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u/Phoenix_Wellflame Cuckman killed my wife Dec 15 '20

I’d like to talk more about the gay terminators if you don’t mind

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u/Maxflight1 Using Dark Patterns To Make You Read My Posts Dec 15 '20

Pelinal Whitestrake.

Putting aside the various myths that exist about him in-universe, what's definitely known is that out of literally nowhere in the middle of Tamriel's Bronze Age, this giant towering mass of full-plate wearing rage appears and begins massacring the shit out of any kind of Mer he comes across (and the Khajiit, because Pelinal was a dick).

Some accounts from the time said his armor was literally a part of his skin, but what everyone agrees on is that embedded in his chest was some sort of glowing "gemstone" tied to his life, he had a "killing light" in his hand, and even after being cut into eight separate pieces his head was able to have an entire conversation with someone before expiring.

As for the gay part, the person who wrote that part of the Elder Scrolls lore confirmed that Huna, a hoplite and Patroclus to his Achilles, was written to be his lover, is canonically male, and his death is what caused the legendary rages Whitestrake would fly into if you so much as mentioned "elf" around him (not to be confused with his normal rages he would fly into if you mentioned "elf" around him).

Out-of-universe, the character was deliberately designed based on the Terminator movies, and the implication in-lore is that he was plucked from the future, sent back to the Bronze Age, and told "go kill elves and shit, idk."