It has its own charm compared to the popular novel going around. I enjoy the fact that it's modded Skyrim so MC may not know or remember everything but knows a good amount of stuff like how he exploits his knowledge in the very beginning. I think it's interesting that the MC is also an Orc The dialogue could be better at times, maybe not even that but the formatting, it feels like there are too many blocks of text/paragraphs where as you you'll see frequent line breaks in other popular novels which make it more pleasant to the eyes Events seem to pass fairly quickly, I like that and it's great to get the plot moving though I hope we have slower points in the future. I haven't read extremely far since I like to let things build up but it has been on my mind to keep reading this. I deal very poorly with suspense and when I feel a novel is good, I want to let it build up more before I get. very invested into it. The release schedule is fairly spaced which I don't blame the author for, everyone needs their own inspiration and writes at a different space. I personally cannot imagine writing a novel so I'm not going to be unreasonable but getting to the point of a daily release schedule if possible, would be amazing. Again, I don't know what author has going on in his life and this could just be a minor hobby. I hope this novel overtakes the other Dragonborn one, I think you could really make this into something special that stays at the top of the "all-time" if you keep at it Praise the lemon square
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LIKEThank you so much for your understanding and feed back. I personally loved watching your comment journey through the chapters you did read and look forward to you picking it up once I've built up a substantial number of chapters for you and everyone else. There are two main issues with the dialogue, it's quite blocky like you've mentioned but that does happen in Skyrim where NPCs will monologue for days just to ask you to grab an item from a cave and I'll personally try and fix that as the MC progresses by making him more reactive and adding divergent dialogue and non-game dialogue options. It's still early game sadly and I'd like to trigger a number of modded and main game quests early on so things can happen in the background, but the MC will have slow periods. The latest chapters will be a derailment of a standard Skyrim quest in fact and I look forward to peoples reactions. One major issue with attempting an upload schedule of one a day is I like every chapter to be a minimum of 1,000 words. And while that may or may not seem impressive, keep in mind a standard print novel is roughly 60 k words and we are just about to surpass that. That being said, I aspire to do 7 chapters a week, but only promise 2 for my mental health and for the sake of building a backlog for emergencies. I do however plan for this webnovel to reach into the 1,000's range of chapters and will do several mass releases as my backlog permits. Thank you again for your support, and I look forward to seeing your comments again! Happy Holidays!
Thanks and happy holidays to you as well. I figured you were trying to keep it moving at a good pace to get to the juicier stuff. I also understand completely about the only promising 2 chapters, I think it's smart. It's much better to put out high quality material twice a week than low-quality material daily which has you mentally drained. I wasn't kidding though, I think you can make this into something amazing. I looked for some skyrim fanfics but there's only the one that we both probably know of that has consistent release or wasn't dropped/garbage. There are probably a lot of Elder Scrolls fan on here who would devour this content. I'm glad you plan on making this novel lengthy, I'm a huge sucker for Skyrim having invested many hours into it, even trying out the VR. As I'm reading your dialogue, I can see it clear as day in my head. You may find me breaking my desire to let it build up and binging at some point
I'm all caught up and still sticking with my original review, it's good. I really think it needs an actual cover though, my brain tends to skip over the ones with just text for some reason. I know finding one you a use might be a bit difficult but most people just seem to go the route of don't ask for permission and seeking forgiveness later, if necessary. I'm sure there are also plenty of image you should be able to grab of just an orc or someone in dragon scale armor or something
I was about to start reading this but if the main story hasn't started yet there's no point for me to start reading something incomplete, I'll also let it build up until the main plot starts
It's not really focused around completing the main quests super quickly and will be more of a long and winding journey. I do recommend waiting for some more chapters to build up as I love binge reading too. But every chapter aims to be around 1,000 words so they should be filling since I release at least two a week and aim for more.
How large will the harem be ?