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Do you still choose to be "Vestige"?

Lyserus
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^This
I am curious about how y'all feel about this. You don't have to be the Vestige now (although lots of in game mechnics wouldn't make sense if you are not one), you are a living person with your soul and body intact, do you still consider youself the "Vestige"?

Do you still choose to be "Vestige"? 219 votes

Yes
64%
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No
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  • twev
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    I play a buncha 'toons that have never started the official story line, never gone to speak with the prophet at all.

    One 'toon got hijacked in a ship I was exploring in Vulkhel Guard harbor, and it ticked me of so badly that I almost deleted the 'toon as 'tainted', but I settled for never following up on the storyline tie-in for that 'toon after that unfortunate incident.
    The problem with society these days is that no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.
  • ArchMikem
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    Yes
    The Vestige is this game's Hero. And I ALWAYS try to have the story completed.
    CP2,100 Master Explorer - AvA Two Star Warlord - Console Peasant - Khajiiti Aficionado - The Clan
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  • Aliyavana
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    Yes
    You are the vestige no matter what. Game mechanics and all. The first thing i do on all characters is get myself sacrificed so i can then make the mechanics make sense, plus many base game quests outside the main story are dependent on you being soulless
    Edited by Aliyavana on June 9, 2019 6:51AM
  • Runefang
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    Yes
    I at least play to the point where I unlock the passive which automatically fills an empty soul gem.
  • Jaraal
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    Yes
    Easy XP and 11 skill points, plus a nice black dye? Count me in.


    Edited by Jaraal on June 9, 2019 6:53AM
  • RPGplayer13579
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    Don't we get our soul back at the end of the God of Schemes quest?
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    Catelyn Rivers - Breton - Sorcerer - Destruction Staff - Daggerfall Covenant - Telvanni Magister.
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    Jon Karstark - Nord - Dragonknight - Two-Handed - Ebonheart Pact - Drunk.
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    Jojen Reed-Walker - Argonian - Templar - Restoration Staff - Healer - Ebonheart Pact - Melancholy.
    Alys Karstark - Nord - Nightblade - Bow/Dual Wield - Ebonheart Pact - Minstrel.

    Nymeria Woods - Bosmer - Nightblade - Bow - Aldmeri Dominion - Thief.
    Brandon Wings - Altmer - Templar - Restoration Staff - Healer - Aldmeri Dominion - Scholar.
    Lyanna Flowers - Altmer - Sorcerer - Sword/Destruction Staff - Aldmeri Dominion - Duchess.
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    Obara Woods - Bosmer - Templar - Bow - Werewolf - Aldmeri Dominion - Cheerful.

  • twev
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    Runefang wrote: »
    I at least play to the point where I unlock the passive which automatically fills an empty soul gem.

    Thats about as far as I usually get, if I take that path.

    I have one 'toon that has gone as far as rescuing Sai, but thats it.
    And I've been playing since launch.
    The problem with society these days is that no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.
  • old_scopie1945
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    Yes
    Yes, you need to do it for the soul gem and free resurrection passives. You also need to do it before Elsweyr so the story makes sense.
  • MartiniDaniels
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    No
    Never completed main quest, I play TES games to do what I want and not to be guided by set of quest markers..
  • Kel
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    Yes
    I mean, they still call former presidents "Mr. President" even after thier terms are over.
    Not that a real life equivalent matteres, just saying it's typical that certain titles stay with you, even if you no longer are associated with the thing that gave you that title.
    In lore, you were the one and only vestige. You traveled and saved the day countless times over. You are known across the land as that title.
    Even if you consider yourself "former vestige", vestige is still a part of it.
  • Devanear
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    No
    I don't consider any of my characters the Vestige. As I play them, I see which storylines make sense to them and those become part of their story, the others are just events that happened and they learn about, but never actually experience themselves.
  • Easily_Lost
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    No
    You forgot a third option: 'I don't care'.
    But I answered ''No' anyway. Don't know why!!
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  • Vrienda
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    Yes
    Yes, otherwise being able to return from the dead makes no sense.

    The vestige is immortal for the most part thanks to the Azure Plasm their body is made up of.
    Desperate for Roleplaying servers to bring open world non-organised RP to Elder Scrolls Online. Please ZOS.
  • Coggage
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    No
    I did the Prophet questline on a few characters, 4 or 5 years back but once alternatives came out I never bothered with it again. I just got bored with it, but one of these days I might do it again after a long enough absence makes it sort of fresh and interesting again.
  • VDoom1
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    Yes
    I know I don't have to, but it just doesn't feel right if I don't finish the main quest. However I use it mainly to level alts now, once they get to level 45 main quest. So I always want it finished before getting to lvl 50.

    Hey it's a lot of easy skillpoints. :smile:
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  • SteveCampsOut
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    Yes
    I've done it on almost all of my characters. It's been fun seeing some of the changes to the Wailing Prison over time....
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  • pod88kk
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    Yes
    Easy XP and some skill points, count me in...... Until Coldharbour, screw that place
  • srfrogg23
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    No
    It's not really a choice ;)
  • Ei8htba11
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    No
    "Vestige" Got Varen in the hot seat at the end of the quest.

    Nobody calls me Vestige :P
  • zvavi
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    No
    I dont rp. But when i do rp. I follow my own rules. And by my own rules. It can't be that everyone are the Vestige.
  • Edziu
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    Yes
    well at all I play character without doing queswts and even mian quest...maybe I will touch 1st few of this for skillpoints but even if I do every of those I still have to go through couldharbour which I even havnt started on every other character except my retired main.....so for me this is not aobut if I feel playing as vestige...this is as every my character still is vestige because I dont care about this xD gg
  • Hoolielulu
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    No
    Runefang wrote: »
    I at least play to the point where I unlock the passive which automatically fills an empty soul gem.

    Yup. Molag Bal can crap all over the place if he wants. I'm out.
  • starlizard70ub17_ESO
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    Yes
    Jaraal wrote: »
    Easy XP and 11 skill points, plus a nice black dye? Count me in.


    ^ This is the reason to play out the main story line, it can be done in 3 hours or so, (6 hours if you add in grinding out Coldharbor too.) I usually start the questline out at level 25 or so, and pick up the fighters guild skill line before starting. That way with all the undead and dremora I'm killing along the way, I'm usually at fighters guild level 4 or 5 by the time I'm done.
    "We have found a cave, but I don't think there are warm fires and friendly faces inside."
  • Watchdog
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    No
    None of my characters is "The Vestige". I consider the main ESO story arch a thing that happened beside my character.

    Most of my characters are simply explorers of ancient ruins and treasure hunters.
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  • darkblue5
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    No
    I am just too lazy to do the main quest on many alts... but I do think of them all as Vestiges. As if I actually did the quest I didn't do.....
  • TiaFrye
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    Yes and no. I have at least 3 copies of my protagonist in different classes, the rest are sidekicks, whom I don't consider to be Vestiges. But only one of them isn't a daedric prince's champion, necromancer or vampire so...
  • LennoxPoodle
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    No
    I kind of consider all of my characters a vestige, but so far only one of them really is this saviour of Nirn person. I did the wailing prison with all of them though (note: yes, I never started a new toon from Morrowind onwards). It was a stupid decision to do the chosen one type of story with an MMO anyway. The idea of playing a critical hero, but not THE hero, out of a group of non-defined size works far better in this game. Something like oblivions story with the player essentially being a supportive character to Martin would have worked way better.
    But yeah I mainly ignore the main story. So no is the best approximation.
  • ryzen_gamer_gal
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    People dont have souls. When the creator formed you from the dust of the earth (nirn) and breathed into your nostrils the breath of life (metabolism) you became a living soul. People do not have souls, They ARE souls. Living souls formed from dust and the breath of life (which is a gift from the creator). All this souless husk business is just nonsense.

    :::steps down off the soap box::::
  • ryzen_gamer_gal
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    Jaraal wrote: »
    Easy XP and 11 skill points, plus a nice black dye? Count me in.


    ^ This is the reason to play out the main story line, it can be done in 3 hours or so, (6 hours if you add in grinding out Coldharbor too.) I usually start the questline out at level 25 or so, and pick up the fighters guild skill line before starting. That way with all the undead and dremora I'm killing along the way, I'm usually at fighters guild level 4 or 5 by the time I'm done.

    On my 3rd account. Did the main story line and caldwells silver and gold on the first account. CP 450+ on both servers with 4 of my 8 toons on each server and still havent done main story line yet. Too much else going on with events and launches and all those maps from events that i've only just finished on eu and havent hardly started on na and some much such.
  • TequilaFire
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    Yes
    Never understand buying a game and not playing main story lines.
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