Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-110.146.134.32-20130814063646/@comment-26893431-20160907200557

65.158.174.2 wrote: A lot of new players can't RP with this game, especially in the first few playthroughs because they simply don't know enough about the lore. Have you considered your character's religion, for example?

Any time you play Skyrim as one of the Bosmer, you either follow the green pact or you're an Apostate, doomed to the ooze.

If you follow the green pact,

Say goodbye to arrows and houses. You aren't allowed to use wood to build anything, and if you're a strict follower than you won't even use items that someone else built. (Seriously, how did the bosmer get a reputation as archers? Do they all have bound bows or something?)

Say goodbye to any potion that you didn't make for yourself and to food or drink that isn't strictly meat or animal derived (you can have milk and cheese. mushrooms (fungi, not plants!) and honey are a little more open to interpretation. If you're really devoted though, you won't risk it.) You aren't allowed to consume anything that comes from a plant. Now hold on right there. Bought goods are allowed to be used by the Bosmer, even the ones who follow the Green Pact. You are allowed to use plants and their parts for alchemy -- as long as you weren't the one killing it