Green Pact

Sarenia

Just out of curiosity, is anybody else respecting the Green Pact on their Bosmer?

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Pact

Green Pact wrote:

The known conditions of the Green Pact are as follows:

Only meat-based products can be consumed.
Prohibits the use of wood or other vegetable derivatives as building materials.
Forbidden to harm trees and plant life for their own betterment.
Forbidden to smoke anything of a vegetable nature.

Part of the Green Pact is the Meat Mandate that dictates that a fallen enemy must be eaten completely before three days pass.

As far as ESO is concerned this means:
* You can't do alchemy, since you can't pick or use plant material.
* You can't do woodworking, since you can't damage trees for your own needs. I hope that bow you're using is made of bone and sinew! And forget those wooden shields!
* You can't eat or create foods unless they use non-plant material (re: meat)

-- Caveat: Technically you can use wood and plant products, as long as they don't come from Valenwood.

An interesting question also arises -- if you have to eat anything/anybody you kill within 3 days of killing them, you had better choose who you kill wisely, or invest in some bigger clothes! A life of adventure and slaughter is hard on a Bosmer's gut.

Nasuradin_ESO

I met a vegetarian bosmer npc once. The horror! She tried to kill me shortly after though...

BlackSparrow

Makes provisioning a bit tricky too, I imagine, though not undoable. Just stick to medium and heavy armor. No bows, though, since even the Bosmer bone bows require wood in this game.

I've roleplayed this in the single player games. Might be interesting to try in ESO, but I haven't made a Bosmer out of beta yet.

SadisticSavior

Sarenia wrote: »

Just out of curiosity, is anybody else respecting the Green Pact on their Bosmer?

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Pact

Green Pact wrote:

The known conditions of the Green Pact are as follows:

Only meat-based products can be consumed.
Prohibits the use of wood or other vegetable derivatives as building materials.
Forbidden to harm trees and plant life for their own betterment.
Forbidden to smoke anything of a vegetable nature.

Part of the Green Pact is the Meat Mandate that dictates that a fallen enemy must be eaten completely before three days pass.

As far as ESO is concerned this means:
* You can't do alchemy, since you can't pick or use plant material.
* You can't do woodworking, since you can't damage trees for your own needs. I hope that bow you're using is made of bone and sinew! And forget those wooden shields!
* You can't eat or create foods unless they use non-plant material (re: meat)

An interesting question also arises -- if you have to eat anything/anybody you kill within 3 days of killing them, you had better choose who you kill wisely, or invest in some bigger clothes! A life of adventure and slaughter is hard on a Bosmer's gut.

The green pact only applies to Valenwood. You can import vegetation from outside and use it...The lore is clear on the fact that they do use wood. Just not native wood. You can just pretend vendor are selling foreign wood. If you want to harvet yourself, just only harvest from other zones.

The "eat your enemy" thing is a ritual...they do not eat every single corpse in their wars. The intent is the point.

Also, the green pact is just a societal norm. It's like having sex with your cousin...society frowns on it, but it's technically legal heh heh.

darkkterror_ESO

In one of the quests I did in Grahtwood, there was a Bosmer alchemist that said he strictly used plant parts that had naturally fallen to the ground. This seemed fine as far as the Green Pact was concerned (the quest in question was about figuring out who had broken the Green Pact, but it wasn't the alchemist himself).

Sarenia

SadisticSavior wrote: »

Sarenia wrote: »

Just out of curiosity, is anybody else respecting the Green Pact on their Bosmer?

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Pact

Green Pact wrote:

The known conditions of the Green Pact are as follows:

Only meat-based products can be consumed.
Prohibits the use of wood or other vegetable derivatives as building materials.
Forbidden to harm trees and plant life for their own betterment.
Forbidden to smoke anything of a vegetable nature.

Part of the Green Pact is the Meat Mandate that dictates that a fallen enemy must be eaten completely before three days pass.

As far as ESO is concerned this means:
* You can't do alchemy, since you can't pick or use plant material.
* You can't do woodworking, since you can't damage trees for your own needs. I hope that bow you're using is made of bone and sinew! And forget those wooden shields!
* You can't eat or create foods unless they use non-plant material (re: meat)

An interesting question also arises -- if you have to eat anything/anybody you kill within 3 days of killing them, you had better choose who you kill wisely, or invest in some bigger clothes! A life of adventure and slaughter is hard on a Bosmer's gut.

The green pact only applies to Valenwood. You can import vegetation from outside and use it...The lore is clear on the fact that they do use wood. Just not native wood. You can just pretend vendor are selling foreign wood. If you want to harvet yourself, just only harvest from other zones.

The "eat your enemy" thing is a ritual...they do not eat every single corpse in their wars. The intent is the point.

Also, the green pact is just a societal norm. It's like having sex with your cousin...society frowns on it, but it's technically legal heh heh.

Thanks, this is interesting information.

Do you have a source I could peruse? Or maybe a reference to which TES game had this information.

I am skeptical about them not _having_ to eat a kill within 3 days though. I know it's highly ritualized, and generally private, but the official wiki leaves no room for interpretation. "Part of the Green Pact is the Meat Mandate that dictates that a fallen enemy must be eaten completely before three days pass."

Nasuradin_ESO wrote: »

I met a vegetarian bosmer npc once. The horror! She tried to kill me shortly after though...

There's actually reference to a vegeterian Bosmer in a quest. An "evil" ship captain keeps a starving Bosmer slave girl. I never saw her though.

Lord_Hev

Woodworking is do-able. The wood you harvest in the world are from already fallen and dead tree husks. So long as you do not harm still-living trees in Valenwood, you're fine.

bloodenragedb14_ESO

ive met quite of few bosmer in game, they can use anything that is dead, such as trees, plants etc etc that have died due to the process of nature.

btw, their process of creating the alcoholic drink rotmeth......purely disgusting

Sarenia

bloodenragedb14_ESO wrote: »

ive met quite of few bosmer in game, they can use anything that is dead, such as trees, plants etc etc that have died due to the process of nature.

btw, their process of creating the alcoholic drink rotmeth......purely disgusting

Most of their food disgusts me LOL.

Who doesn't want a nice, warm.... meat ale.

rawne1980b16_ESO

Only meat-based products can be consumed.

Hey, who woulda thunk it .... i'm a Bosmer.

Sarenia

rawne1980b16_ESO wrote: »

Only meat-based products can be consumed.

Hey, who woulda thunk it .... i'm a Bosmer.

Best race.

I'm usually a major dark elf fan in games, but Bosmer are just so fun. I really like how they designed them in ESO compared to past games, too. They look much more feral and exotic.