#teslore

[mothermorrows]

I made a 75 question medium/high difficulty TES Lore exam for anyone who is bored. Access it here

[artbyblastweave]

Choosing to interpret the presence of a "dispose of corpse" option in Morrowind, which is present in no subsequent game unless you have a specific artifact of Namira equipped, as diegetic evidence of what specific Bosmeri sustainability habit initially got the Nerevarine thrown in jail

[roumanelli]

Here are the murals from observatory in TESA: Redguard, because I want more people to know about them, as they can provide an interesting insight into Dwemer culture!

There's also this creepy fella

Boo!

All the screenshots were taken from here

[minyboy]

Khamira, Elsweyr’s most overworked princess.

[full-frontal-fishstick]

me words no work gud. was brainstorming how Akavir can be alternate kalpa, future tamriel, and a physical place all at once, had a thought: what if they weren't, at least not in the way typically understood by the community

What if time-space in Tamriel, or rather the metaphysical Nirn, worked by different ideas of what are translated to us as cardinal directions? What if, instead of travelling to the future or past by going in a certain physical direction, there were different metaphysical "directions" one could travel on to reach different temporal and physical locations? I drew up some charts, thought myself real clever, and everything was good. Then I huffed a little too much skooma and started wondering if the different time models (kalpas, amaranth, etc) and accompanying philosophical / religious differences of different Tamriellic cultures could also be related to their respective “locations” on these "philosophaxes." (Confirmation bias? Never heard of her) These charts are the result:

Lyg as inverse of the center? As “Not Here” / “Not Now” / “Not Our Place”? The only adjacent-place truly inaccessible and all the more eldritch / strange for it?

Morrowind as Loveborne-Potential-Transcendence as described in C0DA? Alinor as antithesis Hateborne-Denial-Imprisonment where Walk-Brass would call home?

Akha in Khajiit myths going "South" to never return, Alduin the "World-Eater"

Northwesterly High Rock as Loveborne Determinism, (likely unintentional) parallels with Christianity and thus west-european tropes by association? (as opposed to Gnostic Morrowind & Nihilist Alinor?)

Cyrodiil as True Center of Each Axis, thus its metaphysical dominance over all of Tamriel / Talos as the "King of the Gods"?

I’m overthinkin shit

[crynwr-drwg]

is there any definitive discussions on what mortals bodies are made of?

I'm not sure how to word this.

Daedric bodies are chaotic creatia, and that enables the reformation in Oblivion.

Mortals are just flesh and blood, but maybe something more?

The Anuic souls of mortals stem, partially or fully, from aetherius. So I guess part of me is pondering if the Matter of their body has similar interesting bits.

[shotwells]

I really need to get back to my map timeline series about the history of the Reach. I got up to ESO but stalled while untangling all the different plot threads that come up during it.

[alandrosul]

tbh it might as well be 100% canon that you have to earn being the nerevarine rather than immediately being one upon being born with certain qualities. nibani maesa literally says "you're not the nerevarine but you might become the nerevarine" like that's pretty cut and dry right? the "on a certain day to uncertain parents" only indicates a POSSIBILITY to become nerevarine. not every joe shmoe in tamriel born on the same day who doesn't know their parents is going to be an incarnate, just that they are potential receptacles for nerevar's soul, given that presumably he was born on that day to uncertain parents (remember: he most likely adopted his surname "indoril" from marrying almalexia, queen of the indorils and of morrowind overall)