A forthcoming writing project set on Tamriel, KHAJIITI aims to become a fantasy epic exploring the effect of the void-nights on the people of Elsweyr, and the political fallout that followed. If that piques your interest, give me a follow to receive updates while they come.
It is the one-hundredth year of the Fourth Era, and the Void Nights have finally ended. For two years the moons Masser and Secunda have been missing from Nirn’s sky. For most of Tamriel, this has been a curious and frightening occurrence, and Mage’s circles across the continent are in uproar, but that’s about where the implications of the vanished moons end. For the Khajiit of Elsweyr, however, this unnatural phenomenon runs much deeper. For the Cat-folk, the entire development of each cub’s physiology is determined by the twin-moons and the shape they took at the hour of the cub’s birth. With the moons gone, Elsweyr has suffered a mass loss of life, with every Khajiit pregnancy ending in a stillbirth. With no lunar lattice to determine what form a child would take, no Khajiit child born between 4E 98 and 4E 100 has survived.
Further, moon-sugar, a sacred narcotic and staple of many Khajiiti food and drinks, as well as a religious ceremonial substance, has ceased to grow, delivering a devastating blow to not only the Khajiit’s ability to sustain their population, but their ability to engage with an integral part of their culture as well. Without the flow of moon-sugar, which the majority of Elsweyri natives are habituated to, many have underwent a withdrawal, depression, or worse, which has extended to kneecap their economy.
In other words, Elsweyr has been crippled.
Almost immediately after the moons’ return, amidst the joyous celebrations of the Khajiit, an Aldmeri ambassador from the Summurset Isles has landed in Torval, the capital of the Elsweyr Confederacy and seat of the Mane. The ambassador claims that Altmer mages have been hard at work to discern the cause of the moons’ disappearance, and with the development of a new kind of “dawn magick”, they have been able to unveil them and return the moons to Nirn. The Mane, their political and religious leader, endorses this claim, and the Aldmeri Dominion gains massive influence within the province, almost overnight. Before long, every notable Khajiiti aristocrat or merchantlord has Aldmeri courtiers and court-mages at their ear. Within fifteen years, the reach of the Imperial Empire, which Elsweyr had been independent of for just barely a century, has dwindled enough that the Dominion stage a coup, dissolving the unified Elsweyri Confederacy, re-establishing the ancient kingdoms of Anequina and Pellitine, and absorbing both as client states of the Dominion.
Within the new Aldmeri Elsweyr, the worship of Rajhin, a folk-hero, and apotheosized God of Thieves, is banned, much like the outlaw of the mangod Talos within the Dominion, due to the Elven assertion that no mortal could never become a god. Though not as heavily enforced as worship of ‘the Ninth Divine’, it is still used as a tool of oppression, and in some cases punished by death. Despite this, worship of Rajhin still persists in the shadows, and word begins to spread that the Trickster God’s legendary Ring of Khajiiti has been found. While the richest Khajiit in Elsweyr rub shoulders and drink with Aldmeri benefactors, the common-cats suffer enforced moon-sugar rationing, ever-increasing taxes, and a racist bureaucratic regime. All the while the Aldmeri preach of unity between Elves and Cat-folk, and their mages and scholars assert that the Khajiit themselves are descended from Elves, an idea which sways even some Khajiiti nobility. But in practice, the High-Elves’ sense of ethnic superiority pervades every aspect of the alleged “alliance”. And on top of everything else, spies within the Renrijra Krin, a band of anarchist Khajiiti freedom fighters and Elsweyri separatists, learn a deadly secret: the Void Nights was staged by the Dominion. An act of genocide too cruel to forgive, and a truth that, if revealed, would shatter the Dominion’s grip on their land faster than they made it.
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KHAJIITI takes place some time before the Dominion invades Hammerfell and the beginning of the Great War. It is told from the points of view of multiple characters within and without Elsweyr, and covers events over a number of years. It centres a story of rebellion, and of a people who have been the rope in a game of tug-of-war between two indifferent occupying forces for too long.
However, we know that by the 201st year of the 4th Era that any secrets concerning the Thalmor’s role behind the void-nights has not yet been revealed, and that Anequina and Pellitine are still under Thalmor control. KHAJIITI could be split into two parts, with the second half taking place over a century later, sometime between Skyrim and Elder Scrolls VI. It would see a seed planted in the first book come to fruition, and the truth grow towards the light.
mystery knight arrives at the tourney on a vicious black stallion, immediately unhorsed in the first joust & under the armor is only a baby bird and nothing else
We are the dauighters of the orcs who didnt get eviscerated into piles of blood mush by giant cannons bigger than a house and loaded by ogres because the cannon balls are so heavy that humans cant lift them
someone closed the hell portal & ended the ten thousand year nightmare war which is good obviously but now we have all these newly unemployed heroes with ancient magic weapons and no real skills outside of killing demons wandering around everywhere
forgot to leave a note for my doordasher to bring a blunt weapon to get past the catacomb skeletons so congrats to whichever necromancer is about to get my banh mi i guess
Chat, is it considered “abusive roommate behavior” to release a raccoon into the living space after you have asked your roommate for months to please clean up their messes (they do not pay any of the mortgage)
For context, when I used to live alone I would do something called “Princess Time” where I would do an initial sweep (to remove any significant hazards) and then I would release a raccoon into the living area and clean. This helped because I would 1) feel like a princess and 2) the raccoon would bring attention to things my ADHD brain had decided to ignore and I’d quickly clean that stuff up.
So like, if I’m expected to clean the house now, I will be doing it in the way that is most effective for me. And anything that has not been cleaned up after months of having sit-down talks and sending reminders and being promised things will change, might be deemed “trash” by the trash panda and thrown away.
We haven’t done since we moved into the house, because I didn’t want to cause my roommate or their cats destress or have their things destroyed by a raccoon
I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.
I wanna make things very clear that underneath all the whimsy, I am a trained professional.
I don't know how to process this mostly because of the part where you actually have a Snow White costume but also where you just openly admitted to being partly responsible for DashCon as a point of pride
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Voting ended onNov 4, 2025
So, there seems to be five potential scales I've seen presented for the size of Tamriel. Each of them has (at best) a single source to corroborate it, but there's no clear winner (as far as I've been able to see) from a lore perspective. Anyways, presented here the five scales next to a map of europe (or earth in one case) as well as its lore source AND... how long a journey from Riverwood to Whiterun would take. Why Riverwood to Whiterun? Its a super familiar journey. I think anyone who is familiar with TES knows the 'feel' of that journey and how close those places are. Presenting how long that journey would take in real time gives a good sense of how big (or small) that scale is I think.
Daggerfall Scale. Source? Daggerfall itself. If extrapolated to the rest of Tamriel it puts the continent as being a little bit smaller than europe. Travel time from Riverwood to Whiterun; 2-3 days.
2. Pocket Guide Scale. Source? First edition of the Pocket Guide to the Empire stating the distance between Mournhold and Red Mountain is 250 miles. Puts Tamriel at about the size of central europe. Travel time from Riverwood to Whiterun; about 2 days.
3. Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim In-Game scale. Basically what we see in game. Uhhh... yea. Tiny tiny. Its the little red dot in france. Travel time from Riverwood to Whiterun; like 15 minutes if walking.
4. Timescale Scale. Basically multiplies the in-game scale above by the average of the timescale for the last three games (x27) so that how long it takes to get from place to place 'in game time' equals out to 'in real time'. Riverwood to Whiterun; around a day hike.
5. Continental Scale. As far as I can tell the only real source for this one is just vibes and people assuming Nirn is the same size as Earth and then extrapolating from the globes we see across the franchise. This is crazy big. Like jesus christ. Uhhh... Riverwood to Whiterun is like over a week easy.
