Essence of Surrenders

• Gives lots of options for players

• Might be complicated to make

• Players can be nice or evil to their targets who surrender

• Offers the possibility of creatures or enemies to become house-things or followers, or just an extra money source, depending on reputation and choices made

Reputations

• Cities have reputations

  • common (worldwide): greater increase to reputation, essentially the average of the local reputations

  • Local (city): higher means greater increase to reputation in that city, and Slightly better money deals in that city

    • more cash reward

    • more reward from quests

    • better buy/sell prices

    • also essentially the average of that local's specific reputations

  • Specific (turn-target-in vendor):

    • higher means more money from turning in the target

    • Each turn in spot has it's own reputation, specific reputation

Humanoid Surrenders

Enemies can surrender to you, ones that can talk might say things from the list below when surrendering

• List

  • "Wait! I surrender!"

  • "Please don't kill me. I surrender."

  • "Ok ok. You win. I yield."

  • "Ok ok. You win. I surrender."

  • "No, please! I don't want to die!"

  • "Don't kill me! Please don't kill me."

  • "I surrender! I surrender."

  • "Please stop! Don't kill me. Not yet." - most likely for dragon surrender

  • And other possibilities not listed.

They can they chat with you, or you can finish them off. Another possibility for some is jail time, such as for bandits. A reward for turning bandits in alive might even be added as well. Chatting with them can do several things.

• They might give random lines about "Please don't kill me." Especially when you begin chatting with them.

• They might give up information, like locations of quests, quest objectives, skyshards, loot spawns, and other stuff, and mark them on your map.

• They might give up a strength or weakness of one of their allies, such as their boss, allowing you better attack and/or defence against that target, normally only for a small duration

• You can have them go to jail, which you then escort them to jail

  • This option could also allow them to attempt to escape, so stay close so you can snag them before they get away

• Vampires can use it as a free feeding oportunity

• Vampires might be able to make a thrall out of the target

• What they might say to a vampire:

  • "Please don't eat me."

  • "Please don't suck the life out of me."

  • "Please don't bite me."

Beast Surrenders

• They might act cowardly instead of combative

• Options in this case can be:

  • Capture:

    • New housepet? New Mount? After being thoroughly trained it might just become one.

    • Something to sell for extra cash?

    • This option can also allow it to escape, so be careful.

    • You have to escort it to a location

      • To your house: once in your house you can leave it there, then go to a town's stablemaster to start training the creature to become a pet/mount

      • To house alternative: you can give it refuge in your home, do check in with it regularly or it might get aggressive, creatures with this will normally have or obtain a name

      • For either house option: Small creatures might be able to fit in any home, but large require larger houses, normally with backyards (or front-yards, or just a yard in general)

      • Escort To City: Sell it to the stablemaster or other animal/beast caretaker

Reputation

• with this comes reputation, each area might have varying reputations but there will be a common reputation

• Reputation can do some things

  • Enemies might fear you

  • Enemies might come to you for aid or be neutral towards you

  • Some enemies might instead be allies

  • Some enemies might immediately surrender

  • Some enemies will act as normal

  • Effects depend on your reputation

• Reputation cause/effect

  • Killing enemies even when they surrender might cause enemies to hate you or fear you and will cause fewer surrenders

  • Releasing enemies will make enemies calmer around you, and might make them become neutral or become allies

  • Helping enemies will make them more likely to become allies

  • Taking enemies to the city will make enemies more likely to fear you, hate you, or surrender to you, basically similar to killing but is more surrenders instead of less

What you can do with Surrenders

You see all options but some are locked depending on

Giving refuge can go either way, but normally in your favor allowing them to be followers

Humanoid

• Normal Options

  • Release

  • Lead (chance of escape)

    • lead (they follow you)

    • to city (you follow/escort them)

    • to house (you escort them)

      • give refuge

  • Kill

  • Chat

  • Loot, aka: Pickpocket freely

    • Target might complain

    • If you somehow snag a trinket from the target, they will complain... Most trinkets have little to no value and have value only to the target you got the trinket from

      • return the trinket for better reputation with that target, then release for not only gain in reputation but even more gain for having returned the trinket

• Intimidation Options

  • Send death threat (greater rewards from the boss for a period of time) (Does not stack) (Must have intimidating reputation)

• Persuasion Options

  • Convince to join you (new follower) (Must have good reputation)

• Intimidation/Persuasion Options

  • Get information from the enemy, about a variety of possibilities

    • skyshard location in their delve or camp or dungeon

    • boss location in their delve or camp or dungeon

    • Boss strengths (gain extra defence against the boss for a period of time)

    • Boss weaknesses (gain extra attack against the boss for a period of time)

• Vampire Options

  • (You must be a vampire to have these options)

  • +Mesmerise=make thrall

  • Feed

  • Convince to join you (new temporary follower)

• Werewolf Options

  • (You must be transformed to have these options)

  • Eat

  • {Natural Intimidation: you can use intimidation options even if you don't have a skillpoint there}

Beast

• Normal Options

  • Lead (chance of escape)

    • lead (they follow you)

    • To City (you escort them)

    • To house (you escort them)

      • AT house: 2 options

        • train

        • give refuge

  • Release

  • Kill

  • Attempt to chat or communicate

• Intimidation Options

• Persuasion Options

  • Convince to join you (new follower)

• Intimidation/Persuasion Options

• Vampire Options

• Werewolf Options

  • (you must be transformed to have these options)

  • Eat

  • {Natural Intimidation: you can use intimidation options even if you don't have a skillpoint there}

  • Animal Speech: You can talk to some Beasts, especially Were-Creatures

• Options versus Dragons

  • chat

  • continue battle

  • grant refuge in your home

    • only applicable if you have a home that meets the requirements

    • Tell which applicable home to go to

    • Go to a random home from what is owned and applicable

Options with those you grant refuge in your home

• chat, they can always chat, but for beasts, they either can't or chat via motion as they have no voice, Dragons can chat with voice

• for some, you can spar, although sometimes this makes enemies out of them and other times makes them closer with you

  • each being has rapport just like a follower does

  • Try to max out rapport before sparring

    • Especially if it's a dragon, if you can't beat it when you spar then you might have a permanent enemy (dragon) in your house

      • counteract: if it is at your entrance, and kills you there, then you respawn right there, repeatedly, it might get tired of killing you over and over and over and over and over and would then quit, and become neutral, you could then try to increase your rapport with it again

• Join Me

  • with good enough rapport, they can be another follower for you

    • Dragons as followers: limited areas, only 1 dragon per 100 meters, and not available in Cyrodiil or Imp City just like normal followers

  • One Life: Followers this way have only 1 life, if they die they die for good... some might become unique and become ones that can respawn if you max out rapport with them

    • respawning ones obtain names, and named ones aren't always respawning ones as some might be captured and already have names

• Follow Me

  • alternate for Join Me

  • they might try to escape if rapport isn't good enough

  • ones following you in this way can be turned in within the city