Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Skyrim (Erdi)

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I've done a short tale and a few oneshots of Skyrim, and recently been modding the game myself with some new followers.  While the characters of Skyrim are not quite as fleshed out as in other franchises, there lies the intrigue as they are empty pages to be filled.

In my tale 'Road to Breezehome' I suggested that Mikael the Bard used to study at the Bard's College in Solitude, and being a ladies man woo'd Lisette and Erdi.  Now in my tale, some time after he was at the college, Mikael had written a less than flattering song about the girls of Solitude and Lisette finds out about it when the Dragonborn visits the Winking Skeaver tavern; Lisette wants to go to Whiterun to have 'words' with Mikael with Erdi.

I'd a few ideas about where that short 'sub plot' might go but recently I played Skyrim to test out my mods, but I created a rare male character.  Upon encountering Erdi at the Blue Palace, she wasn't quite the same as when I meet her as a female character.  When female, she's quite enthusiastic about the idea of two women on the road, adventuring, strapping men in every tavern but when you're a male character, she's more melancholic, that she spends her time daydreaming about a more exotic and adventurous life rather than lowly court maid.

Perhaps Erdi ever remembers her questionable time with Mikael fondly, as about the most interesting thing that has happened in her life; that he was two-timing her with Lisette just made it more exciting.