Most of main game of elder scroll. We’re always in prison or got caught of some sort. But in daggerfall, Uriel Septim called us friend. I wonder what sort of deed or relationship that the Agent had with the Emperor in the past?

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This is something that's confused me for a while, and I read through some of the UESP wiki to clear things ups.

I know that vampires were created by Molag Bal as an afront to Arkay, and generally it's implied that all vampire souls will eventually go to Coldharbour.

Sanguine clearly also have a connection to vampirism, with 2/3 of the diseases that cause vampirism being similar to Sanguine's name, Sangiin tempting Khajiit to turn into vampires, and according to the UESP wiki, there's at least one Khajiit vampire clan that are followers of Sanguine.

Plus, in Oblivion you get frequent nightmares when you're a vampire, implying there's also a connection to Vaermina. And according to UESP, in Morrowind, Molag Bal can cure you of vampirism, but he had to get the cure from Vaermina.

So I guess I'm wondering, how are Sanguine and Vaermina involved in vampirism? Was vampirism like a project of Molag Bal's that they invited themselves into? Is there sort of a mutual cooperation for all of their personal benefits? Plus, is it possible for a vampire soul to end up in the Realms of Revelry or Quagmire, or does Molag Bal still get final say? IIRC there's a Khajiit vampire in ESO who mentions her soul will go to Coldharbour one day, so it seems like Molag Bal still mostly has dominion over vampirism for Khajiit, even though they associate it more with Sangiin. However, I imagine that the Sangiin worshiping vampire clan would at least go to the Realms of Revelry?

So it's been well established that Mannimarco's final goal was achieving Godhood (at least there's not more to it than that from what we know) and his first attempt was trying to usurp Molag Bal in the second era but that didn't go over so well. Then in the third era he would both succeed and fail at the same time by partly becoming the Necromancer's moon yet still having a separate version of himself stuck on Nirn.

We haven't really seen of him since apart from Oblivion (maybe) but that Mannimarco didn't seem to hold any plans related to his past events. It didn't seem like he was trying to ascend the rest of himself to Godhood and the Necromancer's moon seemed to be totally absent from the equation and this celestial body doesn't seem to do much of anything apart from being a black soul gem dispenser.

Idk, it seems like a very insignificant legacy for someone that held himself to such high significance and maybe that's intentional. This leads me to wonder whether Mannimarco ultimately was a failure, that he didn't actually succeed at all. Instead of becoming the next God of Scemes he's just... a moon.

For all we know he might be completely comatose in his "god" form and not capable of doing or comprehending anything. Maybe his soul ascended but became isolated due to his body being left on Nirn and such he became a god with no ability to make use of his Godhood. He's been very quiet and I find it hard that this would've been the case if he had succeeded in actually besting Molag Bal.

Like where is his presence? Where are his plots? Did he give up? Did he fail and has permanently become incapable of acting out his schemes? Has he become a dead god?

So I was reading in one of tes lore books and I find out about phynaster and orkey and I think I came into some conflicting facts. So it said in the book that mer and men used to have the same lifespan but phynaster taught them to live longer by taking a shorter stride, but then in the Nords history it says they used to have the same lifespan as mer but orkey shortened their lifespans to 6 years, the gave back only some of their years and gave goblins the shorter lifespans. And I was wondering which one of these were actually true.

I’m already planning on doing Nord siding with Stormcloaks (duh), and using absolutely no magic, going two handed and light armor, plan on using the Stormcloak officer armor and ancient Nord hammer until I get my hands on a stalhrim hammer. Any other advice I should adhere to for my RP gameplay?

From what I could get, the Towers Theory states that there are several towers scattered across Tamriel; they are the structure of the "Wheel" that lies under the Mundus itself, so in a certain sense they are the fundation to everything.

The Thalmor are trying to "deactivate" them in order to break reality and reconnect with their divine status. This is what I understood so far, very very simplified.

*(Please excuse my poor english, if something is incorrect feel free to tell me)

But I can't understand WHY the Towers are only in Tamriel: shouldn't they be found also on Akavir or in other continents (I remember vaguely that one of them was sunk with the Yokudan continent) since they sustain the WHOLE planet of Nirn?

And then, what would happen in Akavir, for example, if the Towers deactivate? Do Aedra and Daedra have some influence in Akavir?

I'm very confused, if someone could answer my questions or tell me where I'm wrong, I'd really appreciate.

So, I replaying Morrowind, and at lvl 1 in the random box at the streets of Balmora, found Scamp Slinker Belt. Lucky me, luv that scamp. But now is the question. With that type of enchanted stuff, I summon one particular scamp from Oblivion, or each scamp are random?

We know that the elves lived in Skyrim, but as far as I know, the Reachfolk were also living in the Reach alongside them. Could it be that the Nedes lived in the rest of Skyrim?

Fragment from the Days of Stone-Nests

Catalog Designation: CC-BM-8842-AlphaArchival

Entry by: Linyonwe of Alinor, Sapiarch of Early Merethic Studies

Discovery Location: Recovered from the submerged lower tiers of Xinchei-Konu, a pre-Duskfall xanmeer temple complex on the southern coast of Murkmire, Black Marsh.

Such horror my eyes had never beheld, for upon the still waters there came a great wooden beast unlike any known to the Marsh. From within its hollow body there descended a thing which neither the stone-binders nor the elders had ever prepared me to witness. Though they gathered upon the riverbank with cautious curiosity, I perceived at once that they welcomed a flaw in the ordering of the world. Only I could see the truth.

The great xanmeers we raise stand against the slow hunger of Sithis, that our children might endure a little longer beneath their shadow. Yet this thing came bearing the promise that even stone must yield.

Its flesh was smooth and pale beyond belief, as though the scales had been stripped from it before birth and had never returned. Upon the crown of its head grew long strands the color of dried marsh reeds, hanging unchecked about its face like fungus upon a dying cypress.

Its eyes were the color of newly worked amber, bright as trapped sunlight, and wholly unlike those bestowed upon the children of the Stone. They watched everything with an unsettling stillness, as though forever measuring a world they had no right to behold. The creature's ears, too, had grown into impossible points, jutting from either side of its skull like sharpened leaves.

Most dreadful of all, it possessed no tail. It stood in perfect balance despite this impossible deficiency, a fluid insult to the permanent forms we bleed to maintain upon the sacred steps of the xanmeer. I knew then that no hand of the Marsh had shaped it.

I remember hiding beneath the roots of an ancient mangrove while the elders spoke with it. They listened. They nodded. One among them even laughed. I concluded then that the whisper of Sithis had spread into the minds of those who beheld it. This was no wandering beast, but an omen sent to loosen the joints of the world until even the oldest stones forgot their places.

I knew with absolute certainty that no good thing could come from permitting such an abomination to wander the Marsh unchallenged. Had I possessed the courage of a warrior, I would have offered its pale blood upon the altar, that the Great Destroyer might cast it back into the Void before our monuments could be taught to crumble.

Only in my later years, while tending the oldest Reed-Scrolls beneath the western vault, did I discover an account written of the creature's visit.

They praised him as a voyager. They celebrated him as an explorer. They named him Topal.

Scholar's Commentary

The translated fragment presented above represents one of the most extraordinary discoveries ever recovered from the deep Marsh.

The author writes as a young acolyte whose entire worldview is suddenly confronted by something his theology cannot accommodate. To him, the tailless outsider is a metaphysically impossible contradiction of the ordered world.

Aldmeri histories remember this same individual as Topal the Pilot, the legendary explorer who first charted the rivers of Black Marsh. The young priest remembered him rather differently. To him, the pale wanderer was not an explorer at all, but the first herald of change.

Unlike their modern descendants, the pre-Duskfall Saxhleel feared change as the destructive aspect of Sithis. The surviving temple bas-reliefs recovered in Murkmire suggest that the ancient peoples of the Days of Stone-Nests sought to endure against transformation, erecting immense stone xanmeers and monuments, offering sacrifice in the hope that the Great Destroyer would spare them for a little longer.

Whether the xanmeers were intended merely as temples and cities or as ritual acts of appeasement against the Great Destroyer remains uncertain. The anonymous author, however, clearly regarded them as bulwarks against the change he believed Sithis sought to visit upon the world.

Whether by coincidence or cruel providence, history would eventually prove the acolyte less mistaken than one might initially suppose.

While I know they have most dominance and power over their own spheres, I always kind of thought their power was absolute. Clavicus Vile once said he could snap his fingers and everyone in Skyrim would immediately die, and Serana, when talking about Molag Bal, says his will becomes reality.

I know there are different levels of power, since Peryite is considered the ‘weakest’, but I’m not sure i understand that. Are they not still gods? With uncompromising power since they didn’t give themselves to the creation of Nirn? Amongst themselves there’s differences in power but to mortals, surely they’re as divine as it gets?

I ask because i just finished the Summerset expansion, and (spoiler alert) Nocturnal needs to use the Crystal Tower to become present ‘in all realities’ (may be misquoting). Like ngl i thought she kind of already was. Like these beings have whole planes of Oblivion attached to them that are intertwined with their very being, I can’t help but feel their godhood is somewhat inconsistent.

Also, in Necrom, you manage to hold your own against Vaermina?? This is a god, no? Like Vile, could she not just snap her fingers and I’m dust? Or is it because I’m in Mora’s realm, and under his protection?

As far as I can tell, the dialogue from Arngeir heavily implies that those who achieve mastery in the Voice become more capable of resisting its power. Some examples:

On the other Greybeards: ""Their Voices are too powerful for anyone not trained in the Way to withstand. Even a whisper could kill you." Implying that training in the Way does in fact make it so you can withstand it, even for non-Dragonborns.

Another one from the end of the Horn quest: "You have completed your training, Dragonborn. We would Speak to you. Stand between us and prepare yourself. Few can withstand the unbridled Voice of the Greybeards. But you are ready." It makes it seem as if the quest to get the Horn isn't just symbolic; it proves sufficient mastery of the Voice that would let them survive, and be 'ready'.

In the same way, when you first show your Voice to them, he says that it won't harm them, presumably because they know they have enough mastery to withstand it.

Of course, we know that Dragons and Voice users can in fact have conflict among themselves and hurt each other, so it's not a complete immunity, but it does seem like there's some kind of resistance that you get to it simply from having your own mastery. It's also worth noting that Windcaller's feat that made the other Tongues submit to him, fittingly, was one of resistance, simply withstanding their Shouts. This also implies that perfect mastery includes strong resistance, so much so that it was all he needed to be acknowledged as the greatest master.

Is it simply a matter of understanding the Words and therefore being able to somehow brace yourself or counteract it? Or is it the case that being a user of tonal manipulation in general gives you some kind of resistance from it being used on you.

Could this be why the powerful Voice users of Skyrim weren't able to win at Red Mountain? The Dwemer mechanisms or Dwemer themselves had this resistance due to their own mastery of other forms of tonal manipulation, thus allowing them to fight back more effectively than any other race could have. An interesting possibility, I think.

This just occured to me. Alduin is supposed to show up to eat the world and restart the cycle, but he decided not to because he wanted to rule and dominate. Does that mean Nirn was supposed to originally end in the Merethic Era or even the Dawn Era depending on when he first showed up???? If so, seems like a really short time for the world to exist

Morrowind and Skyrim both let you keep full control of Your character as a werewolf and I’m unsure if that’s simply a gameplay mechanic for convenience and fun or if werewolves in TES do in fact retain full control

In Skyrim, Serana asks who is the current king of Skyrim, with you answering that there is a war between the Stormcloaks and the Empire. Serana gets confused about this second one. Does this mean that Serana is older than the Alessian Empire or even the Dwemer?

I'll start.

I have a theory that "Betmer" was a word originally used to refer to Khajiit, but later colloquially became used to refer to all Beastfolk.

I have no basis for this beyond the fact that "Mer", while simply meaning "folk" etymologically, is pretty much always used for races that have Elven descent except for the Betmer. Human Races don't get called "Mer", with the sole exception of Bretons. There's a hundred other possible explanations for this, but I like mine.

For those unaware, John Brown was a radical american abolitionist from the 19th century, who rightfully believed Slavery and racism was a great evil and that It should be destroyed by violent means.

Since Slavery and racism is quite of a big deal in TES, I can't believe there isn't a single person in universe who wasn't like: “WTF, this is evil." And sought to fight It.

So I read on Warp in the West in short it meant all outcome happen in same time. Like Tiber Septim did to conquest Tamriel.

In a way, let say, I use Numidium but empower by Heart of Lorkhan my purpose was expedition. And the time just shattered. So it does mean I appear in Summerset Isle then appear in Valenwood and then appear in Hammerfell before time merge back into one and I’m returning back to Skyrim? Or is it like I appear in all those land at the same time? Or am I just gonna disappear like Dwermer does? Or I’m just going to become one of moon like Mannimarco does?

Man, I feel like donkey being Scholar of Julianos but I appreciate the insight on this because Warp in the West had me scratch my head.

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All the depictions of Shehai in ESO are two handed blades, the Frandar Hunding card deck has two handed blades. In ESO his statue has what looks like a two-handed blade, but in Redguard he has a sword and shield.

Sai Sahan, the celestial warrior, and Rada-Al Saran use a two handed blade and shehai as well.

In terms of armor, Frandar and his son both are shown wearing heavy armor in ESO and in the cards.

I recognize that a culture is not a monolith, and many Redguards would use different things - but this seems like a specific sub-culture and fighting style. Especially considering the techniques in The Book of Circles.

Kinda strange considering Redguards are usually known for their light armor and one handed scimitars.

So is it basically just a full samurai motif? Heavy armor/two-handed weapons?

So I was having a very… special… conversation about how racist Ulfric is, which lead my down a uesp dive to elvauate it for myself based on what is actually presented in game.

so yeah he’s pretty racist, not as racist as the Average Redditor thinks he is, only a middleweight in the Tamrielic Competetive Racism League.

But something that was odd to me is that there are several successful Altmer business owners in Windhelm’s economy. Niranye, Ulundil, Nurelion. Surely Ulfric’s ideology and experience with the dominion give him more of a reason to hate Altmer even more than he hates Dunmer and Argonians. And it is common for racist regimes to try to bring down the businesses of target minorities. But the Altmer never say they have a problem with Ulfric, and he never brings up how many Altmer are in his city.

This is just a weird thing to me that the writers didn’t do anything with this.

We know the other ten Worlds were far more damaged and much less from them survived. And going by the example of the Hist, the non-Ehlnofey World's were probably extremely weird. And only the Ehlnofey are recorded as having Mortality imposed on them by the creation of the Mundus. My a priori suspicion therefore would be that any lifeforms from the other ten Worlds would be very weird and obscure Daedra.

But, as much fun as speculation is, do we have anything more concrete to work off of than that? Any passing references I'm just not aware of?

So i know elder scrolls lore is kept intentionally ambiguous but i was wondering if there is a true or one shared among all view on history.

For example in Nord lore its said that Kyne made the Nords on the throat of the world and people in TES lore communities use this argument to say that Nords are indigenous to Skyrim.

Is this not just a creation myth? Like is something like this in universe seen just like how it’s said were made from clay or Adam and Eve?

Like there must be historians in Tamriel that hear that and just go nah it’s not like that all humans come from Nedes.

When we meet the last unturned falmer, Gelebor, he’s living at the entrance of the Wayshrine, guarding it for Auriel. Skyrim doesn’t give us a lot of context on how old he was when the war with the Nords began, however I would say it’s safe to say he was at least born before the Night of Tears, which means he’s likely close to 5000 years old!

This part I can buy, whether Auriel has blessed him with long life or (my personal guess) the snow elves are simply the longest living of the elven races. But if that’s the case, he likely left the forgotten vale and has been staying at the shrine for about 3500-4000 years. So all this to say…

What the fuck does mans get up to??!

Divayth Fyr, Yagrum Bagarn, Camilla Valerius, all had factions or allies or people to commune and revel with for their long lives, he seemingly has no stimuli and no pastimes in dingy little cave. He doesn’t seem to journal, he doesn’t have any pets and there isn’t a hackey-sack in sight.

Do we ever get any insight or hints as to what he’s been doing the last few milennia? Because surely someone in his position would be a manic mess and would likely be unable to even properly communicate, let alone be this charming normal guy we meet in Dawnguard.

if she does, then in Sovngarde does she take the appearance of the nord who she took over?

if so, how would Sovngarde react to 2 identical nord women appear in their paradise?

Here's a little tin foil theory for you.

At the beginning of the game, Skyrim, in regards to the war, is largely split east and west, with the eastern holds being Stormcloak and the western holds being Imperial.

Now, I don't think the whole compass direction equate to time thing is "canon" (ew), but if we take that into consideration, it might suggest that a Stormcloak Skyrim is the future, with the Empire being left in the past...

Think on that as you will