Here's a tooltip comparison between Feral Guardian, Slate Gray and Feral Guardian, Snow Bear:
Several years before Skill Styling was a feature, there was one unique collectible in the Morrowind Collector's Pack which changed the color of your Feral Guardian ability, called Slate-Gray Summoned Bear:
Now, while Skill Styles weren't ever designed to have lore like other cosmetics, Slate-Gray Summoned Bear was (rightly) converted into a Skill Style while retaining the lore that had been created for it. However, this stark contrast between these Skill Styles makes me wish more Skill Styles had lore written for them.
I know several of the players in this community have an issue with immersion-breaking cosmetics, but I believe having a small bit of lore written about each Skill Style would help justify their existence in this world. For instance, if the greatest Wardens can summon a Slate Gray bear (one of the mightiest animals), then what kind of Warden can summon a Snow Bear?
Maybe having lore written for
every Skill Style would get expensive and unnecessary. I would at least like to see it for more significant Skill Styles, though.
PC/NA — Lone Werewolf, the EP Templar Khajiit Werewolf
Werewolf Should be Allowed to Sneak
Please give us Werewolf
Skill Styles (for customizing our fur color),
Grimoires/Scribing skills (to fill in the holes in our builds), and
Companions (to transform with).