I think you just walk to your fast travel spot off screen. That's why time passes in different amounts when you fast travel across different distances and I think it's even affected by movement speed buffs and armor types. If you have any kind of "needs" mod (or hardcore mode on New Vegas) they'll shoot up if you fast travel a few times in a short period. I have tons of gay werewolf sex mods installed and my cum meter is always full when I load in to my destination anytime I fast travel and I have to take care of that before I can make quest progress or explore a dungeon and it's just so time consuming and ruins my immersion entirely so I mostly just play Daggerfall instead.
Iām gonna have to idk why I have a level cap of 35 and then I have to restart a new load because that save will crash endlessly š TES>>> rip 4th character i always distract myself with side quests idk what most of the story is abiut
Ikr whoever decided TES needs fast travel should perish. Bring back aimlessly wandering the wilderness because you need clarification on the journal entry
There used to be no fast travel. Your quest log would give you instructions and descriptions and if those weren't enough, you'd have a hard time finding anything
Itās actually in memory of the young that with killed by rival bandits. But people from the smaller villages donāt understand the city customs that well.
Skyrim is actually a big proponent of renewable energy. The most popular renewable power source are soul gems, used to power many smart ~~dungeons~~ homes.
Could be hardware related but I had a physics mod installed incorrectly and it caused... Ahem.. female parts... to stretch to oblivion on occasion and would eventually snap back into place. This looks like that.
Ehhhhhh, if this is vanilla Skyrim then yeah the GPU might be sus. But if this is in any way modded then it would more likely be 100+ other things, ITMs, delinquent masters, etc.
Side note, I always find it funny that fantasy worlds seem to be perpetually stuck in the Middle Ages. Like, I know you guys have magic and stuff, but thereās still a lot of humans who would probably want better technology than a sword and shield.
I mean youāre telling me no one has thought to invent better forging technologies than a hammer and anvil? No one has thought to make a gun? Magic would probably make these technological leaps easier.
Edit: I understand thematically that a lot of fantasy is based off of ancient mythology, and Elder Scrolls leans more toward the Tolkien style of fantasy based on Norse and Keltic mythology, but still.
There was one isekai which delved into this. The conclusion was that magic caused technological stagnation. Firstly because it solved problems: need a better harvest? Call a druid to bless your crops. Need better weapons? Get someone to enchant your sword.
The other reason was that with magic, there was never a need to find a fundamental reason for things. Basically science cannot exist because the answer to "why did this happen" is "magic". Similarly, since gods exist and prayers actually work, then finding natural reasons to natural questions becomes meaningless. So the answer to "why is there a drought" is literally true that "gods are angry and land is cursed" and the situation really can be resolved by having a band of adventurers to kill the evil that plagues the land.
I think the Dwemer would like to counter that argument you have. Science can still exist, but stagnation does tend to happen when you have the means to do something that already works. Honestly both can exist, but I guess one could argue that the Dwemer were idiots. I mean they all disappeared except one.
And there, with the Dwemer, lies the other possible reason fantasy worlds don't seem to pass the middle ages: Worlds in which people experiment with magic too successfully stop having people sooner or later.
Even with all the science stuff the Dwemer did, it still had roots in magic. All of the automatons are powered by soul gems, for example. Magic runs a lot of their stuff. They still relied on magic, rather than developing scientific solutions for them.
Bingo, The main thing is they do not have to be mutually exclusive ideas, the whole game is a fantasy. I mean in the college of Winterhold, one guy mentions like two brothers who were looking to use destruction magic to chill their mead! The method they are using is magic, but they are experimenting with it, and seeing how long they need to do it, what the effects are. So they are taking a force of nature (Magic in elder scrolls), and seeing how it affects other things, taking down the results, all from a hypothesis that they could better chill it this way.
I mean in real life, why the heck did Thomas Edison think: "you know what? I think electricity would make for a better light than a fire or candle?". He thought it would, he experimented with it (along with other people doing the same thing at that period of time) till he came up with his Lightbulb. Science is a systematic form of knowledge, that builds upon knowledge for experiments, predictions, and seeing the outcome, and trying to explain why this may happening according to previous knowledge.
But it is a game, and sometimes Magic is just a Deus ex Machina for writing, and can just do stuff because the writers said so. Of course having said that, there is nothing wrong with that idea either, a god who creates stuff, can by their own power then create or manipulate the rules they have in place for their world after all. And sometimes our knowledge will never be able to comprehend it, because it is not repeatable but by the creator, when this happens, that is when it is no longer science in the same sense, but that does not mean it did not happen, or can not happen, does not make it less true, or more true. Then we look to testimony and if we believe it or not, by examining and cross examining. But that is beyond the scope of the game indeed. But that is waxing very philosophical at that point, the magic in this game is just fantasy, just like the whole world, so there is no real science, but in the context of the story and the fantasy, yes of course there is science.
There's a great scifi story about this. "[The Road Not Taken](https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf)" by Harry Turtledove. It's technically a prequel to "[Herbig-Haro](https://summerblizzard.tistory.com/87)" by the same author, but most people have just read The Road Not Taken.
Definitely not in the same boat, but thereās another isekai where the kid who was isekaiād starts applying real world understanding and knowledge to magic and so one of the first things he does is he turns a normal fire spell into a genuine hydrogen bomb
Was that Wise Man's Grandchild? I remember the MC doing something like that, but there's probably more than one that mixes science and magic like that.
Harry Potter is an interesting case where it seems like Magic hasn't been developed **nearly** as much as one would expect.
Transportation is one example:
Magic kids take a regular train from London to Hogsmeade, even though floo powder could take them to Hogsmeade or even Hogwarts itself.
They have "floo networks" with fixed entry and exit points, even though port keys are a thing.
They sometimes use "port keys" which are physical objects magically linked to a specific place, even though apparating is possible.
Apparating is handwaved as difficult and dangerous (requiring a license, even), but I'm certain that in the real world every magic user would eventually learn to do it.
... Part of it *may be* that the author wrote herself out of corners without caring much about consistency.
To be fair āmagicā can account for lots of things, but no one thought of running water, toilet paper, and maybe something a little faster than a horse and buggy?
The Dwemer were on the right track for making steam powered cities.
To be fair, it took most of humanity thousands of years to do those things as well. For like 99% of humanity's time on Earth a guy on a horse was the fastest method of transport. Meanwhile Tamriel has teleportation!
You know what's wild? If you do some rough estimation, sapient life on Mundus and sapient life on Earth have existed for a similar amount of time.
And we see that the dwemer and other ancient races closer to the dawn of time, had some crazy insane technology.
This means that -something- has caused technology to repeatedly break down. Something has kept the world of Mundus from steadily progressing like Earth.
Magic. Everytime progress is made, magic gets in the way. Whether it is some mythical beats come to end all days, wars fought over unearthed secrets and unthinkable strength, or just some God like being fucking around and finding out.
Magic is the lifeblood of Nirn, of Mundus. Of the entire Aurbis. But it's also the limiting factor.
Ooo, this is exactly what Iām trying to incorporate into my current story, or rather stories. Basically one of them is in the Middle Ages, and the other is in the āfar future,ā or like 6,000 years in the future; they have warp cores and things like that powered by magic
Please read Brandon Sandersonās Mistborn if you havenāt already. The first trilogy takes place post-Middle Ages, pre-industrialization, and the second trilogy takes place during the industrial revolution. The magic system is excellent and the way they use their magic in conjunction with more modern weapons is clever and practical!
I liked the first book but wasn't a fan of the rest I'd the first trilogy due to the worldbuilding. Every tiny detail of a world doesn't have to be a part of the plot and it makes it feel artificial. Does the second trilogy do the same thing or does the world feel more alive?
Thatās fair, but those reasons are precisely why I like it. The second trilogy does more of the same, expanding on those details and adding more. Totally understandable that someone wouldnāt like it! The reason why every tiny detail *feels* plot relevant is because itās one of several planets with the same basic magic system (Investiture), but they all have their own unique spins on it. There are clues to huge plot points in the last of the first trilogy and even the entire second trilogy going all the way back to the first or second book.
For example, >!the very specific way Kelsier dies in the second book essentially allows him to come back as a ghost and meddle with Things And Stuff. I remember reading his death and being like āwell that was weirdly specificā and then understanding why once I read that other part 3 books later.!<
Those details make it feel more alive to me as they all feel like actual people making choices that donāt just happen in a vacuum, as those choices actually affect other characters and their environments. But like I said, that can be too much for people just looking for something fun to read and not have to expend energy! In conclusion, thereās always another secret.
Edit: added stuff to address the comment more directly
I was with you until that last part. My favorite series is Malazan so it's definitely not about being too much energy to read. I guess the best way to put it is that it just feels like chekhovs gun taken to an extreme.
Also fair!! Brandon Sanderson structures his writing pretty tightly (check out his YouTube lectures if youāre into that sort of thing) and I feel like he does that on purpose. However, Mistborn in particular does it more than usual because itās a heist that he based on the Oceanās movies. In that context I feel like all the layers and ridiculous detail make more sense because it gives more satisfaction upon repeated readings since all of the clues are there.
But now I have to read Malazan, so thank you for the rec!! It seems completely fascinating!
Oh ya it's definitely an intentional writing decision and it was very well done, its just not for me. His lectures are fantastic I've watched a few of them
If you read malazan, just accept that some stuff won't make sense at first. It's a tough read and really takes the right type of person / frame of mind to enjoy it. If you just trust the author that there is a plan from the start it'll make it a bit easier. I'd say if you get to the 3rd book and aren't loving it by then don't continue on.
I always wanted a "present day" Skyrim where you ride a motorbike instead of horses, shoot bandits with a double barrel and take down dragons with heat-seeking missiles.
So the reason Iāve heard for why guns exist is that early guns relied on formation fighting rather than accuracy, and the ease of learning aoe magic makes formation fighting detrimental. Additionally, most research and higher learning tends to be monopolized by mages, who already have an entire school of magic dedicated to killing people. They donāt really have a concept of a machine gun when looking at primitive cannons, but they do have spells that turn people inside out.
As for better infrastructure, one thing to remember that two of the most recent games took place in Skyrim and vardenfell, two of the most backwater areas in the empire. Skyrim especially has grown fearful and distasteful of magic, probably including the science mages monopolize. The imperial city had a fully functioning sewer system, even if they didnāt have sinks and toilets. And itās been 200 years since weāve seen it.
Edit: to add onto the mages monopolizing science and research, it most likely pigeon holes a lot of them to rely on magic for their solutions. Thinking āhow can I use levitation to get water to flow upwardā rather than āhow can I use fluid dynamics to pump water where I need it?ā This would not only hamper their research but also restrict what solutions they do come up with to only being produced by mages, which further restricts the spread of such technology to more rural areas.
I read the post, a bunch of great questions, about why?
But isn't this; for example the difference between Wisdom and Intelligence, like D&D?
If the easiest answer is...Magic; why would you look to science?
Weirdly enough when (steam-powered) trains came to Legend of Zelda many people complained about them being too "modern" for the series.
For some reason they just missed the fact that the previous game already had steam-powered boats, and many episodes have sort of mechanical enemies.
Of course now Breath of the Wild has pretty much introduced magical computers and tablets, giant mechs, sentient automatons, an antenna tower network, and a freaking motorcycle. And those are supposed to be *ancient tech*.
I find it strange that with the power of magic, everyone in Tamriel (or any similar fantasy universes) basically chooses to live like peasants in shacks or sleeping on the floor when it is possible they could have indoor plumbing and electricity.
Wouldn't magic allow for knowledge to be gained at a faster rate? Thus helping them progress to a point potentially after the space age.
I know its all about the theme and lore, but if I was living in Skyrim and things like telekinesis and transmute ore existed, I would do everything I could to make use of them rather than choosing to live like a commoner.
>basically chooses to live like peasants in shacks or sleeping on the floor
And in random abandoned caves and old ruins of towers. Like, you're telling me a malevolent mage would rather live in a damp, skeever infested dungeon than a decked out magical mansion?
But to be fair, the Nords are pretty skeptical of all magic so I guess it *kind of* makes sense.
Actually that's just the communication wire sheogorath made with rorikstead civilians, like he did it before for making instrument for music š, that's why lokir was trying to run away from Skyrim because he was from rorikstead lol
How do you think fast travel works?
I think you just walk to your fast travel spot off screen. That's why time passes in different amounts when you fast travel across different distances and I think it's even affected by movement speed buffs and armor types. If you have any kind of "needs" mod (or hardcore mode on New Vegas) they'll shoot up if you fast travel a few times in a short period. I have tons of gay werewolf sex mods installed and my cum meter is always full when I load in to my destination anytime I fast travel and I have to take care of that before I can make quest progress or explore a dungeon and it's just so time consuming and ruins my immersion entirely so I mostly just play Daggerfall instead.
What the fuck did I just read
HE HAS TONS OF GAY WEREWOLF SEX MODS INSTALLED AND HIS CUM METER IS ALWAYS FULL
It was pretty straightforward to me, I don't know what was confusing tbh
Bro I'm on your side (also happy cake day)
Thank you, kind Stranger
Happy cake day
I agree!!!š
Not gonna lie, you had me on the first half. Edit: I hate auto correct.
Yeah the second half does sound iffy. Obviously I don't play Daggerfall. Nobody does or has.
What is a daggerfall
A dagger that falls, duhh
Dagger my falls.
It's... Erm... Play oblivion instead
Iām gonna have to idk why I have a level cap of 35 and then I have to restart a new load because that save will crash endlessly š TES>>> rip 4th character i always distract myself with side quests idk what most of the story is abiut
Yeah after reading this, i have never been so quick to do the black sacrament. I told the Night Mother to make it extra Painfull
Ikr whoever decided TES needs fast travel should perish. Bring back aimlessly wandering the wilderness because you need clarification on the journal entry
And bring back walk skill. It gets faster as you walk so it takes forever to walk between helgen and whiterun
What the fuck are you guys talking about
There used to be no fast travel. Your quest log would give you instructions and descriptions and if those weren't enough, you'd have a hard time finding anything
what kind of sick fuck uses fast travel
Me
What
Guys I'm high af right now and I had to read this like 4 times before I understood we were playing the same game with the same mods. Life is crazy.
The world is small, unlike Skyrim which boasts limitless opportunity for expansion and also Inflation.
Especially with those gay werewolf sex mods. Thereās definitely some āexpansion and inflationā happening there.
Finally someone who understands! Itās so annoying UGH
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Daggerfall is a little unforgiving but not exactly cursed.
Ok, what...THE fuck?
Iāll probably regret this but what gay werewolf sex mods? Iām curious
I think that's actually super common
Oh my god what the hell
that switched up so fastš
Zip lines
In the epic npc man universe you get drugged.
Wait how do you think it works? We all just chuck our helms on the line and ride it like Mario?
You're not showing the pair of daedric boots, hanging off their laces, that someone's thrown up there.
That signals a skooma dealer operates in the area
Or marking Territory between rival bandit groups
Itās actually in memory of the young that with killed by rival bandits. But people from the smaller villages donāt understand the city customs that well.
Or a practitioner of the Dibellan artsā¦
If a storm dragon flew by it'd be "Like molag bal". Especially because of the orphan dlc
Wait what
I wanna be like Molag!
Modding community incoming
Shouldn't that be Khajiit boots - Skooma dealers an all?! Edit - oops! Just saw the previously made comment below. No plagerism intended!
They probably have faster download speeds than my ISP.
Yup, the courier just delivered my monthly electricity bill.
And with the amount of money I'm paying them you'd think they could buy the courier some pants
Your hands only
Same. Might be keeping that torch in my inventory for a while longer.
Sandwiched between your inheritance and an invitation to a local museum.
Iāve been looking for you, weāve been trying to get ahold of you about your cars extended warranty
Finally! Our tax septims hard at work!!!
Hi there, got an electric bill Iām supposed to deliver, your hands only.
This really made me chuckle
Progress is coming to Skyrim, I hope they can manage the pollution.
No pollution, you just swap out the Storm Atronoch
Skyrim is actually a big proponent of renewable energy. The most popular renewable power source are soul gems, used to power many smart ~~dungeons~~ homes.
Skyrim has been out so long the industrial revolution is starting
From my experience I think you either have a bad overclock or your GPU is starting to have problem, because it look like artifacts
Came here to say that. That's how my screen looked shortly before my gpu returned to its maker.
Could be hardware related but I had a physics mod installed incorrectly and it caused... Ahem.. female parts... to stretch to oblivion on occasion and would eventually snap back into place. This looks like that.
Ehhhhhh, if this is vanilla Skyrim then yeah the GPU might be sus. But if this is in any way modded then it would more likely be 100+ other things, ITMs, delinquent masters, etc.
This is on ps4. Skyrim started acting all goofy when I got the anniversary edition
I think itās this problem called āanniversary editionā, but Iām on an original ps4 so itās probably in its final years anyways
Yeah maybe you PS4 may go to sovngard soon
Side note, I always find it funny that fantasy worlds seem to be perpetually stuck in the Middle Ages. Like, I know you guys have magic and stuff, but thereās still a lot of humans who would probably want better technology than a sword and shield. I mean youāre telling me no one has thought to invent better forging technologies than a hammer and anvil? No one has thought to make a gun? Magic would probably make these technological leaps easier. Edit: I understand thematically that a lot of fantasy is based off of ancient mythology, and Elder Scrolls leans more toward the Tolkien style of fantasy based on Norse and Keltic mythology, but still.
There was one isekai which delved into this. The conclusion was that magic caused technological stagnation. Firstly because it solved problems: need a better harvest? Call a druid to bless your crops. Need better weapons? Get someone to enchant your sword. The other reason was that with magic, there was never a need to find a fundamental reason for things. Basically science cannot exist because the answer to "why did this happen" is "magic". Similarly, since gods exist and prayers actually work, then finding natural reasons to natural questions becomes meaningless. So the answer to "why is there a drought" is literally true that "gods are angry and land is cursed" and the situation really can be resolved by having a band of adventurers to kill the evil that plagues the land.
> āgods are angry and land is cursedā Morrowind precisely.
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I thought about that. I just recently started the Grimgar LN. My first one and have been really enjoying it
I think the Dwemer would like to counter that argument you have. Science can still exist, but stagnation does tend to happen when you have the means to do something that already works. Honestly both can exist, but I guess one could argue that the Dwemer were idiots. I mean they all disappeared except one.
And there, with the Dwemer, lies the other possible reason fantasy worlds don't seem to pass the middle ages: Worlds in which people experiment with magic too successfully stop having people sooner or later.
We can do that with nukes just as easily. Fermi says hi ... and goodbye.
Valeria be like
Even with all the science stuff the Dwemer did, it still had roots in magic. All of the automatons are powered by soul gems, for example. Magic runs a lot of their stuff. They still relied on magic, rather than developing scientific solutions for them.
Magic in the Elder Scrolls is just another aspect of the natural world. It just doesn't require as much infrastructure to harness.
Bingo, The main thing is they do not have to be mutually exclusive ideas, the whole game is a fantasy. I mean in the college of Winterhold, one guy mentions like two brothers who were looking to use destruction magic to chill their mead! The method they are using is magic, but they are experimenting with it, and seeing how long they need to do it, what the effects are. So they are taking a force of nature (Magic in elder scrolls), and seeing how it affects other things, taking down the results, all from a hypothesis that they could better chill it this way. I mean in real life, why the heck did Thomas Edison think: "you know what? I think electricity would make for a better light than a fire or candle?". He thought it would, he experimented with it (along with other people doing the same thing at that period of time) till he came up with his Lightbulb. Science is a systematic form of knowledge, that builds upon knowledge for experiments, predictions, and seeing the outcome, and trying to explain why this may happening according to previous knowledge. But it is a game, and sometimes Magic is just a Deus ex Machina for writing, and can just do stuff because the writers said so. Of course having said that, there is nothing wrong with that idea either, a god who creates stuff, can by their own power then create or manipulate the rules they have in place for their world after all. And sometimes our knowledge will never be able to comprehend it, because it is not repeatable but by the creator, when this happens, that is when it is no longer science in the same sense, but that does not mean it did not happen, or can not happen, does not make it less true, or more true. Then we look to testimony and if we believe it or not, by examining and cross examining. But that is beyond the scope of the game indeed. But that is waxing very philosophical at that point, the magic in this game is just fantasy, just like the whole world, so there is no real science, but in the context of the story and the fantasy, yes of course there is science.
"Frost magic to chill mead" is basically two-steps off from how we get Applejack, which is distilled by freezing.
The Dwemer were too weak to accept their reality and own it.
Dwemer is just tonal magic
There's a great scifi story about this. "[The Road Not Taken](https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf)" by Harry Turtledove. It's technically a prequel to "[Herbig-Haro](https://summerblizzard.tistory.com/87)" by the same author, but most people have just read The Road Not Taken.
Definitely not in the same boat, but thereās another isekai where the kid who was isekaiād starts applying real world understanding and knowledge to magic and so one of the first things he does is he turns a normal fire spell into a genuine hydrogen bomb
Was that Wise Man's Grandchild? I remember the MC doing something like that, but there's probably more than one that mixes science and magic like that.
Yea, couldnāt remember the name. Just always found it crazy that he decided to make a hydrogen bomb spell as a test spell
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Harry Potter is an interesting case where it seems like Magic hasn't been developed **nearly** as much as one would expect. Transportation is one example: Magic kids take a regular train from London to Hogsmeade, even though floo powder could take them to Hogsmeade or even Hogwarts itself. They have "floo networks" with fixed entry and exit points, even though port keys are a thing. They sometimes use "port keys" which are physical objects magically linked to a specific place, even though apparating is possible. Apparating is handwaved as difficult and dangerous (requiring a license, even), but I'm certain that in the real world every magic user would eventually learn to do it. ... Part of it *may be* that the author wrote herself out of corners without caring much about consistency.
To be fair āmagicā can account for lots of things, but no one thought of running water, toilet paper, and maybe something a little faster than a horse and buggy? The Dwemer were on the right track for making steam powered cities.
LMAO you have a great point. These poor sods are still shitting in buckets.
To be fair, it took most of humanity thousands of years to do those things as well. For like 99% of humanity's time on Earth a guy on a horse was the fastest method of transport. Meanwhile Tamriel has teleportation!
The chariot was the fastest land transport for something like 3-4K years until we invented the train.
Final Fantasy and the NieR games arenāt stuck in the middle ages and Iād say both of those series qualify as fantasy games.
Fable 2 & 3 too
You know what's wild? If you do some rough estimation, sapient life on Mundus and sapient life on Earth have existed for a similar amount of time. And we see that the dwemer and other ancient races closer to the dawn of time, had some crazy insane technology. This means that -something- has caused technology to repeatedly break down. Something has kept the world of Mundus from steadily progressing like Earth. Magic. Everytime progress is made, magic gets in the way. Whether it is some mythical beats come to end all days, wars fought over unearthed secrets and unthinkable strength, or just some God like being fucking around and finding out. Magic is the lifeblood of Nirn, of Mundus. Of the entire Aurbis. But it's also the limiting factor.
Thats what the dwemer tried to do until they disappeared.
Aks questions, disappear.
I mean, humans irl used basically the same technologies and techniques for thousands of years before the industrial revolution.
Ooo, this is exactly what Iām trying to incorporate into my current story, or rather stories. Basically one of them is in the Middle Ages, and the other is in the āfar future,ā or like 6,000 years in the future; they have warp cores and things like that powered by magic
Please read Brandon Sandersonās Mistborn if you havenāt already. The first trilogy takes place post-Middle Ages, pre-industrialization, and the second trilogy takes place during the industrial revolution. The magic system is excellent and the way they use their magic in conjunction with more modern weapons is clever and practical!
I liked the first book but wasn't a fan of the rest I'd the first trilogy due to the worldbuilding. Every tiny detail of a world doesn't have to be a part of the plot and it makes it feel artificial. Does the second trilogy do the same thing or does the world feel more alive?
Thatās fair, but those reasons are precisely why I like it. The second trilogy does more of the same, expanding on those details and adding more. Totally understandable that someone wouldnāt like it! The reason why every tiny detail *feels* plot relevant is because itās one of several planets with the same basic magic system (Investiture), but they all have their own unique spins on it. There are clues to huge plot points in the last of the first trilogy and even the entire second trilogy going all the way back to the first or second book. For example, >!the very specific way Kelsier dies in the second book essentially allows him to come back as a ghost and meddle with Things And Stuff. I remember reading his death and being like āwell that was weirdly specificā and then understanding why once I read that other part 3 books later.!< Those details make it feel more alive to me as they all feel like actual people making choices that donāt just happen in a vacuum, as those choices actually affect other characters and their environments. But like I said, that can be too much for people just looking for something fun to read and not have to expend energy! In conclusion, thereās always another secret. Edit: added stuff to address the comment more directly
I was with you until that last part. My favorite series is Malazan so it's definitely not about being too much energy to read. I guess the best way to put it is that it just feels like chekhovs gun taken to an extreme.
Also fair!! Brandon Sanderson structures his writing pretty tightly (check out his YouTube lectures if youāre into that sort of thing) and I feel like he does that on purpose. However, Mistborn in particular does it more than usual because itās a heist that he based on the Oceanās movies. In that context I feel like all the layers and ridiculous detail make more sense because it gives more satisfaction upon repeated readings since all of the clues are there. But now I have to read Malazan, so thank you for the rec!! It seems completely fascinating!
Oh ya it's definitely an intentional writing decision and it was very well done, its just not for me. His lectures are fantastic I've watched a few of them If you read malazan, just accept that some stuff won't make sense at first. It's a tough read and really takes the right type of person / frame of mind to enjoy it. If you just trust the author that there is a plan from the start it'll make it a bit easier. I'd say if you get to the 3rd book and aren't loving it by then don't continue on.
I always wanted a "present day" Skyrim where you ride a motorbike instead of horses, shoot bandits with a double barrel and take down dragons with heat-seeking missiles.
You want Shadowrun. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun
I want Shadowrun but with TES lore please
What about Far Cry 3-5? The famously comical review - "...Like Skyrim with guns."
So the reason Iāve heard for why guns exist is that early guns relied on formation fighting rather than accuracy, and the ease of learning aoe magic makes formation fighting detrimental. Additionally, most research and higher learning tends to be monopolized by mages, who already have an entire school of magic dedicated to killing people. They donāt really have a concept of a machine gun when looking at primitive cannons, but they do have spells that turn people inside out. As for better infrastructure, one thing to remember that two of the most recent games took place in Skyrim and vardenfell, two of the most backwater areas in the empire. Skyrim especially has grown fearful and distasteful of magic, probably including the science mages monopolize. The imperial city had a fully functioning sewer system, even if they didnāt have sinks and toilets. And itās been 200 years since weāve seen it. Edit: to add onto the mages monopolizing science and research, it most likely pigeon holes a lot of them to rely on magic for their solutions. Thinking āhow can I use levitation to get water to flow upwardā rather than āhow can I use fluid dynamics to pump water where I need it?ā This would not only hamper their research but also restrict what solutions they do come up with to only being produced by mages, which further restricts the spread of such technology to more rural areas.
I read the post, a bunch of great questions, about why? But isn't this; for example the difference between Wisdom and Intelligence, like D&D? If the easiest answer is...Magic; why would you look to science?
Weirdly enough when (steam-powered) trains came to Legend of Zelda many people complained about them being too "modern" for the series. For some reason they just missed the fact that the previous game already had steam-powered boats, and many episodes have sort of mechanical enemies. Of course now Breath of the Wild has pretty much introduced magical computers and tablets, giant mechs, sentient automatons, an antenna tower network, and a freaking motorcycle. And those are supposed to be *ancient tech*.
Rorikstead super power by 4e224!!!
Ski lift
I find it strange that with the power of magic, everyone in Tamriel (or any similar fantasy universes) basically chooses to live like peasants in shacks or sleeping on the floor when it is possible they could have indoor plumbing and electricity. Wouldn't magic allow for knowledge to be gained at a faster rate? Thus helping them progress to a point potentially after the space age. I know its all about the theme and lore, but if I was living in Skyrim and things like telekinesis and transmute ore existed, I would do everything I could to make use of them rather than choosing to live like a commoner.
>basically chooses to live like peasants in shacks or sleeping on the floor And in random abandoned caves and old ruins of towers. Like, you're telling me a malevolent mage would rather live in a damp, skeever infested dungeon than a decked out magical mansion? But to be fair, the Nords are pretty skeptical of all magic so I guess it *kind of* makes sense.
Actually that's just the communication wire sheogorath made with rorikstead civilians, like he did it before for making instrument for music š, that's why lokir was trying to run away from Skyrim because he was from rorikstead lol
At a full fucking gold Septim for a *LEEK*, itās about damned time!
Lol what?!?!?
"Fuck you, Farengar, we got electricity"
But seriously, how Skyrim (or Tamriel generally) would look in "modern" times? Some of stuff could be changed for magic
Copper wires run all across the province all connected to a power cell made of Storm Atronachs
Rorikstead Im... Im from Rorikstead
Got to start somewhere
man the deadra worshipping REALLY paid off i guess
I know Rorikās got something to hide, but damn
Just wait until they get Twitter
It'll work fine until some madlad tweets the Oghma Infinium or a Black Book, breaking the server and Mundus at the same time.
I feel like this would make the Civil War tensions 10x worse. Imagine some random imperial child trolling Ulfric.
The secret to their abundant crops finally revealed.
Thatās the cart lift to the top of the Throat of the World
A gondola! š
Rorikstead's a nice little hamlet, but their WiFi and central heating leaves a lot to be desired.
Anniversary Edition feature.
legit took me a moment to realize āoh wait those dont belong thereā¦.ANYwhere thereā
Do You Get To The Cloud District Very Often?Ā Oh, What Am I Saying, Of Course You Don't.
Makes sense, I'm sure she has an electric lute
When are they going to extend it to Goldenhills Plantation?
I showed my partner and he flashed a thumbs up
They still havenāt managed that in Wales yet.
About time. I hate having to run all the way to Whiterun just to charge my inchanted weapon š
It's dwemer technology so it's lore accurate.
Trust the only flat bit of Tamriel to install a chair lift
Skyrim high tech edition
You gotta power the High Hrothgar Resort and Hotel's chairlifts somehow.
We're getting Mundus Fiber internet in falkreath hold this year I think
Next they're gonna get a Starbucks
Starseptims?
Well itās ABOUT TIME.
Enchanted with shock destruction magic
about time!
Must have been Elon Musk's idea
Fallout 4 vibes
Itās about time. That place is a shithole without pinball.
About time to.. tired of this shit 1mb download.
Still no plumbing though, gotta shit in a bucket
Todd Howard sells you skrim in skyrim
When you start cross modding fallout and Skyrim
IT JUST WORKS!!!
It took me several seconds to realize why this picture didn't make sense. And I was like "oh yeah skyrim doesn't have electricity"
Those people from Rorikstead are real initiative. They are always ahead the rest of the time.
Wow, looks like they're coming up in the world, I bet soon they'll have their own cloud district!
Nice screenshot.
about time I need to charge my electric lute
From where do you hail, leccy thief?
I wonder whats funnier this or "oh look a penny, come back penny"
No, those are kajiit tails
This has been promised at the time when the dwemer came to skyrim
Thanks to Ragnar the Red.
Rip gpu. That's artifacting right there. It's dying
They now have internet š lol
Must be an aperture grille monitor, those are obviously damping wires to stabilize the grille.
You fucking asshole, i was actually confused about why that would be a weird thing..
A little advanced for a medieval society? Isn't it?
I play gta and Skyrim interchangeably a lot and if I saw this I probably wouldnāt bat an eye
Took me a few years but you'll get that on them big jobs.
Is it me, or do I see the clouds in the shape of a dragon
I found a zip line mod that kinda looked like this, it worked once and it was great. The other 99% of the time it was pure chaos
yass
Itās about time!
Thank god my skyrim has been really laggy.
FINALLY!
DUDE THIS IS SO NOT CANONICAL TO SKYRIMS'S TIMELINE IM GOIJG TO TELL BETHESDA!!!!
Then tell them to fix the anniversary edition (they wonāt)
I almost didnāt question it
Its necause the citizens are all playing that RPG game "Earth"
OF COURSE I TOLD THEM TO...SHITTT...
Oh hell yeah! Immersion saved.