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Salted caramel puffed saltrice treats

Satrice is the backbone of Dunmeri agriculture, and it stands to reason that it's made its way into just about every dish in Morrowind, both sweet and savoury. This sweet snack is beloved by Dark Elves young and old, and its chewy yet crunchy texture is addictive! Sweet yet salty, this is a timeless classic.

You will need:

200g puffed rice (chewy) or Rice Krispies (crunchy)

100g mini marshmallows (or chopped bigger marshmallows)

50g butter

2 1/2 tsp coarse sea salt flakes or lightly crushed Maldon salt (adjust to taste)

150g brown sugar (I prefer dark muscovado for this but demerara works well too)

150ml heavy cream

1 vanilla bean pod, scraped (or 1 tsp vanilla bean paste)

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp cardamom

Method:

In a pan, melt the butter and add the cream, vanilla, and sugar. Stir on medium heat until it begins to caramelise medium brown, about 8 minutes.

Remove from the heat, and stir in salt, cinnamon, and cardamom.

Follow with the marshmallows; fold into the caramel gently until entirely combined, about 8-10 minutes.

Fold the finished mixture into the puffed rice until evenly combined. Spoon into a baking tray or loaf pan lined with paper. Garnish with additional salt flakes, if desired. Leave to refrigerate for an hour. Cut into small square slices, and enjoy!

#urghhhh i am so hungry and these look sooooo good

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Mer vs Shroom

Never mess with master wizard of house Telvanni and their Mushroom Tower, ever.

fit my friend, @the-sunlit-earth's adorable Breton OC Brenna <3

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Mer vs Shroom

Never mess with master wizard of house Telvanni and their Mushroom Tower, ever.

fit my friend, @the-sunlit-earth's adorable Breton OC Brenna <3

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🐺 Greetings from The Dumb of Ass, Pure of Heart - And Were Of Wolf ; Vilkas & Farkas!

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Screenshot to choose your fighter

#tw: flashing gif

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How Bethesda fixed Vampires without realizing it

So there's a LOT of takes on vampires across media, and most of them are radically different from each other. The Elder Scrolls series has an interesting version that I haven't seen anywhere else, that incidentally fixes a bunch of lore issues with vampires, and yet Bethesda hasn't ever really leaned into any of that.

So, the issue with vampires in large RPGs like Elder Scrolls games, D&D, etc, is that a world where various elements of character building are supposed to be balanced, vampires are heavy on the upside and light on meaningful drawbacks. So in Oblivion, Bethesda completely reworked their vampires, coming at it with a blank slate:

Vampirism is a 4-stage affliction, with each stage increasing the numerous benefits of being a vampire as well as the middling drawbacks. Stage 4 brings with it all humanoid NPCs recognizing you as a ravenous monster and attacking you, basically wrecking the game. And, this is the unique part, you reduce stages by drinking blood. Being a vampire is LESSENED by doing the most vampiric thing out there, it actively makes you weaker.

And this is great. From a gameplay perspective, you vanish below ground to kill zombies/robots/whatever, and you grow stronger as the dungeon goes on. But if you don't rush through it, or if it's large, you surface having ignored your hunger for several days and have to do a whole second quest to sneak into town at night and drink blood, where the only reward is to engage with the game again. It's a drawback in the gameplay sense rather than the stats sense. And it lets game designers throw the player against weak vampires in town early on, and face dungeons full of max-bloodlust monsters later once the player knows how things work.

Meanwhile, from a lore perspective this is also great. Suddenly, it's not that vampires have to be evil, it's that they have a choice. A good person who flees their family to hide in a cave is going to starve, turning into a ravenous, uncontrolled, extremely strong monster. Someone who's comfortable sneaking around town drinking blood, meanwhile? They never lose control. They walk in the sun. They're perfectly human. Or as human as anyone can be while the blood of their neighbors flows in their veins.

And Bethesda doesn't DO ANYTHING with this. People you talk to in-game just treat it as "all vampires are evil, why would you expect anything else", when they've created a world where vampire morality is so much more interesting. The few vampires who exist in civilization that you're not supposed to kill don't really discuss their condition at all. And there's plenty of evil vampires choosing to live in caves running societies of vampires, when that makes no sense compared to basically any other way of life they could set up.

Bethesda games are a masterful disaster, in this as in everything else.

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Skyrim's late-game power-fantasy-creep is so funny even by fantasy standards. Like, it's hilarious how it feels like it completely steamrolls everything else. By the end of the game you're:

the Chosen One

dragonslayer

Archmage of the only magic college in the kingdom

leader of a group of werewolf paladins (or alternatively a literal Vampire Lord)

vampire slayer

minor nobility of literally every county in the kingdom (and one not in the kingdom)

high ranking soldier of a faction of the civil war

personal conduit and champion for like a dozen various deities and gods

leader of an ancient and forgotten dragon-slaying warband

master of the thieves guild

leader of a group of serial killers

protector of the entire kingdom

member of a bard's college

Like imagine a person existing that had all these titles and also the actual lived experience to back it up.

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Eternally Yours Cross Stitch Pattern, $8

Eternally Yours Valentine's Bracelets, $10

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Hey I think something weird happened to my tumblr live

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wow i forgot how much i dislike the Companions in Skyrim

They portray themselves as honorable warriors but one of the first things you do is "intimidate" someone for some random coward, real "hired thug" behavior , most of the questline is avenging Skjor because Aela told you to; and then once Kodlak actually makes you do shit befitting a warrior BAM he's dead and you're the leader now! Like I'm glad they don't force Aela to cure her lycanthropy but like. She and Skjor force the beastblood on you in the first place. Wtf guys. I get there's no real leaders here but. some boundaries would be nice.

#skyrim #this is why Kestral ends up leaving the companions #she has a whole argument with aela and ends up abandoning the companions entirely #kinda why she ends up in falkreath in a cabin in the woods by herself

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POV; Mercer Freys funeral

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skyrim affirmations part 1

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trying to find good lore friendly custom clothing for skyrim

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Surprise 25% off sale! No order minimums and applies to every listing in the shop!

#sale #jewelry #handmade jewelry #smallbusiness #had a recent job loss trying to do what i can

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#skyrim lmao #im going to the nearest walled city and doing my best

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skyrim is such an experience because one moment you’re out in the wilds of the pale watching the auroras as the music and ambience remind you what makes this game so special, and then you enter an inn and the npcs start levitating.

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ok guys. you can only play skyrim with 2 mods, which two are you picking? and DON’T say ussep

#armoury of tamriel #atlas map markers #i am never getting lost in the forgotten valley AGAIN #also i like the wider range of armor possibilities you get from armoury