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I think hearing about it here would be the same as if we saw it?

Exactly.

If the enemy is good, then we are bad. Beauty equals goodness, therefore we must be ugly.

See the duel or I will be very sad.

In case it wasn't clear, that whole exchange was a joke. Yagrum is a bit self absorbed, and he fancies himself a womanizer:
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I recognized the implications; the only reason I would tell Michael to ask about that is to very intentionally piss Yagrum off. So, probably not a good suggestion.

What exactly do we have better? More toys? Maybe Morrowind doesn't get 300+ cable channels. But their lower class is free of hunger and disease and their upper class is effectively immortal and sometimes ascends to godhood. I'm sure both Hugh Heffner and Bill Gates would be thrilled to be in as good physical condition as Divayth Fyr when they reach 4000.

The lower class isn't free from hunger, and their are two upper classes: elven mages and the rest of the upper class. Humans are still as mortal as us.

Besides that, think of how many bandits there are in Tamriel. What social conditions would cause that? What would possibly be able to cause more than half of Tamriel's population to take up banditry? Morrowind still has slavery as a commonly accepted thing. The poor live in one-room shacks. The average level of education is terrible. Daedra, vampires, and other things that go bump in the night regularly prey on people.

In addition, think of the absurd disparity in wealth between social classes. Most commoners have less than ten septims of pocket change. Divayth wears a full suit of daedric armor. Some reclusive noble in Vivec can afford to give away daedric weapons for information. The rich are usually people with vast arcane powers or slaves, and the lower classes are left with basically nothing.

I'd argue our standard of living is significantly higher.


Also, I only suggested we ask Yagrum about what made him interrupt Uupse because I know it'd tick him off. I vote we ask him about what he knows about the Nerevarine, and... crap, I forgot why we came down here aside from getting our phone appraised.

I buried her, I will set her free. Oh, quickly! My mind misgives Don't free her. We're going to stay princessy even if if we have to bury EVERY GOSH DARNED WITCH IN OUR KINGDOM IN A TOMB OF STONE.

Meet the eyeless, soul-eating WIP that is one of the two possible protagonist classes.



And a full-body shot.

The textures aren't as good as they will be in the final version, since I was testing out baking them on the low-res model with an automatic UV unwrap. He, as you may have noticed, does not have eyes either. This will be rectified. Similarly, his lack of bones, a hood, and miscellaneous other items will also be rectified. Like I said, work in progress.

I've been experimenting with exporting models to Source Filmmaker with mixed results. I really want to animate a trailer or two for this, but the export plugin for Maya is a lot more finicky than I anticipated. It'll take some work to get it working smoothly, but I'll get there eventually.

The last of the locations of interest was finished (at least, the first pass) a while back, and I've been working on characters and whatnot since then. Progress was delayed somewhat due to me being getting my heart fixed in the hospital earlier this week (I had arrhythmia, and the alternative to surgery was taking daily pills for the rest of my life), which set me back a few days. That said, I have to finish this character, three monsters, and make sure there are no crippling bugs. After that, the beta version will be playable!