Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.61.178.23-20130722105712/@comment-24489208-20131003220936

DarkCompanion'sGuild wrote: Heres and idea for a quest regarding snow elves. When you first enter a certain hold capital  you witness a supposedly mad adventure covered in mud telling a guard that he saw snow elves high up in some mountains he was exploring. When you go talk to him he marks a location on your map called the Forbidden Pass, this begins a quests called Visions of the Past. You go up and explore this very remote location (may involve jump spamming for shortcuts). Once you are part in you reach a broken bridge and your vision blurs revealing spectral figures (snow elves) running across a full bridge when the bridge breaks and they plunge deep into a chasm. You then hear slight shouts from the bottom of the chasm indicating that they are alive but no one is around to hear them. You can either find another way across the bridge (levitation, backtracking and finding an alternate path, etc.) or you can jump into the chasm (difficult as there are many obstacles, but possible). If you find a way across the cavern  you can take a long route down encountering falmer and minor loot until you reach the bottom. At the bottom you find the corpses of  some snow elves with semi-unique gear (armor, weapons, miscellaneous) and a strange, unique amulet in a broken strongbox. You loot the bodies and return to the mad adventurer telling himthat there were dead snow elves at the Forbidden Pass, he oddly asks if you found an amulet with the dead bodies, you say yes and he says to meet him at the Forbidden Pass at night. You meet him there and he leads you across the bridge and reveals to you that he is a snow elf himself but paint and mud disguised his appearance he also mentions that the amulet has a very powerful enchantment and you can keep it if you kepp his secret he then leads you to a previously lock door and opens it with his key, it reveals a throne room with bunches of gold and gems, you collect the loot and leave, but he stays and can be recruited as a follower.

Just an idea to have a snow elf in the game, I would like to enhance so that it is much more difficult (enemies, puzzles, traps). Suggestions? I actually quite like this. But.

1. Paragraphs are fantastic. Not trying to seem rude but I have great difficulty in reading large blocks of writing without paragraphs.

2. It ends rather... Well... You haven't really done anything for him except... Well nothing, I would rather there was a follow-up quest.

3. People seem to have a fascination in follower rewards, as a personal prefence though I  prefered it in Morrowind and Oblivion where it was a lot harder to get good followers as you had to be high-up in a rank to get them.

Though, I a lot more prefer the follower system of Fallout, there were very few of them but they were very well developed and you had a true feeling of companionship due to them being a lot better developed. To put it simply, I would prefer it if followers weren't given like sweets as they have terrible character development and if this is done all they end up being are useless bricks of code with a tendancy to hump wall.