A long Saga story! Nice pics too, particularly the last one, at first I thought that it's some ghost haunting Kvatch standing behind Saga. Looks like she's on a good way to restore the once glorious town.

Thanks! Yeah, Kvatch Rising is an interesting mod. It's very thorough, and feels complete. Before the bandits show up, there is a "No Fires" phase, which is the town in ruins, but no fires. That one is really spooky because nobody is there. There are 3 stages after the one Saga is at too: a 'back to nature' phase (no bandits), a rebuilding phase, and the complete phase. I use the complete one for RG3's game.

Yay, what a great Lothran story!

I real enjoyed the tale of Lady Saga and company ousting the bandits. Erthor made it! I’m sure he’s really ready to get back to Skingrad now.

1:07 AM Sundas, Evening Star 9, 3rd Era 433: Snaat Rayag is in Ceyatatar selling some skooma to the conjurers that lurk inside. He's making some profits: he bought 10 skooma bottles from Shady Sam earlier in the night for 500 gold. But he's selling each bottle for 60 to 80 gp each, so he'll wind up with about 200 gold profit after these are sold.

I usually get with Snaaty whenever I'm play-testing something new. Trying Maskar's tonight for the first time. MOO has tons of features, but thankfully they aren't supposed to interfere with other mods. Something to do with OBSE, I dunno. Anyway, it's got lots of features that I don't use, but a few things I can't find anywhere else, so Snaaty it is tonight.

He has a girlfriend in Skingrad, but I forget which NPC this is. Some other dark elf. He met her and went back to her house last time he was there. And he stayed with her several days. So he's looking forward to going back to Skingrad, the silly guy.

EDIT: Undena Orethi, the 'tomato lady'. That's who he met. Snaaty went to her house but she is nowhere to be found. Of course, those who know Undena know that she spends long hours standing next to a rock outside of town, glitched-out or something. But Snaaty doesn't know this, so he's patiently waiting for her to show up.

Lothran has spent a wonderful winter day in Bruma re-acquainting himself with his friends. At the moment he´s at Olav´s and tomorrow he will head out into the mountains, naturally equipped with Snowflake, the Frost-enchanted elven dagger that was given to him by Buffy

Renee - Glad that Snaaty remembered his gf's name. That's always a nice touch. Yep, she's got some fine tomatoes.

mirocu - Tell Lothie to be careful out among the goblins and ogres. I hope he has more than Buffy's little Snowflake to protect himself.

Everything is deadly in the hands of a master...


But yes, he does carry his Elemental Mace

There was an episode of Wiseguy where Roger Lococco - master assassin - killed a guy with a swizzle stick. That was impressive.

Tirdas, 9:58 AM Evening Star 25, 3rd Era 433

The most infamous Redguard thief in ALL of Tamriel is now searching for a beggar in Bravil, so he can figure out what to do next. Kahreem currently has 973 gold, and wears chainmail boots & gauntlets, along with some ordinary middle-class clothing. Well, he found Cosmus the Cheat, who had nothing to say about Kahreem's latest quest, so I myself went ahead and cheated. Anvil! He's off to Anvil. Pretty excited about this; I don't think I've been to Anvil with him.

EDIT: he found his new disguise. You're gonna love it, methinks. And after getting this disguise situated, he got inspired to do some goblin hunting, because he was just outside of Derelict Mine when he suited his new disguise up. He realized goblins often carry lockpicks, so he did a bit of impromptu dungeon-diving. He sucks at this though. He's a decent warrior, but every time he gets attacked, he can't use his torch anymore, especially in the gear he's now suited into.

So he's on his way to Skingrad. Almost there.

Wow, Kahreem is quite the rich fellow now, isn´t he? No need to get that Cheap Wine anymore, go for Tamika´s or Surilies!!



And last night Lothran went for a stroll in the mountains. Two bandits bit the dust snow outside the North Gate, one Minotaur where Honmund usually picks mushrooms and also, as he´s expected to do, Lothran killed off three goblins outside Plundered Mine; one Warlord, one Shaman and one regular.

Sounds fun, crow. What level is Lothie frozen at? I forget. One of the things I noticed was it took Kahreem awhile to take down the goblins he encountered, even though he's only Level 6. But I think it could be because he's more proficient with blunt weapons, and lately he's been carrying a cutlass around.

Lothran has maxed out at lvl 50. Quite unnecessary to go that far but I didn´t know any better back then

Tonight Lothran decided to clear out the entire Plundered Mine.

Many times he merely wanders in with full Light and just works through their numbers. But this time he wanted to be a bit more stealthy and let his Spriggan friend and her bear take care of it all, with him in the shadows finishing off the odd survivor.

One thing was a bit strange, though. He first cleared out the ground level and then proceeded deeper into the mine to clear that area. Said and done, but when he came back up he could hear the sounds of more goblins! Now where the heck did they come frome??

Apparently the Three Feather goblin tribe is smart enough to set up ambushes. But they were not clever enough for Lothran...

Or maybe you did some sleepwalking, and wound up installing a mod that adds extra spawns into his gameworld!

I am pretty excited because Lady Saga just found a new Ayleid ruin to delve into. It is right near Cropsford, and she hasn't actually gone there yet, but we can see it in the distance. I hope this place contains Statue #9.

Lothran has found a total of six statues. Three resides in the Collector´s house (don´t know why really, since he´s dead...) and three in his Bruma house


But don´t let Saga steal those to get up to 10!

Whoa how did this happen?

mirocu – At level 50, Lothran’s simply a wise and old experienced warlock! Thankfully, experienced enough to wade through goblins armed with Snowflake and a mace – eeep! Ah, that sneaky Three Feather Clan. I think Buffy’s seen all ten of the statues. . . one is a decoration in her apartment at the University.

Renee – Good luck to Saga as she hunts statues! I love the Cropsford quest. Buffy did it long ago and the old guy that runs the settlement is very kind to her and let’s her use the spare bed in his house when she visits.


Buffy's busily planning a New Life Festival visit to Bruma.

Well, Lothran gave him three before he sort of kinda died


There, corrected it for you..

He did use magic alot though.


She better show up!!

"You. YOU. It is you who made attacking of me. And what of you now, eh? Sitting here, drinking your measly mead."

"An unfortunate encounter for both uf us. But, as I said, it was only business. No hard feelings, I hope."

"'No hard feelings...' I was not of expectation that you would bring attemptment of one such scheme."

Still, Lady Saga gets an idea, as she speaks to Claude Maric, the man who had tried to deceive her several months ago.

"Well now we are here. At Roxey Inn. These things have made passing. And you are not seeming to be on the bads now. Tell me a few things about you, if you have interest."

"Well I don't like to boast but..."

Claude Maric explains that he prefers a blend of magic and sword. He carries a silver shortsword (a good thing, Saga notes, for a serious adventurer to have), and that he's bored, now that all the furor has died down. How much would it take to hire this man? ... Aerin from Valenwood has an hour-long chat with Claude, and finds he could be useful to have around. 77 gold is all it takes to hire him, though he was already willing to do anything to get back onto the road again, instead lf sipping mead for the rest of his life.

And so it was that on Fredas, Sun's Height 19, Lady Saga hired Claude Maric, the man who once tried to ambush and kill her.

Not sure I´d like to hire anyone who has tried to kill me to follow me...

Potions, potions and more potions

Yesterday Lothran decided to make some as he´s running out on that stuff. They´re not completely necessary for him but they do help out from time to time. And seeing as he´s about to go on a longer trip it might be a good idea to stock up while he can.


Now where have I heard that before....?

Never know when you might need a good strong potion; best to stock up now while you can. Yep, good advice if it'll help keep the dark elven goblinogre hunter safe in his winter adventures. Hmm. . . longer trip? Pale Pass mebbe?

Yeah, I know

And thus yesterday in the early morning, Lothran set out for Pale Pass! He bought some food from Hafid and some mead from Olav and collected his gear and without further ado, he passed through the East gate.

He reached Serpent´s Trail with only a Will-o to guard it which was just a nuisance, really. He had hoped for a little better practice before going in. Anyway, after switching to his Ghost rings and amulet and getting his weapons poisoned, he slowly opened up the door making sure to keep its squeeky noise to a minimum, and entered the narrow passage..

For a Warlock rank in the Mages Guild, even the Pale Pass Ogre Cave Bosses don´t really put up much trouble. One arrow from the Shocker followed by a Weakness spell and two hits from Snowflake, and down they go. Granted, they were all attacked from the shadows and poisoned arrows were used, but still. Lothran was quite amazed how easy he travelled through the monster-infested cave system. Along the way he found not one but two Flawless Topaz the Ogres had hidden in well-locked chests. What they were gonna buy with them was beyond the Dunmer.
When he finally reached the door at the other end he had already used up most of his Shock poisons. He wasn´t worried, though. He usually don´t use poisons this much so he can manage without, plus he still had his best poison left. Removing his Ghost trinkets and dipping yet another arrow in Shock poison, he opened up the heavy door and...


The legendary Pale Pass!


It was still dark when he went out from the cold cave system. He was quite excited to be back. Not only because of the great hunting grounds, but for the memories. When he first got here he didn´t know what to expect or where to go. Now, he knew this place like the back of his hand. He readied his bow and slowly began the journey down into the snowy valley to begin the hunt..

Very good Lothie. It's been so llong since one of mine has been up in that area.



From what I've been raised to believe, really dumb creatures such as ogres collect gems because they're fascinated by shiny things.

Yeah, I figured that too but for some reason I tried to be funny; like those ogres was saving up to go buy stuff for them

What a wonderful little story, mirocu! Now we see why Lothran was brewing up those potions and poisons. I'm glad he's as skilled as he is so that he'll return from such dangerous expeditions.

Hey now! I have a very sad elf now - who's fascinated by shiny things. . . .

It kinda feels like an Indiana Jones kind of thing..


..and butterflies and waterfalls and horses and...

Aww, thanks. She feels better now. And Renee, ya know I'm just teasin' ya! Anyway, it seems Pale Pass is about the only physical means to pass from Cyrodiil to Skyrim. Buffy's never been able to find the way though. She thinks maybe Jerric knows how but it might just be a Nord thing. Nor has she had much luck investigating ships brave enough to weather the storms between Anvil and the northern ports. Happily though, Buffy has figured out how to magically bypass all that and travel between the provinces. It is pretty complicated and preparation intensive though. In fact, she expects to spend New Life Festival in Bruma with her dark elven friend!

Pale Pass BLEW me away the first time I did that quest. Because (to me) Cyrodiil already seemed very massive, and to think there is MORE??

I remember assuming it would be a very short area, you know; maybe 5 minutes into Skyrim and that's it. But it took quite awhile to make it to the end of the quest. It's a fort, right?

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Lady Saga is in Cheydinhal, unsure of where to go next. She's going to go to the Imperial City perhaps. Or maybe look at her map and try to figure some place she hasn't been yet. Decisions... EDIT: it's a nice evening in Sun's Height, and Saga wants to sleep outside. But she doesn't want to sleep OUTside, she simply wants to sleep in Cheydinhal.

She tried to sleep behind Cheydinhal's chapel but she got arrested. 45 gold, whoopee!
And now she has finally found the spot: she's going to sleep behind the stable with Mivryna. Probably spelled that name wrong.

A nice story about Lothran returning to Pale Pass, it seems that he'll spend his Christmas there. And since there are many trees around, Lothran could decorate them with flawless topazes that he took from Ogres so they would look like Christmas Trees. And all he needs then, is a Fireball spell directed in the air as a fireworks and the celebration would be perfect.

Lol, Saga got arrested because of sleeping outside? Which mod is this? It's nice that Myrvyna (or however her name is spelled) allowed Saga to share bedroll with her. Speaking of Myrvyna...it brings back memories, I think that she was rude to Falador once. Needless to say, it was the last time that she's been to rude to him. Or anybody else.

That was from tejon's mod... um.... Sleep Anywhere I think it is called. It makes sleeping in public (without a bedroll) into vagrancy, which is against the lawwwww.

Saga gave that stablehand a few presents: a leather cuirass and some boots. She deserves some protection.

Lothran has spent a nice day in the snowy Pale Pass, though not bothering visiting the chests..

He will probably return to Bruma next day. After all, he has his guard duties to attend to

I'm sure Lothran will enjoy his quiet and solitude up in Pale Pass. Buffy wishes him a safe trip home to Bruma.

And a safe trip it was! Thanks, Buffs

Yes, Lothran has arrived back in Bruma. Nothing worth noting happened on the way, except he ran into his friend Honmund on his horse. No doubt was he out collecting samples of Clouded Funnel Cap. I guess 254 simply isn´t enough...

Honmund is pretty cool. He has a good life, it seems, you know?

Well Saga just left Bruma. She wasn't there for very long. She's on a mad quest to find the last two Ayelid statures, and she's been to all the locations she can possibly find near Bruma, so she moved on.

She did seem to think she saw a silver-haired dark elf on a guard's patrol. Don't see that everyday.

Yeah. Out of all people in Bruma, he really seems to live an active life Aside from Lothran, that is..


Maybe they have hired another Dunmer, then? Nice for the white-haired Dunmer to have a fellow countryman as a guard, I guess..

Is Honmund set as essential in Lothran's world? Because as almost the only resident of Bruma that wanders outside, he must have been quite lucky to survive for all these years.

He has been very lucky to have survived as far as he has, yes. Though now he´s definitely been coronated

I forgot to mention: last night after I was done writing the latest Kahreem, I got this urge to get back with Joan of Arkay! I don't know where that came from, but I followed this urge. Yup, pure vanilla game, yo. I haven't been with her since I created her in May of 2013.

She is about to deliver Amulet. I'm not sure I'll fully write her tales or not, but it was fun to be with her again. I forgot that she is sort of a Battlemage, which means She's interested in using Destruction spells. It's been since the Grey Wizard (2011) since I've had a character in Oblivion who uses Destruction.

She fought a bandit and a highwayman on her way to Weynon Priory. She hasn't delivered the gem yet, when I last saw her, she was activating the altar in the priory's chapel.

I just love it when that urge falls upon me. Good for you, Renee


Second night at the North gate coming up for Lothran. It´s cold, but fortunately he has to make patrol rounds every now and then around town and that helps keep him warm. That, and his Warming Up spell...

He will be off in time for New Life Festival though

Lothran is having a night shift!

Yeah, and he´s still guarding the North gate. He got his time off withdrawn. Guess they really needed him

Buffy's in Bruma!

She quickly discovered several things:

-Aetherius (Lothran's horse) and Superian are still great friends.
-According to the East Gate guard, Lothran is on duty at the North Gate.
-Lothran's locked cabin is, of course, not elf-proof. Buffy sighed happily to see the bear pelt that Lothran keeps for her neatly rolled up near the hearth.

Olav at the Tap & Tack was happy to give Buffy a jug of warm soup that was big enough for two. Bundled in furs, she made her way through the city to the North Gate.

"You didn't think I'd miss sharing New Life Festival with you, did you?"

Seeing the wisps of white hair poking from under his helm and happy crinkles form at the corners of his ruby eyes made the traumatic trip from Skyrim well worth it.

Standing guard during the New Life Festival is always worth it for the sake of Bruma, but gets even better when a dear friend comes to visit!

Buffy knew she was always welcome to Lothran´s cabin even if he´s not there. The fire was kept burning and the pelt was laid out and ready at all times. In that regard it was almost a little like a roadside inn, always ready to tend to a weary traveller. Though this particular "inn" only catered to a very certain blond elf currently living in Skyrim..


Seeing that his friend was alive and well always brought joy to his heart. Soon enough they would trade stories of what they´d been up to since last time they met and safely to say, Lothran was eager to hear about what Buffy thought of a province that was more cold than the Jerall Mountains!

If only Buffy could convince Lothran to explore the northern province as well...

Maybe he would, but I think the steaming barrier is too much for him..


Speaking of whom, he´s now off-duty after six days on patrol/guard!

That's beautiful ... Buffy returns.



Aye, had heard about this barrier of steam in the past. But after witnessing it with my own eyes, I can conclude that as long as the steam vent is kept off its line, 'tis not so bad. But I understand. Not everybody wants to venture so.


Yeah? So what does Lothran do in his off-time? He like any alcohol or whatnot?

He wanders the mountains, hunts goblins and ogres, visit the shops in Bruma, makes potions etc. But right now he´s spending time with Buffy, though I don´t know for how long she´ll be there.

He doesn´t like alcohol a lot, just the occasional mead simply becasue there isn´t anything to drink that isn´t alcohol.

Is the lady at Applewatch farm still alive in Lothran's world and does he ever pay her a visit?

That farm is such a cozy, quiet place, one of my first characters lived there together with the lady whose name escapes me right now. Perrenia / Pellenia?