The terrible old man (Open)

[Deeza]

Frankly I think that this quest in its original form was a bit bland. I much prefer Ibsen's suggestions, but they actually sound more like something that might be involved in the Main Quest and developed at greater length.

Personally, I think that if a quest is going to be a reference to some other work of fiction, in order to avoid coming across as uninspired it should be either:
(a) Witty and clever, so that it parodies the source material or dramatically subverts it in some way.
(b) Done so subtly that only people who've read the other work will get it. IMHO the vanilla Hackdirt quest is a bad example of this, as its so obviously Lovecraftian than it feels out of place in Tamriel.