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Speaking of Vaermina, Have any of you played the Morrowind Horror Mod?

What? No, she JUST said she’s been having these dreams since she was a little girl. Err… kitten.

well, on a quick search of Kvatch and its inhabitants, Captain Gaius Atrum is not actually a person noted to have lived at all TES lore, making him an original character. According to the uesp wiki, Salvian Matius was guard captain during the Oblivion Crisis.

but that’s just something to note lore-wise… which means this guy, yeah probably going to become an important character. (perhaps briefly, who knows)

So your comment about ‘Prequel: The Animated Series’ caught me completely off guard since, for a moment, I too figured the same. Funny thing about thoughts is: with some critical thinking they tend to get out of hand… So might as well share everything I came up with, eh?

I believe that you’re absolutely correct that an ‘episodic’ animated series format would be a bad approach. Don’t get me wrong: It is actually quite possible to pull off. However since each episode would have to be able to hold its own I fear that they’d have to drastically simplify the already laid down, very good character development in favour of numerous shorter subplots. Hence while it technically could work, I feel there isn’t much to be gained compared to all that could potentially be lost. If done badly it would severely diminish the whole story’s value, and the last thing I’d want is for it to fall behind on the more ‘serious’ parts which make up half of Katia’s personality.

Now, a much better solution would be a ‘progressive’ format like the one usually associated with (good) adventure-fantasy animes. This way the focus is on the characters’ growth and the plot can be refrained from going too far off into the weeds. Nevertheless, there’s a catch… well… there’s a couple of ’em, but this is the most important one: You would need a roster of ‘equally developed’ protagonists to bounce the plot off of. ’tis important cause otherwise there wouldn’t be enough material to keep the story from becoming too one-sided, stale and/or unintuitive. Bluntly put, so far we’ve already missed a few very significant opportunities to bring in more main characters and doing so this far into the story arch might be considered too late. While it does get away with it in webcomic form, on screen it would prolly get burnt for it.

IMHO, the best possible alternative would be an animated feature film. Since Katia is the main focus of this anyway, it isn’t as necessary to put as much thought into the other characters as would be required in the other forms. They will still need to fill a role (minor or otherwise) to provide context to the heroine, but essentially it is much easier to get away without having to do a lot of explaining. Plus the main protagonist’s development is easier to direct depending on which characters you emphasise and when. As such it seems to be the only way a screen based on ‘Prequel’ would ever be properly presented. I firmly believe that there’s already enough material to form an engrossing, well rounded storyline. Hell, if I knew all the spoilers about what will happen next (mystery-wise) I would’ve probably already tried my hand at writing a synopsis, just for kicks…

I also wanted to add something about the ‘video game’ comment but… currently I just can’t seem to word it right…
Oh well; it would be digressing from my main subject anyway. Hope reading all that wasn’t too boring for ya? ;P

Me: What did the dyslexic comic reader say to the bartender?

You: Whuh?

THE POLT TNEICKEHD.

I don’t think that some guard captain is royalty. Like really. He could be some random guy who just said, “Hey! I want to be a guard!” like half the population of Tamriel. Where do they get the guards, anyway?

Oh blah blah blah.

What next? Flickering lights?

Also, this comment system could use a ‘preview comment’ button. *facepalm*

Only ‘patiently’ was supposed to be italicised, to politely emphasize the word, not the rest of the sentence. That makes it look like I’m emphasizing the next update getting here like a douche.

That was not my intent, and I apologize.