In Which Marwyth Finishes Off February

This is a very light action post given that it covers the entire latter half of February for Marwyth on ESO. But that span of time was very light for action for her, and there were only a few actual play sessions that included more than just running writs and such. So I’m covering the rest of February all in one post.

Play by play

Play dates: 2/15-2/29/2024
Session numbers in this run: 108-110

General items of note

A lot of harvesting runs around Alinor for various mats
A lot of jumping in on boss fights at Welenkin Cove, and also running the Welenkin Abyssal Geyser
Used both Mirri and Ember as backup at the geysers and for the boss
And heh, Ember was delighted by my raiding thieves troves!
Got 100000 Alliance Points as daily reward on the 21st, so took those as Marwyth and got 4 skill points, yowza

February 22nd

Six different Psijic portals, very high portal day today :O
Got another Aurbic Amber and sold that thing pretty damned quickly 😀
Picked up a stylesheet for Psijic Staves but handed that off to Veghra, since Gyllerah already had that style

February 25th

Moved the Summerset action for Marwyth a little further along
Went up to the palace in Alinor to talk to the Proxy Queen
Found the battlereeve outside there and picked up the side quest to locate her missing informants
Talked to the Proxy Queen to get permission to go warn the Sapiarchs about the threat to the Crystal Tower
And yep the Proxy Queen is still a snotty bitch
Then went off to find the battlereeve’s informants at Karnwasten!
Ran that with Ember, and got fragment number five to unlock the kitten <3
Took out a couple of bosses but I’d already gotten all of the bosses in this dungeon so didn’t have to go after all of them
Rescued the drunken Orc and reunited him with the mage holed up by the boat
Then returned to Alinor and tracked down the third missing contact, and found her wounded
Made sure she could get back to Alinor on her own
Hunted down the five pieces of the report, then took those back to the battlereeve
Last but not least did indeed take out a geyser, and got a daily reward from the battlereeve for it
Which included a style sheet for Sapiarch Maces, awesome! Handed that off to Gyllerah

February 28th

Pushed the Ebonheart Pact plot a little further along with Marwyth
Ran Fallowstone Hall, more or less the same way Gyllerah had done
Nearby dolmen fired off just as I arrived so i ran over to jump in on that action
Then freed the miners trapped down in the mine
Found the relics, got into the tomb, and witnessed the escape of Sinmur
Once again confused by how the hell to get to the nearby skyshard
Took a break after finishing the mine, and flipped to Gyllerah and Veghra to rearrange inventory and sell stuff
Then returned to the Rift
Dolmen fired off again so I ran it again
This time through found Aela Earth-Turner
Ran her little side quest to take out some of the named nearby baddies for her
Read her logbook and saw the records of a bunch of the Worm Cult members she’d apprehended having a way of dying in the process, or immediately after, and headed up to Fallowstone Hall
Confirmed that I was able to get to the skyshard from there
Played through this part more or less the same way as Gyllerah as well
Got to the point of discovering OHNOEZ Wuuthrad has been taken!
Then flipped back to Gyllerah

Commentary

Super short post here, and just about all of this action is stuff I’d already previously done as Gyllerah, so not much new here to talk about.

With one exception: the extra mileage I got with Aela Earth-Turner when Marwyth found her near Fallowstone Hall. This time through I found her logbook, from which I learned that Worm Cult members she apprehended had a way of dying in the process, isn’t that just interesting. Given that I knew at this point Aela would later be revealed as actually being a Worm Cult spy, this raises the question of whether any cultists she apprehended were actually killed. Did she put that they were killed in her logbook as a cover for helping them escape? Or was she actually arranging their deaths as a means of protecting her own cover?

Maybe a little of column A, a little of column B. I could totally see her being desperate enough to have to take out her captives on the sly to keep them from fingering her. And at the same time, I could totally see her having to fake their deaths explicitly so they could escape. I didn’t see any sign of what she was actually doing, either in Gyllerah’s playthrough or Marwyth’s, so I’m not sure if this is a question the game actually answers? But intriguing to consider from a character perspective nonetheless.

And one more thing I’ll call out here that I didn’t remember until I reviewed the screenshots for this post: in Fallowstone Hall there was a dragon skull on display, and the plaque on it identified the dragon as Dukaanfinsot. The first thing that stood out about this name was the ‘Dukaan’ part; there’s a dragon priest by that name in Skyrim. And the second thing was, Dukaanfinsot is four syllables. Not three.

And I knew from Skyrim that dragon names were always three words of power–which is why a dragon’s name is a Shout. Yet here’s a dragon in the lore whose name had four syllables. And he’s apparently not the only one, either. There was Boziikkodstrun as well.

I did a bit of searching about this, and found one post on Reddit where a commenter points out that three words is the rule for a dragon’s name, not three syllables… and that the vast majority of words in the dragon language are in fact one syllable. This seems reasonable to me as a way to explain this discrepancy! And I’ll go with this as my headcanon for it, in the absence of any official lore explanation out of ZOS.

Next time

Marwyth’s next post will cover the first half of March for her, wherein I begin serious practice with parsing and learning how to make her an effective DPS character. And some moving along of various plots as well!