Anonymous 01/11/15 (Sun) 20:14:49 No. 4443
Stupid shit N'wahs say about TES>CHIM isn't canon >Storm cloaks are racist Thalmors and should stop oppressing the poor dunmer
Anonymous 01/11/15 (Sun) 21:07:03 No. 4444
>a brony >thinking he gets to talk down to anyone else
Anonymous 01/11/15 (Sun) 21:39:13 No. 4446
Anonymous 01/11/15 (Sun) 22:23:05 No. 4448
>>4443 >Skyrim belongs to the nords
Anonymous 01/11/15 (Sun) 23:48:02 No. 4449
>>4443 Sperging out over what is and is not canon is just as autistic as reading and accepting everything MK has ever written about TES.
Anonymous 01/12/15 (Mon) 02:55:27 No. 4452
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. TES rage thread?
Anonymous 01/12/15 (Mon) 02:57:02 No. 4453
>>4444 The quads don't lie
Anonymous 01/12/15 (Mon) 03:41:37 No. 4454
>>4452 >Say we need more religion in vidya >Hate Bayonetta cause muh male gaze
Anonymous 01/12/15 (Mon) 07:28:05 No. 4457
>>4452 >I'm here to speak as an authority about games and why they should be different >But firstly, I'm Jenni and I don't really play games or know anything about them
Anonymous 01/12/15 (Mon) 07:30:30 No. 4458
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>4452 The poor acoustics in this piss me off.
Where do they mention TES in this? I don't want to listen to her ramblings.
Anonymous 01/13/15 (Tue) 04:46:11 No. 4466
>>4457 Her example of religion and lore done right in a video game is DA at 6:28
Her example of religion and lore done wrong in a video game is TES at 8:30
It's painfully obvious that she's BARELY played Skyrim and doesn't know shit about any of the lore.
Anonymous 01/13/15 (Tue) 05:53:30 No. 4467
>>4466 Oh dear god, the ignorance is fucking real, she literally knows nothing about TES religion
Also
>If you want to have religion in your game you have to explain all the intricacies of said religion through dialogue Because that's SO realistic, obviously if you asked some priest about his religion he wouldn't tell you everything ever about Christianity, he would give you the short version and probably tell you to go read he bible if you want to know more
Of course I can't even communicate how fucking stupid it is that she thinks that TES religion only has a pantheon because it was inspired by Vikings, does she even know there are 4 other (main) games in the series?
Social justice, not even once
Anonymous 01/13/15 (Tue) 08:19:18 No. 4468
>>4467 Really, if you actually look deep into the lore, it's clear that TES has one of the most well thought out religions ever. It's one of the few settings I have ever seen that actually delves deep into the kind of mysticism and theology that the layman doesn't know about.
Anonymous 01/13/15 (Tue) 08:47:32 No. 4469
>>4452 Why do people talk about shit they know literally nothing about?
Anonymous 01/13/15 (Tue) 16:43:11 No. 4474
>>4444 Nice quads
Also, the deepest plane of Oblivion is reserved for ponyfags.
I really wish I could steal an Elder Scroll and travel back in time to prevent that fandom from existing
Anonymous 01/14/15 (Wed) 02:05:36 No. 4485
Anonymous 01/14/15 (Wed) 15:42:13 No. 4536
>>4481 Holy shit, the sheer level of butt bothered from just hearing MK's name or anything even closely related to it.
Why is it always Skyrimtumblrettes who don't like MK's writings and suck Bethesda's dick?
Oh wait, it's because they're pseudo intellectuals whi want to pretend to understand TES lore without actually putting in any effort, and tumblr habit of spreading misinformation can't help them much.
Anonymous 01/15/15 (Thu) 11:33:04 No. 4547
>>4443 W-Wait, the Tsaesci aren't Snake people now? This means there aren't any sentient canon Snake girls anymore? When did this happen?
Anonymous 01/15/15 (Thu) 12:01:57 No. 4548
>>4547 I don't think so, I mean in Oblivion the fort in pale pass was the same as all the others and was stocked with standard skeletons (iirc) but you can just chalk that up to Bethesda being lazy, and TBH there's more lore-breaking shit in Oblivion than that
Anonymous 01/15/15 (Thu) 18:50:33 No. 4554
>>4548 Dragonguard depicted on the Alduin's Wall are humanoid, so Tsaesci are defenetly not lamia monstergirls.
Anonymous 01/15/15 (Thu) 23:39:30 No. 4558
>>4554 I kinda forgot about that, but still the image on Alduin's Wall isn't all that detailed/clear and it's possible that the artists wanted to minimize their snake-like features
Anonymous 01/17/15 (Sat) 04:12:42 No. 4571
>>4554 That's a shame since that's the only feature that would keep then from looking nearly identical to Argonians.
Anonymous 01/17/15 (Sat) 19:28:26 No. 4575
>>4571 I always saw Tsaesci as being on a sliding scale of human to snake, depending on how much they have "ate it to become it". Versidue-Shaie starts out as a big old snake, eats a few people and he's a naga-type person, eats more and he's some completely human person called Renald.
Anonymous 01/18/15 (Sun) 03:15:16 No. 4579
>>4575 This is absolutely true. Haven't you people wondered why they are described as being "VAMPIRIC serpent folk".
Anonymous 01/18/15 (Sun) 04:45:36 No. 4580
>>4443 >Why are elves so ugly in skyrim? Why is that? Alien, elfin features does not mean fucking half-goblins. I have a bigger issue with the breton gills - what lore did that come from?
Anonymous 01/18/15 (Sun) 08:10:45 No. 4581
>>4575 They are equivalent to shapeshifting reptilians. They have influence on the empire, and ruled it for hundreds of years; they are blood-drinking.
Anonymous 01/18/15 (Sun) 16:35:59 No. 4588
>>4580 >Breton gills dude, what?
Anonymous 01/18/15 (Sun) 21:09:46 No. 4591
>>4588 Their complexion make it look like they're all absorbing oxygen directly through their skin.
Anonymous 01/18/15 (Sun) 22:16:18 No. 4594
>>4580 All characters are ugly in Skyrim to begin with.
Anonymous 01/21/15 (Wed) 16:53:48 No. 4699
>>4591 that or they just have poor face meshes.
Anonymous 01/24/15 (Sat) 04:29:40 No. 4791
>>4458 His lore can be off sometimes but it's great for getting people started.
Anonymous 01/24/15 (Sat) 04:55:34 No. 4795
>>4536 >suck Bethesda's dick Better than sucking Kirkbrides dick. Also, r/teslore is back the other way.
Anonymous 01/24/15 (Sat) 04:56:50 No. 4797
>>4791 >great for getting people started Definitely not. The best way to get people started is by reading the ingame texts.
Anonymous 01/24/15 (Sat) 04:58:44 No. 4798
>>4797 Except most people don't want to sit at this computer and real thousands of short stories (I barely manage to do it).
If you want to get people interested in really diving into shit like CHIM shottycast's series isn't
that bad…
Anonymous 01/24/15 (Sat) 05:02:02 No. 4799
>>4798 Forgot about those. They're not perfect by any stretch, but yeah I could see those being good for beginners. The production quality is above average at least.
Anonymous 01/24/15 (Sat) 07:02:48 No. 4815
>>4798 Watching lore videos is not a good way to understand the lore. It teaches people to believe whatever they are fucking told about the lore without even thinking to look at the 'actual' lore and make their own conclusions.
Anonymous 01/24/15 (Sat) 07:29:49 No. 4818
>>4815 Ya dude, fuck beginners with a casual interest. They're not true TES fans if they don't have the whole Imperial Library memorized. Hell, I believe anyone who has played any of the games is actually a outlander because the games aren;t 'actual' lore either.
Anonymous 01/24/15 (Sat) 07:47:09 No. 4819
>>4818 Well aren't you special.
Anonymous 01/24/15 (Sat) 19:32:35 No. 4837
>>4818 >implying anyone who wants to look deeper into the games lore is a casual player. >implying people who want to look into the lore want incorrect info. I can't tell you how many times I've come across fetchers who think their fucking experts on the lore after watching lorevideos, and then fall into denial when I prove them wrong with actual sources.
Bu-But… My lore videos
Anonymous 01/25/15 (Sun) 20:08:37 No. 4878
>>4468 >>4467 What really pisses me off is that she brings up Dragon Age. That shit is just an uninspired rip-off of "le dark ages" Christianity. (And this coming from a practicing Roman Catholic) The Dragon Worship was sort of interesting but didn't have any true depth to it, and the Elven shit was just Fantasy Pantheon #34544.
The only bright spot was the Dwarves. The Stone, Gaunge Shades, and Ancestors were actually pretty interesting and had a proper amount of mysticism to them.
Anonymous 01/26/15 (Mon) 08:09:16 No. 4890
>>4878 Dragon Age doesn't even do anything with its religions after Origins other than I suppose slowly eroding away anything that made them interesting. I mean what's up with this Herald of Andraste crap? They were clearly setting themselves up for having descendants of Andraste pop up at some point why couldn't they use that/
Anonymous 01/30/15 (Fri) 06:31:05 No. 4983
>>4890 Bioware is universally shit, that's why they couldn't.
Anonymous 03/14/15 (Sat) 02:46:12 No. 5955
>>5074 I think you mean eight anon!
Anonymous 03/14/15 (Sat) 15:34:16 No. 5962
>>5955 TIDF really needs to leave.
Anonymous 03/14/15 (Sat) 19:47:25 No. 5968
>>4443 >doesn't understand how tes lore works
Anonymous 03/17/15 (Tue) 23:02:54 No. 6010
>>4481 >if it's not improved by bethesda not canon So everything after Morrowind is non-canonical?
Anonymous 03/18/15 (Wed) 01:41:55 No. 6014
>>6010 That's always been the best way of looking at it, yes.
Anonymous 03/18/15 (Wed) 02:08:08 No. 6015
>>4536 But Kirkbride is the essence of a pseudo-intellectual. He writes some cool lore but the guy is a massive fruit.
Anonymous 03/18/15 (Wed) 03:02:14 No. 6018
>>6015 Seriously, the guy is an Thalmor. Just browse through his facebook wall and you'll see.
Anonymous 03/18/15 (Wed) 03:50:37 No. 6021
>>6015 He's a fucking manlet, he can't help himself.
Anonymous 03/18/15 (Wed) 06:09:54 No. 6023
>>6018 Ask me if I give a shit, anon.
I don't.
Anonymous 03/26/15 (Thu) 01:04:43 No. 6171
>>4481 The word "Godhead" was mentioned in the Dragonborn expansion though, it's canon and there's no way around it.
Anonymous 03/26/15 (Thu) 01:26:02 No. 6173
>>4468 >entire wikis dedicated to the mysticism of Elder Scrolls and all the obscure religious stuff throughout the series >"it's so shallow" Is doing 10 minutes of research before a speech that hard? Religion is handled spectacularly in Elder Scrolls. The reason that it isn't sprinkled throughout the narrative in Skyrim is because that's not what the plot was about.
Aedra and Daedra had their time in the spotlight in earlier games, this game was about Nord culture and dragons.
Anonymous 03/26/15 (Thu) 02:35:22 No. 6174
>>6173 What really pisses me off is this bitch missed one of the most innovative things about TES's fantasy religion: that it's a universal fact that all the gods and shit actually exist. Most other fantasy settings have the religious aspects mostly shrouded in mysticism, whereas in TES the religious aspects are as empirical as actual science. In fact, worship in TES pretty much *is* a science.
Anonymous 03/28/15 (Sat) 07:42:29 No. 6221
>>4473 >Many millennia of years ago I'm 90% convinced that most people in that image are either trolling or literally 5 years old.
Anonymous 03/28/15 (Sat) 07:46:24 No. 6222
>>4554 Wait, hold the fuck up; the dragongaurd were originally Tseasasdffsf(fuck spelling that word)?
Anonymous 03/28/15 (Sat) 14:42:29 No. 6230
>>6222 Yes, they are the Tsaesci who swore allegiance to the 12 year old Emperor Reman at the Pale Pass.
Anonymous 03/28/15 (Sat) 16:19:28 No. 6234
>>6221 No, just mentally locked at 5 years old.
Anonymous 04/02/15 (Thu) 19:16:06 No. 6305
does anyone have those pictures of some guy in the SKyrim forums who wanted to remove all the Fantasy elements in Skyrim like Daedra and giant spiders or that one post who said that Skyrim was a mature realistic game compared to morrowind?
Anonymous 04/09/15 (Thu) 16:49:55 No. 6381
>Elder Scrolls is the Fallout universe in the far future >elves and other beast races are a future mutation of humans >magic is just radiation that we learned to control.
Anonymous 04/10/15 (Fri) 08:16:42 No. 6393
>it's sexist to refer to Vivec as male, you should use these made-up pronouns
Anonymous 04/10/15 (Fri) 09:43:23 No. 6394
>>6393 These chucklefucks always forget that Vivec is a dude who stole godhood and uses his newfound powers to switch from male to female to symbolically supplant Mephala but mostly to have sex. If I could do so magically, I would definitely switch sex for shits and giggles, but that doesn't make me a Gray-sexed Xirself hellgender.
What I'm trying to say is, never go in the Vivec tag on tumblr.
Anonymous 04/10/15 (Fri) 13:53:03 No. 6397
>>6394 Actually,
What My Beloved Taught Me implies that Vivec was truly born a hermaphrodite (unless he was just a raging whore-fetcher). Though I do agree that the stupid pronouns are fucking retarded when he is always referred to as masculine in-game.
http://www.imperial-library.info/content/what-my-beloved-taught-me
Anonymous 04/11/15 (Sat) 18:08:27 No. 6413
>>6397 >unless he was just a raging whore-fetcher What do you mean unless?
Anonymous 04/11/15 (Sat) 19:29:35 No. 6414
>>6413 "fetcher" is an auto filter, I think you can guess what word it is used for.
Anonymous 04/11/15 (Sat) 21:31:16 No. 6415
>>6414 Nigga you been reading an Elder Scroll? I know damn well what fetcher means. I was commenting on the idea that Vivec might not have been one.
Anonymous 04/13/15 (Mon) 10:35:21 No. 6434
>>6381 >magic is just radiation that we learned to control. No Timmy, that isn't how we science.
Although mages running around casting "Cancer-death" is both a funny and truly horrific image.
Anonymous 04/14/15 (Tue) 22:10:44 No. 6455
>>6434 ITT:
>Stupid shit N'wahs say about TES
Anonymous 04/15/15 (Wed) 19:39:36 No. 6468
Anonymous 04/15/15 (Wed) 23:40:46 No. 6473
>>6468 Jesus Christ. Jesus. Fucking. Christ. Gas the forum fags. Put the blame on guys with names. Put the five stars behind bars.
Anonymous 04/18/15 (Sat) 21:17:15 No. 6529
Anonymous 04/18/15 (Sat) 22:57:23 No. 6530
>>6528 Why doesn't this guy play Mount & Blade if he wants so much realism?
Anonymous 04/18/15 (Sat) 23:57:14 No. 6532
>>6530 I want to kiss her nose.
Anonymous 04/19/15 (Sun) 00:56:13 No. 6533
>>6530 >realism
Anonymous 04/19/15 (Sun) 01:36:31 No. 6535
>>6434 google D&D cancer mage. Have fun finding a GM who greenlights playing that.
Anonymous 04/22/15 (Wed) 16:31:17 No. 6607
>>6171
can I get a source for that? I really wish you could actually read the black books, the couple seconds you can read are fascinating.
Anonymous 04/23/15 (Thu) 17:46:58 No. 6617
>>6535
I've generally find more GMs who ban shit based on brokenness (real or perceived) than concept
Anonymous 04/24/15 (Fri) 08:58:30 No. 6658
>>6617
Cancer Mages are pretty broken.
I remember there was one disease from the same sourcebook that increased your strength but sapped your other stats. Supposed to represent it slowly mutating you or something like that. Cancer mages are immune to the negative effects of diseases, so if they get infected by that, their strength will increase until they become the most muscular of muscle wizards.
Anonymous 04/24/15 (Fri) 16:58:31 No. 6666
>>6658
it's one of those things that sounds overpowered on paper but is a joke even when compared to a basic full caster, much less the really crazy shit like Ur Priests, Cleric Archers and the Incantrix
Anonymous 04/30/15 (Thu) 17:10:48 No. 6776
>>4699
>I've been a diehard fan since Oblivion
Dropped
Anonymous 04/30/15 (Thu) 17:48:30 No. 6778
>>6666
Isn't an Ur-Priest from the same book as well?
Also, nice quads Super Devil.
Anonymous 10/01/15 (Thu) 01:14:05 No. 8543
>>6530
Because even when they want realism, they still want to be over powered warriors who can take 100 slashes and kill enemies in one hit.
Anonymous 10/01/15 (Thu) 04:07:16 No. 8548
>>4558
>>4554
Wait, but the Akaviri people were supposed to be human from nedic ancestry. The Taesci ATE all of the people left in Akavir but there were humans there at some point and that's who the dragonguard were.
Anonymous 10/01/15 (Thu) 10:41:56 No. 8557
>>8548
The Tsaesci eat people to become them. In other words, the first Akaviri invaders were indeed snakes, but some of them took on human forms by eating the inhabitants of Tamriel.
That's why they are called vampires.