Yeah it makes Skyrim feel like the harsh landscape it’s meant to be. Once I get a new graphics card (ENBs are heavy on the system) I’m looking into incorporating more mods like Frostfall, better weathers for those blizzards, etc to spice up the game even further.
Mods like that make playing a stealth archer even more immersive as you gotta eliminate the threats silently from a distance and wait for your windows of opportunity because you know you’ll be toast if you alert everyone.
As a spanker of Kanrethad I can confirm that fire magic that’s not bog standard orange in games is the true path. Blue feels especially nice and mystical.
Basically how it goes since dragons have really basic things going for them, designed to be an ordeal one on one but they crumble when cornered or too close to an inhabited area.
I just want to land that last hit for kill credit in my stat list.
I disliked the part with Uther’s memories because “oh no, I said mean words :< when my ex-apprentice came at the head of an Undead army to butcher the citizens and steal his father’s ashes that he killed himself” is plain What moment. It’s not the virtue of compassion to let yourself be walked over or to never say a word above the other. (I don’t know if I invented this one or what, but I have vague memory of an example I might have seen last year when I was searching the tenets; that compassion is also killing the rabid wolf before it kills and infects more people, not just being sad about it, and that it was the hardest of the tenets to understand because of that.)
At this point, Arthas didn’t need saving. He needed culling, and that would have been compassionate too. It would work better as an expression of Uther’s regrets I guess if the bunch of Kyrians around and the narration were not overall agreeing. (And if Tyrande last time had not had to renounce vengeance already, granted.)
It looks like they wanted to make a parallel between Arthas and the Forsworns, that the ones would receive compassion before it’s too late, but that the Forsworns have a grievance over their own body and mind autonomy while Arthas had turned full evil makes that a bit… Eh.
Also I wanted to take the Golden King’s soul with me.
I liked the developpement with the Kyrians though. Took them long enough to get to that point but at least they’re there, and slightly less dumb.
Spoilers Isn't it more about him failing his own definition of Compassion and thus failing to uphold the Virtues? That sort of snowballs into failing everything he expects himself to stand for.
Arthas was spearheading an undead army that went around destroying kingdoms, murdering their citizens and raising them into the unending torment that is undeath servitude, all seemingly for the lols in the way he converses with Uther shortly before killing him. I don’t know why the writers have this sudden urge to try and turn paladins into emotionless jedi, but Uther moping about how he feels bad about being angry at someone like Arthas comes off as weirdly childish. It’d be like seeing Turalyon crying a river over how he regrets killing all those orcs at Blackrock Mountain.