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Morrowind is easily my favorite TES game.  This is partly becase it was the first TES game I played so I do hold a special fondness for it but the largest reason is that I absolutely adore the setting/culture that Bethesda created in the game.  Everything from the Great Houses to the history I couldn't help but fall in love with.  Morrowind gave us a world that was alien yet familiar and that fascinated thousands of gamers.  Oblivion failed to capture my interest in the way Morrowind and while Skyrim was an improvement over Oblivion it still wasn't quite there. 

Daggerfall is fantastic when it comes to pure role-playing but the setting presented doesn't really do much for me though there are a few really greats parts to it.  Here's to hoping that the game TES game will focus on a Mer race and presents a culture/setting that is as strange and fascinating as Morrowind's was.  

Hi, staff team.  I had a suggestion that would hopefully improve the forum experience.  I've been a member of multiple forums where users had the option of selecting different amounts of posts per page.  We could select between the forum default, 30 ppp, 50 ppp, and so on.  This forum's current ppp is 20 which isn't really bad but when it comes to forums I prefer a larger ppp.  Just a minor preference that improves the forum experience for me.  

Could you possibly look into enabling such a feature for this forum? 

Someone killing a sibling is pretty damned insurmountable. I'd have trouble being in the same room as them, let alone liking them. Family is a powerful force and Shallan worked hard for hers... Given her past she might not hate Kaldin by the end of it.

I don't believe that it is insurmountable.  Remember, love is a powerful and terrifying force.  It can drive people to face overwhelming odds to protect someone, murder someone for love, can drive kings to wage war.  It isn't too far-fetched to believe that over time love can make someone forgive something as terrible as the murder of a family member.  But yes, I'll admit that anything can happen.  Shallan may very well end up hating Kal.

It would be better if they learned how to outgrow their brokenness on their own. When two damaged people start fixing each other, they start to depend on one another too much, lose themselves in the relationship, make the said relationship what leads their lives and sure, we can have them being two half of a relationship, but I'd rather read about two people that are whole, not just parts. This is what I think and I don't intend to try convincing anyone. You have your own view based on what you've lived and seen and I have my own experience on topic.

 

My other point was that a love triangle between Shallan, Adolin and Kal will be too huge part of the story since they are all big PoV characters. There's no way for this triangle to not take too much space, because their view points basically make 2/3 of the book and likely in later books as well.

I agree, it would be better for them if they outgrow their brokenness on their own and they may very well do that before ever getting together romantically.  Still, I don't believe that it is wrong for them to depend on each other too much, to make that relationship lead their lives.  It isn't ideal but that's perfectly fine.  We aren't, though I'm probably wrong about this when it comes to some people, here to read about idyllic characters.  Kal and Shallan being broken can add spice to their relationship, make it interesting in ways that they might not be when they are "whole".  It'll be interesting to explore that I believe. 

It doesn't have to be a huge part of the story.  It can remain in the background and it may not even remain a love triangle for long.  The Adolin and Shallan "relationship" may end up breaking soon.  Even if it doesn't BS is not required to spend much time on it.  

 

There is also that itty bitty issue of Kaladin being the one to kill Helaran. How will this come to light and how will Miss Shallan feel about it?

It'll definitely be a source of conflict but it isn't insurmountable. 

 

Kaladin and Shallan are both too broken to be able to have a healthy romantic relationship.

Ehh...I'm not a big believer in this line of thinking.  Sure, in some cases it's definitely a bad idea for two "broken" people to have a relationship together but in other cases they can work together to "fix" themselves and/or their broken aspects don't hinder them from having a "good" relationship.  It may not be perfect but such relationships can work.  Has Kal and Shallan's "brokenness" prevented them from interacting well with each other?  If no, what makes a good relationship between them so hard to accept especially if they mature a bit?  

 

Plus they have so much screen time, we'd have to read about their feels for each other every other chapter, which would be very annoying, not to mention not really how epic fantasies are.

This will only really be an issue if BS is an incomptent hack who will resort to such drivel.  I don't believe that BS is that bad so this is likely a moot point.  That said, I haven't read all of the works by BS so he may very well be like this. 

 

They can be really good friends, but they both need someone who had learn to outgrow the pain and the suffering they are going through.

Why do they need someone that had learned to outgrow the pain they are going through and why can't both learn to outgrow their pain by themselves or together?

I'm currently a Windows 7 user but that is mainly because Linux isn't quite there, when it comes to gaming, in order for me to switch over.  When/if that day comes I'll uninstall Windows without a second thought.  As for Windows 8...I'll probably never get that or any of the future versions of Windows.

 

Right. Just saying "Linux" these days doesn't really cover it sometimes.

Certainly true enough.  I'll probably go with Manjaro as my distrobution of choice assuming that remains a fairly good distro based on Arch when/if gaming becomes viable on Linux without having to resort to WINE.