Originally Posted By markornikov

if someone gets to the sanctuary with that guy alive, i'd like to know what happens.

I gave up on him in the end and fed him to the wolves 

Sure.

Spoiler AlertIt is the "escort quest" I mentioned earlier. You go to the sanctuary, poke the roots with that special branch and the guy freaks out because you're hurting the Tree. He proposes a friendlier solution and prays and then gives you a sapling. Replanting the tree is a better option than hurting the one in sanctuary. When you give it to Danica, she says you were right, that starting anew can teach her people a lot about life. So, that's what happens. If you talk to people in sanctuary, they too freak out at the idea of you poking the tree for juices and say "You don't know what you're dealing with" (probably referring to Spriggans you need to kill if you come to the sanctuary alone).

ok thanks, i suspected something like that would happen but it's nice to know for sure

WARNING this one is a spoiler because the location is unique, if there's something that i missed in oblivion it was variation.

Now this is what i call something completely different then all the other location's i've seen so far.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/614968439084079306/8ED4252F49230C9C18375E229FF223046A13F157/

This location can only be unlocked during a specific quest, which is also quite difficult to obtain

I looked anyway, and i really hope i get that quest!  Did you play Shivering Isles, Markonikov?  I thought it was rather different.   But what you posted there is...  wow! Spoiler AlertIn fact, i think i'm going to make it my new desktop background...

whats with the face paint tatoos? that is weird.

that wont ever be part of my play thru...  and it was never much a part of lore before in fact i have never heard of Nords having tattoes..but i guess it is part of the modern trends.

Originally Posted By CrisGer

whats with the face paint tatoos? that is weird.

 

that wont ever be part of my play thru...  and it was never much a part of lore before in fact i have never heard of Nords having tattoes..but i guess it is part of the modern trends.

It has nothing to do with "modern" trends. It's not a tattoo it's dye. It was used long throughout our history. Most commonly from Woad/indigo from plants. The picts were famous for painting their bodies iwth it. 

Nords have had it in past TES games, it was in morrowind. The naked nord guy you'd run in too on one of the more famous morrowind quests for example:

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/File:MW-npc-Hlormar_Wine-Sot.jpg

It's nothing new to the series but it's a lot better done now, and actually looks like dye in teh game rather then an actual tattoo, as up close you can see little spoits where your skin shows through and things which makes it look like just dye and nothing permanent.

Originally Posted By Traveller

I looked anyway, and i really hope i get that quest!  Did you play Shivering Isles, Markonikov?  I thought it was rather different.   But what you posted there is...  wow! Spoiler AlertIn fact, i think i'm going to make it my new desktop background...

yes it reminded my of the shivering isles, or maybe even Uru! This place is so huge, it must be part of the main quest are something, it can't be possible they made this whole place just for some small sidequest i stumbled upon

We're not in Skyrim no more... (SPOILERS!)

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/614968439089007519/07768CA9E0BF4FD55810F61A90446CF6CF812C0E/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/614968439088985187/FB73367FC551685719E73FCFF8F8FE665E6BE78B/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/614968439088990086/7AFEC5B74E35A9F84EBD13AE83D1221BD2BFF388/

Some of the nord faces in morrowind were painted

*edit* Stiler managed to beat my by 12min. 

Most of my pictures are vanity shots :B

Pretty, pretty lights in Honeymead Brewery

Deep Thinker. Well, actually, I got one-shotted by a Giant

Ari got a nose job :B

Believe it or not, these two are dead. I killed them and they just stayed frozen like that, floating swords and all...

Winter skies.

Hey, I love the face paint. Very sexy on the female warriors.  Now I wish I put some on my character.  I'm a dunmer--kinda ugly, aren't they?  But more realistic than Potato Head Dunmers in Oblivion.

NOTE:  If anyone finds out how to turn off HDR or Bloom or whatever it is in the game, please let me know.  Forums are on fire about the horrific blinding glare sometimes.

Hey, I found bits and pieces of humor in the game!   Go figure!  Esbert is a funny guy, voiced by a really, really good actor...I'm going to find out who he is, but his dialogs are great.

 .........It's Max Von Sydow!!!!  Great job M-Sy!

Also....I wasn't paying attention and didn't realize this is the screengrab thread.

Also...please BEG the new owners to fix the home page.  Holy S, is it lame.

I murdered someone to get Elven Armour... best decision ever!

Originally Posted By CrisGer

whats with the face paint tatoos? that is weird.

 

that wont ever be part of my play thru...  and it was never much a part of lore before in fact i have never heard of Nords having tattoes..but i guess it is part of the modern trends.

Hehe, wait until you see the grungy faces you get to work with... sheesh..I know it's cold, but doesn't anyone EVER get to wash in Skyrim...  and do you magically start getting wrinkles at age 18 already?  Since I can't be 18 anymore in RL, I enjoy still being 18 in my RPG's..-no chance of theat in Skyrim, tho...  I trhought this was supposed to be a fantasy RPG, but they went and made it more "realistic" (read: grungy) than Fallout 3..

And yep, not only did the Nords get facepaint in Morrowind, the Dunmer did too. 

People have been wearing make-up since Cleopatra's times until the present day, anyway, so I guess it's nothing new.

I always viewed it as tribal paint, not tattoos. I find presets in the game really ugly, that's why my character has none, but I have something in mind and I might paint myself a texture to use :>

Very Brooding overlook from the little cliff from behind the Companions house:

The tree in Whiterun at night, thought I captured a good night pic showing it:

I crafted up some good armor for myself now:

Wow, Stiler, I love your helmet!

I poked around Nexus and finally figured out how to extract textures so I could mod my character

So, Ariana became even more demonic. Got her new eyes (my favourite custom set for The Sims 2, not made by me, mind you) and a scar. Scars are a bit tricky to make, so I'll have to experiment further.

She looks scary, Dona!

yes i know all about woad and the use of tatoes and paint among indegnous people, and it certainly is in games too. I just find it personally unpleasant, so it is a matter of my opinion not a question of if it is done or not. And I do hope and am sure that they will create mods for the faces, in fact there are clean face mods out already as I have no desire to be a grungy old man when i play Skyrim. I saw that trend for "realism" approaching in the Tomb Raider series as the latest version of Lara they made her look like a homeless drug addict ....but i guess that is part of the attempt to do more and more uslesss detail and force people to upgrade their comptuers to do it. I will remain hopeful about Skyrim.

Eh, I might have a small problem here

Here is a horse riding a horse. 

Oh boo!  It seems my screenshot of a levitating mammoth didn't 'take".  

What on earth is that going on in your post # 43, Fnord?  You up in the sky that high/  A dragon do that to you?

I suddenly and for no reason flew up into the sky. Apparently there is solid ground up there, as I was able to walk around and take in the sights, though it was not possible to fast travel from up there. 

Originally Posted By Traveller
Oh boo!  It seems my screenshot of a levitating mammoth didn't 'take".  

I'm having the same problem, FRAPS doesn't take all screenshots for some reason :/

Spammytime! Screenshots sized down from 1920x1080 to 1200xsomething.

A nicer look at Ariana's new eyes. Mmm, gooold <3

Deathbells are my favourite flowers ♥

Faendal got a day off, I sat down and read a good chunk of my books. Still so many to go through, though... :C

We're finally the real Golden Duo!

Found this Giant who was completely peaceful, even after I bumped into him a few times. Amazing!

Anyone else think of Syberia when they see mammoths?

I found a giant who was peaceful as well, and instead of a mammoth, he had a painted cow (it had like runic symbols painted on it), I assume it was his cow cause it was just a tad downt he road from him, and he didn't raise his club to me or anything when I got near.

I must say the new figures are very realistic..but rathe ugly.

the horse riding a horse is very funny. The horse scripts in Oblivon did that at times.and it was very funny,..looks like they ported over the sripts without fixing some of the problems.

that sky trip sounds like a collsion problem with that portion of the scenery.....interesitng...or maybe there is a quest that puts you up in the sky and you triggered part of it by accident. There were several quests in Oblvion that put you up in the sky.

The characters are very rugged and realistic.  Oblivion is cartoony by comparison.  But a little foundation, some lipstick, trim the unibrow, who knows.

I think the in-game screenshot (just hold Print Screen, then check MyDocuments/MyGames/Skyrim) is much better quality than Fraps.