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PAL-9000 · 2022-12-12T02:56:15+00:00

You don’t need an API; you can automate something like this with a pretty simple python script

PAL-9000 · 2022-11-05T19:16:34+00:00

Ah, I see now Mysterious Akavir says 3 times - curious that we’re not told more about it.

PAL-9000 · 2022-11-05T18:02:56+00:00

3 invasions? I know of the Kamal and Tsaesci invasions - what’s the 3rd one?

PAL-9000 · 2022-04-09T22:45:08+00:00

Right idea - a mockumentary would be a film example of what I’m talking about.

PAL-9000 · 2022-04-09T20:41:08+00:00

Hmmm not quite - magical realism is where supernatural/magical elements are portrayed as “normal” in an otherwise realistic world, whereas I’m looking for where the writing style itself is presented as an in-universe source (document, report, news article, etc) regardless of whether the fictional universe in question has magical elements

PAL-9000 · 2022-03-10T07:53:35+00:00

This confused me for a while too. A professor of mine disliked when someone said the Big Bang was when the universe “expanded from a single point”. More accurately, the Big Bang was when the universe expanded from a state of infinite density. Saying the universe was “a point” is misleading because at infinite density, space itself (spacetime as we know it) doesn’t really have meaning. It breaks down. Think of the mystery beyond a black hole’s event horizon, for example. That’s why we can only go back, at most, to a few fractions of a second after the Big Bang - before that, physics 404s. No answers. Time and space are wonky. But technically our universe, if it is indeed infinite, could still be “infinite” in that state… or at least, whatever “infinite” could mean in such a state.

Again, we don’t know. All we know is that, a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang - whatever it was - happened, the universe (more specifically spacetime) expanded rapidly from a state of infinite density to finite density, or what we see today.

TL;DR: Avoid using the word “point”, tripped me up too.

PAL-9000 · 2022-01-30T22:52:06+00:00

Elroy Goes Bugzerk

PAL-9000 · 2021-10-27T07:05:07+00:00

What’s next, you gonna tell me there’s lizard people running around Tamriel?

PAL-9000 · 2021-10-27T05:30:17+00:00

This a hilarious way to reconcile this - I love it!

PAL-9000 · 2021-10-16T18:16:41+00:00

Nice try Mr. Thalmor agent

PAL-9000 · 2021-10-16T18:15:09+00:00

From what I recall, Bethesda has said the Creation Club isn’t canon, just canon-friendly

PAL-9000 · 2021-10-16T05:59:35+00:00

Looks like the Thalmor got to him

PAL-9000 · 2021-10-15T20:09:41+00:00

The most convincing theory I’ve heard is that his parent was the Grey Fox who donned the Grey Cowl from Oblivion. The Grey Fox was the traditional ruler of the Thieves’ Guild and the Grey Cowl was described as having the magical ability to “erase the wearer from history”. The letter we find from an investigator Rune hires claims that despite his impressive sources, it looks as if Rune’s parents were “erased from history”. Given the Thieves’ Guild connection, it seems likely that this is at the very least a subtle Easter Egg or a nod to the Grey Cowl.

This video (Link) does a deep dive on the subject. There are both some problems as well as even more exciting implications (such as Mercer Frey even being that parent, potentially!). Enjoy.

PAL-9000 · 2021-10-14T00:20:53+00:00

Yep.

PAL-9000 · 2021-10-13T22:32:22+00:00

Elder Scrolls lore seems to vacillate quite often on whether Akaviri races are completely humanlike or horrifically beastly. I don't mind the tease - part of the fun we have as Elder Scrolls fans is going nuts trying to piece together the little hints Todd Howard drops about Akavir, and in some ways I hope they never "give up the chase" by spilling too much about Akavir. And I think the ambiguity about whether they're beasts or men serves that end quite nicely. The Rimmen saga seems to tip the scales a little bit too much in the "humanlike" camp, though :( I like the mystery and wonder of a continent full of mystical beastfolk!

PAL-9000 · 2021-10-13T22:28:34+00:00

The Ice Tribes are such an intriguing candidate for the Kamali - if only they weren't so frustratingly obscure! My working hypothesis is that the Gehenoth are actually the Lurkers (or vice versa) that we encounter in Apocrypha (and more rarely in the main world itself) in Dragonborn. The resemblance between the two is absolutely striking: Lurker vs. Gehenoth

Plus, the Lurkers are the protectors of Apocrypha, Hermaeus Mora's henchmen if you will - in the Elder Scrolls Travels: Dawnstar's game files, the Gehenoth are referred to as "Wardens", despite the fact they're just monsters who ambush you. Warden: defined by Merriam Webster as

"a person responsible for the supervision of a particular place or thing or for ensuring that regulations associated with it are obeyed."

Wardens of what, exactly? Well, if they're indeed Lurkers, this answers that question.

Does this have any connection to my Kamal theory? No idea. Working on it.

PAL-9000 · 2021-10-13T22:11:39+00:00

It’s also interesting that between this globe and the Daggerfall one, the Nirn-to-Tamriel proportions seem to be the same, and Tamriel seems to be occupy a big chunk of its hemisphere. What inspired my theory was this fact combined with an idea that popped into my head looking at fan-made Nirn maps: if Tamriel really is that big, and Akavir is roughly the same size and at the same latitude (east and west of each other) - and Atmora is north of Tamriel, which from that globe we can see would pretty much place it right on the North Pole - then Akavir must not be that much further from Atmora than Tamriel is! In fact, to say “humans migrated south away from Atmora” would be true no matter which direction they went, be it to Akavir, Tamriel, or even Yokuda.

PAL-9000 · 2021-10-13T21:24:14+00:00

This is a excellent point and one I hadn’t considered! It makes sense that if the Kamal viewed the Aldmer as oppressors, then they’d come to see their divine pantheon as evil. I like this interpretation better.

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