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

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

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On Kamal archery, bows exist but they are very rare and serves as specialist equipment. Their mages are several magnitudes numerous than archers, and their ships have more ice launchers than archers. I actually imagine their bows as shortbows rather than longbows. Due to Kamals not producing bows on their own, and whatever they got their hands on are captured from Tang Mos or traded with neighbors. Being the isolationists they are, the latter happens infrequently.

I know what you guys are thinking; Gcold, isn't the bow universal to every culture? Actually, the native Australians never used bows. Instead, they use spear-throwers to achieve comparable effects as the historical bow. Kamals do have regiments of spearmen, and a simple device converting their melee weapon to ranged is far more effective than dedicated missile troops.

The Australian aboriginals also tossed boomerangs. Anyways, @Hyperdrive is Aussie, he should know more about this.

ES lore has near nothing on Kamals, despite them obliterating Windhelm in 2nd era and forced the founding of the Ebonheart Pact. Mysterious Akavir did mention the snow demons' homeland as mountainous and arctic, not exactly favorable conditions for obtaining wood and fletching. Their advances in metallurgy compensates for absentee woodworking.

Here's a theory tracing from Kamals' hypothetical origin, nothing official or proven, just a potential excuse.

Theory

One of many unofficial theories on Kamals is that they are actually Snow Elves fleeing Atmoran onslaught. The Snow Elves bargained with a daedric prince (Dagon? Clavicus?) for greater strength, in turn, he took their grace. Now, shrines to Auriel in Dawnguard confer archery benefit, which means the bow is important to Snow Elf military (or at least, symbolic). What if the said prince mutated them into giants, gave them a land with strong ores and in exchange, took away whatever they learned about archery?

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

Hmm, that's what I was thinking, but I'm interested to know what these fire salts are going to be used for. I was waiting on a post from @gcold or @Leidenschaft to determine what happens next. But, I'm all for setting these Kamal on fire by dumping oil over the walls, or at least for us to dip our arrows, and light them afire. For the time being, there's no way to open the gate without risking them invading Windhelm.

@gcold@Leidenschaft What's your thoughts on this?

@MacabreFox

Some people below discovered Kamals' weakness against fire salts. It causes kind of allergy when in contact with their body. As for dumping oil, that would only work when our guys are safely apart from the enemy, or else we risk friendly oil.

Dumhuvud is bring reinforcements next post, we're talking about hundreds.

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

clad in iron

@Peik

Their alloy is actually somewhere between adamantium and stalhrim.

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

If I may, I just want to point out that the physical stamina weakness might be a concern to some degree, since if I was reading right, the company marched from the Reach to Eastmarch. I don't know how many carriages would be going with them save as baggage trains (if any).

It would be an interesting challenge to overcome to be sure, but I just thought I'd mention it in case it leads to unintentional consequences for Hank's character, like the bosses deciding she isn't worth the effort if she can't keep up.

@Dervish

They rode troop convoys from the Reach to Whiterun, and hitched rides with couriers and traders to Windhelm. This wasn't much of problem since only around 20 mercs were fit to continue.

For physical weakness, there's still room for interpretation. I'll assume "cannot throw something larger than a pebble" is somewhat exaggerated.

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

I changed the Telvanni masters to Redoran war-wizards, as you suggested. I didn't know these existed. It does make more sense this way. I also removed Dwemer from her miscellaneous skills and added the Dunmeri language instead, which also makes more sense, especially for a traditional House like Redoran.

The dried meat could be for Garm, though I like to think of Nix-hounds as scavengers who will eat almost anything. Like much of Morrowind's wildlife, they're not directly related to any real-world animals as far as I can tell. They have pincers for a mouth. I think he feeds himself.

@Hank

Yeah, there aren't too many canon appearances for Redoran mages. But since they value combat skills, things like destruction, restoration and conjuration without raising scared dead are presumably good assets.

Sheet's looking swell. You just need @Leidenschaft's nod for final acceptance.

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

@Hank Ok, much more workable this time around. With that said, you still have adjustments on your plate.

Hyperdrive is also building a Redoran character, and I'm gonna say the same thing I said to him. Your character cannot be affiliated with both Redoran and Telvanni, much less under the tutelage of Neloth. An alternative would be studying war magic in-house, with the rare, but present Redoran war-wizards. Being acquainted with two great houses is one too many connections for an average Jane.

There wasn't any mention on Dwarven studies, which doesn't make sense for her to read their script. Plus, it is highly archaic and useless to learn, the equivalent of mastering Cuneiforms or Oracles Bones. Daedric is fine, on the other hand, though reading it probably means she's proficient in the Dunmeri language as well.

Lack of pet treats in inventory; how is Niernen feeding Garm?

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

@Haeo Answered.

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

@Haeo Titanpad 2.

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

I have Crohns disease and it decided that after taking a few years off of making my life a living hell it wanted to put me back in hospital. Basically, my guts have a crazy amount of infection going on and abscesses out the wazoo that's led to complications that will mean me going in for surgery in 2-3 months to have parts of my intestine removed before it spreads and destroys the healthy tissues. I feel pretty good right now, so the treatments seem to be holding (I'm even typing this not hooked up to an IV! How magical is that?), and I hope to be discharged over the next few days. I miss my dog, I gotta say.

But yeah, long story short, guts started hurting a lot, I lost 30 pounds in 2 months, I couldn't really eat, and work was murdering me with a shift that effectively made me work 60 out of 70 days. It decidedly sucked.

@Dervish

Can't say I know what it feels like, but I'm with you. You can probably ask your boss for more paid sick days. I know someone having Crohn's and she got a three-month paid leave.

Not sure which hospital you're staying, but some let do let pets in. There's a new trend with animal therapies, might be worth looking into.

Anyways, stay tough, we're behind ya.

@Leidenschaft Put me in the PM list if you haven't started. Need to keep my little minions under watchful eye.

Utu-ja's secret plan

@Haeo

It's possible, but only for a short duration. That would happen as a short collab between you and I, something around hours, IC time.

Can I just point out that this RP started 3 months ago, and we already have 92 IC posts? I don't think I've ever made it past 40-50! This RP is like a heavenly playground full of writing adventure for me (: I've never been in any RP where the players are as dedicated to the RP as this one, could just be the fact that its Skyrim-related, and there's a deep thirst for it, but truly, this RP fucking rocks my socks. I love you guys. All of you.

@MacabreFox

Thank you, thank you.