[WIP] ShadowScale Quest Line

[Xae]

My idea of a Shadowscale quest goes something like this:

The player encounters an Argonian in the early parts of a larger dungeon. They fight together until it starts to get tough, and the player then discovers that the Argonian is in fact a Shadowscale. Apparently, he's searching for revenge. A tougher fiend at the end of the dungeon is the target. Once it's dead, the Shadowscale claims to have been poisoned and only his Shadowscale friends know how to cure it. He asks you to escort him to a special place with a signal flare, which he lights, and by nightfall a few black-scaled Argonians appear, and they talk in an unknown tongue. By the end of the conversation, the "poisoned" Shadowscale turns to the player, right after which one of the others slash him by the neck, killing him. They then leave.

The player loots the corpse and finds a particular Shadowscale amulet. He's prompted to find more about it, so he asks certain shopkeepers and is eventually led to a recluse living in a well-hidden cabin up in some trees.

And so on and so forth. Key aspects include the player encountering the Shadowscale on a more human and equal level and only afterwards seeing the "coolness" of the group as well as an opportunity to develop a deep and rich story concerning this particular Shadowscale. Tracing his steps back and back discovering that he had a lover in Stonewaste and a rather perplexing tendency to try and fix everything that isn't right. The fiend, f.i., was kidnapping people from a small village.

Oh, and the "poison" of course being humanity, or a variation on it.

Edit: Oh my, all these edits, I'm becoming more and more like Ibsen. *ba-dum-pish*