» Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:26 am
Honestly, I just want it to be cinematical, take the Dawnguard approach to the confrontation with Arch-Curate Vyrthur, That created 'epic' in my eyes. I don't want it to be a "I see him/he sees me... And then we fight," I want a confrontation of words first, perhaps he tries to persuade us. Perhaps we'll have a couple of 'nameless dragons' that try to help us defeat him, but just for a show of strength he kills them quickly w/ some epic finishing moves on them. I don't want it to take place on just one level, but on multiple levels or even have it start in Apocrypha and finish out in Tamriel.
1) The confrontation will start in Apocrypha, on the threshold of the entrance into Tamriel. The only thing stopping him is you. He makes his case, his offer as he stalks around you. He finally stands before you less than twenty feet away. You deny the offer. He force shouts you to the ground and calls upon his cult followers and HM Daedra.
2) After finally defeating the last of the fodder, he paralyzes you/sets up a barrier between you and he and tells you why he is the way he is and what he means to do as well. With that he Thu'um's you w/ a shout that tears your dragonborn abilities from you, leaving you unconscious in Apocrypha.
3) You wake up to find the portal close and Miraak (DB) gone. A booming voice mocks your attempts to stop DB and in the same breath offers cryptic help but it comes with a price; becoming his champion. Accepting his offer he shows tells you how to shout out (DB's) Dragonborn ability and he opens up the portal to Tamriel to confront (DB) once more. If you deny his offer, you must discover, on your own, both shout and exit from Apocrypha (taking the longer route). You learn that the shout is a "one time deal" that can be used by anyone and that you can only use it on a (DB) when he is in a weakened state.
4) Once you finally escape you find destruction in both Solstheim and Skyrim. After cleaning up messes and killing off cultists and HM Daedra, you find out that (DB) has made his way to High Hrothgar to kill off the Greybeards. You make your way to High Hrothgar to find it in shambles, two of the Greybeards are injured and one dead. You ask one of the injured where (DB) has gone and they reply that he's on top of the Throat of the World. You make your way up there to find Arngeir confronting Miraak. As you come upon the scene, Arngeir shouts at (DB) but to no avail. (DB) laughs at the attempt and shouts back at Arngeir, shouting him off the side of the mountain. You step forward to confront him once more.
5) He commends you and calls you a fool for facing him without your Dragonborn ability. He starts to take a step towards you when three dragons swoop in to attack him. After getting a couple sneak attacks on him, he dispatches two of them with some epic H2H finishing moves (absorbing their souls) and when the final dragon comes forward, he shouts at the dragon, tearing its soul from the dragon, making it completely under his control. He steps onto the dragon's back and comments about making things a bit more interesting. Just as the dragon comes forward, a fellow (named) dragon lands next to you and breathes fire upon dragon and rider causing them to fly up. He then urges you upon his back where he takes you to the skies...
6) You dogfight in the skies for sometime until your dragon defeats his own (but not before severely injuring your dragon) where they crashland back on the Throat of the World. Once you land back down on the ground before (DB), your dragon mentions that he will return and flies off. You face (DB) once more. He throws a few shouts at you, knocking you down, and casts magic at you a few times as you use your 'non-dragonborn' abilities to fight him off. Finally after wearing him down, you shout at him, taking his Dragonborn ability from him. At that point, you take the kill shot on him ending his life.
7) His body starts convulsing as Hermaeus Mora's voice and void appear overhead stating that nothing is as simple and within (DB) is a spawn of Hermaeus Mora. Just then, tentacles burst out of (DB's) chest, growing and forming into something in Hermaeus Mora's image. Our character struggles against this mass of tentacles, slowly losing the battle until that (named) dragon returns with many, many other dragons as well as Paarthunax. Together, you and they tear/rip/cut each tentacle until there is nothing left. Finally you take the killing blow, sending it back to Apocrypha.
8) Congratulating you, Hermaeus grants you a few parting gifts, perhaps one being the ability to summon Hermaeus Mora's daedra and tells you he'll see you soon
THE END
P.S. You find an alive, yet injured Arngeir recovering on the ground in the courtyard of High Hrothgar where he finally landed, thanking you.