thaliendir's shivering isles

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• gnarls generally passive and stay away from people , unless those people attack . then , all near gnarls will become hostile . dementia gnarls often solitary , but mania gnarls come in groups . in either side , can sometimes see gnarls perform rituals at chosen trees .
• mania grummites safe only from distance - while these grummites mean no harm , just can not understand limits and pain of other creatures - will approach at random and play . dementia grummites live solitary , like gnarls , and will not approach like mania grummites do . when attack , these grummites will not defend selves or even run - just cry out until dead .
• baliwog passive unless attack , in both mania and dementia .
• scalon can be hostile , but usually only near territory in water , or if attack first - otherwise passive . but , if traveller attack grummite or baliwog and scalon is near , scalon will defend .
• elytra will also attack travellers in territory , and will defend solitary gnarls if near when traveller attack . often appear in at least pairs , in both mania and dementia .
• undead and daedric creatures do not behave different , for those who go far enough to see .
• thaliendir replace duchy with dolls , and entrust wide-eye and kithlan to understand what these dolls want . mania's doll get reputation as obsessive artist who will not stop even to sleep , and dementia's as depressive hermit who escape with near constant meditation and sleep . whether or not these dolls even alive and animate is debate that very few can answer for certain .

current oblivion goals ...

• main quest of course , martin now need daedric artifact . hard to find one that OK with give up , but think :
• malacath's volendrung . already have really good magical blunt weapon in shadowrend .
• also want these ones for fun : sanguine's sanguine rose , nocturnal's skeleton key , vaermina's skull of corruption .
• oh . right . need more offensive spells than just fire . fight fire with fire is literal and not very good idea in oblivion gates , but at least staff of sheogorath can now command attackers to stop !
• need train mysticism to cast soul trap and put one more link in circle of self sustainability . for this , will finally hunt down minor life detect spell and just ... cast away !
• need train armourer for other link in circle . will probably get amulet of disintegration back from that shop in crucible , and spend some time with repair hammers .

( circle of self sustainability : azura's star as reusable soul gem , soul trap spell always available , armourer to repair magic items .
... so maybe more triangle than circle . all this for wabbajack ! and now some other things , but mostly wabbajack . )