#high isle spoilers

[feykrorovaan]

You all know Darien is probably going to show up again at some point, correct? It's not just hope. ZoS has been sprinkling breadcrumbs (pun intended) since Summerset. They wouldn't do that for no reason or to tease us (unless they're somehow legitimately evil,which say what you want, but that isn't the case).

Spoilers galore for elder scrolls in general under the cut (Main plot, Wrothgar,Elsweyr,Greymoor,Summerset

Blackwood,High Isle, and Necrom.)

Just look at Coldharbor. What happened after we "lost" Darien. We found clues that he was still alive. Including a letter written by him in Wrothgar. So it only makes sense to me that they would do so again.

Darien and/or the events of Summerset have also been referenced in every.single.chapter since Summerset.

That, to my knowledge, hasn't happened with any other characters, especially not consecutively.

In Elsweyr, you can find a deceased khajiit, and nearby there is a note,describing how Meridia was looking for a new vessel that wouldn't betray her.

In Greymoor, Gabrielle Benele says she still believes that Darien is still out there somewhere and she is determined to find him. Not only that, but there is a Meridia quest where she has apparently turned her gaze from her faithful. Now Daedric princes' attention and favor can come and go, and I don't like Meridia, believe me, but she doesn't seem like the kind of prince that would turn her back if something bigger didn't have her attention.

In Blackwood, there is a random event when you talk to a wizard and he can summon a lost spirit. One of those spirits can be an Auroran Knight with Dawnbreaker in his hilt. It's not confirmed to be Darien. But...come on. It's him.

In High Isle, Lady Arabelle references his father specifically. Not Darien specifically, but there are other generals, and captains they could have referenced.They chose him because they knew our ears would perk up at the name "Gautier". His father had a pretty forgettable role,Darien,did not.

In Necrom, if you played through the Summerset plot, you can speak to Naryu about the events of Summerset.

I don't feel like they would talk about him (or the events of Summerset) this much if he wasn't coming back at some point or at least confirmed to be alive in some way. Not to mention whenever he's brought up in streams, they are pretty tight-lipped about him, and they've never specifically said he' won't return.

Summerset was a big event. So if we do see Darien again, it's going to be big.

Sources:

Experience and

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

“Our first adventure together feels like a lifetime ago, though, doesn’t it?”

[pentacass]

[buttonsthenerdy]

Bisexual Raz #CONFIRMED

[dragonknightofsummerset]

I was so happy to catch up with Queen Ayrenn

[eyevea]

look who's made another appearance in the outlaws refuge loading screen........

[tes-trash-blog]

High Isle: The “I Haven’t Done The Main Quest Yet” Notes

Death Valor Keep has the best writing I’ve ever seen in ESO.

BNUUY SO MANY BNUUY

Holy shit do I care about Bretons now?

SHUT UP JAKARN FUCK YOU JAKARN I HATE YOU JAKARN

I can’t understand the card game but people are getting some very sweet loot from it. Good for them!

ISOBEL ISOBEL ISOBEL ISOBEL ISOBEL ISOBEL--

Soulrazer Knight design is peak

ISOBEL I LOVE YOU

Doug Jones is in the game as a world boss! He’s over in Faun Falls, can’t miss him!

ISOBEL MARRY ME PLEASE

I’m incredibly pleased to see the callback to Original Breton Lore, i.e. the druidic roots. The first time I saw standing stones, I nearly cried!

JAKARN EVEN MY ONE FEMALE TOON THAT KINDA LEANS TOWARDS MEN HATES YOU SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH

Ascendant Order motif was worth it. So. Worth it.

JAKARN I HOPE YOU DIE IN THIS DLC I HOPE YOU DIE AND ISOBEL TAKES YOUR SPOT AS THE REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE DAGGERFALL COVENANT

The new species are wonderfully designed!

[nightingaletrash]

local kitty pestered by werewolf

[ffuan]

I finished the Bretons epilogue and it rlly was as dumb as ppl said it’d be 🤡

I kinda wish the peace talks were the conflict, or at least focus, of the epilogue. We know metatextually that the talks cannot succeed without breaking PvP, so give us an in-universe reason.

The alliance leaders are charismatic but each one has their issues. All 3 of the alliances commit *cough* crimes in the others countries and we’re just supposed to believe that it’s a few rotten apples??? I would have LOVED to see Irnskar address the attempted Argonian genocide from the base game. Even if you’ve only played High Isle, Emeric’s lack of accountability or oversight for the Isles could be a sticking point. Last but not least, Ayrenn is notoriously bad w racism and IIRC, did not send aid when dragons appeared…

Messy thoughts but ugh, the writing was so bad, I needed to vent.

[defectivegembrain]

gay lady knight? gay lady knight?!

[copper-ice-cube]

of fucking course the sugar plum fairy's lair is the FREEZER

the rest of calorum is the fridge and when people die its food getting eaten by the hungry one

but the sugar plum fairy steals spirits away to her mountain lair so they don't get eaten!

aka putting them in the freezer so they're dead but not eaten yet!!

and when she dies lapin says all the spirits have to go to the hungry one!!!

and there is imagery of the heat of the old dragon's lair melting lapin and all the sugar plum fairy's treasures away!!!!

aka frozen food being defrosted/reheated to be eaten!!!!!

fuck fuck fuck of fucking COURSE!!!!!!

[feykrorovaan]

The last two plots have had characters secretly in love, when is it the Vestige's turn?

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

can’t believe my vestige is being cockblocked by quest bugs rn

[pentacass]

there is no way Ayrenn (or the rest) would hide behind the wards-

[dragonknightofsummerset]

Za’ji!!! asfdklsj this scene is so funny

[bam-monsterhospital]

jeez, firesong’s main questline was terrible; so much contrived idiot-ball-holding from absolutely everyone.  

The most ridiculously terrible decisions that are obvious attempts to sabotage and no one questions it.  Should we put all the civilians in the temple for safekeeping?  The temple jutting out into the sea?  While we’re being attacked from sea?

oh the temple was obliterated by the sea-bound attackers almost intstantly. WHO COULD HAVE FORSEEN THIS TRAGEDY?!?  Certainly not the fucker who deMANDED all the important people be stuffed inside it for ‘safe keeping’.

Moving on to the epilogue of the high isle/firesong ‘legacy of the bretons’ shit, we have the fact the two separate druid characters, from two separate dlcs and questlines, who are both characters you interact with quite a bit and are supposed to be important...

these two. they are not related. they are not the same person.

 I forgot they were not the same person.

You’re given the most tedious runaround of all runarounds for obvious things that could have been taken care of by other characters and changed nothing.  They absolutely waste your time and run you around just to draw the nothingness out. 

Characters who are supposed to be intelligent and/or competent are the most braindead fuckers around.

“i used to be a spy in my youth, and just then when i received a package from an anonymous ‘admirer’ congratulating me on my win against this secret order who btw is still at large, i decided to shlorp up the wine offered inside.  I mean, wHO WOULDN’T HAVE, RIGHT?”

The evil fire druids who almost burnt down tamriel twice? They’re fiiiiiiine, they say they’re sorrryyyyyyy and were just doing what they were told, so obviously they’re forgiven and given part of the all-powerful artifact they previously sought and used, to safeguard.  Totally trustworthy friends.  All is forgiven.

laurel, that’s a bad idea.

“no shaddup, it’s totally fine, if we TRUST the firesong druids, then they’ll tooooootally not be evil anymore. That’s how trust works, right?” That’s not how trust works, zos.

this questline made me sick.