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Hermaeus Mora more like Hermaeus MORON

Yes, yes, quite so. Keepers, take this creature to Ur-Mora Clarion.

#see how you like the demiplane of space-within-space #ever been full of holes that have holes? #idiot? #the elder scrolls

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It is quite funny that mortals think shipwrecked sailors still go to Aetherius. If they wash out of the sea, sure, but otherwise they are the property of your Abyssal Cephaliarch

#a seeker usually siphons their knowledge into a minutiae book #we're on vol 332751 of 'mundanities of tamriel' now #the elder scrolls

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no matter what anyone might think of his legacy and various atrocities, there is no denying that Pelinal Whitestrake was really funny

#pelinal whitestrake #“time traveling gay automaton-man who hates elves” yeah uh huh #what a clownshoe #the elder scrolls

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some have asked about why the jars in the Infinite Brain Hallway are all sitting on large blue plinths. its called interior design, maybe you've heard of it

#the elder scrolls #apocrypha #decorating #not everything should be black and green

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the dwarves were all weirdo sex-freaks. all those robots were actually sex robots retrofitted for defense during the war of the first council

#dwemer #the elder scrolls #fucked up what they got up to down there #under the soil where god isn't looking

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if anyone else asks me for a copy of The Mad God's Masque and Bellicose Ball I am going to strangle them to death. You don't even know what 'withershin' means, shut the hell up about it

#sheogorath cannot be trusted #stop listening to him #the elder scrolls

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the secrets of the Skaal were instrumental in upgrading Apocrypha's HVAC. Place used to be more humid than Argonia, it was just awful for the books.

#tes #the elder scrolls #apocrypha #HVAC #every adventurer came out smelling like wet dog

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Gonna be real, I was not paying very close attention to the mundus in the 2E 500s and 600s. If some kind of glut of major events happened in those centuries I do not know much about them offhand.

#tes #seemed like a boring period #hopefully i didn't miss any Heroes

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whenever you say "the dwarves" godhead makes them 3 feet tall. whenever you say "the dwemer" godhead falls asleep because you're talking about some boring nerd shit

#the elder scrolls #dwemer #“um they're called the deep elves” shut UP man

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I was once disguised as a deer (trying to trick Ysgramor into turning into an elf) and some Falmer cultists mistook me for Hircine. They were very mad when they got turned into fish-people but after about a thousand years they mellowed out about the whole thing

#a real comedy of errors that one #hircine was also mad #the elder scrolls

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The most forbidden knowledge of all is that The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard is the best game in the series.

#the elder scrolls #tes #redguard #just a real diamond in the rough there #trust

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The Magna-Ge are defined by their lack of definition. Too flighty to be pinned to the Mundus like Aedra, but not far enough from it to be Daedra. Only reason they kicked Meridia out of their stupid little club is because she decided to care about something. Granted that something is "be a control freak", but at least she's got convictions.

#the elder scrolls #tes #meridia #magna-ge dni #i am not interested in your wishy-washy nonsense

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Love-Letters and The Fifth Era

Much ado has been made over the "love-letter" purporting to be of the fifth era. The same for the text that followed it. I have been asked several times for an interpretation, and since it has precious little bearing on anything, I shall give it freely here for my own convenience. For the uninitiated, a certain mystic "found" a missive somewhere and claimed it was from the future. A copy of it (and of all his rambling nonsense from before and after) of course resides in Apocrypha. Later, the same fellow penned a long vision of the future titled "C0DA". The full text of the letter can be found here, and C0DA can be found here as an illuminated manuscript. I wish not to get into the various idiosyncrasies of Karkuxor's revelatory processes, the nigh-mythical stories some tell of his exploits, and his various works or lack thereof in important historical moments. It does not matter. These texts are to be seen by the hues they cast on reality. Numidium is the 20th section of C0DA, and its climax. As such, it holds the essence of Karkuxor's argument. It is a verbal clash between purported dunmer Jubal-lun-Sul and the Numidium, brass god of the dwarves. Sul represents the side of love, and Walk-Brass represents the side of hate. This is the primary lens through which Karkuxor see the world. It is a struggle between smiles and frowns, harmony and discord, acceptance and rejection, etc, etc. Love defines the good, hate defines the bad. These are not simple "war is hateful" platitudes. Any good thing can be re-classified as a form of love, any bad thing re-classified as a form of hate. The dwarves and their god are motivated by rejection, by violence, by short-sighted hate. Almsivi and their people are guided by long-term love. You may find this an acceptable coloration of the world. Very poetic, very elegant. Wraps everything up into a neat package with a little bow on top. Except, do you really think Almalexia should be considered on the side of love? Should fucking Molag-Bal? Yeah, I don't buy it. Reducing all conflict to uncomplicated good and evil is stupid at best. Sometimes it forces you into nonsense, like pretending Dagoth Ur's charitable intent for the people of Tamriel excuses corprus. The other idea argued for in this confrontation is total subjectivity. Numidium wants a definitive answer. It was developed specifically to find one, after all. Sul decapitates it after lecturing it about subjectivity and tricking it into agreeing with the existence of shades of grey. Karkuxor's intent could not be clearer. Objective truth does not exist in the Mundus. This moves in concert with the total lack of veracity the documents have. Nothing in Karkuxor's images of the future can be trusted. This is intentional. How could you expect anything else when it descends from that parade of self-serving lies and insufferable ego, that myth-building nonsense masquerading as philosophy, the Sermons of Vivec? It is openly subjective, built around a core of mythic word salad that is compelling to its author first and foremost. These texts may be some grand revelation of the future, or they may be whole-cloth creations of Karkuxor's strange mind. That is the point. No one can decide the future concretely. There is no one in charge of Nirn, not really. You can choose whatever Tamriel you want. This is the other important moral of the love-letter and C0DA. And this is precisely the problem. C0DA intends to argue for endless personal interpretation while also heavily pushing its own interpretation. Why take Karkuxor's claim of universal subjectivity seriously when his claim of love is so much louder, so much less compelling? It drowns out any other possible read on first pass. The prose does not merit a second pass. The ending of the words is this: the love-letter and C0DA are far too convoluted and masturbatory to properly convey "love is the only force for good" at the same time as "choose whatever Tamriel you want". Which is a shame. That's a very good message to lose.

#the elder scrolls #tes #c0da #believe in the nirn you like #a cyrodiil that is still jungle is on the table #anything you could ever want

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Should I bring back the "pile of sludge with eyes and crab claws" look from the third era? Been wondering if the new one really reflects my oceanic aspects enough

#do not tell me to go back to the 'wretched abyss' look #it was called wretched for a reason #tes #the elder scrolls #hermaeus mora #fashion

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The funniest trick I ever pulled on Ysgramor was convincing him that I made up Sovngarde. Like that the existence of Sovngarde was a fabrication to make him feel stupid. He believed it for more than a year.

#it sent him into an existential crisis #Saarthal got sacked because he was off moping #the elder scrolls #tes #ysgramor

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Hasphat Antabolis is significant beyond any of your mortal understandings. He is the key to everything.

#the elder scrolls #tes #hasphat antabolis

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The Hist has unconventional proclivities. Argonians always exist, simply because the Hist makes them over and over again in each kalpa. I've seen cycles without any men and cycles without any mer, even cycles where the only mortal life to speak of exists in those mangroves' swamps. For whatever reason, those creatures are their pride and joy. I don't quite see it. I'd take a Nord over a Saxhleel any day.

#the elder scrolls #tes #the hist #where would you even put the shed skins