Learning about Pelinal Whitestrake - Literal Elf Exterminatus
Added 2024-10-04 16:32:20 +0000 UTC
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Holy moly. Whenever I think Elder Scrolls I do just think of running around smacking things with a sword and sending them flying with a Fusrodah. The amount of lore behind it all is insane, but it's cool that you can enjoy the setting without knowing any of that.
Xero Degrees
2024-10-05 16:27:09 +0000 UTCWith all that I have on my plate right now, I don't think there will be a deep dive soon, but I'll definitely keep my eye on the series.
Xero Degrees
2024-10-05 16:25:53 +0000 UTCAt a basic level Elder Scrolls lore is not very diffcult. Dragons/demons/zombies are attacking and it is up to the player to stop them. But once you start going deep... hoo boy. You're not even at the level of "look at this cool story hidding all across the dungeons and lore books", you start reaching into that deep esoteric stuff. It is true that the Elder Scrolls world is the creation of a Dreamer who is not part of the world. The Dreamer created Anu and Padomay, Stasis and Entropy, who clash created a pretty cozy place where time was non-linear and causality wasn't a thing. But then one of the proto-spirits, Lorkhan, realized the nature of reality and tricked others of his kind into creating Nirn, the world of the setting. The most powerful of their rank was so disgusted by the trickery he and his followers left Nirn altogether, ripping holes in the edge of reality which caused magical energy to leak in as light, which is how we got the sun and stars. The others tore Lorkhan apart and chucked his heart at the planet, whose beat created linear time and started the timeline of the series. But in Skyrim there came a group of elves into power called the Thalmor, who think that linear time is cringe and want to return to the primordial soup of yore. So they started to tear down the lynchpins of reality called the Towers, some of which were actual towers like White-Gold Tower in the center of Cyrodiil. Others include the Throat of the World in Skyrim and Red Mountain in Morrowind. Once they've destroyed all Towers reality will unravel and it's back to the cosmic miso soup for everyone. That's right: from a basic point of view the Thalmor look like racist authoritarians but in reality they're weebs trying to make Evangelion real. Not that all of them know this of course: most of the rank and file Thalmor are perfectly fine with being snooty at the lesser races. Other points of lore in Morrowind is about the nature of prophecy: are you the chosen one because you fulfill the prophecy or do you fulfill the prophecy because you are the chosen one? There's also the delighful 36 Sermons of Vivec, an in-universe religious text that is the creation of the absolute visionary Michael Kirkbride, who according to the memes wrote the entire thing in four days by locking himself naked in a room with nothing but a typewriter, whiskey and cigarettes. When Todd Howard kicked down the door by the end of the fourth day demanding either a story or Kirkbride's kneecaps, he was given a work of brilliant madness. And as for CHIM... well, it is what happens when someone in the dream becomes aware that they're a dream. Most will proceed to zero sum because they realize they're not real and are immediately erased from existence, but a rare few realize that if they're in a dream they can become lucid dreamers and take control of the dream. Some people claim that this means they get access to the game's console commands and construction kit, but those who attain CHIM are still bound to the world itself. This is why when you meet someone in Morrowind who has attained CHIM you actually can beat them in a fight, since they know they're up against someone who has a similar power and can just reload until they win. This also has someone in the game who almost attained CHIM in death but managed to reverse it so that instead of becoming a Dreamer himself the Dreamer would become them instead. But if this is 3deep5u you can just buy Skyrim again and hit dragons with your hammer and ignore that they are the product of the god of time's multiple personalities are at war with one another and are sending their agents to duke it out by proxy, meaning that the dragons are actually angels (and not as some people insist drakes because they have two legs instead of four).
Beriorn
2024-10-04 18:26:13 +0000 UTCAwesome that you got around to watching the video. Imo its peak. Gonna watch tomorrow, see ya around ma dude ๐ผ Edit: Watched it, sorry for suggesting a video that was a bit more advanced in the Elder Scrolls Lore and for possible confusion :D. But I'm Happy that it seems my guess that this would get you at least a bit interested in the Lore was correct :). The Lore is very interesting imo and I hope you will maybe revisit it later. Cheers
Ultraporing
2024-10-04 18:19:01 +0000 UTC
