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I feel like we don't talk about Morrowind Vivec's thousand-yard stare

“There is no such thing as a coincidence. The fact that you’re watching this video means you’re energetically aligned with me, and this announcement. Your thoughts create your reality -- but you already knew that.”

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Vivec knew that to retain his divinity that he must make a strong argument against luck. He said:

'Is not the sudden revelation of corresponding conditions and disparate elements that gel at the moment of the coincidence one of the prerequisites to being, in fact, coincidental? Synchronicity comes out of repeated coincidences at the lowest level. Further examination shows it is the utter power of the sheer number of coincidences that leads one to the idea that synchronicity is guided by something more than chance. Therefore, synchronicity ends up invalidating the concept of the coincidental, even though they are the symptomatic signs that bring it to the surface.'

Thus was coincidence destroyed in the land of the Velothi.

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this hasn't made it into anything i've written yet but dunmeri sign language is colloquially called "spidertalk" and is learned by almost everyone

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spidertalk has been used by deaf people and their families and friends since veloth's day but was popularized as a mode of silent secret communication by rebels during the nordic occupation. the house mer all learned it. now it's still universally taught due to its manifold uses

a prevailing stereotype among house dunmer to this day is that people who don't know spidertalk can't be trusted with secrets since they'll inevitably blab them aloud

a common trope in velothi theatre is the "doublespeech," in which a character trying to dupe an eavesdropper delivers one monologue verbally while spidertalking another. this tends to take many rehearsals and is superbly difficult and impractical to pull off in practice but people do doublespeak on occasion (i.e. someone at a party saying "i'm having a great time" to a friend while simultaneously signing "GET ME OUT OF HERE")

the ashlander tribes have their own unique sign languages (which for good reason they are reticent to share). the cammona tong and morag tong have developed dialects of spidertalk that they use to communicate in secret and identify their own

some very devout mephalite sects take a vow of silence at a certain age and spidertalk for the rest of their lives

#hm

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