Leidenschaft

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 1 (Completed)

It'll obviously have to be through pm. But Jorwen could empathize with any problem Sevine has. Jorwen has still yet to open up about all the things he's done in the Reach and during the other wars he's fought in.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 1 (Completed)

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The best excuse for splurging on shiny new things: Crappy old things breaking.

@Frizan

Hell yea things breaking woo

Sagax, Sevine and Jorwen should get together sometime and discuss life.

The Elder Scrolls: Corruption

Has everyone already posted? Maybe our GM should make a post to set the scene and give our characters a direction to go.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 1 (Completed)

Well, my computer is broken. My postings going to be real slow coming for a bit until I save up and get a new one.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 1 (Completed)

Do'Karth has already made Solveig blush minutes after waking up from her mini-coma, then he goes and tries to steal her warrior-crush? This'll get pretty... Hairy.

Heh.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 1 (Completed)

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I am not a medieval military historian, so I'm not sure what soldiers back then went through. In addition, most books detailing pre-gunpowder battles tend to focus on tactics and weapons, not so much on the participants (not the grunts anyways). With that said, a lot of my inspiration came from the experience of modern soldiers. The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien, is a great reflection by a veteran. This novel really gets the struggles of a veteran trying to adjust to civilian life, and the comradery he missed.

Eugene Sledge wrote about his journey from WW2 to post-war America in his two novels, and portrayed in HBO's The Pacific. Interesting thing about Sledge was that he distanced himself from the military when he returned; this guy avoided veteran reunions until thirty years later.

As for the combat mentality, Evan Wright's Generation Kill (and the TV series) describes it pretty accurately. I also took pieces of Wright for Madura's character.

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Only if you count teamkills.

@gcold

There was a French knight who literally wrote the book on Chivalry, IIRC, who had medieval PTSD. I think it was Agincourt he took part in and found himself flinching any time he saw a bird fly in the edge of his vision. The difference between medieval knights and the modern soldier though, is that knights were born and bred for their position as warriors. The closest equivalent to the modern soldier would be the Vietnam draftee and a medieval levy. One of the ways soldiers often avoid psychological disorders or great grief is by talking to their comrades. Medieval soldiers had much more time to do this, and it's been theorized that's how they avoided PTSD. The earliest mention of anything that could be interpreted as PTSD is from a 19th Century text that mentions soldiers' "war fatigue."

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 1 (Completed)

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Argonians are Lizardmen
Anunnaki are Lizardmen

Both have names starting with A

Coincidence? I think not

@Peik

There are Argonians in the company. They've infiltrated us already.

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Well, when you put it like that, that makes more sense on his part. She looks up to Jorwen, but she may look inward and contemplate as to why he made this decision. Ha! I like that, about Solveig that is. I'd like for her and Sevine to interact more really. I did list one of Sevine's weaknesses as Sympathy for Women and Children. However, I was reading through her CS, and she is suppose to be more apathetic than I've written her normally. As I've been trying to equate her inward emotional problems as a struggle, as she's still dealing with mental problems from the war, in a sense, I'm trying to make her more human, less of a cold blooded killer that is use to hacks-and-slashes mode, and more of a person with actual feelings. You could say, she's caught in the midst of transitioning from a soldiers life to a normal one, although being with the company allows her to fuel that desire for order, and for blood. But she's not really bound to them as she was with the Stormcloaks.

@gcold I couldn't agree more. I don't intend her to be a Mary-Sue by any means, I just don't think she's been placed in a difficult spot yet to show her true colors. Sure we all saw how she fought at the redoubt, she worked like a machine, but she's made friends along the way, and that's something she hasn't had in a long while, or as numerous. Her only friends growing up, were her family, and Edith.

Theres a lot more to her than I feel that I've written, I suppose I should work harder on fleshing her out. Sure she's a nice person, but she's not gonna tell anyone what's upsetting her, maybe Leif, she's more likely to hold it in and suppress it, trying to ignore what's tearing her apart. Man, now that I think about it, I haven't included much about her sister at all. I think it would be a good idea if after this battle ends, depending, she ought to sit her butt down and write Liliana a letter. I'm almost tempted to go back and edit a few of my solo posts to help flesh things out.

@MacabreFox

I actually wrote Jorwen based on a lot of my little understanding on how soldiers view war, especially as a man who has seen as much of war as he has. Nordic culture is almost anti-intellectual, as they pride themselves more on strength and bloody tales. Jorwen is a man who spent his life in war and knows the stories of glory in war are bold-faced lies. The reason soldiers miss war, it's been said, is not because they miss killing, it is because war forges bonds that they will never and can never find elsewhere and the effects of the massive doses of adrenaline that experiencing combat gives you.

Jorwen, like many real life veterans, came back from the brotherhood and love that soldiers have for one another in war-time to a Skyrim and civilian life where a million uncertainties bombarded him. He had a wife to care for, a daughter to raise, and a tailor's shop to run that was doomed to fail. He had his shop taken from him and he only ever knew how to do one other thing.

My father grew up in the 80s and 90s around some of the worst zones in which gang killings took place and was part of it all, being a gang member. He is many years removed from that life, but he still holds a certain buried aggression in him, a side of him that is truly scary. There's always pieces of my father in the characters I write. I feel I get to understand him better without having to bring up his memories of it all.

These should be good starting resources about the mindset of veterans and the effects of war and killing-

Sebastian Junger: Why Veterans Miss War
On Killing - Episode 2 (Lonnie)
HUMAN - Clip #14: The lasting effects of violence

As cheesy as 80s action movies are, the first Rambo had this great scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMyca5XC_Ao
Which is a little bit like Ulfric's speech he gives to Galmar the first time the player walks into the Palace of Kings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_5kBJduIg

The Iliad is also a great piece on war.

I'll work on relations after I finish an important post for my Mass Effect RP, reply to Hank in our collab, and finish this bowl of cereal.

Priorities, yo.

@Dervish

What about our collab? QQ

The Elder Scrolls: Corruption

Purdy fine. Got paid a little while ago, so that's always good. What about everyone else?