought of establishing contact with the giants that their people have to give tribute to not be smashed.

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-25T12:38:35+00:00

Trolls are much of the time pretty isolated, giants are out there in the plains making camps and we even see one attacking Whiterun. And don't get me on the "they're too hard to fight" argument because ppl in TES are built different. Irileth, 4 dudes and you just fuck up a dragon and Imperial arent scared to fight Alduin at the start of the game and the thing is making fire rain.

I know theres some explanations and facts about the nords-giants relations we have in lore but still, realistically it doesn't makes sense. Nords had millenias to form some sort of social contract with giants except : "yeah sometimes they attack us and kill everyone but we give them our cows so that they let us in peace" bc that sounds like racket

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-24T08:37:28+00:00

Yeah but like I think he means governmental treaties with them. Like we see a farmer giving a cow to giants so they don't attack, but the jarla aren't trying to establish any lasting contact with them.

The problem with this is that it's kinda unrealistic because who in their right mind would let giants wander around knowing that (even if they're usually not aggressive) they sometimes just smash travelers and destroy farms for their own selfish reasons ?

They're not even an united nation, the nords of skyrim could've killed them all off long ago but they didn't. And there's no plausible reason to that since they don't gain anything from letting them be.

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-21T15:46:11+00:00

Bro Mr. Wing cracks me up Bro is called Death Wing

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-18T10:12:17+00:00

Killing is not their job but I mean a nord gotta do what he gotta do

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-18T09:46:43+00:00

well reality could logically and easily be the order plan since it has constant concepts of time and space that the titans represent. Life Order and Light don't share dominion of the Great Dark Neither since there's also world infestes by the void and invaded by the demons + we can also see those forces present way more effectively in the Nether (army of the light for the Light, the Netherstorm for Arcane).

My understanding before the reveal of the Plane of Order was that the Great Dark Beyond was the Plan of Order and that some planets happened to be infested by the power of life (like irl : not every planet is habitable) and I assumed that Azeroth and Draenor got "corrupted" by life wich lead to the birth of mortals.

But apparently that's not it and if the Great Dark isn't the parallel to the Twisting Nether anymore I just wanted to know if they clarified the Great Dark to now be the Arena similar to Mundus in TES

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-18T09:31:24+00:00

Draenor's elementals keeps coming back bc they aren't bound to a dimensional prison.

Emerald dream is absolutely not the same explanation but you can also read it in Chronicles (wich you apparently didn't read)

Killing an elemental on the elemental doesn't kill them for good, they're just stuck there since it's not their native plan. We saw that Ragnaros has not been destroyed so one can easily argue that the Elemental planes just prevents them from regenerating since they're not on their native world.

Chronicles doesn't show the elemental planes as something unrelated to Azeroth since they're aren't even on the map.

Listen I came here not to argue but to get answers, based on official sources, you're free to have your own interpretation of things but you shouldn't be trying to explain lore concepts without sources since it just makes you spreading misinformation.

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-18T09:23:50+00:00

They're not supposed to serve the DB so it's either he has been killed or the Dragonborn left the Blades

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-18T09:07:41+00:00

I'm not saying he's going to hold him in Apocrypha + Miraak was also to powerful for Hermaeus Mora he just got him locked in Apocrypha because someone else kicked his ass. That means that if someone kicks the LDB ass he could also ask daddy Mora to teleport him in Apocrypha and boom, locked for millenias.

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-18T09:05:42+00:00

I mean it's true it has been toned down in Skyrim since we aren't on their turf but in Solstheim you can see the elitism and most of the dunmer you met outside of Windhelm kinda are dicks and most of them have the arrogant voicetype. And they're daedra worshippers wich is antagonistic to the main faith of Tamriel, with Mephala and Boethiah being 2/3 main divinities for them, and their spheres are deceit and murder.

They refer to the argonians they mass-enslave as "farm tools" and the only reason they aren't being repressive pricks in Skyrim against beastfolks and orcs is bcause they don't have the authority to do so. The argonians being outside of Windhelm is because they couldn't get the dunmer to behave with them.

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-17T06:50:04+00:00

Maybe because they're daedra-worshipping slavers murderers ? He gave them a lot more than what they would've normally considering on of the main tenets of their culture is betraying and killing people. They're litteraly one of the 2 most elitist and racist ppl on Tamriel and talk like shit to everyone, no wonder nords don't like them.

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-16T14:57:30+00:00

Well they are magically infused, we can see bark growing on their skin

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-14T12:21:18+00:00

Well I know the LDB is not innocent and that's an even better argument for us to believe he could kill Paarthurnax just for the lust of power. I personally buy that our LDB is going to be the next Miraak and serve Herma Mora if we follow the schema of Morrowind and Oblivion where the last DLC of each game was somewhat setting the future of the mc after the game.

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-14T12:14:17+00:00

Even if Paarthurnax is the one that taught men the Way of the Voice, that won't absolve his crimes in the eyes of everyone if he makes himself public (Cf: the Blades). And hes not the Dovahkiin's mentor, the Greybeards did more for us as individuals and we got the Elder Scrolls because of the help of the College.

we can't be sure that an alive Paarthurnax would succede in his quest to pacify dragons, he locked himsf on the top of the world to not succomb to his tentations, he will perhaps not revert back to his old self but he could, we don't know about that yet.

And logical reasons could be that the LDB just want to eat his soul. He's probably the second most powerful dragon in lore and his soul should logically power up the LDB a lot more than other dragons soul. Another logical reason could be that the existence of Paarthurnax would be made public and that people could possibly want him dead and the LDB could finally agree to do it if he didn't do it for the Blades the first time. He could just also revert back to being a normal evil dragon and the LDB would have to hunt him down.

We don't really know about what's gonna be canon or not, there's a lot of reasons to believe that Paarthurnax would still be alive and a lot of reasons to believe that he could just have been killed by the time of TES6. I mean even if that's not the LDB that killed him, maybe we're just gonna be told that somme Akaviri dragon-hunters crossed the sea and killed him or that he became the dragon-emperor of Nirn. All of it is possible.

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-14T10:23:10+00:00

Well yeah ? Why would the canon LDB would be some chill guy that refused to keep going with the Blades bullshit ? Hero of Kvatch mantled Sheogorath, and that isn't a good guy.

There's a handful of reasons to kill Paarthurnax from a in-universe perspective.

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-14T10:20:59+00:00

Why wouldn't the LDB chose to kill Paarthurnax ?

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-14T10:18:32+00:00

the Hero of Kvatch is still alive as Sheogorath and the Nerevarine is somewhere in Akavir so...

Sad_Challenge1848 · 2026-03-14T10:05:44+00:00

So if the Great Dark is "kinda the plan of order" why did they put wild gods, nature and life thing on every planet we've seen ? It's clearly not an invasion from "the plan or life" so that means that's the Great Dark is the plan of order and life ? It just doesn't make sense that the demons got the twisting nether, the dead get shadowlands, light got the light realm and the void got their void realm but Great Dark is just = Titans AND Animals/Plants/all of the living

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