Tag: Master Aryon

Aryon’s Corpus Disease Paper

I’d been reading a whole lot of immunology papers lately, and I became obsessed with the idea of Master Aryon writing a paper on his studies of Corpus disease. I figure since he did his early work in the Corpusarium (and has a Restoration skill of 90), he probably wrote up his findings a few times. Also the game has other academic writings like “Itermerel’s Notes” and “Kagouti Mating Habits,” so there’s precedent for that sort of thing.

Master Aryon writing a paper on his Corpus disease study

I honestly spent way too much time trying to decide if Aryon would use t-SNE or UMAP for the dimensionality reduction of his cell expression data, even though neither algorithm even existed yet when Morrowind came out.

WIP: Archery Aryon

I took a peek in the Construction Set, and it turns out Master Aryon is a pretty good marksman. Now the obvious explanation for this is: his class is “sorcerer,” and marksmanship is one of the minor skills of the sorcerer class. So it was probably just automatically generated based on his level and class. Honestly his restoration of 90 is much more out of place. But still! I would have never imagined Aryon pulling a bow before.

Doc suggested that maybe he pulled a bow when he was a young man, as part of an adventuring and/or mercenary career, and he still keeps it up as a hobby. Hence this WIP:

And then of course I had to imagine an “archery outfit” for Master Aryon, because he can’t go out practicing his archery in all his fine silks

A Misunderstanding

The long-awaited sequel to “Back Taxes” (http://www.certainly-strange.com/?p=1741)

Anyhow, there is much speculation as to how exactly Aryon procured his imprisoned Imperial soldier / museum display. I thought it would be funny if the Telvanni just kept tricking Imperial bureaucrats in the exact same way, and they just kept falling for it.

Since Aryon was himself a rogue Telvanni operating without charter, this scenario is not entirely far-fetched.