#oblivion lore

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Tell us about the top three sports in oblivion. And also which one you'd play if they were real

Hayden and I are both giant nerds so sports are not really something we've touched on. so here's just all the sports since there's not much substance to most:

The biggest one is EASILY @erezar-zaral-rezanova's Planet Dusting. It's racing taken to the furthest extreme, building a ship to go as fast as possible, with the only limit being how fast you can go before your ship is ripped apart from the speed. It gets its name from the tracks of the big leagues, where racers are going around entire planets. Smaller leagues have smaller tracks, but when you think of Planet Dusting you think of ships circling the entirety of a barren planet in mere minutes. It's pretty popular in both the Court of Trifalla and the Zion-Itan Alliance's space.

Merzen has a few that we've really only touched on a bit- being such a cold planet, they're big on "winter" sports. They have one that's essentially hockey-football, though we haven't done much with that. They do have a full-contact soccer too, played with a solid ball because the ferocity would destroy a normal soccer ball. Magic is also allowed, the only rule is that you can't kill the audience. Killing other players is allowed though, and they usually don't go a season without at least one death either on or off the field. Percentage-wise, they have the same death and dismemberment rate as unregulated factories.

Lots of Solraine societies, Especially Zion, have a really healthy coliseum/sparring culture. Unlike Merzen, you're genuinely not allowed to kill your opponent, but watching some of the big name spars is a Real show. Especially when king Grisvaldt steps on the field.

If you permit Nerd Sports in here then Ita is (probably, waiting on a response) rife with all sorts of competitions. Battle bots, engineering competitions like rocket design, large-scale science fairs, etc. Most interesting to me personally would be the existence of something like FIRST Robotics, where teams compete to complete tasks faster than the other with robots they build at the start of the season. Each season is different and requires use of a different robot- partially because those are the rules, and partially because the tasks can be wildly different every year. (Though maybe I'm biased because I used to compete in FIRST)

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just another day of being in love with martin septim, who is alive and well

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The Void is just Lucien Lachance doing a bunch of whip its with some Argonians.

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TL:DR Lore: The Story of Creation

The 13(ish) Steps of Creating Nirn (and other cool shit)

Step 1) Anu and Padomay exist, that’s cool.

Step 2) Anu says “look at me world I’m cool ASF” and BIRTHS their own soul (Anui-El)

Step 3) Padomay says “Anything you can do I can do better!” and births their own soul “Sithis” 

Step 4) Sithis and Anui-El are like look parental figures we can do it too! This gives us Lorkhan and Auriel. 

Step 5) Auriel at some point says look at all this shit, it need to make sense, HERE have time. (He creates time) 

Step 6) (My timeline may be off I apologize!) Anu and Padomay get into a pretty rad fight and this results in them getting thrown out of time. The blood of the both create those that would become the Aedra and Deadra, or the et’Ada.

Step 7) Lorkhan thinks “Grandparents made the Aurbis, it need more shit. I’ma put mundus on this bitch... (why’d he put mundus on this bitch?) 

Step 8) Lorkhan convinces a bunch of et’Ada to create MUNDUS because well the Aurbis  is cool but fucking MUNDUS. 

Step 9) Magnus is like oh bish no where my power goin? So he dips tf outta the creation of Mundus tearing a big ass hole in oblivion to Aetherius. Yo thats the sun family

Step 10) The Magne Ge are like oh shit fam you right (to Magnus) and they run tf outta that bish too. This makes the stars. 

Step 12) Some of the et”Ada fall onto Nirn and shit happens then men mer and inbetween are formed and bam Tamriel. 

Step 13) Mundus is BIGGITY BANGITY MADE and finished with the help of the Aedra and some lesser et’Ada and not so lesser et”Ada and they also manage to begin to stabilize that bish.

Sorry if this isn't super clear! I wanted to get this request answered but I’ve been a little busy today and thought a quick rundown would be a decent way to approach it. As always if I’m getting anything wrong here please let me know because I’m trying to rely less on quick confirmations and more on pure memory. 

Last but not least any questions you have about what’s presented here feel free to reach out with questions! I’m always open to communication via messages where it can be easier to clarify c: 

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What's the smallest vertebrate animal in Oblivion?

🤔Considering a few animals survived Earth, it's likely a small rodent or frog. Though that's probably not what you were looking for

We don't have a Ton of species developed as we end up focusing on the characters and such, but off the top of my head it'd probably be the sandwyrms on Stuklena Chasha in the Pentaean system. The largest "land" species max out at a foot from nose to tail, though they're usually Much smaller.

I don't have any recent art of them (i think i have a picture of them made in spore but that's way out of date) but they're kind of ugly as hell. All spines and teeth, eyeless nasty little beasts. They have a magic-based venom that is actually capable of killing solraine, but they're like snakes in that you'd have to provoke them to get a bite like that.

There are some much, much larger species in the Silver Sea, which in spite of its name isn't actually water. (Hence "land" earlier.) It's a large patch of extremely fine sand with a very high unstable magic concentration that causes the sand to behave much more like a liquid. There's also a larger, unrelated species of sandwyrm on Zion too, which they brought from their homeworld of Andoran.

If I had to guess where the actual smallest vertebrate would be, it'd likely be Enzorhual. A rogue planet in the cold depths of space, though remarkably warm thanks to a powerful artifact that keeps the planet running without a sun. There's a massive amount of bioluminescent life, and it's generally a lot more fantastical. There's giant Siphonophore like creatures that drift through the air, for example. I can see tiny little glowing mite vertebrates there, perhaps something to explore 🤔

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speaking of disorder its time for oblivion lore that nobody asked for. Merzennians would fucking LOVE human beatboxing

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Are there any popular mascots or cartoon characters in Oblivion? What about video games?

ATOM is kind of a mascot for themselves, but I think they count. They're an EXTREMELY popular planet duster, one who people don't know the identity of at all. Their full body suit and reflective face shield are pretty iconic, though they're also pretty divisive as a person.

Merzen itself I can see having a few mascots for different things, the most popular probably being a cartoon version of their local gods Naskian and Occam. Especially in the countryside which has the highest concentration of the pagan faiths that worship them. They'd likely have cartoons made with them, kind of like christian cartoons, except extremely off-the-wall because Merzennians are insane by default.

There's a giant ship that travels through space and is so densely populated that it acts as a mobile planet- and on that ship they do have One relatively popular "mascot". There's a small bookstore + cafe in one of the commercial sections that has a bookstore cat, a little tuxy named Rover. She's VERY popular, especially among regulars, but also across the ship's intranet.

As for video games, I don't know any names, but I do know what would be the most popular. In general, strategy games are very popular, especially those based around space battle. The (original) X-Wing tabletop game comes to mind, though that's not a video game I know. Exploration and settlement/development games similar to Satisfactory and Minecraft would also be pretty popular, as exploring and settling barren planets is very common in their society, but not everyone has the bravery/skills for that. Doing it in a video game is still fun though!

Per planet/system though...

Merzen- REALLY into walking simulators and wilderness survival sims, at least in the Unification. It's an escape from the horrors.

Drakkam- Same as Merzen, for the same reasons, but also sandbox games. The horrors are many but science is neat too

Pentae System- Their video games are pretty rough, likely text based adventures end up being the best. But computers are energy intensive and if you're running a computer it's for something more important. They're more board and tabletop gamers I think

Fragment of Praeter- Puzzle games and temple crawlers, as those are pretty common in their daily lives. The pursuit of knowledge is embedded deep in their culture.

Zion- Strategy. Again, very battle focused culture, but they're also a mercantile kingdom.

Ita- Sandbox. They're incredibly science focused, creating things is just fun.

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So conjured stuff is basically daedra temporarly forced into various shapes for our amusement/purpose. Like the bound sword in Skyrim is a daedra forced by our mind into the shape of a sword. Daedric flesh sculpture?

And/Or it could be actual physically existing things pulled up and made a temporary copy of. A literal magical instance. That kinda makes sense. Like morrowinds (I think) summon dwarven machine spell. It's a script that some wizard wrote that manifests all their knowlege of x thing into physical form.

So the oblivion summon zombie spells are not actual zombies, they are mental instances of the spell writers' understanding of what a zombie is. And imagined extra gross, because why not.