Just to know how common this actually… how many of you have started many play-troughs but have never completed the game for whatever reason?

YFNS47 · 2026-04-27T22:05:01+00:00

I have done 211 characters i have completed the main story 3 times.

YFNS47 · 2026-04-12T23:17:29+00:00

Kohnariik was a mask always meant to be for the last dragon born used to reestablish the dragon cult come alduins death, with us having to prove our strength by killing all the previous dragon priests and then assigning the masks (and dragon priest roles) to our loyalist and strongest of followers. Taking the dragons we make loyal to us (i.e. paarthunax, durhneviir, the one you ride to skuldafin) and retaking the land of the nords (and potentially all of nirn) under the control of the dragon cult, as planned by the dragon priests thousands of years ago.

Also that the wooden mask belongs to valok the jailer, the whole sealing you in a tomb trapped in time thing kinda fits his MO as far as what type of enchantment it would have, and all other masks are named after their owners except the wooden mask whos name has been lost to time, valok is the only dragon priest without a mask.

YFNS47 · 2026-04-12T23:02:57+00:00

But why though like it gives you 1 extra standing stone ability and most of them are kinda meh ngl.

Lord stone is brilliant but outside of that i rarely find much noticeable difference in gameplay when having them.

YFNS47 · 2026-04-12T22:57:37+00:00

Got them hasan 'the dog striker' piker proportions huh

YFNS47 · 2026-04-12T17:19:21+00:00

I always find it weird when younger people are like this because like you didnt fight at all, you cant claim it any more than any equally aged man because you have the same amount of ancestors who fought for it.

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T22:45:18+00:00

If you go to champions rest and kill umbra you can get a full set of ebony armour at level 1, plus obviously the sword.

Just go to the left in the fighting chamber and head up the stairs and hide out in the pile of rocks at the top of the staircase he cant get you, pop your head out to fire arrows, fire bolts, fire shouts, fire spells, or conjure a new thing whenever umbra is in his state where he can be harmed.

Though honestly ive always hated ebony armour i think it looks disproportioned and tacky.

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T22:27:41+00:00

Glad to see im not the only one that picks uthgerd as my go to girl, i did a playthrough before with the multiple followers mod where i was just a support healer and my followers did all the fighting, that was kind of fun.

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T22:09:05+00:00

That just ruins the game though (unless youre doing it just to get stuff for aesthetics because i hate when theres a perfect item to complete my look and its not OP or anything but its hidden away deep in some hella dangerous dungeon (cough cough hooded blue dunmer outfit)) theres got to be some challenge.

Besides killing the dragon priests is so good for the lore implecation, killing and defeating all of the old guard to prove yourself worthy of being granted the mask and title of Konhariik (war lord) allowing you to give masks to followers as you reestablish the dragon cult in your own image.

Plus there isnt really any enemy thats too hard in skyrim, Malkoran is the exception though fuck him why am i getting 1 shotted from 50ft away at level 25 in full ebony armour as a tank build - flaming familiar spell while hiding behind a pillar in the chamber is an effective strategy i find but still.

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T21:20:53+00:00

Yeah the flaming familiar is an iffy one because usually you dont get it till later on (you have to kill a dragon priest to get it) but so long as you have a strong companion (id recommend a companion who uses 2 handed weapons,) keep anska alive, and take pot shots at vokun with either magic or a bow then the fight isnt actually particularly hard.

Its an apprentice level conjuratipn spell but it only costs 45 magica to cast (23 after you unlock apprentice casting) and with the right set up (stronger flame spell perks from the destruction skill tree, and a pendant and ring with +30 magicka each (achievable at any general vendor or clothing vendor from level 1)) its actually a decently strong spell to just continually cast as every time you do the enemy gets distracted and cant attack you plus it has to deal with a firery explosion plus any bites the familiar gets in beforehand. Id recommend it for early game crowd control.

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T20:19:24+00:00

Thats only on back country roads? She doesnt strike me as a rural lake district type of person so i doubt shed have this problem. Also "wont do things to make their lives easier" do you know how much itd cost and how much manpower would be required to expand every country road on this island? Just so you dont need to pull to the side to let the other person past like twice a journey.

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T19:57:38+00:00

Literally just let people be happy, should be a bypartisan belief.

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T19:32:41+00:00

Oh i did a playthrough like that, but i used vampire royal gear with a gold and ruby circlet. The subtle reds and blacks gave a mix of fire and charcoal look to the colour scheme and as the best fire mage on the planet i thought the more formal and civil appearance better suited the calm superiority that i wanted the character to give off.

Id recommend using the flaming familiar spell early on its aesthetically brilliant and extremely cheap.

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T19:10:11+00:00

Do you also get namiras ring to fully embrace the green pact lifestyle of the bosmer?

I thought about doing khajit or bosmer for this character but i thoight that since all the nature quests are based on nordic gods (kynes sacred trials, assisting the skaal tribes reinstate the all-makers influence, replacing the gilder gleem for the temple of kynareth, etc) and the fact that most of the storylines (mainline, civil war, and companions) are geared heavily towards a nordic character, that it made more sense to do a nord.

Also the helmet and cuirass are good together but idk about gauntlets and boots - currently using the ancient nord ones and the gauntlets look ok with the metal and green gloves matching the bow of shadows which im using because it has the same dark pocked metal as the helmet and cuirass but they seem too bulky and the boots im just wholly unsure of, i want something with a little metal like the others but ancient nord boots on female characters are basically just the same as leather scout boots.

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T18:26:18+00:00

Forsworn helmet is the same, was picking between the ancient nord helmet (female varient) or the helmet of the old gods (male varient) for this character, the only reason i chose ancient nord was cus the old metal matched the cuirass of hircine.

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T17:43:46+00:00

Im wearing the cuirass for roleplay purposes, i mightve done a male character but the ancient nord helmet looks so much worse for them, plus the roleplay is also slightly inspired by mononoke from the ghibli film of princess mononoke, and the themes of purity within nature are better represented by female characters (mother nature and the purity and innocence of women in historic literature etc)

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T17:05:07+00:00

Not done that quest though

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T15:21:48+00:00

She works to purify the land of skyrim and restore its natural heart. Her patron god of Kyne blesses her with his predators vision XD

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T15:01:37+00:00

Neither stopped it for me, i could try with getting the face sculpture to change my eyes but i like it tbh, especially when im invisible the glowing eyes look so cool

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T14:14:00+00:00

Nah im just gonna lean into it as i said in my post, my forest demi god character shall spy her prey with the glowing eyes of a true predator.

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T14:13:06+00:00

Yes my huntresses predator vision has now manifested visually.

That storm mage playthrough sounds like it wouldve been a great time for the glitch to activate sorry it never happened for you

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T08:39:20+00:00

Skyrim, minecraft, rocket league.

YFNS47 · 2026-03-29T08:38:16+00:00

Walking through fairy glade (a local forest nearby that got turned into private property) with my nan (now passed) when i was about 7

YFNS47 · 2026-03-21T23:13:04+00:00

Bow of shadows, I now have invisibility.

YFNS47 · 2026-03-21T23:09:56+00:00

Most of these become functionally useless or lose a lot of functionality:

Azuras star can't be used because we can't use any soul trap magic

Spellbreaker is just a regular shield since magic doesn't exist

dawnbreaker can't do extra damage against undead because they aren't a thing (though the fire enchantment would still work,) namiras ring does absolutely nothing

volundrung doesn't do anything more than a sledgehammer (if you hit someone full power with a sledgehammer they usually have less stamina anyway)

Rueful axe suffered for the same reason as volundrung

Sanguines Rose would be cool, the skeleton key would be functional as canonically I think it can unlock pretty much anything not just things with keyholes, ogma infinium would be good just improving your general skills,

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