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"When I heard it was a werewolf, I was bewildered. When I heard it was a girl, I was disgusted!"

No, Jorwen doesn't want to use them like weapons. He knows they have feelings and are people. But he knows too that they're unnatural creatures, abominations. Think of how you would react if you found out one of your friends was a sociopathic killer or some such. He just walks the path of the remorseful and urges for a quick death for them to bring them peace and assure the rest of the people around them don't get hurt or killed by them. Nine out of ten werewolves an vampires are bloodthirsty killers, so it's a foregone conclusion for Jorwen.

And Jorwen? Sexist? Jorwen's wife is something of a fighter and his own daughter is a gifted duelist. And a bisexual with a warrior-crush on Sevine. She takes after her father in mannerisms and morals too. Suffer not the witch to live, as they say. Why lock them in a cell to die lying in their own shit, suffering to their last hour, or to use them as fodder? Much more humane to just lop off their heads.


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.
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There we go, CS all updated n'stuff. I need to remember to go back to it every one in a while.
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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.


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.


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The fucking lizardmen are at work again.
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The fucking lizardmen are at work again.


Everyone always blames the Argonians
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Everyone always blames the Argonians


Argonians are Lizardmen
Anunnaki are Lizardmen

Both have names starting with A

Coincidence? I think not
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Argonians are Lizardmen
Anunnaki are Lizardmen

Both have names starting with A

Coincidence? I think not


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


THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
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#Ulfricwasright
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Ulfric did nothing wrong!

....except get captured like a fucking dumbass near the Skyrim/Cyrodiil border because he fell for an obvious trap.
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Ulfric did nothing wrong!

....except get captured like a fucking dumbass near the Skyrim/Cyrodiil border because he fell for an obvious trap.


Oddly enough, I was just watching this like two hours ago:

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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.

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What about our collab? QQ


Schaft, you are always most wise. Thank you. There's an age difference between Sevine, and Jorwen, he's clearly a veteran, and it was Sevine's first war; perhaps there can be some type of mentorship between the two. It sounds like we oughta do our own collab, for some Character Development between them. I think he would have a lot of help to give Sevine, maybe ask her some life changing questions, maybe even throw an appearance in with Solveig. And there's a lot of questions she could ask him too.

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I'm going to start working on the relationships bit today, and I'll go over each character as if Do'Karth has met them or at least has seen them enough to form an opinion, otherwise we'll have like... 5 characters.
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*sniff* There's no Argonian love... The only race that has no real reason to live on land in the first place and... people object when they go everywhere and try to take over the world! It's so not fair...
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@Haeo Shaddup, coin purse.
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@Haeo Shaddup, coin purse.


Goddamn bro, you a real rude-boy.
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@Haeo Shaddup, coin purse.


Interesting choice of term. But, don't put dirty money in clean leather, it's rude.
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Goddamn bro, you a real rude-boy.


*collar pop* Bro, don't front.

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Interesting choice of term. But, don't put dirty money in clean leather, it's rude.


All money is dirty. You're going to be a straight up pestilence-ridden fashion accessory.
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*collar pop* Bro, don't front.

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All money is dirty. You're going to be a straight up pestilence-ridden fashion accessory.


Heh, pestilence ridden sounds fun. How many people can claim to have killed more after dying than before? As for fashion... are you sure that you want to be seen wearing that?
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