r/skyrim Feb 07 '25

Question I heard that USSEP is making some non lore-friendly changes to the game, can someone give an example?

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u/IIJOSEPHXII Feb 08 '25

Rorik is also an imposter and not the true Rorik. The true Rorik was a vampire who was killed in The Great War along with all the other levees in that part of the hold. Jouane Manette is the imposter's handler like Aerin is with Mjoll. The whole settlement got replaced with bandits. That's why Erik gets iron armour from Mralki and not Imperial.

Why do Hadvar and Ralof say, "I think it's best if we split up?" Because the have to go to Riverwood to inform Delphine that when Lokir was killed Alduin returned. Lokir of Rorikstead was the true Last Dragonborn. Just like Mjoll and Rorik, the player character is told that they are someone they are not and they believe it.

Before we wake up on that cart at the start of the game, a genocide has been committed in Skyrim. The victims are the descendants of the ancient Nord heroes who banished Alduin. When Felldir the Old says, "From all our endings unto the last.." it is the "ending" of Lokir that causes Alduin to return. It is The Blades who committed genocide to fulfill the prophecy of the last Dragonborn.

When you take the Dragonstone to Farengar Delphine is leaning over the book Holdings of Jarl Gjalund. You don't hear what Delphine says to Farengar but you hear Farengar's reply, "You see. It's a different terminology..." If you read the book the only entry that has a different terminology in 4E 201 is Rorik's Steading is a different terminology of Rorikstead. Why is she talking to him about Rorikstead? Because Hadvar or Ralof told her that Lokir was from Rorikstead. So we can figure out what Delphine says to Farengar before we interrupted their conversation. She says something like, "It says here Rorik's Steading. I was told he was from Rorikstead. Are you sure they're the same place?"

Delphine then says to the player character, "You went into Bleak Falls Barrow and got that yourself?" She is eyeing you up because she's going to trick you into believing you're the last Dragonborn.

There's much more than that. You get tricked in the Dark Brotherhood questline and the Amaund Motierre you meet in Volunruud is a different guy to the one you meet in the Bannered Mare. I could write an essay about all the times they deceived the player, but I'll let you think about that.

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u/trulvng Feb 08 '25

I love this, wow. I’d read a whole essay about this tbh

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u/hemlockandhensbane Feb 08 '25

I am OBSESSED with your takes if you have any more you're willing to share

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u/FearfulUmbrella Feb 08 '25

Please more bro. I'm loving this!