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@sunnysaslattery tagged me in a thing and i decided to draw it hksjfh

characters who are staunch atheists in TES are so much funnier because the daedra and aedra are both extremely present and demonstratably real

morrowinds

character: yeah i just dont believe in any higher powers

sheogorath, sneaking up behind them with a bat: :)

theherocomplex

What I love most about Skyrim (and TES in general) is how, once the surface is at all scratched, you’re confronted with the most buckwild lore in the history of ever. Like, Skyrim’s baseline experience is: you are a person born with the soul of a dragon, which means you can absorb their souls and speak their language. Fair enough! There are two moons! And vampires! Giants herd mammoths across the plains!

But then! Dig a little deeper, and it’s all “yeah, there are two moons, but they aren’t really moons, they’re the corpse of the god who tricked all the other gods into creating the world, and mortals just interpret them as moons”, and “an entire race created technology that runs on souls, and they accidentally erased themselves from existence while trying to become gods, well at least that’s our best guess” and “some dudes replaced their hearts with plants and you can pickpocket the plant-heart right out of their chest” and “here’s a weapon that sometimes turns your enemies into pastries”.

What a game, you guys.

firstborn-of-akatosh-deactivate

One of the former Emperors of Cyrodill could nut so hard he used it to decapitate enemy soldiers. He also colonized the moon briefly. His biggest fan by far was a gay cyborg from the future.

The Hist are alien ‘trees’ that crash landed on Nirn after their planet was destroyed. They exist outside of time as we know it really and drink memory as if it were water. They are only nerfed by the fact they don’t have hands, a fact they fixed by tricking lizards into eating them, permanently altering their biology so that they resembled the man races and uplifting them into a sentient race of their own that is dependant on them to procreate.

This one time a monkey got SO MAD at god he and his human friends danced so hard it broke time for 1,000 years (which to everyone else felt like one night) and at the end they had deleted god and replaced him with a new, furry approved version.

If you wish upon a star, it might just come to earth and kill you. The constellations themselves are actually living, breathing beings and they fucking hate us bro, they are sick of our shit.

Lore™

dovahgriin

If you repost this I’ll fucking remove your kneecaps

greenhedge

Reblog if you’re an adult in witchcraft. (20+)

uesp

Did You Know: Thanks to the Hist, Argonians can switch genders?

saccharine-saint

THE HIST SAID TRANS RIGHTS

skavenscreechings-deactivated20

No, they didn’t, you fucking transfetishist. It’s part of the argonian life cycle. Learn your fucking lore.

tiredbosmer

Wow. Just wow. The lore states the argonians can ask the hist for the change. This means the argonian in question probably feels they do not belong as the gender they hatched as. They don’t just all change gender in their lifetimes. I do read my lore, and think that this is something transfolk should be able to connect with and enjoy.

So, kindly fuck off and let transfolk enjoy their tree lizards.

firstborn-of-akatosh-deactivate

“There are many ways to change oneself, of course. Some travel to far off land, taking in a new culture and lifestyle. Others choose to practice a new craft, woodworkers turned warriors, tailors turned egg-tenders. But others feel they need an even deeper change in their life, and so require the aid of the Hist. They are those who have chosen to change their gender. Something deep within these individuals calls for them to undergo this change. I do not know if it is the Hist’s will, or simply their own. But always I listen with open mind and open palms, ready to help them in this time of transformation. Together we commune with the Hist, and prepare to receive its aid.“

-A Grand Transformation, an actual lorebook

‘learn lore’ lmao bye

firstborn-of-akatosh-deactivate

Bye Felicia

cosmicbiologist

The Hist said Trans Rights!

dyslexic-daedra

Actual in game dialogue with a canon and non-disputable altmer transwoman.

Transphobia has no place in the Elder Scrolls.

growing-yet-into-magic

Not to be like “this blog and all of my posts are queer,” but this blog and all of my posts are queer. Terf and radfem witches are not welcome here. This content does not support you. “LGBT-but-I-hate-this-identity” witches and “You-need-to-be-this-binary-to-ride” witches are not welcome here. This blog isn’t for you just because I post witchcraft. You’re still not wanted. Jump off. ✨

calebwittebane

oblivion characters when you're trying to persuade them and highlight the different options on the wheel

daggerfall

more @screenshotsofdespair + the elder scrolls, but mostly skyrim

boethiah

sometimes i think about how the warfare employed in the first era war with the nords must have been completley unfathomable. utterly incomparable to anything else. you had your zombie armies, you had both sides using the laws of physics to erase each other, you had biological warfare, you had dwemer airships, you had nords used to fighting dragons shouting down those airships, you had your two guys pretending to be one guy, it really had EVERYTHING

boethiah

like if you think about it literally no conventional battle tactics really… work when the nord tongues and the dwemer are involved

high ground gives a strategic advantage? not when ysmir can fus-ro-dah your whole army off a mountain!

(and this is morrowind so god forbid that mountain is actually a volcano and someone’s going to trigger an eruption!)

advantage in numbers? not so useful when the other guy can just turn his fallen men AND your fallen men into a zombie army. unless you happen to have a robot army on hand

wait for ideal weather? not as if the children of kyne are going to shout the weather into something el oh god they just summoned a storm

fortify your strongholds and stockpile for a seige? tonal architecture can straight up just erase walls and so can barfok so good luck with those seiges

put the tonal architect wielding assholes under siege? half the province is underground. good luck sealing up those ghost-infested sewers

dwemer airships are not as big as advantage as they might be when fighting against a culture that rose to glory by defeating dragons

though this being post alessian covenant means that there can be no en masse summoning of daedra (which, considering the robot armies and zombie armies already in the mix, thank god), there is NOTHING stopping the indoril nams of the world dropping the brothers of strife onto an otherwie perfectly well-equipped army

i don’t know enough about conventional war tactics to elaborate on this but can you just…. imagine. god i wish tamrielic warfare was expanded on with more creativity