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[Assistant] Uh, gifted in destruction magic, particularly elemental attacks. Which might sound funny to people who have only played Skyrim because that's all destruction is to them, but in previous games, destruction had, uhm, a lot more applications. And Galithi?


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[Assistant] I agree with you, I mean, if you look at Skyrim and you just look at powers and perks and things that they gave vampires, there's a lot of stuff there. You know what I mean? Like, uhm, vampire seduction.


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[Assistant] Whereas it seems like in, um, Daggerfall, it was kinda like, oh, we're gonna make a whole vampire line and you're the seduction power one. Whereas, you can cluster them together more. I still want lots of different ones, but you can pull in maybe three or four factors together and have less but more fleshed out clans than there


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[Assistant] They were pretty cool, but I have to admit, I didn't know that lore before playing Dawnguard back in- Did it come out in 2011, the DLC? 12. Oh, it would have been, of course, because it was November release, yea.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, but all that lore, it makes them sound so much more...


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[Assistant] Skyrim Nords than, than what we saw, like, icy caves and it just makes them sound more like monsters, whereas they gave them this very, not even just traditional vampire, well I suppose it is traditional, but this very regal court and like, you know, politics and hierarchy and all that.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't know, I know what you mean. The Cyrodiil order one though, I feel like wouldn't even have a castle. They're just like blending incognito tab, but you know. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Vampiric-esque, like, I don't know if I'm the biggest fan of them, but like, cut-off things, like you have, uhm, completely feral vampires called blood fiends, and again, this kind of


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[Assistant] You can become more powerful, but more insane. I'm not saying that's the case with the blood fiends, but almost like a real Sith Lord vibe, like you can't handle the power, like, so they just became this insane.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, they all look different too. I mean, even look at a male vampire lord, lord, um, Falgraven. He just looks like, you know, Dorian Yates just possessed a vampire lord's body. He looks like a massive bodybuilder.


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[Assistant] Another one with vampires in order to scroll online is the blood science.


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[Assistant] Uhm, which involve Lemay, so initiates must undergo the rite of the scion while infected with Noxophilic Sanguivoria in order to receive the blessing. It is, uhm, involves the mortal's blood being fully replaced by that of Lemay Bowes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that transformation is meant to rival the power of a vampire lord. Uhm, they grow more powerful the more they feed. They can sense their prey through walls and envelop themselves in a swarm of bats.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they don't even have the aversion to fire, some, that lesser vampires possess. And if you look at what a bloodsion looks like,


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[Assistant] They kind of don't look, I don't like the look of them, uhm, they kind of look like a generic demon slash, like they look like Molag Bao fused with


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[Assistant] Yeah, can you- you looking at the same picture as me? I think so. The blood sign.


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[Assistant] Hmm. And, and someone, Lady Asinia, was able to create her own blood knights by blending the bloodlines of several vampires using azuoplasm as a catalyst. She would then infect vampires with this mi- mi- with this mixture.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, we could talk about their artifacts a bit, like they have a few artifacts, uhm, although they're not particularly interesting, at least the ones in Skyrim, like the ring of the beast and ring of, gosh, is that pronounced erudite or is that how you say it? I always forget how to say that.


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[Assistant] I mean, his mace is sometimes called the vampire's mace. That's one of its names. Which is cool. And it's cool that Harkin has an Akaviri Katana as his sword as well. Like it kind of plays into that whole thing. I like that.


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[Assistant] Well, I feel like that brings us to the end of vampires.


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[Assistant] Yeah. They may be immortal, but this podcast today is not. So thank you ladies and gentlemen for watching and uh, social media links in the description and we'll be back to nerd out with you all again very soon.


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[Assistant] Well, that is important context, like the idea that initially when founding the religion you've got a bunch of former slaves who


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[Assistant] Uhm, elven elements and even their nordic elements seem very disconnected.


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[Assistant] It is kind of like having a reformation, because you know, in the early days, more so for the Nords, but you could say so for the Elves too, is the worship of these gods is very, very uhm,


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[Assistant] So it's kind of like a reformation in like getting rid of like, you know, when you imagine it with Christianity and Catholicism.


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[Assistant] If people worship this, this god, or this figure,


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[Assistant] Then, oh, whatever, just allow it. They can be part of the divines. It's like, if, if they've got, if they've got worshipers, then what's wrong with allowing them to be worshiped and venerating them? Whereas then you get the elves coming in with it. They're like, you know, no, this is the way it's done. We don't want some human joining the pantheon. That's, you know, it's, it's heresy. And you can see where the divines is kind of just like.


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[Assistant] Well, to add on to what you're getting at there, if you, you know, if you're looking at the, say, the religion in Somerset,


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[Assistant] You've got Auriel, the, you know, the head of the Pantheon, and it's very much their culture is based, you know, this is generally speaking, but their culture is based around the idea that they have a connection to Auriel and


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[Assistant] And the High Elves are superior and belong back in, in the Inner Furious, in the heavens. And then even with the Nords, you've got, uhm, Kain, who breathe the Nords, uhm, onto the throat of the world.


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[Assistant] And if you're not a Nord, or if you're not a High Elf, some of these gods don't really mesh with you personally. But if you imagine in Cyrodiil, say you've got a mishmash of different races all living in Cyrodiil, and then you think, oh, you know,


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[Assistant] It helps put faith in the emperor as well, whoever is the ruling monarch. It's like yeaah, this is how important they are to our culture.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Akatosh, you know, I've talked about this before, but Akatosh very much seems like a cross between the time god and elements of shore that kinda had to be removed.


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[Assistant] When creating the religion, because obviously Shawl was so aggressively pro-men, so aggressively anti-elven, so that when you see the face of the dragon and the face of the man in Akatosh,


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[Assistant] I kind of see that as the, the human elements of Shor or Shazaar, whatever you want to call him, being kind of implemented into Akatosh. But yea, it is weird with the dragon.


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[Assistant] One more thing about the dragons, like obviously with the dragon war there's a lot of anti-dragon sentiment going around, but do you think...


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[Assistant] Well, I guess while we're talking about the foundation of it, we've kind of gone into Akatosh, so maybe we should just start with Akatosh and focus on how- Akatosh the insane god.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're different interpretations of the same thing. And that's the crazy thing about Dragon Breaks is, you know, we think about what that entails, but it is quite literally breaking Akatosh. It's breaking the dragon and stopping the passage of linear time in a place where, you know, that is the structure that forms the whole realm and forms the whole universe without it.


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[Assistant] Everyone gets kinda screwed up, so, you know, no wonder Akatosh is a bit... Yeaah.


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[Assistant] The simple involvement of Shizar or Shor or Lorkhan in the pantheon as a worship god makes it kind of innately padamaic. Like uhm, you know, so yea, simply viewing, favourably, creation is...


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[Assistant] Is a bad thing to elves and that's why Lorcan will always be. He'll never be, even though he's a bad deity to them, he's never gonna be worshipped or considered a part of their pantheon. So that is the unusual thing about Shazaar. Shazaar is a recognised god in the


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[Assistant] Yeah, he makes his will known through, through, uhm, aspects called chezerines or, you know, different versions of him that pop up. You can't get rid of him completely, even if you tear out his heart and shoot it into the ocean. It's not gonna, it's not gonna do the trick. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I very much see him as a, as fundamental to kind of almost enacting Akatosh's sphere. You know, ehm, really focusing on the cycle of life and death and not, and not disrespecting it by


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[Assistant] Seeking immortality through profane means or, you know, the undead, all of this stuff, it breaks the cycle, it kind of disrespects time and, you know, being a worshipper of RK kind of


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[Assistant] Guarantees you to respecting and taking part in the cycle of life and death and, you know, not being afraid to die and knowing that you'll come back eventually and, you know, the cycle goes on and on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he essentially becomes an archetype. Like uhm, you know, you know what?


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[Assistant] King Arthur, for example, represents and say there are, you know, King Arthur could actually be a dozen different kings in the old Britain times doing certain things and their stories kinda get embodied into one being who just resembles these chivalric values, et cetera, et cetera.


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[Assistant] And RK, his role, yeaah, the idea that he was just a shopkeeper.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. And I mean, they're definitely, like, she's always gonna get a bad rap, cause you're always gonna have very pious people who are just like, you know, it's just a sex cult, you know, but there's obviously so much more to it, but that stigma's never gonna be removed.


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[Assistant] Well, one way I look at Dibella, at least, at least in the Imperial perspective, is like,


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[Assistant] I think she merges perfectly fine with Mara's sphere because the way I kind of imagine it is that, you know, Mara is about marriage and responsibility to your partner and procreation and kind of like fertility and all of this stuff.


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[Assistant] But then DiBella is like, oh yea, you know, there's more than just the duty and responsibility of, of marriage and whatnot. There's, you know, also being in love and being passionate about your relationship. It, it facilitates Mara's fear. So they kind of work perfectly. It's like, um, you know, the crops are only going to grow if they're fertilised.


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[Assistant] And I like her representation as a moth in the Nordic Pantheon, just the idea of like these bright and beautiful coloured wings with many colours on it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it's more tour than just a bit of sex, you know.


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[Assistant] When they say he falls out of favor, well, I don't think it actually gives a specific time frame, but I, I, I tend to think it's the magical aspect of him that has somewhat fallen out of favor, cause like, for example, after the oblivion crisis and the kind of breakdown of magical institutions and people start to...


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[Assistant] Her role is somewhat kind of down, well not downplayed, but watered down when it comes to the Imperial Pantheon. It's mostly just an association with the elements and the weather and nature, as opposed to her fundamental role in human society.


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[Assistant] Yeah, merchants needing favorable wins to travel to sell their wares and things like that.


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[Assistant] You do have to kind of tear away the stories from, from these gods, like for example with Kain.


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[Assistant] But, you know, well, how about, but yeah, kind of rough basically is a, is a bit boring.


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[Assistant] But especially when it's involved with the Imperials, I like the aspect of him that is kind of related to keeping rulers in check, like his idea of righteous rule by might and mer- by might, yeah, as you said, bit of a red flag, but merciful forbearance, so the idea that


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[Assistant] Uhm, the gods aren't just telling the serfs what to do, it's like, no, the...


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[Assistant] But he's, yeaah, he's kind of an important god to stop rebellions and things like that. Just, you know, uhm, if you, if you work the fields all day in the, in the hot beating sun, keep at it, cause you'll be rewarded for it, uhm, in kind of a way. He's the god of capitalism. Kind of.


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[Assistant] Just to add to the, add to the Talos point, I feel like I would put most of the blame for that on the Old Merry Dominion over the Empire. I think if the Empire were, uh, had a ch- you know, I'm talking about them like they're this monolith, but obviously it depends on who's in power and who's on the council and who's the Emperor. The Empire, but- I feel like the-


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[Assistant] The Empire is not going to be imposing, you know, torture and death penalty for worshipping Talos. And other examples of them, I'm not saying Imperialism is a good thing, but spreading into other continents, they tend to do it with some grace.


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[Assistant] Well, the idea that Tiber Septim deserves a place amongst the divines is kind of weird when you've got Riemann who is, he's a cultural god, he's a cultural hero to the Imperials, and really it makes sense that Tiber Septim would be the same.


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[Assistant] But it's, it's definitely these kind of other elements of Talos that make Talos what Talos is, that is kind of sneaking into the Divines. It's definitely, definitely a bit of, um, Shaw or Lorcan's work.


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[Assistant] Well, one thing like tying it back to what we said near the beginning is it is kind of important to the divine's religion that there be a fairly strong disconnect between the mortals who worship them and the gods themselves. They're very


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[Assistant] Who was a part of many of these people's lives, they know all of these stories, they've got all of these interactions with him. So, yea, if he does join the Divines, he does become the centrepiece. Because, you know, while all the others are just...


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[Assistant] Yeah. Plus, to answer your question as well, Michael, uhm, the, if we, if we buy into the idea that Talos is kind of the mingled aspect of these, these different figures, one of which being Wolfharf being a, an aspect of Shor,


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[Assistant] If the elves are trying to get rid of Talos worship, it absolutely ensures interest to kind of keep


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[Assistant] I think a cool place to start, actually, and it's kind of on topic, I think, because it's still about the character, but the very beginning of the game, do you believe that they should have some kind of alternate start experience, like the alternate start mod, or blank slate still, but it's set, like you are a prisoner and you're escaping?


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[Assistant] It's funny because I actually don't really mind, because I know that for me, I mean, at Fudgemuppet, we turned Fallout 4's backstory into like,


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[Assistant] 50 to 100 different builds, right? So I can always spin some cool character experience out of you're just a prisoner. I mean the less info in the background sometimes the better.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but in- and I also know that someone will make an alternate start mod and I'll just get that later after I've done, you know, five to ten playthroughs without an alternate start mod and I'll have just as much fun then. I do like the prisoner theme.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I do agree that they could have, uh, like some different workarounds, but generally speaking, yeaah, I think if you were to give too much option, like I'm a vampire on the northeast side of the map,


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[Assistant] It does make things trickier, and in an ideal world, it would work, but it's not an ideal world. So, if I'm, if I'm using the parameters of what I think Bethesda will handle best and not-


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[Assistant] Things for roleplaying like, uhm, birth signs. Picking a birth sign at the start.


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[Assistant] You know, or, and like how standing stones can work into that as well. Classes, like being able to say at the beginning, I am a knight. Uhm, and obviously like racial, uh, disparity is really cool. Like if you have high elves having more drawbacks and more advantages than they used to say like in Morrowind as opposed to Skyrim.


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[Assistant] Things like that. So out of all those topics, what would you guys like to start with?


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[Assistant] A simple way you could do that as well is with classes, like you had an oblivion just without attributes. So it's kind of like picking.


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[Assistant] Uh, a selection of skills just to start higher.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but then also on top of that to keep the kind of, oh, this race is, you know, different to that one. Skills don't really matter. It's usually other stuff like weaknesses, resistances and powers, but you can still keep it, but have both of them having an effect.


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[Assistant] So for example, if you want to start with the absolute highest, I don't know, destruction possible, you must choose destruction as one of your like class skills and be a dark elf, for example. But then you can still, if you want to be an orc who naturally starts with lower destruction, say,


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[Assistant] Have higher destruction by selecting it as the class skill or like you said, a history skill.


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[Assistant] It's basically like tag skills, and I do think traits as much as they're,


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[Assistant] With like the face paint and stuff, but I mean, let's really, if there's anything to borrow from Elder Scrolls Online, it is the customization. Like let's, for Elder Scrolls 6, I think everyone can agree for the best role playing potential, we should be able to customize like, oh, I want to make a really like blocky looking.


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[Assistant] Like if, like playing as the, you know, if you want to go for your classic Braveheart Nord experience and you've got massive blue.


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[Assistant] Like if I want to roleplay a priest, I'll usually. I think it'd be cool.


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[Assistant] Like pick, pick brown hair and get plus one to one handed or like the start of outer worlds where they're like, you were a janitor before plus 1% block or something. Some rubbish like that. It's meaning- Stats that don't mean anything. Yeah. It's all right, Drew. We'll get, we'll get you like a, an old person role playing more. That'll be sick.


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[Assistant] But it is, it is, it is like a cool concept and it's actually one of the reasons why let's get this one out of the way. I'll do it. Take 20 seconds. No voice protagonist at all. Period. Like not because they're not going to have an old voice.


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[Assistant] You know, you can't, so you won't be able to, to have that experience. So let's, let's have none of that to have the most role playing potential possible. I guess we could talk a bit, just, let's just get races out of the way.


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[Assistant] Like, there are some good mods, like Imperious Races of Skyrim is a mod that we use a fair bit, uh, with our builds. And basically what it does is it just switches up


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[Assistant] You're starting attributes. So health, magicka and stamina, just a bit, depending on what you are. So obviously high elves have more magicka, but other races do too. It's not just like the vanilla Skyrim with highborne and that's it like plus 50, everything gets shifted around. Some races have more stamina, others more health and the regen for those three.


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[Assistant] Uh, stats is also different, like some races regen stamina faster than other races who regen magicka faster, and so on, but then giving more abilities and powers, uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean they already do that a bit, but it's very weak. Like they have disposition, you go play games, play like Oblivion, go be in Argonian Sea, there's a lot of people that don't like you, but you don't really feel it, you just see them frown at you and perhaps they take more money to bribe or more wheels of the minigame to get their disposition up.


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[Assistant] So I- I agree with you with that, but yeaah, in terms of big benefits and big disadvantage, like let's have the thing where it's like high off, super good at magicka, but they're weak to magic, like magic does more damage to them, perhaps 20-30% more. Things like that, like they- they did strip out a lot of, uhm, complexity, not complexity, magnitude in Skyrim.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, it's 75% resist disease and full resist poison.


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[Assistant] And same as, like, I'm on the fence, I suppose if they had different, like, sub-races for Khajiit and stuff, you could have different effects, but Beast Feet?


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[Assistant] Like, I know with Imperious Races, you don't get beast feat, but you have a passive called Feline Agility, where you move 15% faster, just in general, at all times, and sprint 40% faster, but it costs more stamina per second.


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[Assistant] Like things like that, so if I play as a Khajiit, I actually feel like an agile cat.


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[Assistant] As opposed to just a reskinned, you know, human with a tail.


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[Assistant] It's cool, like imagine it's like, oh, I have more speed, so I swing faster and I stack this with a weapon that has like a crazy swing speed and then make this super fast build.


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[Assistant] Not really, I was happy to just say, like, I'm also happy for, um, both classes and birth signs to make a return.


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[Assistant] It's, it's another way to get unique buffs and abilities that really make your character feel distinguished. Like you were saying, if you want to be an orc mage, you also happen to be born under the mage sign. It makes you, it makes sense why you have this proficiency for magic and then it can also come with a, you know, a special ability that's not just


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[Assistant] Plus additional magic. There could be some extra thing, like, I dunno, faster magicka regen, or...


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[Assistant] I agree, and I just wanted to touch on worship a bit more actually. So I think a way it could work is you pick one at the start if you want to.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, you know, things that are basic though, so not outliers, like if you look at the Winter Sun mod, I think there's something like 50 different deities in there, like all kinds of things, like,


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[Assistant] I mean, maybe you could if you wanted to really let you be whoever you want in your backstory, but it kinda feels weird to be like, I'm a worshipper of, I don't know, uhm, Manamaco from the get-go or like something very specific.


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[Assistant] But would the effects be different? I mean I'd prefer that but it's a bit much to ask.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like Boethra, like this does not require worship, just walk the path, and it has like three criteria to raise your favor with them, and then when you hit a hundred, you get a special ability. Same as Wintersong.


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[Assistant] Like, if you go to the shrine and do the quest and get that, so it's not like, oh, I'm a Khajiit, so I can't worship. I mean, I do agree, like, yea, probably can't worship Shor as a Khajiit. But, but like-


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[Assistant] Standing stones, because I can almost guarantee there'll be some kind of stone that you find in the game that, whether it can change your birth sign or it can give you a new power or it just gives you a bunch of XP, there's always some stones laying around. Do you like that or do you not, do you not want that?


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[Assistant] It's a bit OP, but it is fun with mods how you can like pick a birth sign and then pick a standing stone. But it does get a bit like over the top.


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[Assistant] I suppose, I suppose it's a fine like balance you have to keep for players like you and also


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[Assistant] Uhm, a lot of new players who don't want to get locked into bad decisions. But I, in a lot of these examples, you can just do both. For example, classes. They're like, I don't know what I want to play. Fine, don't pick a class. Have evenly spread skills and go test out whatever you want. Don't, you don't have to be a knight, but for players who want to be, they can.


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[Assistant] Like yeah, if you're not playing on a really hard difficulty and you need to maximize every level up and do this and that, if you're the kind of person who picked the wrong class and doesn't like that, you're probably playing on a difficulty setting or in a way that you won't mind having to change. I guess, you know what I mean? Like they're not like gonna be so focused on optimization that it bugs them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like this, this major's guild locks you out of the other one, but, um, we'll leave that in. Go, go check out our Elder Scrolls Six Factions podcast. And speaking of videos to check out, I did a really, really comprehensive video on the Winter Sun mod, like literally every power in it, every deity. So go check that out as well.


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[Assistant] I think perks, is that something we would talk about? There's a lot of cool perk mods that can help set you up for roleplaying different characters.


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[Assistant] I mean, simply put, look at Oblivion's melee design with one, like, it's no perfection masterpiece, but the simple fact that getting to level 50 in


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[Assistant] A melee skill meant you could do a sideways power attack that had a chance to disarm.


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[Assistant] Like almost like a kung fu back kick sweep thing and, and all the stuff like that. It's cool stuff you can add through perks. Like you said, without wasting all five perk points just to get max damage. You can leave a lot of damage to just what the skill is out of a hundred.


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[Assistant] I just remember you showing me, you're like, come over, we're kids, you're standing on a tower outside of skingrad.


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[Assistant] And you just like holding a katana in one hand in shrouded armor and doing a backflip off the top. And the way the backflip works was you would do the backflip and then kind of just like T-pose and get back to normal and fold down just straight. Like to the normal jump thing. It would be perfectly timed. But the other thing is,


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[Assistant] As far as, as far as enemies lock onto you like a, like a heat seeking missile, when you use that, the best way to dodge a ranged attack is to stand still and move after it's cast or the arrow's shot.


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[Assistant] Like just with the direction, you just move the stick, but if you roll, they literally just like trace you with the lightning and you get hit anyway, so.


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[Assistant] But yea, sorry, go on, Michael. Oh, my point was so small. It was literally like, yea, we need some more conjuration options. But it's true. Yea, or some more Daedra to summon. Yea, the Atronachs were plain. I get so spoiled with mods like, I dunno, Apocalypse Magic and stuff like that that just add more things.


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[Assistant] You know, like, yeaah. It was disappointing to see just how many more options there were in Oblivion.


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[Assistant] It could get really complicated, but it does solve a lot of issues by just adding more perks that aren't necessarily hard to reach. They can be like really side branches you can access quickly, but it's like people always say, oh, add a hand to hand skill. It's like, you don't have to. You could add that honestly into one-handed if you wanted to.


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[Assistant] Because that's where jewel wielding is, that's my logic.


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[Assistant] If, you know, both hands just chuck it off the side of where jewel wielding would be.


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[Assistant] And just add a few, just a small amount of hand to hand perks. Maybe there's some cool martial arts looking power attack that just satisfies that if you want to. If you don't want to, you don't have to.


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[Assistant] I don't want to act like Skyrim did like some terrible job, but some of them did feel meaningless. I mean, some of them were just straight up broken too. Like you go look at the crit damage and the way that works and like the blade tree. But I mean, they tried to separate blade axes and like maces, warhammers into different areas and be like, this one does.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like more bleed damage, this one does more, ignores armor, this one does crit damage, but in an end game state, I never had a character that was like, this is really good because I have some bleed damage, like it wasn't significant enough for me to care, we need to amp stuff like that up more if we want


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[Assistant] Yeah, they get high level ones, they get like Nordic carved and like, stuff like that, but they'll never get like, you'll never just see like an ebony knight running at you full ebony armor head to toe.


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[Assistant] Or just more stagger. That's like a really easy not to OP. Cause knockdown's pretty OP. Like when you knock someone down, you can get in like six strikes before they stand up.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. But the stagger can be screwed too. No, no, but boss enemies, yeaah, but imagine boss enemies, right? Yeaah. So if you have chance to stagger, but then certain enemies have different stagger resistance, which they kinda do anyway, so it's like, oh,


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[Assistant] This, this is my hammer, it staggers, staggers bandits fairly well.


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[Assistant] But uhm, not Karstag for example, or a giant. It won't really do that the same.


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[Assistant] It's based on your total magicka, so unless you get, I don't know the exact number, but it could be something like, unless you've got 400 magicka, you can't have 4 summons, or something like that. Yeah, but like things like that, uhm.


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[Assistant] I like perks like that in a way because it actually stops people from just like reducing casting costs with enchanting drastically. It actually gives an extra reward to someone who has a higher amount of raw base stat. Like that's cool. I agree.


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[Assistant] I like that stuff. And I dunno if we really stress this, but in addition to like picking these birth signs at the start, they need to be better.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like if you look at the Andromeda standing stones, I know this is standing stones, but it's essentially the same thing. You just pick it up to start with a birth sign. I really like things like the shadow stone increases movement speed by 20% in combat. Uhm, making, makes sneaking and sneak attacks 20% more effective when near a wall or obstacle.


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[Assistant] Uhm, things like that. I mean, it also has that shadowstep power, but there's just cool bits and pieces around that. I- I did actually like one example of one done really well.


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[Assistant] If anything, it's almost too OP to just be someone's birth sign, but let's just forget that. Was the Ritual Stone in Vanilla Skyrim how you just revived from the dead every single thing around you? As a birth sign, it almost feels like being a superhero to be honest, but like, stuff like that's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] That was always the cool sounding one, which we're like, oh, we gotta make a build with that, but it just-


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[Assistant] Okay, it's serpent stone, sneaking costs 10 magicka per second, but you move 25% faster while sneaking, and striking cobra, if you have magicka remaining, like so, cause it wastes magicka, but if you've got some left while you're sneaking, sneaking and sneak attacks are 40% more effective, 20% for projectiles.


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[Assistant] But I think we sum up the main chunk of it. I mean, for anyone interested in some more takes that are perhaps more eloquent than podcast format, definitely check out our, uh, like, Five Things We Want in Elder Scrolls 6 series.


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[Assistant] It's got like 10 parts and it's all different things we want. A lot of them are topics like this, where we'll detail like cool in-depth examples and things like that.


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[Assistant] I mean, we could bring in skill checks and everything if you wanted to go full Fallout mode. Yeah, you could. Like, uh, one-handed skill check. I'm not a whelp, Companions Guild. How about that?


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[Assistant] Well, that wraps it all up. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for watching. Social media links can be found in the description below, as well as a merch link if you want to get an awesome fudge muppet tea, which I am wearing. And we look forward to nerding out with you all again very soon.


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[Assistant] What is up ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Fudge Mapper, this is the Elder Scrolls Podcast, I'm Scott, here with Michael and Drew as always.


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[Assistant] And today, we have a fun, little, special one that actually might


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[Assistant] Not be little, it might go on for a little bit, but it's basically been 52 weeks.


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[Assistant] So basically a year and we were going to do a little special year anniversary kind of thing. We put out a community post. We got a bunch of guys questions.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we've sort of gone through all the most popular ones and tried to include those and then also gone through some extras, but I don't know if we'll get through all of them because there were a lot and there was also sort of overlap between a lot of them.


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[Assistant] It was an accident, so for thematic purposes it was meant to be.


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[Assistant] For 36 lessons of Vivec. Yeaah. And-


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[Assistant] It would be so much of it is like referential to like real world like philosophies and stuff and as well like it's, it's gonna, it's a lot of work that would be a magnum, magnum opus of sorts if it were to be done.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but. That's always a possibility.


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[Assistant] But then it's not open for interpretation, you know what I mean? It's not treating the art as art. No, but then we could just be like...


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[Assistant] Yeah. Well, uhm, but yeah, I, I, one day it will happen. We'll, we'll do a long ass video on it one day, but it will be a day. I feel like I need to like.


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[Assistant] Soak in some other things and do some other videos, create a larger thesis. But if you want something like it, the Vivek Explained video obviously goes over a lot of it and references it a lot. So you could delve into there in pieces if you'd like.


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[Assistant] I totally, cause when you said, yeah, cause when you said Earth, you're like, Earth, but it's just like as much as like Tamriel is like, uh, looking like.


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[Assistant] I still feel like I'd go for something crazier and try and wanna do something crazier, but make it pleasant. Like, do you know what I mean? Like imagine- Like a good LSD trip or something. Yeah, or something like, you know, just like- Not that I know. Not necessarily LSD with colors or anything, but like, it could just be like-


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[Assistant] I don't know, like, it's like I mentioned even for starters, like, gravity was like, like, have you seen, uh, you know, uh, like John Carter?


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[Assistant] But like, I'd be- I suppose what I'm saying, are there lots of people in other societies in your world? But I am a Daedric Prince too. Correct. So everyone around me I guess would be like, lesser Daedra or something. Would you be humanoid?


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[Assistant] This is not, not, not, not a Sheogorath, uhm, not like the Shivering Isles because it's like so like rooted in the mania dementia, but I would really enjoy one half of my realm.


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[Assistant] Be like raining, so like that beautiful sort of like cold rainy day and the other just be pure crystal clear like blue skies.


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[Assistant] Sunny summer because I just a pet peeve me like the weather recently here in Sydney has been the exact like exactly like this. I hate on and off rain. I hate seeing sun with wet ground. I hate it so much. I don't know why it's just my thing, but I love when it's raining. I really want it to be.


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[Assistant] Yeah, or when you go walking in the rain and stuff, it's like a cool like feeling and so on. But then I want the opposite. I don't want like sort of miserly kind of rain and then the sun kind of comes out and it kind of gets a humid and sticky like, no thanks.


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[Assistant] There's an essential, no, but that's just two parts of it, but then also like no gravity. I wonder how that would work with, uh, rain.


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[Assistant] See, I think I would love to be like, I guess I could put like, it would be cool to be like a, uh,


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[Assistant] Storyteller go like spheres of so stories, songs and lies or something. It could be everything like that or mixed in one, like, or like, you know, moving, you know, danger prints of moving truths or some shit. Like you can put some poetic kind of spin on it, but then you're, you know, your part in the, in the sort of metaphysical world as you go in and you like.


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[Assistant] But I, but I, but I feel like no, but spinning, like I guess spinning the stories, it's probably like, I guess closer to a Daedric version of Ifri or something. It's the idea that it, but it coming into reality, you know, like you're taking characters and Pellanall and, or, or, or these kinds of things and spinning stories about them that then become part of the, the mythos or whatever.


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[Assistant] We're not evil, we're like an- Like an element of, even if you were thinking about it like Ano-Padome, like you were Padomeic, like an element of sort of chaos in the waters of oblivion, you're not like this sort of-


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[Assistant] Do you, do you know kind of what I'm getting at? Like look, look, put it this way. If you were making a character, uh, like a Daedric Prince of God or of love and compassion and who lives in


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[Assistant] Alright, let's, let's ditch that question now. Let's total up. Uhm, Gus says, Have you all considered, considered doing an Elder Scrolls story series like you did with the Fallout Redemption one? I enjoyed listening to that and think an ES one would be pretty interesting.


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[Assistant] I mean, like, ultimately it comes down, if there is a massive, like, ask for it, if you guys really would like something like that. Uhm, there's even things I've thought of before as even expanding, like, you know, with the fan fiction or apocryphal, whatever, parts of the lore or, like, background for extra characters and so on in history and so on, cause there's some really cool parts, like, you know,


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[Assistant] That was that one thing that I lost. I lost. Cyberpunk was so... I had this written, Cyberpunk was so...


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[Assistant] Bad. It bothered me so much, but it kind of like, I was like, Oh, maybe I'll do this. I basically had like a cyberpunk.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because, but I just lost it, like, cause also like the, the word, I was trying to find a way to represent it and so on, and I was trying to like, make a, think of ways to actually get it visually done.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. I'm sure you'll find someone to help us do that, but you'd have to.


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[Assistant] But I guess the things to a lot of fan theories are small, so like, well they're like making connections between things and like obviously confirming them, but trying to confirm them, but aren't-


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[Assistant] I guess that is, I guess they all kind of lie in theories, but some of these theories are like so prevalent and so like, it's almost like, do you know in the same way that like any like theory crafting or like recent sort of, I guess like even science or whatever, it's like evolution is technically a theory, but it's like generally, it's the best you've got now. There's one. Do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Actually, I want to be surprised. Surely there's going to be some Easter eggs in there. Oh yeah, for sure, for sure. But, uh, go to a planet and there's a known route and they're like,


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[Assistant] It is, but like I feel like there's differences a little bit, like you know with the Dwemer one, like it's- I- I kind of agree with that sentiment with the Dwemer because there's so much mystery, but also I feel like they're...


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[Assistant] Like, where is the Thalmor? I guess I almost like treat it as true in my head, and maybe that's just an effect of me treating it almost as true, so I don't really.


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[Assistant] I don't know, the, the, the evil left handed elves have returned and sword singers unite and come back. Do you know what I mean? I don't know.


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[Assistant] No, I, I like the Dwemer being a mystery and I know that's like some people like, oh, they'll eventually want to know, but it's kind of like, it's part of the charm even of, of a lot of lost civilization kind of things. I guess maybe that's part of it. Like Thalmor aren't a lost civilization or like their mystery doesn't.


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[Assistant] Do you know what I mean? Like, it kinda, I dunno. I feel like, and it would get messy. They would give the wrong, like, this sounds so pretentious, but they'll give the wrong answer. But like, they will give an answer, and then it will invalidate a whole bunch of other things, and then they'll, I guarantee it would be done wrong. Certain things can be so conflicting.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, that's, that's I guess what the expectation is. And like, yeah, I agree, that would be good if it's gone. However, I feel like I, we have to think about this a bit because I feel like there's other pieces in the lore that would be better removed.


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[Assistant] As much as the Ebonheart practice part thing is sort of contrived and annoying. It's too small. It's too small. Yeah, it's one alliance, it disappears in the span of time in the history. It doesn't make sense, but whatever. It's in this like tiny like period of the second era that happens. Do you know what I mean? Whereas it's not something that necessarily like permeates throughout the rest of Elder Scrolls history.


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[Assistant] I mean, to be honest, I don't know why, I've just kind of rolled my eyes at like, even the idea that Dagon's doing the same thing in Blackwood, tri- well, trying to do the same thing. Like, I guess, you know, that's what he wants to do anyway, invade the realm. But it's just like-


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[Assistant] Yeah, because within the span of like, it's happened before, like both Moloch Bell and- And no one's talking about it in Oblivion. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I would kind of, I would kind of actually say if, I guess my kind of opinion on a lot of Elder Scrolls online lore added is a lot of the passive cultural religious kind of stuff added is actually often quite good, but the actual like events of it, like the quest is kind of like, you know what I feel the same, like I'm kind of like, yeah, okay, whatever it can kind of.


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[Assistant] This is probably a really controversial one for a lot of people because they love it and they grew up with Skyrim.


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[Assistant] Zip the whole dragon cult dragon stuff out of existence. I liked the thorn as like a Nordic sort of power from kind and about breath and all of that kind of stuff and like connection to the weather and so on rather than.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it being like dragon superpowers. So I would actually axe the whole dragon whole part. Like you can have dragons still like as in related to like Akatosh or a few legendary creatures and stuff like that, but not like the sort of, oh, he was Alduin with his dragon army and everything. Cause I kinda like Alduin.


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[Assistant] Even more as a conceptually as like this big terrifying Ragnarok end of world eater kind of thing rather than I'm here to dominate men. You know, it's kind of.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I would probably remove the dragon cult. There's like once again, like just to clarify, like it's, there's been, there's cool parts of it that are there now, but it's just like, I think if that was removed and built from the ground up, I feel like there's other ways of doing it or introducing similar cool things.


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[Assistant] He is a, uh, I don't know if this is a hot take and, uh, or so, but I actually think Ulfric Stormcloak terms of like conceptually his importance to the actual story and what's going on. His voice and his, um, just sort of character arc, like his backstory and so on is interesting. It's like one of the more interesting ones to me.


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[Assistant] Uuuh. No, but in-game, I guess, when I said in-game, I feel like they were talking about Skyrim, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, for some reason I was just thinking of Skyrim then. Uh, I guess for Vec, but I feel like that's cheap. It just feels a little bit cheap.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I don't know, I just thought I would, the reason for Skyrim at least, I would say Ulfric is just because his backstory is kinda tragic and he plays a big part and it's so many like misguided intentions and we did a video on it and talked about like, you know,


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[Assistant] I don't know, Ulfric Stormcloak, cause I think he's one of the more fleshed out characters in the entire thing. And people might go like, oh, you know, oh Brynjolf cause he was like a cool.


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[Assistant] Buddy or something like that or Delvin because he's got a cockney accent and he stands out, but like beyond that.


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[Assistant] And I don't know why, but it's just something that's interesting in characters, but conviction is just something interesting in either a hero or a villain. It's just an interesting sort of trait that they s- do you know what I mean? Like it's just... yeah.


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[Assistant] To be honest, that's pretty fair. Like, I would actually say, like, if it was Oblivion, Mankar Cameron's pretty choice. And, um, Dive-Ace Fear, if you can't pick, like, Vivek or Amalexa or anything like that, if you have to pick, like, a mortal character, Dive-Ace Fear then.


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[Assistant] I'm assuming what, like, is meant by this is like, obviously he doesn't play the same sort of role. He plays a similar role to the other Divines, like kind of passive, not a big player. But I would say that it's actually...


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[Assistant] More, I, well, at least the way I would like interpret it all is that he's more disassociated with things as time goes on. Like we talked about last episode that like Wolf says like, oh, it's time for the empire to pass and so on. Like he's not attached to the worldly things as much anymore. And then.


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[Assistant] You know, I just sort of like, uh, it's not weakness as much as not presence, if that makes sense.


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[Assistant] But I think either, look, it's either game design and they just never bring it up, or I think the other, like, better, like, explanation is that he's just, uhm,


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[Assistant] Doesn't really care for the mortal things in the same way that he once did. Like when you're fresh out of being an emperor, now you're a god and you're like, ah, well, I'm going to help my empire and everything. But then over time, you might be like, you know, you see generations go by, you have no connections to your like great, great, great, great, great grandkids. And you might not really care for them in the same.


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[Assistant] Depending on the, on some of the, the lore and what you believe in someone, but like, you know, him becoming a god and everything and changing Cyrodiil from jungle to like, to, to land, I guess that's actually an example of why he isn't as weak. Like he did something right there, you know, for red legions, I love you and changed it. So it's true.


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[Assistant] I'd say so and then over time, like being a god for a long time, you become disconnected from mortal affairs and then over like losing.


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[Assistant] They, they do like say, like he was so good that they, he was, um, joined a place among the divines. Like he was made, like he became a God for being so cool. Whereas obviously the reality is the Daggerfall story and so on. It has to do with Mantell and Crux and the Numidium and all of that metaphysical kind of jargon, but you can look into plenty of videos like that.


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[Assistant] Let's just assume then, just let's make an assumption that it's either sort of Imperial, Nord, Breton, just some whatever variation of human, just say dropped into a town in Cyrodiil somewhere, maybe you're a Cyro-Nordic kind of person from Coral or something.


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[Assistant] I feel like I'd just turn tail and go back to Cyrodiil, like, just because like a comfier,


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[Assistant] To be honest, like Dino might be a pretty sweet gig as actually being a priest of some kind. Like especially if you have a lot of lore knowledge, cause a lot of theology.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I would go like, yeah, I'd say Cyrodiil and there's probably, you know, probably go to the Imperial City and there's probably a cool art gallery or cool books or something.


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[Assistant] You can be uhm, and in regards to the Kim and so on, like obviously it's a concept, it can be uhm, you can know of it but not like grasp it and become, it doesn't mean, just because you know of it doesn't mean you can get it. So I can't just be like,


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[Assistant] Well, then I just write books. I just become an author that writes histories of this or something like that or like, you know, do you know what I mean? Like, because then you can just write all those books, you can probably live off, you know, make some money, sit a comfy life in the Imperial city or something and then do other things.


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[Assistant] Uhm, hands down for me, I think I would pick like a strategy type things to the effect of like, you know, there's the, I think-


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[Assistant] Yeaah, cause it takes it to that, takes advantage of that sort of sandbox kind of fun. It's like, Oh, what if I play the Richmond and then do kind of like what Dukerac the Black Drake did and take the Imperial City and take all the Tamriel or like, what if I start off as an Argonian and do the same?


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[Assistant] It could be cool if you actually had like, I feel like to use, instead of just the one realm, maybe for the escape story or something, but it would be cool if it was multiple realms with the multiple gods, because you know how it's got all the different characters, you know. Kinda like a Morian zenest.


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[Assistant] But like if, you know, once again, it's like, if they were gonna all of a sudden make heaps of Elder Scrolls games and like, you know, make a Dark Brotherhood, Morag Tong,


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[Assistant] Like, a very polished Total War Crusader Kings kind of sandbox, uhm, game, like that. When I mean sandbox.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for sure. I would, I would at some point, it's kind of like this, this, at the moment there's some deeper, like, uh, like I haven't read every single bit of Kirkbride's stuff and so on. It's like, kind of would want to be brushed up on it and so on and, and like, uh. But yeah, I feel like it- Juicy questions. Eventually. Huh?


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[Assistant] Uh, yea, if you completely simped for it and you were just like comfortable doing it, like that, just being like, yes, Azura my queen, I feel like you might have a pretty sweet afterlife, right?


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[Assistant] I feel like Azura is one of the better choices because even if you go with the other traditional sort of like, oh, like lightish feeling ones, like, you know, Meridia is known for like burning out any idea of your sense of like individuality and bringing you into this like light husk kind of thing. They mean are all nightmares.


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[Assistant] I, but also like, also who would you want, like, you know, there's things like, oh, maybe Sanguine's revelry stuff would be fun, but, he's also like, he's the same kind of guy that could screw you over hardcore, like in like, to be in some dark kind of stuff, like he's a bit twe-


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[Assistant] I think it's Azura, dude. I think it is Azura. I think I would, uhm, I would live with my queen and worship every day so that I don't get tortured. Yeaah, that makes sense.


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[Assistant] This is a weird one, and this is, it's probably like riskier, but if you go with the idea that sort of like your soul belongs to Molag Bal when you become a vampire, like if it was becoming a vampire and you kind of want a chance at living as a vampire for the rest of your life, like you could have a pretty cool existence on Tamriel, just don't want to get killed.


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[Assistant] But it's also possible that it's not entirely, like, you could do it as in, like, for example, like, I also don't want to move to America and, um, have to live over there, but, um, if I, if it was like a, not a consulting sounds so like,


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[Assistant] I feel like the most realistic thing is there's like writing some lore books in that way, like, cause that can also be done in a way where it's like, you don't know the quests or anything or so on, but it's like, oh, here there's some like extra stuff. I mean, look, put it, put it,


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[Assistant] Let's just make some fan fiction lore stuff, and then, uh, they can just put it in there for free. They'll just make it canon in L6.


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[Assistant] I think as an answer to this, it's like, it's a, it's a yes and no question because like, yes, obviously in lots of ways, but I feel like streamlining and like reducing things gets a bad rap.


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[Assistant] I don't know, maybe this is just a personal thing, uhm, but for example, uhm, with Anation's mods that expand the perks and so on for the skill trees, you have like the Ordinator one, which is really cool and it's big and it's lots of things, but I've often found that I like the minimalistic


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[Assistant] Um, system or, or, or lore or whatever. So I, I don't like necessarily think, some people I feel like you, they suggest complexity, like huge amounts of complexity, but it's like, is this huge effort of all of this complexity, is it actually adding a lot to the, this game or is it adding things?


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[Assistant] Look, I hope so, but it's hard to not be cynical when it's 16 times the detail.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just can't, but I can't, I can't see 2023, just cause Starfield comes out 2022. I can't see double release. 2024, 2025, one of them.


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[Assistant] If it's beyond that, it's kind of like silly. That's ridiculous. It's crazy. But yeah, let's go on to Pepe Sour or Sour. Pepper Sour, like a Pepe Fana Sour. If you were to live as a certain race in their respective homelands, where would it be? Who would you serve and what would you do for a living?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I would pick, because I'm done with that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I would probably be a Dunmer, eh, just any of the elves you get to live a long life, so that's cool. Uhm, if it was in the Golden Age, which is, you know, most of Morrowind's history, like you live in a place protected by the gods and as long as you're pious and so on, like, you can live a pretty...


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[Assistant] Pretty good life, like it depends who you are in, in the society of course, but that goes for anywhere, but I guess, uh,


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[Assistant] To be honest, be joining once again, like I sort of saying before, but being a, a priest or, or, you know, part of the tribunal temple in, um,


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[Assistant] In the, uh, for the tribunal in Morrowind is a pretty sweet gig. You get a lot of, like, power, you get a lot of, like, uhm, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, the only thing too is like, the one thing I was gonna say too, the best part about being a priest as a dunwa in Morrowind is that you have literally living gods to help, like, protect you, that are sort of involved in your plights as well.


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[Assistant] But that's funny, because back in those days too, like, high positions of power, like, you know, especially nobility of kings comes, especially in higher culture, comes with heaps of responsibilities.


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[Assistant] But the way I understood, like, khaels too, it's funny, like, cause you don't necessarily think you might get like, dark elves, like, lilly deers or something.


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[Assistant] Cause as much as you live with like, you know, your unlimited life and stuff, which is, oh, sorry, long lives. Um, but like, uh, society, Altma society seems really oppressive even for people in it, like in terms of even upper class, like all of the ridiculous, like micromanaging every little bit of cutlery movements and everything you do in your life. It's very order, like little freedom.


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[Assistant] Funnily enough though, I feel like a lot of the el, uh, uh, maybe not. Maybe some of the elves actually have, like, actually, do you know what might be a decent living, uh, that I didn't really consider, but being a wood elf, um, chilling out and just like hunting and having a family and stuff like that could be cool. And the way that you get a lot of freedom or places you can move and go and like less, uh, I guess invasions and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's, they live the most like sort of romantic open sort of like freeish kind of things. Being in tune with it. Like it doesn't have the same level of like rigidity as a lot of other societies. But then again, you could go being someone, a rich person, I mean, rich merchant in the Imperial city is probably a sweet gig too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like, it's the kind of thing like, like Canon's really good and it's important, but also like interpretation and stuff on top of that is, um, increases your people's like enjoyment or understanding of things and allows like a change of ideas and so on. And I think for, that for good chunks of his lore.


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[Assistant] Um, it's complimentary, I think. Yeah. Sometimes he does go a little too far with some things and I'm like, ah, that's not really my taste. But that's the thing. It's all, we would treat it outside of canon.


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[Assistant] And examples of ones that compliment greatly, uhm, in the Vivek Explained video.


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[Assistant] That we've got on the channel from a while back. There's these big chunks in there where I'm talking about some of his lore about Vivec meeting, um, Nerevar and stuff. And this provides, it provides so much extra like character and


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[Assistant] And it fleshes out Vivek a lot more and provides a lot more context and so on. It greatly enhances his character. Like I pointed out as like, oh, you know, this is out of canon kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] But uhm, sometimes I also lean a little bit to like trusting his inside a little bit more when like, you know, he, they write the characters like, you know, Kirkbride wrote the 36 lessons of Vivec. It's kind of like, well then maybe he has something to say about it. Like, or what, at least what I'm saying is his ideas about Vivec are at least somewhat more interesting because he somewhat- Yeah, because he wrote it.


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[Assistant] Alright, well let's go now to, uh, Barry Dalton, lore-wise, what's the most anime thing that's ever happened in The Elder Scrolls? Dragon Breaks probably, right? But I wanna call that anime though, like I remember anime would be- Why not? Well, cause anime is not- anime doesn't mean like, contrived and poorly thought out, it just means-


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[Assistant] I mean sword singing in general is a little, like you could go as a little like weeby anyway, like to start. I mean the whole inspiration for like, you know, Yakudans anyway, like a core foundation of their inspiration is actually, um, Japan. Yeah. And like, but yeah, like, you know, summoning like, you know, super swords. It's kind of, you can kind of.


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[Assistant] There could be a little bit anime feeling, I would say.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, as for the second part, I don't know if like, the Make Your Character Divine or anything like that, people can talk about that and theorize like, Aspect of Lorcan, Chess Rain, all that kind of stuff, but to get to the core of it there, uhm,


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[Assistant] Being the player character is a prisoner, and this sort of idea is, it's kind of like a meta recognition of you, sort of, your player's agency, and Vivec does this in the 36 lessons of Vivec, and, and then things he says as well, and, you know, obviously Cerseiil and Hima are related, they both got Divinity.


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[Assistant] You know, they, they, they use that as a, like, sort of a poetic, um, naming for, like, you who has control, cause it's you and the world. But this is like getting out, like, it's very like, it breaks the fourth wall a bit, like, it's the self-awareness kind of thing.


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[Assistant] I can't remember if this is exact- I'm pretty sure in his speech as well, he's sort of like...


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[Assistant] He's very like fatalistic and deterministic about his actions and how everyone does these things, but there's kind of like an almost implied exemption for you because you're the one, the prisoner, the player, the one with exerting free will.


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[Assistant] You, you can kind of appreciate those sort of like, meta fourth wall takes without having to integrate it into like, lore takes, do you know what I mean? But, yeah. Uhm, yeah, that's what I'd say to that.


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[Assistant] If there was one to be injected, like, smoothly, like, his instill is a sort of humanoid kind of thing, it doesn't drastically, like, upset the-


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[Assistant] One thing I would say is like I'm not huge on like adding the like, you know, I said like the playable races, like same as you Michael, like I feel like 10 is enough, like, you know, diversify them and flesh them out more. But at the same time, one thing I would like to actually just, just a fun point to add is I would like them to add more, um,


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[Assistant] Races that are like sort of outside races that are sentient. So for example, that you can, oh, you meet a Sloat in a quest and you're talking to a Sloat or like to goblins or like, you know, a Minotaur and so on, like that actually have a sort of sentient. So it's not adding back playable races. It's adding like.


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[Assistant] Races, as in like actuals, treating them as such, not just like, oh, it's just another enemy for me to kill. It'd be cool if you could go in and do a quest and there's like a goblin tribe or something and you're talking to their leader or something in it, but it might go south, like they might sound more bestial or something like that, but.


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[Assistant] A cool thing to say. In the same way, actually, how you see a snow elf in Skyrim. You see, uhm, Gelobor.


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[Assistant] It's cool to meet, you know, other characters like that, but yea.


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[Assistant] I guess sometimes too they like sort of look the way it moves and feels, like I'm actually not- I am not opposed to it at all if they want to move it to things like that sort of-


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[Assistant] True, but the other thing is that you, you've got to consider is the one fundamental part is that Elder Scrolls is about more, a lot of the time it's about different paths, multiple play styles, being able to be a maid, combat, so on. If they put all this attention, for example, into making it like some like Sekiro fighter kind of thing,


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[Assistant] You don't want it to feel so bad to play a mage by comparison because it's like, poor, it sucks playing like this or that or this. Only sword and shield is like the coolest way to play, like in-


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[Assistant] You, you need to do it in a way that also supports the other play styles, like sneaking and that needs to feel cool as combat does, as cool as mage does. And of course you're never gonna get that balance perfect, but they need to be sort of, somewhat on par.


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[Assistant] It's also like what you're going with for your game, like, you know, like, Mountain Blade 2 or so on, or even the first ones or so, it's like, the combat's kinda like, it's not smooth, it's not clunky, but it's serviceable, like this is a pretty clunky example, ultimately, but it's like,


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[Assistant] The reason that's a popular game and people like to play it is not because of that. It's like, remember like, what's your like, thesis of the game? Like, it's the exploration, it's the being able to do what you want with many paths and so on. So I feel like,


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[Assistant] While everything needs a general improvement, you don't wanna go too hardcore down one sort of rabbit hole and then it's all of a sudden Assassin's Creed parkour sort of running around everywhere. Do you know what I mean? Because you don't, you don't wanna play a mage that's...


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[Assistant] You know, like you don't want to feel gimped as a mage character because you want to walk around like a normal person. But meanwhile, like, you know, the best way to play is climbing that wall and jumping around everywhere.


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[Assistant] If we go, if we go to the actual, when just the three competitors, I'm going to just put my money on Marion's Dagon. He's literally got four arms. Like, I feel like that's a huge advantage in a fist fight in a, in a, he's literally got four fists. Shayl Gorath's like this old dude with a walking stick and, uh, Moloch Balas, you know, yeah, he's, you know.


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[Assistant] We can all agree on that. Such a hot take just going. I'm just thinking back to other questions before. It's like, what piece of like canon or lore would you remove or whatever it was? And it's like, I'll remove Sheogorath in his entirety. But yeah, go on.


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[Assistant] Because Meiro Dagon can also obviously likes being underdog, ambitious, so on, you know.


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[Assistant] So I would, I would go and say it is the soul, but I get what he's getting at here is kind of like, functionally, the Argonians are like biological automatons that are just kind of connected to the hist and then when they die, their knowledge just sort of comes back to the database and that's the kind of vibe of it. But I, you know, you simply put like, you can soul trap.


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[Assistant] The, the Argonians, they sort of seem to have a sentience outside of.


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[Assistant] Uh, Black Marsh and so on. I don't think, while I agree that the H-Hist used them and they're a vehicle for like the Hist, I feel like the Soul.


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[Assistant] They do have a soul and it is important. You know what I mean? Like they're not just a flesh machine. I think.


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[Assistant] Look, again, you also have to look at gameplay versus lore, like the whole idea that there is a lesser, greater, grand and like stages and levels of soul is gameplay from a lore perspective. It's kind of contrived and a little bit like, okay, whatever. Do you know what I mean? Like, you know, this soul has 1000 points. Like it's kind of.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we were all working together.


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[Assistant] Cause I ended up quitting university halfway to pursue phytonautical full time in 2015.


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[Assistant] So then I, um, but then come like later 2016 or so on, I think Drew was like nearly done with his degree, but I was like, Hey, you know, you're interested in this and like writing and so on. Like, did you want to, um, come aboard? And then, uh, he came aboard and, uh, that uni degree.


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[Assistant] No. Yeah, that's that. So, Jacob Backer, what changes do you guys reckon they'll make? Baker. Baker. Sorry, what am I thinking? Backer.


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[Assistant] What changes do you guys reckon they'll make to the appearances of races for the new Elder Scrolls? As in Oblivion looking different to the Skyrim version, love the podcast, new dudes.


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[Assistant] Keen, keen for more to come. Anyway, look, one thing I guess is, uh, I think they will go with a more muted sort of ESO kind of looking elf rather than the kind of more weird hyper angular Skyrim looking elves that they, um, that they did do. I think Khajiit and Argonians will kind of riff off.


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[Assistant] What Elder Scrolls Online's done so far, like I don't think they're gonna make any drastic changes to them, but like I think all of the, the Elven races will look a little closer to human, a little bit more, you know, aesthetically pleasing rather than the sort of.


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[Assistant] I don't necessarily have like a pleasant, like, high school experience and so on. Like Skyrim was so cool, like, for me, but like, it was probably unhealthy, like, the amount that I played, but like, especially considering it didn't give me anything, but like, uhm, for sure Skyrim and so on, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's like end oblivion even before it kind of keeps you cool, like, you know, any-


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[Assistant] So, it's just like how any escapeeism kinda is, it helps in a way, but one thing is actually roleplaying, I think, like my understanding of like characters and stuff.


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[Assistant] But like if I think about it overall, like Elder Scrolls, like going from like where I was in Oblivion, like it's just this cool, fun bonding thing with friends and so on and like, you know, Skyrim, it was a big piece of exciting.


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[Assistant] Well, just there, you just had, um, Tora talk, I added this just on the list because he replied to James saying personally, I'd merge the Bretons and the Imperials. And I think ultimately if you could functionally do that or like, you know, get rid of one and like feasibly like the Bretons includes Imperials or vice versa.


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[Assistant] Yeah, basically because a lot of their, like, at their base anyway, they're all Nidix. And then you just basically have Nids who, you know, got rid of their Elven oppressors, the other ones who kind of interbred with them and got a bit of magic flair. But like, for the most part, it's a very default kind of...


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[Assistant] The only thing there is like the whole like, it's so important I think to the metaphysical narrative with like Trinimac and him becoming Malacath and then corrupted orcs and then the orcs, you know, become a part of the, uh, sorry, the Malacath being a corner of the house of troubles. Cause if there's no orcs, there's basically no Malacath. Like there's no like kind of thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was my original thought. What I was kind of going is that the needs and the Dureni are there, the Dureni sort of control them, but they don't interbreed and create this other race. They just sort of lord over needs. Yeah, right. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but uhm, or they could get rid of Argonians, because, you know, like, now I wouldn't even, because then, you know, who's gonna, you know, harvest the salt rice, you know? Yeah, I mean, I just, like, you had-


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[Assistant] I know it's just taking the piss and I love to like just bash on Argonians because it's funny and like, you know, I like to play into it. Um, but it's actually funny if you actually take the Argonians and move them out, like they're actually the least, they're probably one of the least


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[Assistant] Yeah, because then you don't really lose anything, because the Argonians just stick to their realm, they don't really play a big role in everywhere else, but. But yes, I would, anyway, I guess that happens.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, the unfortunate fact is that we just actually don't know who, uhm, it was, like, we have, there is this one out of source thing called Amiel, I think it's from a, yeah, it's Matt Grandstaff's post from the Imperial Library, and that's in the year 322, so that's like a hundred years after.


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[Assistant] Sorry, less than 100 years. But still, uhm.


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[Assistant] The, ultimately you, you, you don't, we just don't know. It's assumed, you would assume that Belas's kid was kind of maybe a bit bullish looking or something and that there were other Minotaurs or other, you know what I mean? Like maybe it could even be things like, uh,


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[Assistant] I don't know, like it just kind of got bred out and the mini-tours came a separate race or so on because we don't really have any proper canon mention of another.


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[Assistant] Uhm, emperor until it's empregorius in 461, so which is, you know, basically just, just shy of 200 years afterwards. So it's plenty of time for multiple generations of emperors and so on, but yeah, it's ultimately we just.


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[Assistant] Don't know. But yea, he must have gotten around a bit to, to, yea.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, but trying to unbice this like a little easter egg or something. I think like, you know, you could go for like three. Three bards. Three bards or like kind of three people. Like you could put us as three characters in a library in the, in the whatever, one of the majors guild thing.


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[Assistant] That's the best way to go about it.


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[Assistant] What makes people dislike it, I guess, is when they try and integrate it. Like, if you, like, mentally, if you just kind of take it as it is, it's like, oh, this is a fun interpretation. Um, some, like, some of those kind of ideas, like, you know, even things like Pelinal being a, a cyborg from a future time kind of thing, like, I don't even mind those, but there are some bits where it's a little,


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[Assistant] Like some parts of coda for sure are a bit odd. But uhm, yeaah. Dislikes are, dislike and hate, we're just positive people, you know? Unless it's the ebonheart pact, then...


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[Assistant] Assuming, like, all of the graphics are, like, brought up to this stuff, of course, then, uh, Morrowind. I think, like, just with the ordinate armor, the Daedric sort of armor, the glass looks so cool. But do you think that would- that wouldn't really fit at all? Why not? It's just asking which collection would you pick. Also, to-


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[Assistant] Well, assuming Tyra Hammer fell, but I'd ra- no, like, that could be. I'm assuming it was added, like it's an addition, not like the-


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[Assistant] Like most of, like a lot of, I've kind of, like a lot of Oblivion's armor kind of looks a little like, ehh.


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[Assistant] Like honestly, like there's some cool ones, like I mean, you guys, I don't even think you guys like the Orcish one, I kinda like the Orcish from the neck down.


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[Assistant] But uhm, Ebony kinda looks cool from the neck down. Uhm, you know, there's the classic knight steel looking thing, but like the rest of it's nothing special. Steel looks good in Oblivion.


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[Assistant] I would just say that overall, like, all of the books, simply put, like, a lot of the bases, all of these books added in The Times of Morrowind, a lot of the lore and all the stuff that fleshed it out, and even the story, like, the Empire, the Nords, all the ideas of what everything was.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but yeah, I would say Morrowind is definitely the one, uhm, even if you don't like the game, like Morrowind is the most significant in terms of


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[Assistant] Uh, come Skyrim, it's like, obviously, I'm sorry, come Morrowind, they sort of-


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[Assistant] Obviously it looks like Star Wars is sorta looking right there, but uhm, yeaah, it was, uh, it added a lot of lore. All of your Kim, all of your, all of your god bits and pieces, Dragon Breaks, even though that's contrived, it's all foundational stuff that was built in, in Tomorrowin's lore.


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[Assistant] I would just kind of say that Kain, like overall Kain Kinnareth seems to be very pro-Lorkhan Shor and kind of, it seems like a more, uh, you know,


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[Assistant] Helping out, uhm, Palinol and so on. These are all, like, big groups of men who are basically fighting elves in their respective conflicts and so on, so.


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[Assistant] I guess that's my thoughts on it and I feel like she's just one of the Adria who are more favorable of creation and she literally took Shor as a husband, I guess. So, that's my thoughts, do you guys have anything to add?


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[Assistant] I don't- I think the Battle of Red Mountain shouldn't. It's another one of those same sort of things as the Dwemer.


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[Assistant] I'm assuming they mean like a more authoritative kind of thing, like as if you were kind of like experiencing.


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[Assistant] It's not just reading a book telling you about the past, which sort of seems a little bit more unrelenting.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm assuming that's what he means, like that's how I understand his question. But I would say, uhm, not Red Mountain because part of the conflict and, and, and stuff there is like, uhm,


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[Assistant] That's part of its appeal, sort of similar to the Dwemer stuff, and it's, you know, somewhat related. But I think, honestly, uh,


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[Assistant] As long as they kept a lot of the mythic elements, the Elysian Slave Rebellion is really cool. Yeah, that sounds like a really good one. As terms of a story, if you had like, you know, from her emancipation from the Alids all the way up through, you know, her relationship with Morrow House and Palinal there and all these amazing things, fighting all of these sorcerer kings, so many cool characters. I'd go for this.


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[Assistant] See, I feel like that's, like the actual convention I feel like is so like...


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[Assistant] Once again, it's like all of that kind of stuff is so like subjective and cultures, like whatever you saw, but then I feel like that kind of kills it because you go, Oh, all of these others are sort of invalid or like not interesting kind of.


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[Assistant] Whereas, I guess if there's the Trinimack one, the only variations are small, like, oh, exactly how it happened, or, or did Mephala help stab him? Like, if you saw it actually happen out, it could just be a cool thing to watch.


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[Assistant] It'd have to be something that like, we were really,


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[Assistant] But yeaah, like it would have to be something we're really into, and the other thing is, and this is just obviously the reality of what happens when it becomes your kind of job, is that uhm, you need...


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[Assistant] For example, I'm sure there are like book series or, or other sort of fantasy worlds that aren't and nowhere near as popular that you could get enthusiastic about and talk about, but there's, it's not like there's enough space for, for on YouTube. Do you know what I mean? Well, not, not enough space, but there is no space. Like no, no one would be interested or know what you're talking about when you get


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[Assistant] So, so yea. Alternative Oats, what is your least favorite retcon and if you were to introduce a new retcon, what would it be? Congrats on the anniversary and well done on all the hard work.


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[Assistant] Like, I guess it kind of, I don't know if it kind of covers, I could go like Dragon Cult is technically a retcon and I could be lazy and use the exact same answer because that's kind of retconned into the history they added that in.


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[Assistant] How's, how's this for an answer? My least favorite retcon is that they turn Cyrodiil from a jungle into a thing. What would it introduce as a new retcon? They turn it back into a jungle in Elder Scrolls 6. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But I honestly, that one, I just think there's a lot of cool, like you read about in Apocalypse of the Empire, there's so many cool things, like all of these like golden gemmed bridges over the imperial city, like this big like combination.


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[Assistant] No, but it's built in the eye, like it's all jungle and they have like this rice based economy on the edges, like on the flats of the Nibune and so on and then they're like transporting up and down and like, it's, the jungle is part of the aesthetic. It's a bit wilder, it's crazier. You've got the alyds with the beads and feathers and it's like, it's a different feel to just, you know, medieval Europe.


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[Assistant] Pretty sure from my memory, in Morrowind, the glass armor that you have in Morrowind, I'm pretty sure, is actually supposed to be an ultimate design at the time, like, so, like, it's like the kind of idea is that, oh, over in the Sunset Isles, they have all this crystal iron looking armor and stuff, and it's like, ugh.


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[Assistant] But yea, there's plenty of retcons like that, that you could be like, oh, like a lot of the first pocket guides of the empire, there's a lot of stuff in there that... yea.


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[Assistant] Anyway, Cody Bangert, uhm, do you guys have plans for another big lore video type essay in the future that's around an hour or so in length? Or do you guys prefer making shorter ones? Either way, love you guys, your guys' content. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I mean, yeaah, there's a bunch, like, it just depends, you've kinda gotta find the ones, like, sometimes topics only require a shorter video, like, you don't wanna just bloat it for the sake of, for just talking for ages on end, but sometimes when it's like, you know, if it's explained, or like, or mortality guides, or like, uhm, like,


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[Assistant] I've got, there is an Alma Lexi one I actually had a while back started and then kind of have to like think about it more because there's a lot you can


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[Assistant] And I think the ones that usually do have, uh, that run a lot longer are often things that have a lot of like, metaphysical wrap-your-head-around-it explanations that require like, knowledge to build upon so you can kind of tell them, whereas if you were just like, I'll do an hour on like,


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[Assistant] Stormcloaks vs Imperials or something. It's like, you can, I mean, I'm sure we could or something, maybe even that, like, why the Empire are the not the good guys maybe could even be that long, but it's a little bit more, I guess, like,


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[Assistant] surface level feeling. It's not like philosophical. It's more like discussing like the morality of like, yeah, invading a country and killing its people until they submit to you is bad. It's not, do you know what I mean? Like it's not as, it's not like a, it's not like a galaxy brain take. It's very like, yeah. So yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I-I-I agree, cause I think this is why I'm-


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[Assistant] You know, I'm not even a weeb, I don't even really like anime for the sake of anime. Like, cause you know what I'm saying is different, like some people really like anime specifically, but like I like-


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[Assistant] animation regardless, cause there's, it's just, you can draw your imagination way better than you can actually get someone to look like it. Unless you rely on like heaps of CGI, which often becomes expensive or just.


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[Assistant] Doesn't look as good as the actual thing, like an actual good quality animation would be awesome.


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[Assistant] And you see it, you know, it's actually, it's one thing that's really cool. It's becoming more of a trend. Like, you know, the Castlevania series and Netflix or, or things like that. Like it's not just becoming, like I s- I feel like Netflix especially and Western audiences are adapting it more, uh, adopting


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[Assistant] The first half of the Witcher series is much worse than the second half. I didn't like all the changing around. Just watch five hours.


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[Assistant] Did you guys also, you know, we've got a fallout TV show coming. Do you remember? That's a thing. I forget that's a thing happening, but there's going to be a fallout TV show at some point.


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[Assistant] Last one is Talo Defoe who says, if you had to be Daedric worshippers, who would you worship? Azura, I guess.


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[Assistant] Unless I was, unless I was an assassin in the Morag Tonglin Mafala, I feel like I'd take that as a second. But why would you want to be? I don't know, cause then I'd just be an assassin bro, and then, that's it. Well I do the Dark Brotherhood quest like, I don't know, it's just, you know, it's a, it's a, it's a lot.


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[Assistant] So I guess a good thing to establish is that we're not like, uh, super attached to any of these ideas particularly.


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[Assistant] That's kind of the point is that we're just going to be very open minded and think about anything. It's not going to be the obvious stuff.


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[Assistant] Like, I know quick reflex is already a perk name, but there was some kind of like, perk or perhaps it's a vampire trait to kind of represent their supernatural reflexes or abilities and things like that, or their high perception level.


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[Assistant] Obviously there's no tech, it's just I'm extremely perceptive, so much so, uh, that this is like an insect flying around and your hand to them is like slow-mo in terms of how fast they can react.


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[Assistant] In the same way it's not in Fallout, like in Fallout VATS isn't like necess- I mean, you can obviously make a super overpowered VATS build, but you can also play super overpowered builds that don't use it at all.


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[Assistant] I mean, it just depends on the build, like, and especially if attributes were there and there's some agility, AP system, um, that, look, I'm just trying to run with it. If it were me, there wouldn't be VATS. Yeaah. From a lore perspective, you could be like, Akatoshi's


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[Assistant] Anyway, let's, let's move off that meme and just like, yea, like you were saying about limbs in general and things like that.


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[Assistant] And then we chuck in skins and we have Daedric prosthetic arms and Ebony. Yeah. Look, I'm going to say this, this whole idea is very, uhm. That's space cake. It is, it is, it is. It's kind of like- I think-


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[Assistant] Real, just in the sense that like if I shoot a bandit in the leg, he'll start limping.


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[Assistant] Yeah, or like you were saying, sorry about cutting off limbs.


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[Assistant] Not it happening to you, I don't think at all, but definitely, you know, two enemies in combat or as finishers instead of just you unlock decapitate, why don't you have things like in, you know, witcher or lots of games where you, you know, cut an arm off during a finisher move or cut a torso in two.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think a-a good thing to say, uhm, for those who haven't watched that, uh, Elder Scrolls 6 video I did that talked about the Nemesis system is that obviously we wouldn't want to replace all enemies with just a big randomized thing. Like, it wouldn't be at the forefront of the enemy system in the same way it is in the Middle-Earth games.


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[Assistant] But instead, it would be a great thing to replace all of those enemies who are just going to be generic, right? So I still want all the set pieces and things like that, but in those places like Valfime Towers where they're all just called Bandit and their leader is just called Bandit Chief,


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[Assistant] It's cool for sharing because you get to tell your friends what you did and so on. I think bounty hunting systems being overhauled would be really cool with that. Like I can imagine you go and hunt down some.


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[Assistant] Less cash? Like it just depends. He might say something about, oh, you know, friends like me are useful to have. Something vague like that. He runs away. Later you go to attack a bandit fort that's full of bandits that are like an opposing faction to his, and he shows up with a group of men to take it over.


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[Assistant] And then they're kind of chilling there and they're not attacking you. Yeah. You know, maybe you come back and they are hostile later for whatever reason, but.


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[Assistant] And just to, just to reiterate as well, we don't, we wouldn't want it to take over the game. We still want heaps of set piece locations with unique enemy names, unique stories to that location. I just think it's the perfect thing or just a really good option.


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[Assistant] Imagine you burnt one really, really bad with fire damage, but then had to run off and flee, and next time you meet him,


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[Assistant] He actually has a changed name, like, uhm, Varan.