Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-9601450-20131225183646/@comment-67.171.74.199-20141001163633

Datadragon Odahviing wrote: Back on topic:

Anyone really wants to see dawnfang/duskfang come back?

I even have an idea for it's stats!

(Would have liked Umbra back, but the dumb novelist destroyed it D:) Why, yes indeed. I am very much in favor of this.

It ought to look a bit more Akaviri, though. Not necessarily Japanese, though - primarily because Akavir is not exactly a carbon copy of Japan, and also because I am already sick of katanas in Elder Scrolls games. (I'm not a big katana fan. I recognize that they are decent weapons. I just don't like them.)

I mean, there is the issue of the fact that lumping together east Asian cultures is problematic, but then, there are different cultural groups in Akavir. Perhaps if we attributed the more Japanese aspects to the humans of Akavir, and gave the Tsaesci a slightly different aesthetic?

At any rate, the shape of Dayfang (I'm just going to call the sword Dayfang, because it covers the entirety of a 24-hour day) reminds me of a Chinese dao, or sabre. However, the jian, a more straightforward sword, looks a little more like a European sword, which is what Dayfang was more likely modeled off of. A dao also has only one sharp edge, unlike Dayfang and the jian.

Perhaps it should be available at a shrine of Sheogorath? There are many of those, of course, so perhaps one of his shrines should have a small quest involving a very devoted follower who was granted Dayfang by Sheogorath...with the consequence that he would change with the sword, to a dark paranoia at night and a devoted fanaticism by day, as long as he carried it. On the hour, every day, just as the sword changes, he returns to his own original state for a bit and regrets his deal. Or, maybe he doesn't! We will see.

So then the other devotees, who are hiding near the shrine but being kept away by the madman with a sword who lives by the shrine, ask the next person to pass by if they would please restore the shrine for them. You can of course refuse. (I wonder if there could be a mechanic whereby if you don't take a quest that could be completed by another after a certain period of time, it disappears, as if completed by another adventurer? Only in hardcore mode, perhaps?)

And if you do accept, it's just a simple "go here, kill this" in effect, since even if you choose to try to persuade the cultist, he's not gonna listen, 'cause he's crazy. Unless, perhaps, you go in at dusk or dawn; maybe one of the worshippers could tell you that he seems to be more peaceful around then, and you could choose to time your entry with that and learn what's wrong from him while he's lucid. Then you could persuade him to hand over the sword without killing him.

Sound good?

And while we're on ideas, what was yours for the stats?

- WorshipsMeridia