I think it helps that I reject the idea that everything in the game is happening in the same year, because that makes no sense whatsoever. So all the stuff my characters have done is spread over roughly 6 years - the same time the game has been out, meaning there's quieter time or even downtime between storylines.

But more importantly my characters put themselves into this situation. In one way or another they all chose this life, they wouldn't want to just stay in one place, doing a regular job, going through the same motions every day...I think they'd actually find that worse. Well, for now anyway, they might all end up like my crafter who had a long career as a soldier before he got seriously injured and retired to Summerset, but I think that's quite a way off still. (If they don't get themselves killed, permenantly, first of course.)

Maybe some of the things they've done will bother them, but with one exception they always try to do what they think is right and necessary in any given situation, so I think not doing anything would bother them more. I admit I can't really imagine what it would be like to make a decision like that. In real life I couldn't imagine killing anyone, for any reason and I sincerely hope I can go through my entire life without ever having to find out what I'd do in the kind of situations my characters are in every day. But they aren't me, they live in a different world with entirely different experiences and I think it gives them a very different outlook on life.

this is something that should be adressed somewhere along the story, how are we at the center of everything all the time? and what does it mean for our character(s)? how does it affect them?

Yeah sadly we aren't mortals. But yeah, I'm honestly tired of saving every province in Tamriel and beyond... Everyone's useless and too lazy to do their work and just ask the superhero to pull their weight. But more importantly, when I save different zones, people seem to have forgotten how I helped them in previous zones (due to the nonlinear nature of the game). Ungrateful greedy folk!

ArchMikem wrote: »

Don't you think after all this time, all this struggle and fighting that the Vestige would be very exhausted, visibly? After the final battle with Molag Bal we've reclaimed our Soul, we're not just a husk of Coldharbour, we're Mortal again.

I've never once thought of the Vestige as "mortal" ever since we lost our soul. The capability of pulling magic from the aetherial fragments into ourselves is a testament that we aren't normal beings. Ayleids used to revere and work skyshards into tools but it isn't ever mentioned that they themselves could pull the magic from the shards into their own bodies. (See theory of Welkynd Stones and Ayleid magicks)

It's my belief that because the Skyshards are theorized to be parts of the shattered moon of Lorkhan that the Vestige themselves has some amount of Lorkhans incredible power inside them which enables us to do the ridiculous feats we can among also being reborn from Aetherius itself.

As the saying goes; "If you want to get a job done, ask a busy person."

My girls and boys even find time (between adventures) to make their own armour, weapons, furnishings, trinkets and baubles. They cook, brew, sew, weave and also take care of a menagerie of pets and livestock.

With a little bit of hocus here, then pocus there and; "Voila!" the jobs are done.

Use the Clock add-on. It displays in-game lore time and date. Based on the day-night cycle of the game (which is about 4x faster than ours), about 26 years have passed in Nirn, so the year the add-on displays is 2E 608 iirc. Makes much more sense to do all this over 26 years!

Athan1 wrote: »

Use the Clock add-on. It displays in-game lore time and date. Based on the day-night cycle of the game (which is about 4x faster than ours), about 26 years have passed in Nirn, so the year the add-on displays is 2E 608 iirc. Makes much more sense to do all this over 26 years!

Just to add: You don't necessarily have to install a mod for this (unless you want the time to be displayed in-game, of course), but you can just take a look here:
https://esoclock.uesp.net/

bearbelly wrote: »

"The god of schemes has tasted your soul, and you have come back tainted."

We are NOT the same as we were prior to meeting Mannimarco's dagger, and never will be again, regardless of the fact that we have supposedly regained our soul.
We are forever part Daedra, and as such, perhaps no longer subject to the same level of mortal weakness as "untainted" mortals.

From a player perspective this is a good thing, otherwise we'd be unable to resurrect using soul gems, or use wayshrines to fast travel.

I can imagine some people would like the idea that completing the main story puts you into perma-death hard mode for the rest of the game, but overall I think it would be unpopular, especially for PvP.

Danikat wrote: »

Barriga de Oso wrote:

We are forever part Daedra, and as such, perhaps no longer subject to the same level of mortal weakness as "untainted" mortals.

From a player perspective this is a good thing, otherwise we'd be unable to resurrect using soul gems, or use wayshrines to fast travel.

Theoretically perhaps - but even not doing the main questline enables you to perform such actions.
So that can not be true.

Eifleber wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

Barriga de Oso wrote:

We are forever part Daedra, and as such, perhaps no longer subject to the same level of mortal weakness as "untainted" mortals.

From a player perspective this is a good thing, otherwise we'd be unable to resurrect using soul gems, or use wayshrines to fast travel.

Theoretically perhaps - but even not doing the main questline enables you to perform such actions.
So that can not be true.

Mechanically it's not true, but as far as I can tell they've never updated the lore. That's the reason we're given for being able to resurrect and use wayshrines when none of the NPCs can and there's never been another reason given.

As much as I like the One Tamriel update I think that's about the point they stopped caring about making sure everything was internally consistent (for example a lot of stuff with the werewolf and vampire quests was never updated), so when Morrowind came out and it became possible to have a character who is not the Vestige they didn't feel any need to make allowances for that in the lore.

Yes. That's why my Vestige headed to the sunny shores of Summerset for some long days of relaxing by the beach, seeing new sights, enjoying the anonymity of being just some rich Dunmer nebarra that no one cares about...

Ha. Haha. Hahahaha.

My thoughts are the Vestige isn't mortal and was created without purpose to continually search for a purpose. We released "our" soul from Molag Bal but only to release it to go wherever such a soul might as we have no idea who the person we resembled used to be. And if you go from base to silver then gold, everyone can tell (with the ability) that we lack the soul we thought we reclaimed. So we go from place to place doing whatever anyone requests of us sometimes saving people and sometimes destroying them without much thought except how we feel at that time. Going to places we thought were our homelands barely even recognized as the person that might have come from there. So no homeland we can fully make a claim to. No desires to work toward. Nothing except to keep moving forward to see what's next over the horizon only to move on when all is made as right as it can be with others deciding that rightness. We're outside the story of this world while unable to rise above it. We can fight for the glory of one faction while against it in another place. Time doesn't affect us and loses its meaning as we travel to location and another. We can't be exhausted because there are no natural forces exerted against us. Essentially we can exist at all times in all places with the passage of time only reflected in the people that exists where we choose to.