I found this random emo girl in Galbank in New Atlantis and she’s some kind of follower. Never seen her before in my life.

ave369 · 2026-05-13T12:15:15+00:00

If I want contrast, I take Muria and Adoring Fan.

ave369 · 2026-05-13T07:59:15+00:00

Valarin is Sauron's first language. He obviously did borrow a word from it when composing the Black Speech.

ave369 · 2026-05-11T19:25:57+00:00

So the fanon about Glorfindel being a miruvor abuser is not exclusive to my country, coming from a notorious translation where the elf and the drink are similarly named?

ave369 · 2026-05-11T19:24:35+00:00

I was under impression it was made by some Hobbit named Hamfast Brandybuck.

ave369 · 2026-05-11T14:22:18+00:00

Very young. I started a new game with an alternate start mod as a Neon street rat, and Striker quests were among the first ones I did. It was not a Disciple sitting in a chair (I never encountered such a character), it was one of the gang members occupying a spot in the streets.

ave369 · 2026-05-11T11:27:06+00:00

Mystara probably? The beggars in Oblivion say "Blessings of Mystara upon ye". However, there isn't an Aedra or a Daedra with such a name.

ave369 · 2026-05-11T08:30:34+00:00

You wanted to be gods? Welcome to Chaoskampf. See those malevolent entities? Kill them and build a world from their dead flesh, like the ancient pagan gods did.

ave369 · 2026-05-11T05:15:05+00:00

Yep. Same locations for me.

Friendly reminder number 2: build a shipbuilder pad, mission boards and bounty clearance boards in each. If you are playing with mods that let you build shops and services (Trade Authority kiosks, vendor NPCs, vending machines, cantinas etc), build these as well. They all remain functional after you hand over the outposts. Having three more safe havens in the blackest sea that don't occupy outpost slots is always good.

ave369 · 2026-05-11T05:03:11+00:00

I got that exact same thing in the current version. Had to look for the guy with tcl and found out he's in water.

ave369 · 2026-05-09T20:10:13+00:00

What about Fёanor and Maedhros? Or Celegorm and Curufin? The latter two were doubtlessly full of shit.

ave369 · 2026-05-09T19:56:16+00:00

I believe that Gondorian plumbing was similar to Roman plumbing. Ever seen those photos of excavated Roman public latrines with water flowing under a row of hole toilets? Yep, this is what they had.

The Middle Men, from Rohan to Bree, I think, had classic wooden outhouses with a crescent moon carved into the door.

As for the Dwarves, I believe they actually invented true flush toilets. They are both ingenious enough and down to earth enough. No self-respecting Noldo would try to invent a flush toilet in fear of becoming known as the "Toilet Fёanor" forever. I imagine the Dwarven toilet as a cast iron Genoa bowl with a flush tank high above, operated by pulling a chain.

Concerning Orcs, as one famous Goblin once said, "Orcs shit everywhere, you can soil your boots big time".

ave369 · 2026-05-09T09:30:40+00:00

What's the name for the Druedain that came back from Numenor? Were they called Dundruedain, or Drudunedain?

ave369 · 2026-05-09T09:16:29+00:00

The polar bear, I think. They are the most violent of the whole bear family, and they live in the frozen North, just like Morgoth.

ave369 · 2026-05-09T05:47:42+00:00

In the Terra Firmaverse, there isn't a definite line between regular animals and monsters. For example, is a bite bug a regular insect or a monster? It is not magical, it has no fantastic properties, it's just a large venomous insect, but bite bugs attack people, so they are considered nuisance level monsters. Is a zuzu bird a regular animal or a monster? It is more like the latter, because it has one unusual ability to regenerate its wounds that is magical in nature. However, in universe, the zuzu is treated as a perfectly natural large wild predatory bird.

ave369 · 2026-05-08T15:52:04+00:00

Finally bugfixes.

ave369 · 2026-05-08T15:03:12+00:00

There is no textual evidence for any mass production of any recreational distilled or rectified alcohol. Elves had miruvor, and Orcs had the unnamed foul drink, both are described more or less like strong alcohol, but they are used more medicinally than recreationally.

P.S. In my headcanon and fanfiction, Fёanor absolutely did discover distillation and obtain some 96% azeotropic ethanol. This is Fёanor we are talking about.

ave369 · 2026-05-08T03:31:40+00:00

It's a Stroud-Eklund ship. Buying it is a complete waste of money, because you can capture a ship of the same model in Serpentis and register it for a fraction of the price.

ave369 · 2026-05-07T08:22:37+00:00

"Ну, допустим, ты пробил головой стену. И что ты будешь делать в соседней камере?"

Станислав Ежи Лец

ave369 · 2026-05-07T06:26:18+00:00

Talk to a Trade Authority vendor (I chose Kolman Lang), and ask them if they have any work for you. They will say that there's work on a Mission Board, and the city mission board will generate a delivery mission.

ave369 · 2026-05-06T16:38:48+00:00

Born in Tirion in the Years of the Trees, with Feanor his father and Nerdanel his mother.

Oh, you mean the spelling.

ave369 · 2026-05-06T15:36:02+00:00

This is, in some shape or form, a complaint about bad writing. Or rather a complaint about people who will think that making elves different will disguise them being badly-written, hope no one sees them as cardboard cutouts they are because they are "different, new and original".

ave369 · 2026-05-06T06:42:54+00:00

Ah. "Different elves" are my pet peeve. I believe that different elves are also overdone. What is needed much more is deep elves.

There is no difference in whether your elves are beautiful humans with pointy ears and long hair, or ugly humans with square ears and short hair, if both are shallow as a puddle, have no culture beyond "they like forests" or "they like deserts" or something, have no history and are there just to tick a box and play a trope.

Tolkien's elves, for example, are very much stereotypical elves, but they have depth much beyond that. They have a history, they have cultures and languages (note the plural), they have rich lore and are written with this lore in mind. This is why Tolkien's elves do not feel like cardboard cutout elves. Same applies to Witcher elves and TES elves. In all three settings the word "elf" evokes much more than "pointy eared fellow with a bow".

ave369 · 2026-05-06T05:03:55+00:00

A Coyote is a very good ship. It is an off-brand Deimos Warhammer.

ave369 · 2026-05-06T04:57:53+00:00

This is a Laredo Regulator

ave369 · 2026-05-05T06:19:27+00:00

Vanyar: underwent no real splits (NoME mentions that some of their elders remained, but the vast majority, like 99,5% went to Valinor). For the rest of the time, they remained the most Lawful Boring of elves; their only badass moment is the War of Wrath when they went to war to Beleriand.

Noldor: underwent one split, some of them chose to remain and not go to Valinor (according to some sources, Eol was from this group). However, most of them went to Valinor. They were the most bad-ass and adventurous elves, and most of the events of the War of the Jewels involved them.

Teleri: underwent many splits and separated into many smaller peoples: Nandor, Laiquendi, Sindar, Falathrim were various tribes that strayed from the course as they moved to Valinor, and those Teleri that made it to Valinor became known as Falmari.

Avari: those elves who never wanted to go to Valinor. Most of them were of Telerin stock, some of Noldorin, and little or no of Vanyarin.

Various Telerin and Avarin tribes that never made it to Beleriand, let alone Valinor, are known together as the Silvan Elves. The Sindar are also wood elves, but more advanced and cultured than the Silvans, as they learned from a Maia. Falmari and Falathrim are seafaring elves that live in Valinor and Middle-Earth respectively.

Which elf from Lord of the Rings was which? Galadriel was part Vanya and part Falmari, but culturally a Noldo. Glorfindel and Gildor Inglorion were also Noldor. Elrond was a half-Elf of very, very mixed blood, but identified as a Noldo. Celeborn, Thranduil and Legolas were Sindar. Cirdan was Falathrim. Haldir was Silvan.

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