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In Which Marwyth Saves Stonefalls and Fights a Plague in Deshaan
I’m seriously behind on my ESO playthrough posts. But before I get into this one, I want to call out the recent news about a Zenimax employee, Leona Faren, having been basically railroaded into resigning after months of abuse by a transphobic manager. I am seriously pissed off about this, as I wrote in the other post.
For the time being, I am not bailing on the Elder Scrolls games I already own; they’re too important to me as a means of maintaining my mental well-being until my household can finally abandon our COVID precautions. We are not to that point yet, and we don’t know when we will be.
But I will not be giving ESO any further money, and I will also not be buying Starfield. And I’ll be monitoring the situation to see how it proceeds. Also, I will totally understand if anybody who’s been following this blog’s posts until now is even more pissed off at Zenimax than I am right now and needs to stand down from following my playthroughs.
Right? Right. So let’s talk about what Marwyth did from 6/13 to 6/19.
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In Which Gyllerah Vanquishes Molag Bal
By definition every single one of my posts on this blog is full of spoilers, but this one more so than most, since it features the end of the main plot of ESO. If you’re an ESO player, and you don’t want to know specifics of how the main plot ends, you might hold this post until later.
But if you don’t mind that part, then read on! Because yeah, this post’s main action is Gyllerah finishing up the game’s main quest in Coldharbour, and defeating Molag Bal.
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In Which Gyllerah Saves the Aldmeri Dominion and Quests into Coldharbour
This is a major point in Gyllerah’s playthrough, because, just shy of 200 total sessions with her, I finally hit the last big stretch of the game’s Main Quest. Which means: I finally made it into Coldharbour and began assembling an army to take on Molag Bal.
But before I did that, I also finished off the Aldmeri Dominion and the Mages Guild plots, which I found quite satisfying!
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In Which Gyllerah Fights the Servant of Naemon in Greenshade
This is a multi-day session post again, but only a few of these days saw actual RP action. Main highlights: moving the Aldmeri Dominion plot further along, and learning more about what exactly the Shade of Naemon is trying to do; identifying a thief in Marbruk; running my first Master Writ; and running Orcrest in Northern Elsweyr. Delightful, delightful Orcrest. Yuk.
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In Which Gyllerah Saves Firsthold and Goes to Elden Root
This Gyllerah post sees the ending of the Auridon portion of my run through the Aldmeri Dominion plotline, and the beginning of the Grahtwood part! Also, I passed cp60, ran a bunch of writs, and started experimenting with more esoteric armor styles.
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In Which Gyllerah Explores the Undaunted, Closes Breaches, and Fights Daedra
This is a multi-session post that covers a wide span of days, most of which were me just logging into ESO long enough to run writs. Main reason for this: distracted by firing up an Oblivion playthrough!
But when I wasn’t running writs, the main highlights here were:
- Trying to join the Undaunted
- Closing breaches for the Psijic Order
- Fighting Daedra for the Fighters Guild
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In Which Gyllerah Unveils the Veiled Queen
Main action here: proceeding on the Aldmeri Dominion quest line, which let me get in some intrigue and infiltration! And finding out the identity of the Veiled Queen! And somebody is super cranky that I broke into her organization’s secret hideout, too. Muahaha.
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In Which Gyllerah Participates in the New Life Festival
This is a low key post for the most part, covering a whole lot of sessions in which my ESO action was focused on a) running writs, b) periodic surveys to get materials for writs, and c) participating in the New Life festival. Gathering a whole bunch of sessions up into one post here, since none of them by themselves were really interesting enough for a single post.
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In Which Gyllerah Explores Auridon
This is all solo stuff on my part, mostly exploring the northern part of Auridon as I attempted to use a few of the survey and treasure maps I’ve been getting as writ rewards. And I hit some geysers and got some belated event loot.