#loretext

[lost-in-the-lore]

Y ya tiene lore,,,

#qsmp #flopping #loretext

[kathanglangit]

Moonhammer

No pretentious loretext this time. I designed this meteor-hammer belt thing a while back based on the Bakunawa, the moon-eater serpent. The look of the maw is based in part on Visayan tenegre hilts, and the moon and star are based on my uh- Idk what to call it, a brand logo I guess?

I was going to get it made for myself, then I remembered I'm not actually trained to use a meteor hammer, so-

#weapon design #digital art #kathang langit #ttrpg #filipino artists #art #artists on tumblr #meteor hammer #belt #moon #mooneater #bakunawa #blueprint #if you get this made for yourself just make sure you credit me or whatever

[boethiah]

do you ever wonder abt alternative calendars in tamriel bc the era thing being universal feels more like "its the dating system the empire uses and thus is used across its provinces/for business reasons" or smthn and i just like to imagine the reman dynasty ending and versidue going "we're in the 2nd era now" and the tribunal are like "huh? huh whuh?"

well NOW i am  (... although to be contrarian the 2nd era also makes sense as a break-date for the tribunal because 1E2920 is the year mournhold was completely destroyed by mehrunes dagon. the capital city and associated near-death of its tribune seems like a dramatic enough date to end an era. new era new mournold.)

there actually are some in-game examples of this, such as the argonian seasons-- while those correspond to the months, i would suppose that argonians haven’t had “their own” calendars since dawnfall, given their attitude on history and timekeeping and whatnot. the altmer probably also have their own calendar system, and you could loosely take certain loretexts to imply that the nords used to reckon era by the king reigning at the time-- a habit that oddly enough seemed to have been picked up in morrowind around the time of the occupation, but then probably slowly died out after the founding of the first council. the early nords almost certainly had their own calendar system besides that, given ysgramor’s title of “the first human historian”, he would need a way to account for dates if he were to be such. and the dwemer obviously had their own astronomy-based calendar, if the orrerys are anything to go by.

but i will say that the era system that’s ubiquitous throughout the game actually came from king eplear of valenwood’s camoran dynasty, and coincided with the founding of an ayleid city-state around the white-gold tower. ayleid culture proceeded to be adopted by the alessians, who went on to influence the nords, and a combination of those two conquered the top half of tamriel, so there’s ample room for that dating system to spread. that “era” went for nearly 3,000 years anyway-- it was only after 2920 and the ensuing continent-wide chaos that versidue-shae proclaimed a new era. in fact i think there’s a reason that each new era has coincided with events that affected nearly all of tamriel .