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Oid the talos principle12/26/2023 Thirdly, I need to get MUCH better at sneaking around before I even think of pickpocketing anyone. Apparently this “Thane” thing means they might overlook some bad behaviour, but that only applies in Whiterun. There’s no quiet back way out of the Bannered Mare, but if you stroll out of the front door at eleven at night, loudly singing The Age of Aggression and weaving from side to side, the guard will shush you and then go back to daydreaming about Ysolda or Amren while you slip round the back of Belethor’s. Secondly, if you can’t be discreet, disguise your intentions. Most of the merchants seem to keep all their money in one place, given Skyrim appears to lack any form of banking, so it’s very tempting to just grab as much gold as one can carry, but of course they would notice, whereas if I fill one of my leather pouches, the pile looks about the same. Better to steal a few hundred septims safely every time I’m in town, than to clear out a merchant’s coffers and have him either go bankrupt or buy a better lock. Speaking of which, I should probably note down the advice Arissa gave me on all that. I walked right up to Urag and tapped him on the shoulder before he realised I was there, and he’s got a librarian’s ears! This will be extremely useful for visiting shopkeepers after hours. I don’t expect he knows much about Dragonborns, but he might have some ideas about refining the shouts.īut for now, I need to return to my studies.Ĭan’t sleep, too agitated from finally getting the hang of the Muffle spell. I’m not eager to fight another Dragon too soon, though, I’m definitely getting stronger, magically, but I was backed by several guards, three Dunmer, Rumarin and Arissa, all of whom could use ranged weapons or magic.Įxcitingly, though, I’ve learned that Calcelmo is in Markarth! Of course, if he was in any Skyrim city, it would have to be there, all that Dwemer architecture in actual daily use must be incredibly exciting (or possibly infuriating) to him. I’m unsure why the second word I came across worked first, perhaps it’s something to do with the stone? Or perhaps it’s just not always something you can choose. The very small amount I’ve managed to find out from Urag and the other staff here, combined with what happened by the tower suggests that if I absorb another Dragon’s soul, it will allow me to understand the word, and use it. I’m even starting to get a feeling that I know what it might mean. I now understand, of course, the strange wall up the mountain. What I’d learned about it from my professors isn’t entirely inaccurate, to an extent it does feel brutish, lacks finesse, but… I feel like there’s potential there, like if I practice and perhaps learn more Words, perhaps there’s more to it than mere brute force. It doesn’t even exactly feel like magic, or… well, it does and it doesn’t. I’ve tried to locate references on Dragonborns in the library, but Urag said they don’t really have much in the way of non-magical history, and shouting isn’t really seen as magic, understandably. But an Altmer who escaped Helgen and is Dragonborn? I can’t imagine that news staying in Whiterun alone. Before this, there was no reason for an Altmer who escaped Helgen to be of interest to anyone much. Although I suppose if and when news gets to Elenwen I won’t have to bother. I still need to find out my position with the Thalmor, but after, well, that business, I really don’t think there’s anyone I can safely approach. And they’re really not getting much clearer. At least there’s no snoring.Īnd so I’m left with my pile of pilfered spell tomes and my thoughts. It’s strangely quiet without him, though, there’s no other students here, yet, of course. Skyrim seems increasingly full of strange people, so I'm sure it won't take too long. I promised to let him know if I met any "strange" mages. There was nothing suitable in the library, though, so he didn’t stay very long after that. I didn’t quite have the heart to refuse to let him come with me after all that business with the… Dragon, and everything, so we came up here in the carriage. Anyway, he was hoping she’d be able to help him find a simpler guide. He’d tried to learn from spell tomes before, but found them too complex, I think somebody taught him the bound weapon spells, I can’t really remember. Apparently he’s been thinking (must have hurt…) about trying to learn more spells. He asked me on the way over to the tower whether I’d mind introducing him to the woman I met in the library at Winterhold. Arissa went back to Falkreath, said she had some things to do.
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