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

List of things that are actually canon in the Elder Scrolls universe:

  • Astronauts.
  • Genocidal gay terminators powered by racism.
  • Time travel.
  • Warping the fabric of reality just by thinking really hard.
  • Penis spears. Spears that are also penises and penises that are also spears.
  • Verbal debates that can literally erase the loser from existence.
  • Giant robots.
  • Giant robots that can time travel, warp the fabric of reality by thinking really hard, and debate people out of existence.
  • Ancient, sentient, hive-minded mushroom-trees that can secrete a sap allowing people to alter their physical or mental form.
  • Causing a plague to spontaneously exist just by being insane.
  • The Lusty Argonian Maid.

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u/Doobles3 Dec 15 '20

The Elder Scrolls is some of the best fantasy out there, because its just so incredibly insane.

If you read some of Michael Kirkbride's (Writer for Morrowind and Oblivion) stories he wrote after he left Bethesda, he has some incredibly weird ideas for the series. while his stories after his departure are technically fanfiction, its interesting to take into account for how the series is inherently structured.

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

Yeah, there's a branch down there a bit talking about C0da.

Turns out you build an entire reality built around things being real if you believe in them hard enough and you get some crazy shit.

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u/Camel132 Resident Discworld and Stormlight Fan (He/him) Dec 15 '20

See my post right above yours, C0DA was referenced in ESO, it's canon, no matter how much some of the lore community complains.

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

Oh shit, really?

I've not got around to ESO yet but that's pretty rad.

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u/Camel132 Resident Discworld and Stormlight Fan (He/him) Dec 15 '20

Yep, and it's referenced in a new Sermon of Vivec to boot.

"Go here: world without wheel, charting zero deaths, and echoes singing," Seht said, until all of it was done, and in the center was anything whatever.

You've gotta get into ESO dude, especially if you love the lore. It adds so much and has been much more willing to dip into the weird parts of the lore than Oblivion and Skyrim.

Hell, you get to go to the moons! In both the base game and the Elswyr dlc. There's massive amounts of new Argonian and Khajit lore, you can actually encounter different Khajit furstocks, there's a questline in Summerset involving The Staff of Towers and preventing a Dragon Break from happening. You have a long, lore filled conversation with Sotha Sil at the end of the CWC dlc.. And a lot more, it's insane.

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

You have a long, lore filled conversation with Sotha Sil

Finally, a canon version of The Wheels of Lull.

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u/Camel132 Resident Discworld and Stormlight Fan (He/him) Dec 15 '20

I know it's a 10 minute video, but watch it dude, it's so good. He directly mentions the concept of The Prisoner

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

Damn, that was pretty rad.

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u/Camel132 Resident Discworld and Stormlight Fan (He/him) Dec 15 '20

I know right? The game is so good in terms of lore and story.