#bethesda kin

[unhingedkinfessions]

Starting a support group for people like me who kin from Bethesda games. Is there anything worse than being from a glitchy, mid, overpriced game that is a poor, lifeless facsimile of the universe you remember?

Anyways Todd should give me TES 6 I could make it better than Bethesda ever could from my memories alone. I could do it. - Prince Sanguine (unfortunately)

i look forward to the TES6 revamp release by anonymous asker on unhingedkinfessions dot tumblr dot com

[umbralundertaker]

good luck w fnv /gen its the best game ever. btw your name is 6 and you play as COURIER SIX thats a reference

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 thank you anon this is awesome. Im pretty bad at video games in general, so ill probably do easy mode (if there is an easy mode) but do you have any tips?

[galaxywarp]

my sister is playing Fallout 4 and she’s really into it. I talked to her on the phone earlier but she was completely distracted by the quest she was doing and I felt so proud. she even had a game-breaking Bethesda bug the other day that ruined her save file and made her nearly abandon the character. Kin.

[fictionkinfessions]

Gotta love randomly seeing "hey, one of your sources almost had people like who you are now in it! Except a guy said absolutely not, no pagans and fucking walked away, then Bethesda bought the IP so that whole game that could have had people like you in it but then didn't was scrapped", it's like, wow, thanks for the random fucking 2d4 psychic damage, world. Kinda reminds me of the wasteland, except instead of randomly getting shot, bitten by a molerat, or otherwise physically harmed out of nowhere while wandering around (something that happened far more than you'd imagine, honestly, like, yeah it sometimes happens in the games but you have no idea how weirdly silent a molerat could be or how common Gunners became for a while post-Fallout-4-canon, not to mention the toll the lack of maintenance had on roads and shit, sinkholes were a serious hazard), it's articles talking about how something kind of fucked happened in this world's creation of my source popping up and making me suffer. Screw it, I need to write a Thing about this, here's praying to the kin-gods I don't end up with a new Fallout AU fictotype (I say knowing I probably will).

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[laurelindebear]

Top 5 video games?

For a second I thought, 'Oh this will be easy!' and then I realised, wait, do I need to distinguish between all the main-series Pokemon games?? Halp! But I'll do my best:

Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: This was the first Elder Scrolls game I played so it was my introduction to the series and its (utterly bonkers) lore, and to Bethesda games in general. I love how different it is from standard 'medieval-Europe' fantasy worlds and I love that I can play as an awesome dinosaur-lizard lady. I also love the guar. <3 I do not love cliff racers, which are pure swooping evil bastards, but at least you can mod them out. I haven't replayed it in a few years but nostalgia keeps it at number 1.

Pokemon X: It's honestly a toss-up between X, Red/Blue, and Platinum; I got Red waaay back in 1999 or 2000 (Mr Bear got Blue) and played it every day on the bus to and from work in the months before our wedding. Platinum was the one that got me really back into it after not getting a GBA or the first generation DS. But I'm giving it to X because I really enjoyed playing it, because I still think Mega Evolutions have been the best generational gimmick to date, and because it was the first one to introduce more character creation which I think is great. (Bonus for what remains of being a Francophile after living in the UK for 20+ years.)

World of Warcraft: Outing myself as a basic bench here, but I think I have to hand it to WoW for the sheer amount of hours I've pumped in and the fact I owe so many of my closest friends to it. Once upon a time I would have put Lord of the Rings Online in this place, but I've retired from LOTRO (my kin basically dried up and the game systems are - is Byzantine the word I want? - hella complicated, anyway) and WoW has sucked me back in yet again with friendship, dragons, and a Pokemon-lite minigame.

Animal Crossing New Horizons: aka 'The Pandemic Game'. I loved Wild World, and I loved New Leaf even more, so of course I love New Horizons - I even got the Happy Home Paradise DLC. Plus it's the game that led to me meeting you, @ricochetoconnell! So now it's on the list forever. ❤

The Sims 3: I have spent a silly number of hours playing this and designing houses, patterns, furniture, characters, gardens, etc. I don't even want to think how much I've spent in total across expansions and Store content (although I did get some stuff free with points or when they were doing specials.) Also I make my blorbos and then make them kiss. I should check out 4 at some point; the lack of create-a-style put me off but I've seen people making stunning builds in it.

Runner-up: Stardew Valley - what's not to love about that game??

[ravnloft]

i missed skyrim so i restarted my sigg playthrough. i've made her many MANY times because her saves kept getting inexplicably borked for manifold reasons, or i wound up wanting to go a different route with her character. i'm level 7 now and i swear to christ if this save gets fucked i'm going to [redacted for legal reasons] bethesda hq

anyway she's like 8 feet tall and a he/they lesbian and secretly kins laios deliciousindungeon

[juniperberries-canisroot]

Uuuh, since when were HagRavens considered kin to Nocturnal? All cause Nocturnal likes birds doesn't mean HagRavens are her creation. HagRavens seem to have more connection to Hircine or an aspect of him they worship rather than the patron of theives and the night. They also do a ritual to become a HagRaven, as stated by Illia from DarkLight Tower, and it's usually mages who do this, not theives. Daedric Princes also have overlapping symbols, like Sanguine and Azura with roses, both associated with them one way or another.

Claiming books as evidence is also not a solid arguement. I've seen plenty of Daedra related books inside people's houses who had nothing to do with Daedra, like one in Viola Giordiano.

The article fails to consider that a man named Rorik, who the place was named after in the Fourth Era, can be an oopsie on Bethesda's part.

The article ALSO fails to mention how Joune is teaching Sissel magic in secret and how there is a lack of women in the village. Erik states his mom died when he was young and somewhere I think it was said that Sissel and Britte's mom died after childbirth. The only other woman in the village is the High Elf Reldis that runs CowFlop Farm, who Ennis considers his mom. She adopted him after his own mom died, thou its not really stated if he lived in RorikStead at the time. It's moreso implied that the mom died elsewhere and the lady adopted him, since he says she 'rescued' him. In a conversation it could be taken that the mom possibly died in the war, orphaning Ennis and Reldis took him in.

[bluebleulanse]

Twitter Fiction kin!

Any mass effect, dragon age, dishonored or any other fiction kins use Twitter?

I dont really use tumblr anymore and have since switched to Twitter and would love to follow and make some fiction kin friends!

I'm down to follow and talk to anyone whether you kin from any of those listed or not! I’m kin with Daud, Kaidan Alenko, and Lavellan my Twitter is bluebleulanse. Let's be friends!

I am 18+ and prefer you be as well!

[dh-kinnect]

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[bosmer-bitch]

no one:

dude in bethesda’s e3 press conference:

[geigercounterfordumbasses]

A Courier 6 Kinnie’s Thoughts on New Vegas 2

With Microsoft buying Bethesda, and Obsidian and Bethesda being sister companies now, I have seen talk about a possible New Vegas 2. Here are my thoughts on it: A New Vegas 2 is a bad idea. Just in general. This isn’t just about it being a Microsoft thing or whatever other people’s problems seem to be. I know nothing about Microsoft or Obsidian in its current state so I can’t really comment on that. My point is, a New Vegas 2 would ruin everything New Vegas is about. New Vegas does not need a direct sequel, and I think one would be a terrible idea. This isn’t like Fallout 1 where Fallout 2 could be made because Fallout 1 has a pretty set ending with only small details up to the player. Get the Waterchip and foil The Master’s plans is how the game goes. Fallout 2 did end up choosing some endings to certain sidequests as cannon, but that  did not majorly change the flow of Fallout 1, and Fallout 1 can still be played in multiple ways that can be considered “cannon”. Fallout New Vegas, however, is all about having the player’s choices have a huge affect on the game world. The faction you choose to support in the Battle of Hoover Dam changes nearly everything about life in the Mojave Wasteland. Choosing a “correct” ending would ruin the whole game. Fallout New Vegas does not have a cannon ending, and that is how it should be. Like I said in my title, I kin the main character from Fallout New Vegas. I don’t really care about the reader’s thoughts on kinning, all I want you to understand that for me I lived through these events. Setting a “correct” path to New Vegas could potentially ruin the entire life I lived through. And I know you can kin characters from an alternate timeline of things, but the point still stands that New Vegas isn’t just a game, it’s a glimpse into life in a post-nuclear wasteland full of realistic, fleshed out ways to live that life. The amount of choice the player has is incredible. A direct sequel for New Vegas would ruin that entirely. Fallout isn’t just a game series to some of us. For some people, like myself, it is a home. A place to escape to when things are rough that will always be there. Fallout New Vegas is a huge part of who I am and a sequel would probably discredit all of that. Sorry if this is an incoherent rant that makes no sense, I just wanted to get my feelings across.

[darealsaltysam]

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[caithyra]

Thalmor Theories

So, we all know the theory that Thalmor “wants to destroy the world by using/destroying the Towers”-theory, right? Well, it’s just a fan theory that got popular and isn’t really based on anything, so I don’t particularly like it (but if it reaches enough consensus in fandom it might end up being turned into canon by Bethesda. Canon in Elder Scrolls is kind of influenced that way).

So with that out of the way, I will present to you my current favorite Thalmor Theory:

The Thalmor were founded by Ayleids.

And not just any Ayleids, but the Alessian Ayleids who aided in the slave rebellion against their kin, only for the humans to turn against them and forcing them to either die or run away and hide in provinces other than Cyrodiil.

Now, understandably, these Ayleids weren’t happy with being run out of their homes for daring to help humans by humans. The ones who survived to other lands were also powerful, probably mages, and as such very long-lived (and thus probably one or two or maybe even three survive well into the 4th Era and the Dragons’ return).

A large number ends up in Summerset. Where they lick their wounds and work on getting over their traumas and whatnot to salvage what life they can. They might marry Altmer and have children and families and friends and things look up.

And then Tiber Septim rolls in and commits genocide against the Altmer until the Altmer king/queen bends the knee to the Empire. And then the Empire forces the Altmer to worship Tiber Septim as the god Talos.

The Ayleids and their descendants, having lost family and friends on a massive scale once more to the Empire, has had enough. They found the Thalmor, but because it is a very Ayleidic in its undercurrents, they have trouble attracting pure Altmer, and in combination with bending the knee to their oppressors, the Ayleids starts to dislike the Altmer as well. They start to pick part-Ayleids as future spouses to preserve the Ayleid way/genes instead, which is what they really mean with “purebred” (most Altmer does not know this and think they’re breeding pure Altmer with their arranged marriages).

Ayleids, unlike Altmer, were also known to worship daedra, which was how they knew how to make it look like they saved the world from the Oblivion Crisis, on top of that, they have Ayleidic cousins among the Boiche to help them incorporate Valenwood into their new Dominion.

And, of course, Lord Naarifin had a dremora right hand wielding the artifact of Boethiah, while using the Orb of Vaermina, and then being carried away by winged daedra (winged twilights?) from his imprisonment after he lost the Imperial City.

It should also be noted that in Legends (after Oblivion), the Imperial City is shown with the Temple of the One and not the petrified Avatar of Akatosh.

I believe that Naarifin (an Ayleid, or part-Ayleid, Thalmor leader) had the Avatar of Akatosh removed, pending destruction, (if it maintains, or in any way supports, the liminal barrier against Oblivion, it would be in both Boethiah’s and Vaermina’s, and, indeed, all daedra’s, interest to destroy it. Or it might be the key to reopen the barrier), and the Temple of the One rebuilt. Because the Avatar is the symbol that Martin Septim, not the Thalmor, had ended the Oblivion Crisis (and the Temple of the One would have been mentioned many times in literature, and changing it to giant dragon statue in millions of books is harder than getting rid of said statue and rebuilding the Temple), and would have cost them most of their Summerset support.

And it could have been payment to the daedra the Thalmor are allied with for their artifacts and underlings, alongside the Culling (which, without the Avatar, might have reopened the barrier by number of souls alone, many of them daedra worshipers in this City of a Thousand Cults, going to the Planes of Oblivion).

But basically, what the Ayleidic Thalmor wants is not to destroy the world. What the Thalmor wants is to destroy the Empire, and possibly, Men, for what they’ve done to them. Outlawing Talos worship might have started the rebellion with the Nords, but was just as much motivated by their sheer loathing of him and his empire.