An Orc courier approaches a traveller with a folded letter outside Orsinium's mountain-framed stone gates.

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Stuga

Do you know how long I've been looking for you?

— The Elder Scrolls Online  ·  2014

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A quest giver briefly sounds like the person whose time has been wasted. For a player who repeatedly delays the invitation, her urgency becomes part of the scenery. The question recalls the peculiar relationship between an open-world hero's freedom and all the people waiting for that hero to listen.

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Spoilers for The Elder Scrolls OnlineShow the scene

Stuga asks this while delivering the Invitation to Orsinium in The Elder Scrolls Online's Orsinium expansion (2015). She brings a letter from Forge-Mother Alga inviting the adventurer to Wrothgar and King Kurog's city. The dialogue reference also records an older version in which she ran after players in alliance cities, explaining the pursuit recalled in the running joke.

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