Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.61.178.23-20130722105712/@comment-71.61.177.24-20140303142009

You mean, will it come back from the realms of Oblivion for the BoJ to use? Probably not, given that its exact effects don't seem to be laid out.

Also, luka, being overpowered, as in, full Daedric and all skills leveled up and unlocked every follower in the game is just as absurd. Overpoweredness is never "not a big deal". Not to mention that full Daedric, all skills leveled up, all quests completed and unlocked all the followers is not societally the same as being a god. That would be something more like a really, really epic hero, which I already included. The best example I can think of actually was a god, but that was after. The example being Tiber Septim, who, in life, was pretty much what I imagine to be at the highest level of fame, glory, and renown. I see no reason for the player-character to get any higher than that, because that level would make the game almost unbelievably easy anyways. Perhaps as a way to balance it out, when you're at lower levels, quests are of course harder, but at higher ones they're more numerous because you're famous and everybody is asking you for help?

The snow-melting thing, though! Yes! There could even be quests - like, say there's a village in the back end of Northern Skyrim, and they're a fishing village, but the freeze was especially deep that year and they can't get through the ice like they usually do. Being a Nord village in the back end of nowhere, they don't really have much magic - cue the outsider! The villagers ask if you know any magic, and you can say you do, and melt the stuff, or you could be a nonmagical character and instead promise to bring them a mage. And during the quest, you could get various reactions from the villagers, some of whom hate magic and don't want anybody to use magic within a mile or two of their village, fishing or no, and some of whom don't like magic but grudgingly accept the necessity, and some of whom never disliked magic that much anyway and don't really mind. Perhaps if it was really, really in the back end of nowhere, it'd be a quest that's not very obvious or easy to access, in which case there could even be a follower. For example, what if there was a girl who was actually really interested in magic, but her mother said that she didn't need to leave and that a poor girl from a fishing village didn't need to be or even couldn't be a mage, not to mention that it would be really rather labor-intensive and time-consuming and dangerous to get to the College of Winterhold, plus the village's general attitude towards magic, which, though varyin with individuals, boils down to "not the best"...so during the quest, she takes the opportunity to ask you to teach her. And you can give her lessons there, or you can take her as a follower and give her lessons that way, or you can not be a mage, and instead offer to escort her to the College. And whichever way, once the training is done, she'll become a decently useful mage follower.

That turned into something vastly bigger than melting snow.

Oops.

- WorshipsMeridia