Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-4708902-20171203052258

Moral choices are popular in video games, but there are some choices where the options are not pleasant. For example, what if a mother was forced to choose which of her two children would live or die? I think the Elder Scrolls needs this.

For example, let's say in Elder Scrolls 6, you arrive at a village, and one of the married coulples has a deathly sick infant child(Can be either a bot or girl). None of the village healers have cured the child, and not even the priests of the Aedra have been successful. The coulple desperatly begs you to find something or someone that can save their only child. Eventually, you meet a diseased looking NPC who reveals that he is a servant of Peryite. And some Elder Scrolls sourced claim that Peryite can cure plague and pestilance just as easily as he can inflict them. If you explain the situation, he will offer to take you to his masters shrine.

At Peryite's shrine, you explain the situation to the Daedric Prince, and ask if he can save the child. Peryite does indeed say he can save the child. But being a Daedric Prince, he asks why should he when disease according to him makes mortals stronger by culling the weak, and that there are countless othert mortals with deathly illnesses? If you are persuasive enough, or do a task Peryite has given you, he will agree to save the child. But no Daedric Prince gives anything for free. Peryite tells you that the child will indeed have a happy, long, healthy life. But when old age, or fatal wounds inevitably takes them, their soul will go to the Pits, and become Peryites eternal servant. On the other hand, if you refuse Peryite's offer, the child will die, but their soul will go to Atherius.

The choice is yours. Do you accept Peryite's offer, and allow the child to live, but also condemn him to serve the Lord of Pestilance? Or do you condemn a baby to death, while allowing their soul to rest in peace? There is a third option, but it does little to lighten the mood. If you don't want to decide the fate of someone elses child, you can tell the mother and father about this, and ask them to make the choice seeing as it's their child.

Which choice would you choose? What painful choice quests would you like? 