#he's a MAGE he's UNAFFILIATED WITH A STRONGHOLD he's fuckin OLD

[i-am-but-a-beta-fish]

i have a lot of problems with skyrim's writing in general but if there's anywhere they nailed it it's with urag gro-shub like yesss baby give us a character who subverts like all the norms of his culture but whose most prominent trait is threatening to magically kick your ass if you so much as think about his fucking around in his library i love him SO MUCH

#he's a MAGE he's UNAFFILIATED WITH A STRONGHOLD he's fuckin OLD #all of these things! all of these things the game establishes as frowned upon in orcish culture! #and they don't bring it up! it would be so easy to bring it up! but they don't! you gotta listen and intuit that stuff on your own! #it would be so easy to write a character like that as nothing MORE than what elements of their setting they subvert #to poke at the player and go 'hey look cool lore!' and have that be the WHOLE character #but they don't! they don't! they don't draw attention to it he just gets to be the grumpy-ass librarian! #and he feels so three-dimensional for it i fucking LOVE IT #probably also smth to be said abt having characters who don't give a shit abt how special you are in power fantasy type games #just like. ppl in the corner concerned with their OWN shit thank you very much #great for immersion also funny as hell #skyrim #urag gro-shub #i seek a place to ramble merely