On Hearthfire housing options.

[killervocabulary]

...so my choices for where to build myself a residence are in either two holds governed by bratty manchildren, or the hold overseen by an old mystic who puts too much credit into her visions and not enough in her people.

Perhaps I'd be better off sticking with my cramped room in Jorrvaskr. The independence would be nice, but is it worth catering to the whims of these people playing at being Jarl? And you're certain there's no property to build upon within Whiterun Hold?

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[guideyoursteps]

Perhaps it's for the best, if things are so bad there. If they're really so bad for their people, at least being closer means you'll be in a better position to undo whatever damage they manage to do.

The game developers Divines have their plans.

[killervocabulary]

Perhaps. I had intended on hanging up my weapons once this dragon issue was taken care of, live out the rest of my days smithing - but it's entirely possible that there's no rest for the Dragonborn. It's not that I don't want to help people - this just isn't what I had planned.

[guideyoursteps]

[A sympathetic sigh. This is what happens when you start saving the world. Everything's suddenly your problem.]

...things change, don't they, once you start fighting? You can't just stop, because there's all these problems that someone has to do something about. There'll always be one more person who needs help, and you have to do it just because you're the one who can.

[killervocabulary]

[Preach it, girl.]

Yes... I only wanted to come to Skyrim to become a better smith. Go to Whiterun, see the Skyforge, learn how the Nords work their steel - but then I'm arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, nearly executed for no good reason, and then I get caught up fighting dragons amid a civil war. You take one step into a situation, and a hundred hands pull you all the way in - like it or not.

[dovahkitty]

Exactly why I'm saving up to buy Hjerim instead. When I get the messes cleared up...

*Because living in a city whose human population distrusts you is so much better, Ma'sud...*