Merawen Playthrough
Posts pertaining to my playthrough of Merawen the Dunmer
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In Which Merawen Quests All Over Skyrim for the Dawnguard
This session was all about the side quests for the Dawnguard, with a mix of quests from Sorine, Gunmar, and Florentius. Kidnap victims were rescued! Vampires were plammoed with crossbow bolts! Lost Dawnguard relics were acquired!
And through it all, Merawen boinged back and forth to several points between Markarth and Riften, all over the map. Most of the locales I hit in this session were places I’d been to before, either as Alarrah or as Merawen. But a couple of them were brand new to me, and that was fun!
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In Which Merawen Marries Jenassa, Adopts Children, and Quests for the Dawnguard
Very eventful session! This saw my girl Merawen marrying Jenassa, the Dunmer mercenary who is perhaps the one person in all of Skyrim who really gets her. Except maybe also Karliah, and the game won’t let me marry Karliah! So Jenassa it is. đ
Also adopted two children this time, Sofie from Windhelm, and Runa from the Riften orphanage.
And last but not least, ran two more side quests for the Dawnguard! And got in some practice using Dawnguard spells and weaponry to take out the undead.
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In Which Merawen Saves a Priest of Arkay and Returns to Solstheim
This session was predominantly about doing side quests for the Dawnguardâbut with a side helping of getting the party started for the Dragonborn plotline as well. Because Merawenâs now visited Solstheim a second time, and sheâs experienced firsthand some of the creepiness involved with whatâs going on with the All-Maker Stones there. Muahaha.
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In Which Merawen Saves a Moth Priest, Hunts a Disguised Vampire, and Gathers Jazbay Grapes
I’m well and thoroughly into the Dawnguard content at this point, with a lot more mileage to that entire plotline than I got with Alarrah. Because this time through, I’m trying out more of the Dawnguard side plots, too!
So while I moved the main Dawnguard plot along some in this session, I spent most of the rest of it on side quests.
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In Which Merawen Slays a Dragon Priest and Quests for the Dawnguard
Mostly familiar territory again in this session, only this time, there was more mileage of stuff done in different ways. Not the killing of the Dragon Priest Hevnoraak–that did go pretty much as it had done for Alarrah–but I got some fun variations of events once I returned to the Dawnguard plotline and got Serana at my back.
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In Which Merawen Hunts Crimson Nirnroot, the Pale Lady, Bandits, and Bears
This session got a little more random than I planned going in! But this was kind of cool regardless, as I did some wandering around on foot to try to see if I could have anything interesting happen–and to get opportunities to exercise the Heavy Armor skill. I was pleased to find at least one totally brand new location I never saw during Alarrah’s run!
With the exception of finding the Lunar Forge, though, this was all familiar territory. So again, I’ll be focusing on the bits that were different this time vs. what happened when Alarrah did them.
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In Which Merawen Finds an Elder Scroll and the Oghma Infinium
I’m now to the point in Merawen’s playthrough that I’ve hit about all the unfamiliar stuff I expect to hit with this character. So unless further radiant quests send me to dungeons I haven’t run before, most if not all of Merawen’s coming posts will be territory Alarrah also covered.
What commentary I have in the posts will reflect that accordingly. I’ll focus just on talking about new-to-Merawen stuff.
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In Which Merawen Visits Paarthurnax, Repairs the White Phial, and Seeks an Elder Scroll
A fair amount of plot action in this as I moved the main plot along, but also finished up the quest about the White Phial. And a lot of this was familiar territory–but not all of it!
Details as always behind the fold.
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In Which Merawen Finds the Aetherium Forge and Alduinâs Wall
This session was all about finishing up the Lost to the Ages quest, and finding the Aetherium Forgeâand then returning to the main quest and finding Alduinâs Wall.
Mostly familiar territory and not too different from how Alarrah did both of these things. But I have at least a little commentary to make, so here we go!
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In Which Merawen Retrieves the Remaining Aetherium Shards
This was a short session, partly because âwork nightâ and partly because every so often I do in fact need to do Adulting type things, like pay bills!
(Also, there was a new What IfâŚ? to watch, which was highly entertaining, and I donât want to try to game during MCU-related TV!)