Questions about the Green Pact...

[Goober Mensch]

I'm roleplaying as a Wood Elf who follows the Pact heavily. I know I can't eat plants from the wilderness or eat vegetables and fruits as well. But am I allowed to cut firewood at a town and am I allowed to catch and eat insects I find in the wilderness? The idea of the Pact is pretty interesting to me so I want to know more about it as some things are unclear to me.

[voehringer_nitron]

Looks like firewood is okay, or at least buying it from somebody else who cut down the tree in their own territory. Insect-based products are okay.

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Green_Pact

[󰀉tempeh󰀉]

Are you still in Valenwood? Because the Green Pact only applies to plants inside Valenwood, or so I thought.

Also, how quick can you get the Ring of Namira? You're going to need it if you want to be religiously observant. I mean, werewolves can eat people too, but that breaks another rule. Not quite what the rule had in mind or why (werewolves can generally turn back into people), but the point still stands.

[alexander_dougherty]

Green Pact is only enforced in Valenwood, but it's terms technically affect all plants.

According to the green pact, no plant can be harmed or eaten by Bosmer, so cutting down a tree is forbidden. However once a plant has been killed it's parts can be used, even in Valenwood, this is mentioned in the in game books, it's just not socially acceptable for the Bosmer there.

So it's a matter of how absolutely you want to interpret the Green Pact, some would say so long as the Nords kill the tree, you can use the wood, so would forgo wood entirely (which means no axes for Iron and steel, since they have wooden shafts).



Also as a side note, not only are Bosmer forbidden from eating plant based food, but technically they are forbidden from letting meat go to waste......... which means you probably need to get the ring of Namira and start eating those bandits you kill (not to mention Trolls).

Not sure how you are supposed to deal with the plant based monsters (serious mental block over their name) since technically you can't kill them..........

[󰀉tempeh󰀉]

Spriggans?

Calm, invisibility, and running.

I don't recall any inescapable, plot-critical quests that require killing them.

[alexander_dougherty]

󰀉tempeh󰀉 a écrit :

Spriggans?

Calm, invisibility, and running.

I don't recall any inescapable, plot-critical quests that require killing them.

Thanks, total mind blank over their name. I have the guide which includes all the creatures, but I didn't want to dig it out.

I don't think you have to kill them for quests, just had a few occassions when I've been surrounded by two or three of them, and I didn't know they were there until they attacked.

[Goober Mensch]

Thanks for all the replies. Now that I know I can use firewood and eat insects, that changes up my game a little bit. Currently doing the quest that involves the Ring of Namira so that'll be pretty helpful.

[󰀉tempeh󰀉]

alexander_dougherty a écrit :

I don't think you have to kill them for quests, just had a few occassions when I've been surrounded by two or three of them, and I didn't know they were there until they attacked.

Yeah, they like to turn invisible. Detect Life can help with that, or maybe Aura Whisper.

I think Aela the Huntress can assign radiant quests to kill them, though, so be mindful of that.