Do you read books in game? Which one is your favorite?

[lidowxxx]

I normally don't tend to read much, but I was bored from normal game play a few days ago and started reading almost every book that appears interesting, so far I read a whole bunch of them, many of which are pretty generic and dull, but one series of the books are very well written and even evoke some feelings inside of me.

 

So here is my favorite: The wolf queen, it has 8 volumes and I read them through nonstop and when I am done, I am surprised how the books portray such an amazing character. I always thought Potema a nasty evil character, and almost nothing else, that's the impression that the accounts of NPCs in game give you. But in the books, she is so much more, she is a brilliant and playful girl under the wings of her elders in her childhood, a loving wife and mother to her husband and son after she is married, an ambitious and vengeful spirit when her son and their claims are threatened. Sure she grows insane and summons daedras and undead to fight her enemies in her late years, but what would a mother do when her son is torched to death in a carriage? And the tricks she plays on Pelagius(who later becomes known as Pelagius the mad)  and his father before her death is simply masterful, purely brilliant!

 

On a side note, a character has so much depth such as her was poorly conveyed in game by Bethesda, she stands merely as another generic evil villain who wants to "return" to the realm of living to wreck havok that needs to be slain, oh, Bethesda

 

So which books/story is your favorite? Share your thoughts!

[cornbreadtm]

The Wraith's Wedding Dowry. It's from Morrowind they put it in Skyrim too. Skipped Oblivion for some reason.

 

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wraith%27s_Wedding_Dowry

 

I usually play as a female Orc so... yeah. And the Fact that Wraith fights in a wedding dress, shuts down everyone that says fighting in anything other than armor isn't lore friendly. So fighting naked or in your underwear is lore friendly. You can fight in any thing just don't get hit. This book Ironically raises your unarmored skill in Morrowind .

[Beagle2]

The lusty argonian maid, well at least it made me chuckle.

 

There is this booked called "Notes on Racial Phylogeny", after I read it I had to check if it was really in the game or added by some LoversLab plugin

[Sarathis]

When I first started playing I used to read them all. After a while, though, there were so many I was stopping every five minutes to read something. I do agree with Wraith's Wedding Dowry being one of my favorites, though. Fun story.

[Benmc20]

For me ?

 

- The Real Barenziah (5 volumes, must read if not already done)

- The Wolf Queen (8 volumes)

- Mystery of Talara (5 volumes, good reading too)

- Racial Phylogeny (@Beagle2 > It's really in the base game and not added by plugin : http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Racial_Phylogeny )

- the one that pictures a crime investigation (don't remember the title sorry)

 

Edit > http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Books

[Dallas-Arbiter]

I used to read them, I don't anymore. My favorite was excluded from Skyrim, "The Warp In The West".

[Coopervane]

Dunmer of Skyrim

[Jormungandr]

The Exodus is my favourite next to the whole XY of Skyrim series. I kinda like how the authors go on each others books.

[Karin]

 

Nords Arise!

 

[Epic Gamer Frey]

Songs Of The Return (all of them)

The Black Arrow

The Lusty Argonian Maid

Night Of Tears

Before The Ages Of Man

Fall Of The Snow Prince

 

My favourite is

Fall Of The Snow Price

 

[bradleyh]

The Wolf Queen Series, even though The Black Arrow Volumes One and Two would be My favorite ES Series Books because of Morrowind and the Master Markmanship Trainer.

The Five Songs of King Wulfharth is the Third, because it contains an account of Red Mountain by a non-Dunmer.

[Cloen]

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