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A restored Mirrormoor is an idea that I'm really tempted to explore. My Vestige could threaten to kick Mora's ass if he tries to tear it apart as part of his Aurbis-wide memory wipe. Mortal Ithelia could end up with Mirrormoor as her afterlife.

We know nothing about Mystara, so it's a fun idea. However, it's given me my own idea. What if Mystara is Ithelia's version of Maddy? It could be such a fun way to use a deity that's only mentioned once. Also, I saw this really cool Ithelia design someone made, and it could be a fun basis for Mystara's appearance.

Plus, imagine Mora's reaction. XD

I had to look this up because I had completely blanked on Mystara and no wonder because you're right, there is literally nothing!! You could do whatever you wanted with that name, this is essentially nothing but a name thrown out by beggars in Cyrodiil and the Shivering Isles. And ngl I kinda love tying it to Ithelia.

In canon, I would think that Ithelia took the core of her mantle with her so Mystara might not have been able to fully supplant her the way Maddy tried to with Sheogorath, but the power she shed before leaving could pull together as it tried to seek her out before coalescing into Mystara whose memories of Ithelia are also broken and fragmented, and she's working with shards and pieces rather than the full picture. She can't even gather Ithelia's memories to help herself either because Mora wiped them away, so she's literally starting out from scratch with a name that means nothing and a longing for something that doesn't exist.

Maybe she starts out less as a Prince of Paths and more as a unique Daedra lord or some kind of demiprince that gives Mora a heart attack when he finds out about her.

Have you played the new Sheogorath Takes a Holiday storyline yet? Because I have, and it's lots of fun. It also has some fascinating lore implications regarding Daedric Princes and their mantles. As such, I'm reconsidering how I want to handle my HoK becoming the new Prince of Madness.

It also makes me wonder how it could affect your plans for Iriana. (Among other things, considering the bombshell they've dropped on us.)

So what I'm considering is that my Vestige is quite pissed about her descendant being tricked into mantling Sheogorath. So she uses mind magic to enter the HoK's mindscape and fights the Madgod. She does win in the end, of course. However, this haves the side effect of the mantling creating a very different kind of Sheogorath.

Basically, it's an elaborate, but fun way to explain why my HoK doesn't become the Sheo from Skyrim, Blades, and Legends. I got the idea after coming across the UESP page on mind magic. The concept of a mindscape is so cool and I want to play with it a little. lol

Plus, I think it could be interesting to use environmental storytelling as a way of exploring how my HoK is being affected by the mantling.

Hello! And apologies for all the dust this ask collected!

Speaking of Sheogorath, I am really excited for ESO's upcoming Sheogorath questline. Based on what we've been told about it, there's bound to be fascinating lore implications.

Hello! Sorry for taking so long to get around to this, I am very bad at keeping on top of my inbox ^^""

Though I'd like to get your thoughts on a premise that's been stuck in my brain. You know that Public Dungeon in Blackreach? The Dwemer ruin one with that malfunctioning time device that kept yeeting people and creatures to various points in time? Well, what if it effected the TES I-V protags and yeeted them to different points in ESO's main storylines? (The pre-Greymoor ones, at least.) Like the HoK could appear in Sancre Tor, the LDB in Elsweyr, and so on. Then they all appear while the Vestige is in that Dwemer ruin. Imo, there's so much potential with this idea, especially if they're all related.

ooooh that sounds like a really fun idea! There's definite potential for chaos by bringing together all the TES protagonists, especially under very chaotic circumstances. Especially when ESO is so far removed from the other games and has so many historical figures involved. A Mages' Guild HoK meeting Vanus Galerion, having seen his shambling corpse in Mannimarco's thrall? That'd be awkward in so many ways. And the Nerevarine meeting the Tribunal at the height of their power... that'd be interesting. And potentially catastrophic for the timeline lmao. LDB thinks they're getting a break from dragons? Boom, dragons!