r/Daggerfall

We've significantly reworked the art style of Broken Dagger, and we're really happy with the direction it's taking.

Combat has also evolved, drawing inspiration from the environmental and physics-based action of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

Your thoughts?

Sadly i don't remember my mod list because my laptop is getting weaker and this will be the last post....

Some people are decent human beings, and others throw an original complete Daggerfall PC game box worth $500 that you’ve been holding onto since 199-goddamn-7 or somethin’ out in the snow with all your stuff because you have the audacity to finally stick up for yourself. Welp, at least I have everything but the box now for $20. Thanks fella on eBay! 💚

What mods? i forget....These are some old screenshot, my laptop no longer can handle it without turning into a jet😥

Hi everyone! We've been continuing to experiment with the art style of Broken Dagger, and we've finally created our first NPC.

What do you think? Does this style work? We'd really appreciate your feedback!

So, in the previous post most of response was that NPC is a way too detailed. Plus, pixels on walls\floor in a way too big. So that fixed, and is it feels better now?

Brutally cunning or cunningly brutal?

https://www.nexusmods.com/daggerfallunity/mods/1304

Read the "Known Issues" segment on the mod page, of course.

Class: Daedric Duelist

Skills:
Primary - Critical Strike, Long Blade, Destruction
Major - Daedric, Dodging, Etiquette
Minor - Mysticism, Thaumaturgy, Streetwise, Running, Backstabbing, Mercantile

Advantages: Expertise in Long Blades, Bonus Damage to Humans, Adrenaline Rush

Disadvantages: Forbidden from Using Blunt/Missile Weapons or Any Shield, Phobia of Daedra

Loadout:
Armor - Daedric Right Pauldron, Daedric Greaves, Casual Cloak, Sash, Wrap, Sandals
Weapons - Daedric Saber
Spells -

Lore:
Sandavast Gerard Ralion was once a musketeer in King Lysandus’s army who was publicly bested in a duel by a long-time rival—a fellow musketeer who disarmed him a mere 4 seconds into the fight, forcing his surrender. While Sandavast was an expert marksman whose skill with a magic musket (a rifle-shaped staff enchanted with a fireball spell) has saved his life on many occasions, his handling of a rapier left a lot to be desired. Embittered by the humiliating defeat, Sandavast communed with Clavicus Vile, Daedric Prince of bargains and trickery, and proposed a deal: his soul in exchange for unmatched expertise in swordsmanship.

Vile gladly agreed, and with that, Sandavast’s soul was damned to be sent to Vile’s realm—the Fields of Regret—after his death. With this newfound skill, Sandavast promptly won against his rival in a rematch that attracted an impressively large crowd in Daggerfall’s town square.
After King Lysandus met his demise at the Battle of Cryngaine Field, his son and successor, King Gothryd, disbanded his father’s musketeers, citing the sourcing of enchanted wood used in the construction of their magic muskets as being much too strenuous on the kingdom’s budget. Luckily, Sandavast’s exceptional sword prowess easily landed him a new career in the Knights of the Rose, protectors of his affluent home province of Wayrest.

However, like all faustian bargains, there was a caveat to Sandavast’s Daedra-granted sword skills: he was forbidden from using any other type of weapon, including his trusty magic musket—which exploded in his hands after an attempt to harvest a petty soul from a rabbit one morning.

Angered at this deception and deeply regretting the deal he made with Vile, Sandavast hatched a plan to save his soul from eternal torment. When he sensed his death was imminent, he would cast a Soul Trap spell on himself, trapping his own soul within a black soul gem amulet worn around his neck—before Clavicus Vile had the chance to collect it for himself.

Knowing an eternity trapped inside a soul gem was simply another form of torment, Sandavast employed the help of the Necromancers of Scourg Barrow to specially enchant the black soul gem amulet to allow him to walk the earth in spirit form—he saw wandering Nirn and defeating worthy foes in duels for eternity, building his legend even in death, as an ideal afterlife. He spent his remaining years obsessed with producing as many heirs as possible, knowing that one day his soul would depend on his descendants protecting the amulet. He also devoted himself to the worship of Stendarr in hopes the God of Mercy would protect him in the afterlife.

It is said that in Sandavast’s last days, fearing greatly of death and Daedra, he exiled himself to the deserts of Alik’r to distance himself from the countless challengers that wished to claim the glory of defeating the great swordsman of Wayrest. It was in those desolate dunes where Sandavast met his fate at the hand of none other than a fellow Knight of the Rose—a bitter brother-in-arms who pursued him not only to claim glory, but to prove that Sandavast’s skills were nothing but Daedric trickery. Sandavast killed them, though not before taking a fatal blow to his stomach. Running on pure adrenaline, he trekked for a mile back to his villa in the secluded village of Mesopada where one of his wives and sons resided. Once there, he cast Soul Trap on himself, placed the bloodied amulet in his young son’s hand, smiled, then died—and his plan to deceive a Daedric prince was set in motion.

Of course, while Sandavast’s bloodline benefitted from his ghostly counsel and, throughout the ages, produced many renowned swordsmen, they were forever doomed to be hunted by Daedric hellhounds who sought the soul promised to their master all those years ago.

In recent eras, the legend of Sandavast has spawned a sort of quasi-religion among swordsmen from all walks of life, from cutpurses to knights. His descendants set up “churches” all over High Rock where he is worshipped and his skills are passed down, free of charge, to anyone willing to learn—the aim being to build an army to fight against the forces of an angered Daedric prince.