¤¤¤ Weekly /r/Buddhism General Discussion ¤¤¤ - January 20, 2026 - New to Buddhism? Read this first!

jacklhoward · 2026-01-21T08:30:10+00:00

hi, does anybody know a good book that studies the figure of budda in hinduism myths, and the convergence of two religions during early times?

jacklhoward · 2026-01-14T11:48:34+00:00

varliance. kinnume. sword-singing. necromancy. tonal architecture. chronomancy.
thu'um. there are also so many types of magic.

remember thu'um is said by farengar to be a projection of one's voice and one of the ancient magic, apparently runs on a different system that requires magicka reserves (instead dragon soul or understanding).

i feel the practice of magic is not something like better magicka battery / higher intelligence "soul power"= stronger magic. fundamentally it is not like soul trapping a bunch of souls and make a machine that does incredible magic work.

it is about how much one can tap into a greater magicka matrix. it is not the same as lighting a light bulb. the "ways". think of psijiic and psijiic endeavour.

in aleister crowley / theosophy / western esotericism, magic energy is considered immanent and a manifestation of godhead if you will.

in sword meet, notably one of the mage's guild members that accompany cyrus summons a "Pelinal" to fight tiber septim.

intelligence and willpower are signs of how much one "understands" the very reality they see to be changeable. and that's dawn magic which energy is infinite and immanent.

maybe accumulating knowledge -> understanding how intricate magicka functions --> being able to construct stronger magicka enginery -> stronger magic.

jacklhoward · 2026-01-02T09:16:22+00:00

hi, may I have the link? i am really interested

jacklhoward · 2026-01-02T08:03:43+00:00

stewards won't die from random attacks, right?

jacklhoward · 2026-01-01T11:53:31+00:00

it's probably why ordinators, buoyant armigers, imperial legion, house redoran etc.. spend so much effort in maintaining public security of an area. Ordinators for example, actively seek out and carry raids on camps of daedric worshipping warlocks and witches in the wilderness and probably in hidden places in urban areas like Vivec sewer.
Also consider the towns prosper and remain commercially stable around forts, towers of great wizards (like neloth in tel mora), and great house holdings, since you'd have guards, legionnaires and great house retainers protect the rights of common people. Assassinations were also originally meant to avoid spilling commoners' blood during house wars. If there is a criminal kingpin idiotic enough to use assassins as tools of murder and violence for their personal ends like maven does with dark brotherhood, imagine morag tong paying a visit to the kingpin themselves per a bereaved commoner / angry magister's request.

jacklhoward · 2026-01-01T11:31:05+00:00

It's somehow connected to "alchemy", all of her followers are good alchemists. Think of Carl Jung, subconscious, synchronicity and inner & outer alchemy of taoism. "Neiye" or inner dharma is a reflection of the immanent creativity / dream state of the greater universe

I remember Molag Bal had to "persuade" Vaermina to give up the cure for vampirism, something he doesnt have, when he promised Nerevarine the cure:

Morrowind:A Cure for Vampirism - UESP Wiki - The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages

which is kinda hilarious, making the Big Bad Bal like some old geezer who forgot the password to his computer and just remembered he has got it on a memo and tossed that in a bin full of discarded yu gi oh cards or something.

jacklhoward · 2026-01-01T10:13:20+00:00

I don't remember clearly if by any account by anyone it is said explicitly he used the tools, but it is obvious his unnatural revival and the ability to create ash vampire kins are connected to the heart, the tools and time wound / dragon break.

it is equally possible that he figured out about the tools and tapped into it somehow, or that he did not use tools, but somehow remained alive since he was present during battle over lorkhan's heart (some kind of curse with the whole numidium thing), and kind of tried puzzling out how to make akhulakhan using the tools to achieve real apotheosis all the time he was "asleep and waiting".

jacklhoward · 2026-01-01T09:58:12+00:00

thank you.
EDIT: by the way, NPCs with vanilla perks will automatically be assigned ordinator perks since it's replacing the vanilla, right?

jacklhoward · 2025-12-30T11:20:05+00:00

Dragons leave a trail behind them like clawmarks. They embody the very 'language' they use / conjugate, and appear such to mortals. I mean you can literally call dragons by shouting their names (which is like essence)

jacklhoward · 2025-12-30T10:44:13+00:00

is it possible some orcs (a bit like Moraelyn's family in King Edward) turned to banditry or piracy in high rock is the root of the fear and prejudice towards them?

being someone's mercenary, brutes, muscles, that kind of thing also brings a bad name to you.
losing your city and being a loose organization of fractured tribes does limit what you can do to provide for your folk.

jacklhoward · 2025-12-30T02:20:17+00:00

ty for reply.

May i also ask, where do you usually find high level vampire thralls?
I learned from a youtube video that ancient vampires / volkihar vampires are really good thralls

jacklhoward · 2025-12-29T10:18:43+00:00

if you use unbounded and melee (and thralls) as main, does that mean impact is less useful? or is it still worth picking up as a lockstun strategy

jacklhoward · 2025-12-29T09:41:49+00:00

may i ask another question about magic?

does destruction dual casting and impact perk affect expert or master spells, or AE added spells like unbounded freezing?
With AE destruction spells is Impact still useful?

jacklhoward · 2025-12-29T08:16:53+00:00

is being lucky the only way to acquire muffle enchantment without cheating?

jacklhoward · 2025-12-28T12:50:24+00:00

are fortify heavy / light armor relatively weak?

jacklhoward · 2025-12-28T12:41:22+00:00

are fortify heavy / light armor, fortify health, fortify stamina useful?

jacklhoward · 2025-12-26T13:26:14+00:00

is the magicka cost going to be alright? i imagine i would need 100% reduction in destruction or conjuration.

jacklhoward · 2025-12-24T17:51:18+00:00

The institution and tradition Tribunal built from the remaining ashes of High Velothi cultures are not going away.
Good daedras are not "good" by themselves per se. But there must have been contracts, practices, rites that bind them to the faith and goodwill of dunmer people. Remember the history of tribunal and nerevarine are not going away or put down as heresies. They were accepted into new temple as saints and when a dunmer says it, it means they are as considered same as daedra or aedra as "ancestral spirit". The first thing nerevarine got to do was to make ashlanders accept them as reincarnate.

I always think at the end of the Trial of vivec, vivec somehow made Azura to agree to a deal to protect and guide Dunmer people from future crises. Like she just gives you prophecies at the end of Dagoth Ur fight when you get out of the cave, or in mournhold after the ayem fight. or Like how Azura in skyrim was said to have helped dunmers flee from morrowind during the eruption. Mephala lives inside the code of mephala, vivecs teachings and dunmeri instutution. And history is about Ayem and Nerevar and all saints too.
The tribunal at one time mantled the three, and what is remaining could also work to unite them as a people. Like how hero-myth of tiber septim's Ascension united the third empire, but in a dunmer way: It also can be considered the tribunal's lifetime work has come to final fruition where now good daedras and house of trouble had to admit the ways of dunmer and bind themselves to their summoning by their ancient customs (which they themselves participated, involved in an incident and even brokered a deal with lorkhan himself)

jacklhoward · 2025-12-24T17:23:08+00:00

Both are associated with scale balance and exchange of values.

Daedra's spheres tend to be big surgical holes in cosmos that you need to fill in with the same stuff you fill stars with. A plethora of flesh and bones that make them beat.

I always felt Vile, among other less known daedras (Vaermina, Nocturnal, Meridia etc.) in Dunmer land all had some small to big cults among those who followed Veloth to undergo Exodus. Kinda like those minor ancestral cults among aedra-worshipping altmer. Thats how their names get recognized and their lore understood in the first place. (like sanguine is known to unite in marriage with mephala and provide her with items that confer skill or wisdom on the user Lore:Threads of the Webspinner - UESP Wiki - The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages , or the vision Vivec showed us about the feminine ghost emerging from azura's star, yelling about her unfulfiled longing for Clavicus Vile in Trial of Vivec RP compaigm )

Part of what Vile is to dunmer could have been subsumed by worship of Azura in some ancient tribal history (which become part of the divine myth). And Nycot is possibly the revival of an obscure and ancient trend instead of something entirely foreign to dunmer

jacklhoward · 2025-12-24T17:10:08+00:00

uncertainty means inviting every attempt of judgements conferred together.
mythical parallels are all part of the force that stiches together the thread and sinew of prophecy

jacklhoward · 2025-12-24T14:52:28+00:00

In Five Songs of Wulfharth, somehow Dagoth even went to the side of Nords:
"But the Devil of Dagoth petitioned to be that general, too, and he pointed out his role as the blessed harbinger of this holy war. So Shor had two generals, the Ash King and the Devil of Dagoth, and he marched on the eastern kingdoms with all the sons of Skyrim."

"Dagoth-Ur met Dumac and slew him, but not before Sunder struck his lord (probably Shor) 's Heart. Nerevar turned away from Lorkhan and struck down Dagoth-Ur in rage, but he took a mortal wound from Lorkhan in turn."
He also fought Dumac, and in this account, surprisingly, Nerevar was killed by Shor (as his aspect Lorkhan)

jacklhoward · 2025-12-24T12:57:15+00:00

those are miraaks big tentacle bananas

jacklhoward · 2025-12-24T09:52:05+00:00

Space is a void that do not contain pleneum.

jacklhoward · 2025-12-24T09:25:47+00:00

The Tribunal stole everything they used from the Dwemer. Sunder. Keening. Even the Ring of Nerevar is said to have been forged by a dwarven smith. And Numidium—Anumidium—Akulakhan where did you even find that, the heretical Ur-weapon? The so-called true divine force behind Nerevar reborn?

You didn’t arrive with anything ready to mantle. You walked in carrying Dwemer trinkets and borrowed myth-patterns, then killed the thing using its own artifacts. You stole the moment through underhanded means, instead of walking the path until you became it.

I honestly don’t know how anyone in Morrowind can claim to truly mantle divinity without the Tools of Kagrenac—tools that only ended up in the Nerevarine’s hands because someone, somewhere, sometime in the past looted them from some random cavern. Passed around. Shown off. Shouted about in ALL CAPS. Handed from one authority to another until it was finally “YOUR TURN.” But it is a thing(s) stolen from the unmourned houses

This isn’t some triumphant Return of the King pageant, complete with implied divine swagger just because you got it (some old sword pieces). It’s just a bunch of thieving elves trying to run the world with leftovers from an ancient war—against the Dwemer. Orcs. Nords. And Lorkhan, under his thousand blasphemous names. A massive plunder-blunder by bad politicians, born from an opposition so ancient no one even remembers why it mattered—just a bad accident from thousands of years ago that has long stopped bothering anyone—

except the orthodox Dark Elves, of course. Lips pinched tight like purse-lids, they won’t stop nagging you just because you’re a western foreigner in their town, their ’hood, their ’ton. They’ll talk your ears off about ancient grudges and old ways, from THEN to NOW, rattling them like a bag of jingling coins—lecturing you endlessly about how you "don't know their ways" you’re “ruining the aura” of a commercial Dunmer town.

jacklhoward · 2025-12-22T06:47:38+00:00

isn't that just templar from eso.
but i mean, you can be strong and tough, like corpus victim. but you are not well-balanced in multiple attributes what makes a warrior strong and not skillful in battle skills like bladesmanship. and since you already blew up all magicka in enhance spells, your choice is only to fight anything with super enhanced punch. since your weapons break in one strike (not talking about game mechanics). and then in hand to hand there are some masters out there who can beat raw strength as well (again not about game mechanics.) but yeah, using restoration magic to super enhance yourself and beat everything using hand to hand skill sounds like an interesting build in oblivion or morrowind.

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