This is my quest showcase, based on lexyp's old showcase. The updated claim is here:

https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/claims/necrom-broken-family

I rebuilt this claim from the ground up. Other than the premise and the outline on the claim page, there was nothing used from the original showcase. I tried to stick close to the outline with some small changes. The two brothers were made dunmer and given dunmer names.

I liked the premise because I thought it was a great way to play with some of the Temple's themes. On top of the immediate family conflict, ideally part of the drama should come through in the tension between a dogmatic reading of the Temple's laws vs a more open-minded moral particularism, as well as a tension between someone who thinks virtue can be learned from a book vs someone who thinks virtue can only be learned through action out in the world. It's a short quest, but hopefully those themes come through!

The player begins by meeting a vampire, Velyn Alari, in a tomb near Necrom. Velyn has been turned into a vampire while on his pilgrimage and has made his way back to Necrom. He asks the PC to deliver a message to his brother Adren Alari, explaining that despite his sickness, he is still a devout follower of the Temple and that his brother should join him, with a hint of ambiguity about what "joining him" means (how much of a metaphor is Saint Seryn taking on the sickness of others?). The PC delivers the message to Velyn's timid but dogmatic brother, who takes the news poorly. He asks the PC to kill Velyn for him and put him to rest, and the PC can accept or refuse. If the PC refuses, Adren finds his resolve and leaves to confront his brother. From here, the quest branches are:

1. The player agrees to kill Velyn (lvl 12 vampire, a decent challenge for a lower level player):
   1. The player can kill Velyn and claim and return to Adren for a reward (200g and the loot on Velyn (100g and a thematic and decently valuable book))
   2. The player can tell Velyn his brother wants to kill him, and allow him to leave. Velyn leaves forever. The PC can return to Adren for a reward (200g)
2. The player refuses to help Adren. After arriving at the tomb, Adren has arrived before the player:
   1. The player can take Adren's side and kill Velyn. The player gets a reward from Adren and Adren returns to the library (200g and the loot on Velyn (100g and the book))
   2. The player can take Velyn's side and kill Adren. The player gets a reward from Velyn and Velyn leaves forever (100g and the book).
   3. The player can take neither side and watch the fight. Velyn will win in almost every case (being a vampire, and 3 levels higher than Adren), but there is dialogue for either outcome. Velyn or Adren will express dissapointment and give you no reward. Velyn leaves forever or Adren returns to the library.
   4. The player can intervene and prevent the fight if their speechcraft is high enough (I've set this at a check of 50 for now, but open to suggestions for a reasonable number. It should be high, but I don't want it to be so high that no one ever sees it during a playthrough). Velyn and Adren agree to leave Necrom together (100g and the book).

There are quest finish conditions for both Adren's and Velyn's death (or both) at any part of the quest. I've playtested through to each ending and had them work. There are greetings and quest topics for each stage. One additional NPC in the Temple Library has a response to the "Velyn Alari" topic after the quest starts. There are two local scripts, T_ScNpc_Mw_Map2_Adren_Alari and T_ScNpc_Mw_Map2_Velyn_Alari and one global script to teleport Adren on cell changes, TR_m2_Nm_BrokenFamilyScript. The plugin has been cleaned.

Both Adren and Velyn grew up studying scripture in the Temple Library, so some of their dialogue should be quite formal at times but without being too melodramatic. They quote from scripture throughout the quest (conveniently all the books they quote from are located in the library for players who like their Temple lore). Particularly Lives of the Saints, Saryoni's Sermons, Fellowship of the Temple, Consolations of Prayer, The Book of Dawn and Dusk, and the Gospels of Saint Veloth, Olms, and Seryn. At the end there's a reference to Sermon Sixteen (Adren's reading is as open to being an incorrect interpretation as the player's is). Even though the premise of a friend and brother betraying a brother who's recently become immortal and powerful has a hint of "Foul Murder" (I couldn't resist giving Adren a poisoned dagger), I don't want to hit the player over the head with the parallels and they shouldn't be distracting.

Last, I added a few small items of clutter to the tomb, changed out a book to be more appropriate for the themes of the quest, and moved a ring that was by Velyn. Could you please check to make sure I aligned them properly?

Thanks for taking the time to review this! This was my first time touching the construction set or doing any kind of modding whatsoever, so any and all feedback is welcome.

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