The Elder Scrolls Megathread XV: A Song of Ice and Draugr

[[Green]]

The Elder Scrolls VI: Nexus

[Meeseeks]

[QUOTE=EliteSuperS;41729944]I'm having problems with a quest in the Dragonborn DLC.

(Dragonborn spoilers)
[sp]I'm stuck on the Cleansing the Stones quest, and when I use the Bend Will shout on the stones, the mind controlled people that are working on the stones will come out of their trance. But, nothing happens with the stones, and the quest doesn't progress. I have tried reloading saves and using console commands, but nothing happens. I also installed the unofficial dragonborn patch, but then disabled it thinking it was the problem.[/sp]

Anyone know of a way to fix this?[/QUOTE]

Anyone?

[Fire Kracker]

[QUOTE=Rahkshi lord;41741042]By TES 6 the flame atronach will just be a sexy redheaded girl with a flame effect shader around her, calling it.[/QUOTE]

and she's naked

[Altimor]

[QUOTE=Rahkshi lord;41741042]By TES 6 the flame atronach will just be a sexy redheaded girl with a flame effect shader around her, calling it.[/QUOTE]

I dunno man why not just have the current one but naked

[Rahkshi]

[QUOTE=Altimor;41741216]I dunno man why not just have the current one but naked[/QUOTE]

Beth should hire you, you're a genius.

[Krautzy]

[QUOTE='[Green];41740802']If he doesn't want one I'm coo' with it. His choice.[/QUOTE]

I'll give you my coordinates when I get home at the end of summer

let's make it happen

[Altimor]

[QUOTE=Rahkshi lord;41741289]Beth should hire you, you're a genius.[/QUOTE]

In fact, someone should make this in mod form. I'm too frugal to give people money but you'd have my everlasting gratitude.

[[Green]]

[QUOTE=Altimor;41741445]In fact, someone should make this in mod form. I'm too frugal to give people money but you'd have my everlasting gratitude.[/QUOTE]

I remember seeing this done in some Nexus mod. A Flame Atronach without the armor bitties.
What [I]could[/I] be done to improve is modify the flame effect that composes the entire body to have curves and different shading to simulate shadow in a way, giving definition to underboobs, armpits and other curves, shit like that.

[t]http://i.imgur.com/FLITFHl.jpg[/t]

So turns out the Anti-Mage got infected with Sanius Ursius and slaughtered the entire hold of Hjaalmarch in her first full moon transformation. The bounty is currently at ~78 000 septims so she escaped up to the mountains into an abandoned stronghold she uses as a base of operations. Ditching the magehunting gear for the most part, her focus shifts now from hunting down all magic into hunting down everything and everyone systematically until there's nobody else on top of the food chain.

Unfortunately the remnants of Stendarr's Vigilants and the entire Silver Hand faction has heard of this genocide in Hjaalmarch and has dispatched MASSIVE amounts of forces to hunt her down.
Seriously, I encountered six elite Vigilants and [B]TWENTY SILVER HAND ELITES[/B] at once after fast traveling to the stronghold.

[Rahkshi]

[QUOTE=Altimor;41741445]In fact, someone should make this in mod form. I'm too frugal to give people money but you'd have my everlasting gratitude.[/QUOTE]

[t]http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/images/2651-3-1323033748.jpg[/t]

[url]http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/2651//?[/url]

I'm not sure what you're expecting to be under that armor but this is probably disappointing.

[Altimor]

Yea but I just want the chest/pelvic armor gone

I have no clue where the geometry of the flame effect comes from though, I looked in the .nif and it was just the armor.

[[Green]]

[QUOTE=Altimor;41741541]Yea but I just want the chest/pelvic armor gone

I have no clue where the geometry of the flame effect comes from though, I looked in the .nif and it was just the armor.[/QUOTE]

It's probably amongst the other effects like conjuration effects and the sort. At least it's what I'd think, but I've never rummaged through that part of Skyrim's files so idk.

[BloodShot12]

>checks elder scrolls thread for anything new

>leaves

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[DIOBRANDO]

So has anyone taken the time to see how much of a badass Skyrim's emperor Titties N Mead 2: electric boogaloo was? (titus mede II) Like I always see everyone in the game complaining about how he is a coward but reading up on what he did...hes anything but one.

Continuing on seriously, the thalmor sent an ambassador that demanded things including talos worship ban, and most of southern hammerfell, but even though the empire is weakened because the thalmor's long term plan of removing allies is coming to fruitition that motherfucker tells the ambassador to shove it up his green ass even after he dumps a cart full of every blade agent who was in enemy territoy. The assault came mere fucking days later and he found himself surrounded in the imperial city by an army of thalmor, so this ballsy mother fucker gathers up his army and slams it out the back door like a colossal hell turd so he can escape and keep the war going. If he had staid he wouldve been executed and the thalmor wouldve flat out won.

Meanwhile in shitheadville, the thalmor believed they had won since they did swarm into the capitol after the imperial army retreated and sacked the fuck out of it. The emeperor encouraged negotiation talks to help them believe this so basically every elf bastard in the imperial city was just leaning back in chairs laughing at how superior they were to humans.

Pan out to hammerfell and you see the thalmor taking over the southern half as they had demanded, and the imperial army leaving a huge number of legionaires to assist the redguards and make the thalmor believe that a large portion of the imperial legion still resided in Hammerfell while those battalions actually marched all the fucking way to Cyrodiil.

Titus then requested aid from the nords who marched into Cyrodiill and set up camp secretly outside the imperial city county because the elves were such cocky bastards they believed that merely capturing the imperial city would be enough to end the war.

Basically the next morning Titus Mede II launched the biggest elf ass kicking that as been seen since Skyrim's infancy days. He charged with his main forces through the north gate wielding fucking Goldbrand (yes the solid gold sword that sets anything it touches on fire, many elves were roasted like pheasants that day) through the fucking front door slaughtering every elf soldier they came across. Meanwhile the forces from Hammerfell and the Nords put pressure on all sides of the city but didnt charge in.

You see, Titus Mede II looked at them and was like "Thank you my niggas for getting my back, but these bitches pissed off the wrong imperial emperor, all I want you to do is form a giant shield wall around the rear entrances to keep them from fleeing, my homies got these sluts." And so the nords formed a line outside the rear entrances with extremely large shields raised and the rest pushing behind them, so when the pussy elves who were fleeing came out the other entrances they were met with a shield wall that was so powerful and tight not even the elves' souls could escape the curb stomping that ensued.

Basically Titus Mede II saw these cocky elf bastards pull a flash invasion on his capitol city and said "Sure fucks, have the city!" , then turned around and used it as a fucking fence to gather the entire thalmor army into one point and buttfucked them on territory every imperial knew by heart. And that is what they did, Titus Mede II personally captured the general who had lead the Thalmor army to ransack his city, so what did he do?

He got that bitch, tied him up naked, and hung him from the White-Gold tower for 33 days. Presumably while riding on a dragon and using his bitch ass as a pinata.

This fight, known as the battle of the red ring (because the walls that housed the imperial city were stained red by elf blood) is the whole reason why the empire still exists thanks to emperor Titus Mede II.

Just some food for thought next time you're in the mood to do the Dark Brotherhood questline, I have decided to spare him almost every single time.

[Makrin]

[QUOTE=1chains1;41741800]So has anyone taken the time to see how much of a badass Skyrim's emperor Titties N Mead 2: electric boogaloo was? (titus mede II) Like I always see everyone in the game complaining about how he is a coward but reading up on what he did...hes anything but one.

Continuing on seriously, the thalmor sent an ambassador that demanded things including talos worship ban, and most of southern hammerfell, but even though the empire is weakened because the thalmor's long term plan of removing allies is coming to fruitition that motherfucker tells the ambassador to shove it up his green ass even after he dumps a cart full of every blade agent who was in enemy territoy. The assault came mere fucking days later and he found himself surrounded in the imperial city by an army of thalmor, so this ballsy mother fucker gathers up his army and slams it out the back door like a colossal hell turd so he can escape and keep the war going. If he had staid he wouldve been executed and the thalmor wouldve flat out won.

Meanwhile in shitheadville, the thalmor believed they had won since they did swarm into the capitol after the imperial army retreated and sacked the fuck out of it. The emeperor encouraged negotiation talks to help them believe this so basically every elf bastard in the imperial city was just leaning back in chairs laughing at how superior they were to humans.

Pan out to hammerfell and you see the thalmor taking over the southern half as they had demanded, and the imperial army leaving a huge number of legionaires to assist the redguards and make the thalmor believe that a large portion of the imperial legion still resided in Hammerfell while those battalions actually marched all the fucking way to Cyrodiil.

Titus then requested aid from the nords who marched into Cyrodiill and set up camp secretly outside the imperial city county because the elves were such cocky bastards they believed that merely capturing the imperial city would be enough to end the war.

Basically the next morning Titus Mede II launched the biggest elf ass kicking that as been seen since Skyrim's infancy days. He charged with his main forces through the north gate wielding fucking Goldbrand (yes the solid gold sword that sets anything it touches on fire, many elves were roasted like pheasants that day) through the fucking front door slaughtering every elf soldier they came across. Meanwhile the forces from Hammerfell and the Nords put pressure on all sides of the city but didnt charge in.

You see, Titus Mede II looked at them and was like "Thank you my niggas for getting my back, but these bitches pissed off the wrong imperial emperor, all I want you to do is form a giant shield wall around the rear entrances to keep them from fleeing, my homies got these sluts." And so the nords formed a line outside the rear entrances with extremely large shields raised and the rest pushing behind them, so when the pussy elves who were fleeing came out the other entrances they were met with a shield wall that was so powerful and tight not even the elves' souls could escape the curb stomping that ensued.

Basically Titus Mede II saw these cocky elf bastards pull a flash invasion on his capitol city and said "Sure fucks, have the city!" , then turned around and used it as a fucking fence to gather the entire thalmor army into one point and buttfucked them on territory every imperial knew by heart. And that is what they did, Titus Mede II personally captured the general who had lead the Thalmor army to ransack his city, so what did he do?

He got that bitch, tied him up naked, and hung him from the White-Gold tower for 33 days. Presumably while riding on a dragon and using his bitch ass as a pinata.

This fight, known as the battle of the red ring (because the walls that housed the imperial city were stained red by elf blood) is the whole reason why the empire still exists thanks to emperor Titus Mede II.

Just some food for thought next time you're in the mood to do the Dark Brotherhood questline, I have decided to spare him almost every single time.[/QUOTE]

...you can spare him?

[DIOBRANDO]

[QUOTE=Ekalektik_1;41741940]...you can spare him?[/QUOTE]

Yes, once you exit conversation with him you can leave out the doors and once you jump overthe side off the boat the quest either fails or just sits there. At least it used to patches ago when I played vanilla skyrim.

edit-
But continuing on about why the empire still exists today, Titus Mede II at this point had two options, negotiate a treaty or keep fighting. Now you have to remember after the Oblivion crisis, the empire was in decline as they had already lost the khajit country and the wood elves to the thalmor and had done nothing about it. Under these circumstances both country's were at relative equal power, but the oblivion crisis had dealt a huge blow to the imperial political system so it was weakened in all forms compared to the thalmor who had countries ADDED which had their funds and taxes and resources now pouring into the summerset isles instead of Cyrodiil. So the already weakened legion had just experienced a short war which while victorious in that they wiped out half of the thalmors effective army (half went to take southern hammerfell if you remember) they were already in a weakened state before the war now with a sacked imperial city and even more land gone.

The imperial legion was in no position to create a counter attack, especially on an unscatched capitol surrounded by water. So basically if Titus Mede II had continued the war both armies wouldve retreated back home to try and recover to be the first to make the next attack. If this had happened, the Thalmor with now 2 new countries of supplies and resources pulling in would've recovered much quicker than cyrodiil who only had Highrock to provide any kind of support. The thalmor wouldve recovered quicker and launched another attack on the imperial city before the legion could be fully healed and would fall AGAIN, but this time wouldnt be taken nearly as easily.

So with this facing him Titus Mede II decided to request beginning of negotiations with the Thalmor.

So you may be asking, why did the Thalmor agree to these negotiations?

Well while they were in a better position to recover, the thalmor litterally lost HALF OF THEIR ENTIRE MILITARY. The imperial counter attack was completely unexpected and the legion exterminated litterally every high elf with extreme prejudice that left the thalmor baffled. You see, the whole point of the invasion was listed earlier in their demands at the start of the war, they wanted hammerfell. That is why the Thalmor split their army in two and simultaneously attacked both Hammerfell and Cyrodiil, they merely wanted the legion distracted while they captured hammerfell. But the intial success the Thalmor army in Cyrodiil as it moved in towards the imperial city was unprecedented and revealed that the Empire was weaker than they had estimated. So they shifted focus from capturing Hammerfell into taking the imperial city and ending the empire in one fell swoop.

They lost, which was a big blow to them back home politically as much like the dumner they had houses who had varying political power with the thalmor currently being the head much like House Redoran is the head of Morrowind. Sure they could launch another attack, but they knew if they even captured the imperial city that there would be a counter attack which would involve them having to defend a city with walls that those legionaires knew by heart and would know all its weaknesses and its strengths. So while it would be a slight chance to relose the city, it was still a plausible one that would surely kick them from being in the current support of the other houses.

So under these conditions, both sides were eager to come into negotiations with each other. The emperor was straight to the point and offered for pretty much the identical things they had requested at the start of the war in exchange for ceasing of hostilities against the Empire. The main thing to note is the ban on talos worship and the seceding of the southern half of hammerfell.

When the objective of capturing the imperial city fell through, they returned to the previous objective of trying to capture Hammerfell. Unfortunately for the Thalmor army they were currently at a standstill in hammerfell with stiff opposition from both redguards and left over legionaires who had been used in the ruse to recapture the imperial city. Basically after the empire capture the Imperial city, that entire force plus the nords followed the section of the army that had came out of hammerfell and effectively sandwiched the thalmor. Well the Thalmor still had the upper hand and it was apparent that the emperor knew this when he presented the terms for the negotiation and accepted because they would gain the Hammerfell lands that they were there for in the first place.

This angered the Hamerfell who refused to agree to the treaty. So the empire, to stay afloat had to cut Hammerfell out of its empire.

The Redguards of Hammerfell continued to fight for the next 5 years at which point they then signed a treaty which made Hammerfell give resources to the thalmor in exchange for all thalmor troops withdrawing.

So basically Hammerfell was left weakened, but independent from both Thalmor (technically) and cyrodiil. This made Hammerfell believe they were in the right to keep fighting and effectively kept them from rejoining the empire or even friendly relations as the Empire abandoned them.

This is where Skyrim comes in and the reason why the events in Skyrim are happening. As said the Thalmor have done long term planning in all their moves and have been slowing breaking apart the empire little by little of the years.

First they conquered the Wood elves land and set up colonies there.

Then a strange incident occurred when the moons disappeared from the sky for two nights in a row. The Khajits entire lives revolve around those moons so when the Thalmor offered they could restore them they hailed them as their saviours as the next night the moons returned. It is unknown whether it was a natural phenomena that occurred in which the Thalmor knew its duration, if it was even the thalmor themselves who caused them to disappear or if they really did bring the moons back. Either way this won the khajit over into their Dominion.

Next they made a demand for the ban of talos worship and the southern half of hammerfell. If Empire agreed to it, civil war would occur in both Hammerfell and Skyrim, so of course they went to war over it. So the elves from the beginning simply wanted Hammerfell split off form the empire and after fighting for it and losing, they managed to split it off anyways by accepting the empires negotiations. Also by accepting the treaty, the empire enacted the talos ban, which started the civil war by Ulfric Stormcloak who if wins will make Skyim an independent and weakened state just like hammerfell, making the empire two states who would not hold out against an invasion from the Thalmor.

So those are the events that lead up to the game of Skyrim and why the Thalmor consider Ulfric Stormcloak an asset in splitting Skyrim off of Empire to ensure its doom. It is also why the game takes place at this time because Skyrim would be the last state to become independent before the empire falls so you having direct involvement in that lets you assume lore wise which side would win. Meaning if you played a stormcloak supporter you were officially on the side of the thalmor and chose them winning.

[BLOODGA$M]

[QUOTE=DrasarSalman;41740140]Yes, I think I remember you posting it.[/QUOTE]

I think I'm gonna start putting all my scripts up on pastebin so people won't need to dig through the .BSA of my mods if they want to see how I did something.

[url]http://pastebin.com/u/BLOODGAZMS[/url]

I may even get around to commenting them eventually.

(warning: scripts may contain foul language)

[cs_bunny]

A while ago, someone mentioned a mod that made Skyrim's combat similar to Dark Souls.

Anyone remember what the mod was called?

[[Green]]

I remember seeing a mod on Nexus about some kind of crystal or gem that can be consumed for a werewolf perk point. Can't find it, though. I'm about to raid Volkihar and could use my expanded perks. Thing is every city I try to invade is filled with Silver Hands and angry guards, ain't no chance I can devour towns anymore.

[BLOODGA$M]

[QUOTE=cs_bunny;41742093]A while ago, someone mentioned a mod that made Skyrim's combat similar to Dark Souls.

Anyone remember what the mod was called?[/QUOTE]
Similar in what ways?

[SaberVS7]

Something feels amiss about my Oblivion run...

TIME TO REROLL.

[cs_bunny]

[QUOTE=BLOODGA$M;41742213]Similar in what ways?[/QUOTE]

I don't know. I just heard that it made Skyrim's combat "akin to Dark Souls combat".

It sounded interesting, and I'd like to try it.

[Morderator]

[QUOTE=cs_bunny;41740771]So, I finally got a new computer, and can play Skyrim again!

The only problem is, now I remembered why I stopped playing.
My game's bugged. I'm on the Dawnguard quest where [sp]you need to find Auriel's Bow.[/sp]
I'm at the part where you [sp]fill the initiate's ewer, and my character gets stuck after doing it. (enableplayercontrols in the console does nothing.)[/sp]
In addition, a lot of animations added by the DLC are missing, so Serana randomly enters the reference pose when talking or standing around.

Anyone else have this problem?
I tried verifying cache on my old computer, and since I just downloaded it again, I highly doubt that's the problem.[/QUOTE]
It seems you encountered a common bug according to uesp. Bug description and fix:

[url]http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Touching_the_Sky#Bugs[/url]

[laarg]

[QUOTE=cs_bunny;41742428]I don't know. I just heard that it made Skyrim's combat "akin to Dark Souls combat".

It sounded interesting, and I'd like to try it.[/QUOTE]
I think that would be Korjax's mod and I don't think it's done yet.

[QTom]

Godammit. Does Skyrim run really choppily for anyone else?

Like, the game runs fine, if I just stand somewhere I usually get 60 fps, but when I turn around or sprint forwards I get really annoying lag spikes. I think its to do with stuff getting loaded in, does this happen to anyone else?

I have an i5 3570k, 2 HD 6870s in crossfire and 8GB RAM so I think I should really be able to play Skyrim without it lagging all the time.

I dont remember it always being like this.

[[Green]]

Guys, what cubemap does ebony armor use?

[Mickyan]

[QUOTE='[Green];41745285']Guys, what cubemap does ebony armor use?[/QUOTE]

Chitin_e_ebony.dds

[Dynamic]

Oh shit, this is pretty neat:
[t]http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/images/37771-1-1372590389.jpg[/t]
[URL]http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/37771//?[/URL]

[Rahkshi]

[QUOTE=soullink;41746092]Oh shit, this is pretty neat:
[t]http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/images/37771-1-1372590389.jpg[/t]
[URL]http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/37771//?[/URL][/QUOTE]

what kind of fucking bow has sights.

[Boba_Fett]

[QUOTE=Rahkshi lord;41746382]what kind of fucking bow has sights.[/QUOTE]
modern bows
[img]http://www.peepeliminator.com/_borders/Picture%20for%20Ad%20(1).jpg[/img]

[garbage ellie]

I thought it was that crysis bow for a minute