Greetings from the deep blue yonder

Hello again...

I've been playing Elder Scrolls IV recently, and basically its all I want to play.
The game is just so large, compared to everything else I've ever played. There is far more to this game then simply lvling up.

I've barely even begun to explore the whole game world, and from what I've heard recently, there's still a lot more to the gameworld than what you can currently access, the world's so big already, and there's still more to it...

My current character is based around Eledor, in appearance, clothes he wears, and the weapons he uses. He is Archmage of the Mages guild, Grand Champion of the Arena, and is only lvl 7.
And I've just started with the thieves guild and Fighters guild.
I wish I had more time to play this game...

Anyway I'm now back at uni, and with my writing I've gone to the Realm, as it has the most room to expand, as I haven't given it a straight forward kill that guy, move onto next type approach. It's has large scale battles, but the thing that makes this one different to the others is that the world the story takes place in is largely static. Small things may change but on the whole the world stays the same, despite the actions of the main protaganists.
Eledor is still a deadly swordsman, however he is riddled with character flaws, and for once is actually human, so he is mortal, rather than immortal. He takes frequent injuries and spends ages recuperating from them.
He is a wandering knight, of an unknown sect.

In the Realm knights act as the officers, chief investigators and secret police, and holy men of the church, they are seperated into sects depending on the role in society they take.
Gold Knights act as the trainers and teachers of the order.
Silver Knights act as the elite Bodyguards to the Emperor, and the Arch Cleric.
Blue Knights act as the chief police force in the the Realm, and are responsible for maintaining the law in the cities.
Forest Knights act as country police forces and are far fewer in number to a much larger area, generally they are very hard working individuals.
Red Knights act as the internal police, and keep an eye on the other sects to make certain none over step their bounds as knights.
Gray Knights act as the officers of the army, and are structured very differently to the other sects, much more organised and ordered.
Raven Knights; act as the secret police, they are responsible for removing troublesome people who the law can't contain, effectively they act as a state sanctioned assassins guild.
Brown Knights act as the holy men of the order. And frequently serve as priests in the more dangerous regions of the Realm where it would be to dangerous to send normal priests.

Each sect has a Sect leader the title for each is different.
Knights become knights by first recieving an education at an academy, usually they are from well to do families, or are part of the nobility, then they become a squire to a full fledged knight, who furthers their training for another two years, and gives the squires practical experience and an idea of what sect they would prefer to join, generally the squire joins the same sect as the knight he is attached to.
The Realm is only starting to recognise equality of sexes, so female knights are few and far between. They are unusual but not unheard of, but like any male dominated career a lot of sexism can occur.

This presents Aeries with a problem, she is the only girl at the academy, though she is the adopted daughter of the Gold Knight in charge of the academy, also she is born of peasant stock while most of the knights in training are of noble blood. Double wammy.

Not all knights are trained warriors, for the Raven Sect, subtlety and guile are far more useful, though they do recieve rudimentary self defense training.

I'll go into more detail of the Sects next time.

Anyway, the other Guardian Universe stories have magic and gods as major focuses of their storylines. The Realm is a lot more realistic, and is really the orginal Guardian Universe. with influence now from Oblivion and Medieval Total War.

Anyho, till next we meet...