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In Which Elessir Escapes Helgen and Becomes a Dragonborn
After extensive doinking around with my mods to try to recover a workable set of them, finally got a load order I like working on both the VM and the Steam Deck. So time for a new modded playthrough, y’all.
And this time I’m switching it up even more and playing a dude, Elessir the Dunmer, named for Elessir a’Natharion from the Free Court books.
So let’s do that destroying Helgen thing, shall we?
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In Which Finds-The-Way is Revealed as Dragonborn
Typical initial action for one of my playthroughs, getting started as a Dragonborn, getting thaned, getting Lydia, etc. But this time with lots of German language geekery.
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In Which Merawen Flees to Riften
This session pretty much amounted to doing the rest of the preliminary work to get Merawen established enough as Dragonborn that I could get to the point of failing to find the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller… and then bailing to Riften.
Highlights and commentary and such behind the fold!
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In Which Merawen Discovers Her Power
It’s a little odd being on a low level character again so soon after defeating Miraak and finishing up with a character at level 62. I have to remind myself that I can no longer do certain things I’d gotten used to while playing Alarrah!
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In Which the Dragonborn Marries Her Favorite Housecarl
As promised, I did finally marry my darling Lydia. <3 And for a honeymoon, I took her to go kill some draugr! It’s like our first date all over again!
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In Which the Dragonborn’s Player is NOT Willing to Sacrifice Lydia for Dawnbreaker
Twitter thread from 5/20/2021, in which Alarrah finishes the run through Kilkreath to take out the necromancer Malkoran, and acquire Dawnbreaker.
In Which the Dragonborn’s Player is NOT Willing to Sacrifice Lydia for Dawnbreaker, Dammit
— Angela Korra'ti (@annathepiper) May 21, 2021
1. Dived back into the final stage of The Break of Dawn, to try to take down Malkoran. Holy hopping _fuck_ that was a hard fight.Note
This post was written on 3/18/2022, but is backdated to the time of the tweet thread for organizational purposes.