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Posted by T:man (Member # 11614) on :

So classes are over, and now it's writing week!

I get to spend this week on my semester project, an ethnological study of the various cultures of Vvardenfell.

Whether or not you are actually interested, I'll be posting it all up here.

Posted by Dan_Frank (Member # 8488) on :

Heh, cute.

Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :

Culture studies of the Varden? I didn't know Christopher Paolini was so pervasive that academics were getting in on it now.

Posted by Dan_Frank (Member # 8488) on :

Wrong fantasy world, Lyr. Vvardenfell is the island the game Morrowind takes place in, populated by the Dunmer. If I remember the Lore right, in Skyrim it's a smoking ruin.

Posted by Dan_Frank (Member # 8488) on :

And if that was sarcasm it whooshed over my head, since I know virtually nothing about Paolini except that the first chapter of his first book was terrible and I received it on good authority that it did not get better.

Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :

Heh, well, it was sarcasm, it just wasn't particularly funny. [Smile]

quote:
If I remember the Lore right, in Skyrim it's a smoking ruin.

And geez, spoiler alert!

Posted by Dan_Frank (Member # 8488) on :

No, I don't think that's like, story relevant! Or, if it is I certainly haven't encountered it. Some random non-quest NPC I was chatting up said he fled the disaster when Red Mountain erupted, and I looked it up on a TES Wiki. So... I don't think that counts as a real spoiler alert.

Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :

It's not a spoiler. It's backstory. If you start the game as a dunmer you are even immediately referred to as a refugee of the vvardenfell eruption.

Posted by Dan_Frank (Member # 8488) on :

Okay, cool.

Also Sam normally I don't really care about your proper noun capitalization handicap because I assume you're always posting with your thumbs via your phone, but when you don't capitalize the first V in Vvardenfell it makes the word read really different.

Posted by T:man (Member # 11614) on :

I'm going to try to play the Telvani, Ashlanders and the Imperials against each other à la Benedict.

Also, does anyone know what the best screen capture software to use when recording play time?