More Altmer Adventures

You may recall that I rolled a male Altmer Dragonborn recently just for the heck of it. Even though I still hadn’t finished sidequesting my female Dunmer Dragonborn into oblivion.

Sneaking up a mountain
My Altmer Dragonborn sneaking up a mountain

Well, he is still having his many adventures. Just recently, he thought that maybe Nelacar would be nice to him because they were both Altmer. I figured Altmer must be nice to their own kind at least. But Nelacar was always so aloof and dismissive of him, just like how he is to any other race. Frankly, he was being kind of a jerk.

So he gave up on being friends with Nelacar. Until one day the Dragonborn walked into the inn for some other business, and Nelacar immediately approached him saying, “When I saw this, I immediately thought of you! Take it as a token of my gratitude” and he pressed a Breton cookbook titled “Uncommon Taste” into the Dragonborn’s hands. Which surprised the Dragonborn because it was actually a really thoughtful gift, as well as a very kind and warm gesture.

Nelacar also decided to start eating bread immediately after his warm gesture.
Nelacar also decided to sit down and start eating bread immediately after his warm gesture.

Now, I haven’t finished the Azura’s Star quest line yet (I don’t even think I’ve started it), and I didn’t really do anything for Nelacar that would make him like me. Part of me thinks this must be some sort of bug that set his affinity for him to very high. But another part of me likes to think that Nelacar and my Altmer Dragonborn actually are best buds, and that cold, aloof dismissal is how Altmer show their love. An Altmer behaving in a way that isn’t outright hostility is a sign of affection!

And now I have to wonder, why did the cookbook make Nelacar think of the Dragonborn? Does he like cooking? Traveling? Eating exotic foods? Maybe the two of them should try to cook one of the recipes together sometime.

Author: Steen

Steen is a nerdy biologist who spends a lot of time trying to cultivate Chloroflexi, who also likes to draw comics, play video games, and climb.

3 thoughts on “More Altmer Adventures”

    1. Haha, the Dragonborn ate too many salt piles and got high blood pressure! Brilliant!

      I will say, “Uncommon Taste” actually has real recipes in in. And they seem like they would work as written. There’s a recipe for souffle, and vegetable soup:
      http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Uncommon_Taste

      I think that the “1 cup of nutmeg” is a typo, though, since apparently in high doses nutmeg can be toxic and hallucinogenic o_O
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutmeg#Psychoactivity_and_toxicity

      Probably Bethesda meant “1 tsp nutmeg” or something. Because, otherwise, that souffle would basically be ALL NUTMEG.

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