u/kyriati

I don't think I can call it a book, because I'm not certain it's ever appeared in a game, or is even "official", but anyway I'm going crazy trying to find this thing because I'd like to reread it.

As the title states, it was the journal or log of a guy who managed to travel to a rejected first draft of Magnus' design. I remember it being described as land masses floating in stasis in a white void, with gears and clockwork underneath them. There might have been animals? Sometimes the clockwork would grind to life for maybe a few seconds. The guy had to carry around a piece of Nirn (dirt? I think?) in order to keep time flowing for himself. The "sun" was a gigantic eyeball that moved whenever the "world" came online, and the guy was really concerned about what would happen if it moved enough to see him.

Spoiler tagged because I'm going to bring up mid to late-game stuff here. You've been duly warned

I'm with Lycoris again in my current run, and I'm running around the Bureau Castle area since it counts as part of the Undead Forest and you can't explore half of it in the Past (that's a gripe for another day). It's the one place in the whole game where you can encounter NPC hunters in the Present and, except for the two who are a boss fight at the end of the Observation Outpost dungeon, all the hunters you see are ghosts. They're all dead. The two living hunters who make up that one boss fight don't survive their encounter with the player, and the Bureau Castle is completely closed off and silent

What the hell happened to all the other hunters? Where are they?

When Present NPCs mention you being a hunter, they don't seem shocked by you existing, so obviously you aren't the only one running around, but where are the others? Shouldn't there be at least one or two NPC hunters around you can talk to? Why is the player alone in the world? I have so many questions

Edit: I'm talking about the human model hunters on the same rigging as the player character. I'm aware there are lots of live ones in the Past and I'm asking where did they go in the Present. Their total disappearance from the landscape of the world raises a lot of questions

While I draw up a summoning forma for news at TGS I'm kinda thinking abt what I'd possibly like to see in Mask of Idris

Avaritia, Ira and Invidia blood codes for one. We don't have any in base game, unless you count Patientia branching off of Ira

I also think it'd be cool if we got another human revenant hunter as a companion in the DLC area. Not Oskar, necessarily, but someone who can fill in all the missing lore around hunters (how do you get started as one? What's the process? What's the deal with everyone saying how weird it is that the player works solo?) It'd be especially neat if we got another hunter-revenant pair in the story, I'd love to see how the dynamic works for people who aren't the player

What would y'all like to see?