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@Hyperdrive

5/7

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@MoiraMacaroni I assume your planet needs you?

@MenageAUne I will be hijacking you punch cat if you do not reclaim it this week.

The Scrapsea (Think Borderlands meets the seven seas)

Heh, neat.

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

White-Eye? White-Eye!? WHITE-EEEEEEEEYE!

He's dead.

@Leidenschaft

I worked on my CS with gc through PM, and not in public.

@Hyperdrive

Am gc, can confirm.

Hyp is original, mostly.

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

You think my Gaulish, Teutonic and Celtic ancestors could pass on genes that give me even growing facial hair? Nooooo.

@Dervish

My Manchurian ancestors didn't even give me a Fu Manchu, wtf...

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

I'm on Titanpad 2 and Etherpad.

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

Finishing what I wrote last night, HOLD IT

Edit: DONE but gonna continue into a collab, ME THINKS

@Chrononaut

I'll drag out other cowardly NPCs for the collab.

Will be on Titanpad 2 in a few hours.

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

@Chrononaut You gonna post?

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

They do.

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

@Mortarion PM

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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.