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[Assistant] They'll sort of design it with that in mind, so they probably do want a bit of freedoms and such, you know?


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[Assistant] Okay, here's a, here's a big one. It's a question and then another paragraph. So from Jabal.


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[Assistant] Uh, aside from Elder Scrolls, what other series have you gone down the lore rabbit hole with and really enjoyed? I know Drew loves Witcher, but feel free to mention that anyways. Also, I'd just like to say how much I appreciate all the work that you guys did put in the channel. It really means an immeasurable amount to me having a passion, my passion for the Elder Scrolls kept going by all the content you guys put out.


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[Assistant] From diving down the lore rabbit hole and reliving epic Bolivian quests that blew my mind as 11 year old and they still impress me to this day. On a side note Elder Scrolls aside you guys are the best in any content you're passionate about feel free to go for it.


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[Assistant] If it ever feels like, uh, the well is running dry as we grow, uh, long white beards waiting for the oldest girl six. But thank you very much. I really appreciate that. But, um, Lore rabbit hole guys.


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[Assistant] When I was a kid, Star Wars, like war, like lore, I was really into because Star Wars 9 is the old Republic and the games and such.


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[Assistant] I was really into, uh, funnily enough, like I was into Warhammer 40k, the, the figurines and stuff, but even in time since then, a lot of the lore is quite interesting and I've occasionally just gone down rabbit holes of lore for Warhammer 40k stuff. I'm trying to think what else, like.


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[Assistant] That's probably, I'll probably give a similar sort of answer. A lot of Elder Scrolls lore has been a jumping point for like other, like as a kid, I've always really been into mythology and mythology books and stuff like that. So really like, if you actually want to say- Horrible history.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so like, oh man, I had stacks and stacks of those, like, just hate. I've still got them, yeah. But mythology was, uhm, something I was really into, so I guess some, like, real world mythologies and stuff.


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[Assistant] I've only like, watched through it, uhm, the one time. Well, I've watched several parts, like, over and over, but not, not, uhm, the whole thing, because it's a huge undertaking, but over and over, but, yeaah. So I guess that, that, that's that one.


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[Assistant] I absolutely agree. Do you know what I think it is, is because uhm, a lot of people are upset with the way that it's just become sort of an open world RPG, but I think for you and me, we just really like that, so it's kind of like-


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[Assistant] I think it's hard to like pick a single historical period because there's two, but I do agree.


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[Assistant] I was going to say, in terms of historical, I was just going to say, I do agree with the, basically about like 500 AD to about like 1100, because I'm actually a big fan of pre-metal plate armor, even in things, I like the sort of dark age, well, what they call dark ages or whatever, um, uh, aesthetic and so on, and also Europe's such an interesting


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[Assistant] Just crazy time at that period. Cause you have the fall, like the, you have the fall of the Roman Empire. And yeah, I know the Eastern Roman Empire, they can see themselves Rome, but we call them Byzantines, but all that kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] But everything, you know, you have the rise of like, you know, Charlemagne and stuff and like that's really interesting period. Plus you have everything that's going on in England, like you were saying, but you know, even, um, you know, uh, Spain and the Caliphates, um, there and like, there's just so much cool stuff all in that period.


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[Assistant] But also the other thing which is kinda hard, I do obviously like, uh, I do like that kind of...


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[Assistant] Ancient, like, untouched, kind of, like, you don't know the full story, it's cool. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Cause a lot of it, but a lot of it isn't, um, Christian erasure basically. When they all converted, they're all of the pagan stuff got tossed and druids, for example, were, didn't write stuff down and they were like oral.


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely. But did you, when a mythological period was something, did you want to say something about that? Story, no.


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[Assistant] It's almost like, in a funny way, like I've heard comparisons to like the world's first Avengers, but they looked like they did have-


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's the meta thing. It's like we're swapping out. We've abandoned monotheistic religion came and got rid of all your big polytheistic religions and stuff like that. But I guess there's sort of Hinduism and stuff still around.


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[Assistant] Uhm, hold on, uh, so Jonas, well, while you get that, I'll read the next question. Uhm, Jonas, do you guys have any plans slash ambitions for the future of the channel that has you excited? Ideas or concepts brewing in the back of your minds for something you'd like to create? Congrats on the milestone, guys. Much love from Norway. Thank you. Uhm,


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[Assistant] Have more, uhm, I don't know, I've sort of like dipped toes into it a few times in the past with like some short story kind of things and I did it with the recent Palinal, like these are short, short stories, like you're looking at like, you know, 1000 to 1500 word kind of short stories, but did it the same for the Snow Prince kind of thing.


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[Assistant] But uhm, I do like writing those, uhm, but that's not, it's, yeaah, I don't know, I wouldn't call it ambitions.


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[Assistant] I mean, it did, a lot of those kinds of like ambitions, there's some really, like, I don't know, give us a Netflix mini-series and we'll do a riot one for Elder Scrolls, please. But it's like, these are all like, all the ambitions are like ridiculous sort of sky-shot kind of stuff that you can't actually necessarily do, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I think that's the big component too. And then there's also the thing to consider too with like, uh, I guess, uh, voice acting or narration of things and it's kind of, um,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's just kind of, it's kind of different because you can't like, uh, you can't, you can't publish them as book because it's all Bethesda, you know, it's all copyrighted stuff and so on, or the universe and so on. So you can do it for, you know, we do it on videos and so on, but the video is not the best, like, it's not the ideal delivery.


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[Assistant] The big, and from, a big thing with that too is like there's a big disconnect between people who really know the Elder Scrolls series and those who are like enlisted to write about it.


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[Assistant] Cause there's so much stuff that you collect by like osmosis that's all around you and in the back of your mind and that will come out in how you like, um, you know, write the character in.


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[Assistant] Question from Jai, uh, which is interesting, I've gotta think about this one, but what's your fondest channel-related memory on the road to a million subs?


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[Assistant] Well, here's a question, right? Here's a, Jax Melvig. Uh, what, uh, what has your favorite fan slash follower interaction been since you started YouTube? And for a bit of a throbot back, how is Giuseppe these days? And funnily enough, there are a few people asking you that. So I like, I kind of forget that we used to have videos on the channel where there was some like,


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[Assistant] There was a few that were asking if, like, we stay in contact with them and, like, yeaah, we do. Yeaah. But, uh, favorite fan-follower interaction? Do you know what? I had never been ever, like, recognized. Cause I know Michael had before.


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[Assistant] You know what too, I think now, like there would be high chance now because we have a podcast that's such a regular thing and our faces aren't before, before our faces were more so, oh in a vlog here and there or something like that.


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[Assistant] Um, but I know on the actual, on the day that I, I proposed to my wife and I was at Fitzroy Falls and everything and I came out and then the first I, and this guy pulled it, like, he's like, oh, are you, are you bodger up? And so I'm like, yeah, yeah, I am. This was the first time like I'd ever been, um,


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[Assistant] No, uhm, no to recognized in public and he was from, uh,


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[Assistant] I think he was from Kazakhstan. Yea, Kazakhstan. And I think he just moved or it was a holiday, I wasn't sure, I can't remember. But like that was just, it was like, it was kind of weird because I kind of had to go. It's like, I've just proposed to my wife, I kind of want my fiancee at the time. Like, I need to kind of, like. Yea, it's weird too because it's like,


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[Assistant] Here's an interesting one, and I have no idea. Hanna458. What would you guys think you would be doing as a career if you never got into gaming? Also, what were your jobs before YouTube full time? Thanks. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I had a job, um, a night job stacking shelves at Coles, which is like a local supermarket in Australia, like a supermarket chain thing. And I did that for.


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[Assistant] One year while I was going to uni as well and then I, yeah, and I quit after a year because a year would have been like around the start of 2015 and then I quit uni as well. I know my parents, my parents were just having an absolute like,


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[Assistant] Even after that, after I had left, we had, we'd like, you know, loosely kept in contact, but I hadn't like spoken to you in a while when I think I contacted you about, um, doing like writing and stuff, uh, fudging off it. So that must've felt pretty out of the blue. I'd actually just been fired like a week before.


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[Assistant] Uh, Mind Traitor, you guys are friends, or at least on good terms with many fellow TezTubers, not asking you to pick favourites, but who do you like doing collabs with the most? I feel like, so, if- That's very-


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[Assistant] I forgot what exact- I think we were around something like 20 or 30,000 subs when we first met with Camel. For the first time ever, cause we were like, oh he's nearby, so we were both small channels at the same time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so ultimately to that question, it's kind of like, we know him personally, we, you know, hang out with him. So it's like, we don't, a lot of other Elder Scrolls YouTubers are across the, um, across the big, the big blue, you know, so. Uh,


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[Assistant] If Drew, uh, Luke, uh, Triton, um, if Drew didn't join the team, how different slash difficult do you think handling the Fudge Muppet channel would be?


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[Assistant] You, you sort of like get influences from it because when we were doing like lore, when we started lore, it was like a real sort of like facts oriented kind of thing, like fire facts, this or whatever. And we didn't go as deeply and so on, but I know Drew started doing, um,


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[Assistant] Like we were doing the Daedric, I think it was the first Daedric series and stuff, but you were going with more, like having a bit more, um,


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[Assistant] Sort of like give your own input on it or your own perception of some of the Daedric Princes. And I think that's had a big influence backwards on, on us. And now it's kind of the very norm of fudge romper that we, we really like lean into the interpretation and like try and like, you know,


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[Assistant] Um, think about it beyond just like going like, oh, here's what is in the game and it's said for certain and so on instead trying to contextualize it and, and, and weave it into some kind of theory or take about a prince or something like that. But I think a lot of that might've started, um, with, uh, Drew's, um, writing style that started sort of influencing ours. So there's like one example.


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[Assistant] Here's one, let's, let's give it some, there's two Elder Scrolls questions here and I, one is, Con, if there is any law you hate slash disagree with slash feel like it could be made more palatable, how, and how would you rewrite it? So basically, is there any law that you hate and disagree with?


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[Assistant] Mine's a cop out answer the same, but I think a lot of the Alliance stuff around Elder Scrolls Online, particularly Ebon Heart Pact, I feel like could even


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[Assistant] Maybe you could even make it work in some way. I don't know. I just feel like I would rather. I just, I don't like a lot of the law of the initial ESO stuff, the main story and the, uh, alliances and stuff. A lot of it I'm not a big fan of, but a lot of


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[Assistant] Expansion since then are pretty solid. Like, um, it's, you know, it's changed, but yeah, I think they went in.


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[Assistant] In not a good way. How would you rewrite it's too complex? Like you've kind of got to like, there's a lot of things to fix.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say I agree, and I think that Bethesda in general, at least with Skyrim, they were afraid of sort of like...


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[Assistant] The worst feeling is when you look at a game's concept art and you're like, why wasn't it that? Like that is so much cooler. You can see, sometimes arguably it's because of, uh, of like, uh, limitations of the game.


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[Assistant] complex sort of culture or a culture that looks like it. You know, it could be.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm generally a fan of embracing the, uh, the weirdness of things. And I feel like they should, just something different fresh. And to be honest.


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[Assistant] What I was saying too, uh, the other thing too is that Bethesda is big enough. I feel like they can embrace the weirdness because no one's not going to buy Elder Scrolls 6 because it's too weird. Like they're just going to buy it period. So actually why don't you lean into it and make it.


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[Assistant] Okay, like I'm trying to like, cause there's some that are a lot of like, uh, overlap in, in some of these. So I apologize if we haven't like, we didn't like shout you out specifically, but there's a few things that have kind of been, um, doubled over on. Um.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we can answer. I think we did that in the one year podcast anniversary thing. I think, I think it was, it's not as fun as you'd like to believe. I think he said things like, I'd like to be some like, I think it was like an Imperial merchant or something chilling out in the Imperial city doing art or something or writing books. Like it wasn't nothing, you know, um,


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[Assistant] Intense. I'll go back to the, to the YouTube. Here's one. Non- Sorry, did you wanna?


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[Assistant] You got to consider too with the sort of, um, like mortality and stuff and how long you live.


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[Assistant] And obviously you live more for a thousand years or whatnot is that there besides like there's obviously things like vampires or just being good at magic, which can help get around it. But the other thing is also like after life's real, like you do have an existence in like after life. So it's a little bit different rather when like, we don't know.


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[Assistant] Look, there's, there's other options, like, uhm, but there's other afterlives, but you know what I'm trying to get at is just broadly, like, there's more options than just like fighting and drinking.


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[Assistant] I mean, like to be honest, like a lot of it's so covered, people really do get in on Dark Souls lore at speeds. Vati Vidya does a great job. But yeah, he's so good at it as well. And it's so, it would be like starting.


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[Assistant] It's so cool. I like anything that solely relies on the unreliable narrative. I think just, you know, to different degrees, like obviously there's experience, um, like experiences that you have that you can see things to know to be true, but then I like the flexibility.


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[Assistant] And the other thing too is like seeing different perspectives, like almost sometimes like when I'm writing, like I try and like.


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[Assistant] If you're, if we're doing a script on like, an elven perspective or something like that, like I kind of try and give like,


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[Assistant] The elven take of events and present that, but it's the elven perspective or the, or the Nord perspective and how they can all differ or different sort of.


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[Assistant] Like kind of getting into the heads of the people, like basically rather than going like, you know, you have your own biases, your own interpretations and this is what's true. You've got to be able to be flexible and move your mind into, Oh, I've got to be, you know, this Thalmor elf to be able to say like what.


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[Assistant] What they think is true and like present it in a way as if I was trying to present a, you know, truth, you know, their, their version of events a lot.


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[Assistant] I mean, to tie it in, uh, actually to a question we had before, and all the stuff talking about, like, getting started on YouTube and all that kind of stuff. If we were to approach something like Elden Ring, for example, we wouldn't approach it the same as we would, like, something that's already within our, like,


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[Assistant] Ball game like Elder Scrolls, like if an Elder Scrolls 6 came out, it would be a bit more, we'd think, like, a little bit more, like,


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[Assistant] What we can bring to it all, like niche kind of thing, like our interpretation sort of style kind of lore and constructing a tale from pieces and so on, like in our sort of kind of way, as opposed to just trying to do what someone else is doing, which they're clearly already doing better. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Uhm, or, cause you can always like get around that by, it's like you can either with that, you can either do it better than someone else, or you can do it differently to someone else in another kind of way. But like, if you kind of, you'll always live in someone's shadow if you're only doing it as like 70% as good as someone who's just better than or something, you know? But uhm,


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[Assistant] Nondual13, real random question, but how do you think a situation like COVID would impact the Elder Scrolls universe? How would you expect each of the states and races to react to such an event?


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[Assistant] Well, there is an actual example of it with a Thrashing Plague, which like wipes out half of Tamriel's population and they did actually band together and


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[Assistant] But the thing there is, there was an actual like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a little bit different too, because I guess you kind of can't have a situation like our world went through because we don't have the same level of, of mass transport and trade and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it's harder to contact Trace, but at the same time, it's way easier to quarantine because you can control people's foot travel and stuff. And you haven't got like cars and planes and buses like moving stuff around. But I don't know. It's kind of hard to say, I guess.


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[Assistant] Are you guys excited, uh, Matthew Mitchell? Are you guys excited for the release?


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[Assistant] I am, cause I actually haven't got into Crusader Kings 3 at all. I was really into Crusader Kings 2, but I never actually really played it normally. I just played it with the mod. I just got straight into the Elder Kings. I'm just playing that.


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[Assistant] So the same thing, it's the mod for Crusader Kings 3. I'm basically gonna get into it when I, when the mod's finished and I'll just go into it there.


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[Assistant] My first big gaming things, I mean, there was like Pokemon, but the other things were, um, Warcraft 3 on PC, so real-time strategy, I was like super into. And, um, and The Sims 2, bro. So I've always needed, like, I actually always liked those kinds of- What about Age of Empires?


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[Assistant] Yeah, Age of Empires 2, but I did, I did prefer Warcraft over it because there was like, cooler stuff, there's orcs and stuff like that, but uhm, I do like those kinds of like, strategy-management-y type things somewhat, and I can get a little like, uhm,


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[Assistant] Before we really got into the, uh, role playing, like deeper lore. Yeah. Like cause it's like, we've always been into all the scrolls and like from since oblivion and stuff, like as a kid, but never been, you can get into the games without being deep into the lore and stuff. And that happened after Skyrim.


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[Assistant] Here's just a fun anecdote, uh, for you guys, is like, about getting into the lore. I remember first hearing about some of the more whack Vivec stuff.


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[Assistant] And the sort of Godhead concepts and so on. And I hated it when I first heard it. I really didn't like it. It really bothered me. I'm like, oh, what if it's all a dream? That's all this and so on. And now I love it. Now it's the best stuff as I've got deeper and deeper and deeper. But it's like any people.


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[Assistant] Like in a quiet taste somewhat, like, do you know what I mean? Like some of it's a bit, yeah, it takes a while, but yeah, with some of it. Uhm, okay.


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[Assistant] Sorry if this is a bit esoteric, but what sort of unique ecosystems defined by their primary producers might be interesting to explore in Tez? Example, floating log rafts, volcanic vent chemosynthetic worms, etc. Might there be magi synthetic life in space?


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[Assistant] Unique and interesting environments could there be to explore in Elder Scrolls?


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[Assistant] Chemosynthetic worms. Right. Okay. So I think- Volcanic vent chemosynthetic worms.


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[Assistant] Well, I was thinking too, like, yeah, with the, yeah, with the stars and the sun, like being close to it in the sky. I mean, like, yeah, it could be, you could be, in space is a hard place to obviously explore in the Elder Scrolls, but volcanic vent chemist. I mean, yeah, there's cool stuff. I don't know. Like, like imagine you're playing.


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[Assistant] I'd like to see some interesting stuff if they do it for Hammerfell, like the deserty sort of, um, Savannah style. It would be cool if they went for something unique, like I don't know, like, you know.


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[Assistant] It's one thing I actually kinda like in Pokemon, so sometimes when you can only catch Pokemon certain days and stuff like that, if they actually had some, like an internal game clock, like waiting, but like even say sort of the sands shifted and then certain ruins became available at different times and so on and like popped up at different entrances, it would just be a really cool thing of like,


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[Assistant] Discovering cool stuff in the shifting sands of the Alaki, like, it could be cool. But uhm, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Can- Matthew Leon, can you do more videos about specific quests narrating the story, especially in Oblivion slash Morrowind that many of us have never played?


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[Assistant] We can. We definitely can. One thing I think- They were fun videos. One thing I was thinking of, uhm, is some of this creation club, new creation club stuff that's coming with, uhm, the anniversary edition looks pretty interesting, like the Ghost of Tribunal obviously got me there, but even the Cause of the Mythic Dawn one, and it has like an A-literal and stuff like that, I feel like we could


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[Assistant] Sort of cover those quests and so on and then kind of do a bit of like a, like a lore assessment or something and a review kind of thing. Like I think that would be.


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[Assistant] Yeah. We'll see. I-I-I tend to agree. Uhm.


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[Assistant] The other thing too is like some things can be good games but not necessarily have like sticky or like lore or like that's really appealing or something like for example like


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[Assistant] Honestly, look at Cyberpunk 2077, like, I mean, largely that like fell off for a lot of other reasons, but like, builds and stuff might even go well in part, not now, but uhm,


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[Assistant] around release and so on, but like lore, uhm, wasn't a big thing or even outer worlds, like actual lore and outer worlds just did not go.


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[Assistant] As well or people aren't as interested and it is because it's, it's a lot of it. It's just Elder Scrolls is, is a unique example. And a lot of these fictional universes that people really love are so deep contributed to over, you know, decades worth of P of time. Like it's a different.


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[Assistant] It's just a different ballgame, like not everything has, has, has lore worth covering to the extent, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a struggle. Uhm, this is somewhat related to other things we've done, but I just do like it's a little bit more expansive too. Is, uh, it's from AppetizerGuyro on Twitter said, Favorite fictional universes and stories outside of The Elder Scrolls could be other video games, but books, movies, TV shows, comics, that just broadens the scope a little bit. Cause we were kind of just talking about games, um, before, but what do you guys think?


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[Assistant] I know, I'm mess- I'm a big fan of, in terms of like film, but Mad Max, I was really, like as a kid, that's what really got me into, like I was so excited about Fallout because of Mad Max, uhm, and I liked Fury Road and stuff as well, uhm, Mad Max is a big something.


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[Assistant] Fullmetal Alchemist and like Naruto kind of stuff, uhm, but it really got into, uhm, Attack on Titan. Really, really like that. Uhm, Vinland Saga and, uhm, Berserk as well. I'm like pretty deep into that now, like actually reading it. I'd only watched the anime a long time ago, but uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, also another thing, I don't know if people like weed stuff, but it's kind of, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's, it's a bit more, it's not like the same Morrowind weird, it's a little bit more like whimsical, like Borderlands-y feeling maybe in terms of just the, it's like a big space opera, it's a graphic novel called Saga, and well not novel, it's like an ongoing series. I'm really excited because it's, it's been on a hiatus for like three-ish years and now it's actually coming back.


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[Assistant] The start of next year, which is really, really cool as well. But, uh, Saga by Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan.


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[Assistant] What about you drew your big reader favorite book? What about the...


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[Assistant] I'm kind of a, a renaissance myself, cause I used to be like reading like all non- outside like Elder Scrolls lore stuff, like it was all like,


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[Assistant] Big historical kind of stuff, like lots of real stuff, but uhm, but uh, yeaah, I've absolutely gone on binges of different books and other reading different things.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but even actualized books, like I read like another book, another weird kind of thing that I really, really liked was Born by Jeff Vandermeer. It's an, it's like a,


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[Assistant] Like if you kinda like, it's a post-apocalyptic kinda thing, but weird, like...


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[Assistant] Like, like the premise, like there's a flying bear called Maud, like that flies over this city where the company destroyed this post-apocalyptic stuff with like toxic rivers and stuff and, and these like, you know, feral children with like wasp, wasp sort of mutagen stuff in their eyes. It's, it's, it's a cool weird story, but like, I really like that.


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[Assistant] Well, there was a question, there was actually a question, just add water to your ramen, says, how do you guys keep a balance between entertaining and informative? Uhm, and also when are you guys making another Elder Scrolls story, like the Fall of the Snow Prince? Uhm, I do, I've got one that I, that I would like to, to write soon, but.


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[Assistant] We kind of, because they're small, like they're smaller things or in between projects kind of, but, uh.


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[Assistant] But maybe, maybe we could do something more ambitious to lack of for that redemption, uh, before at some point.


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[Assistant] Hey, that ties into this question, which I don't know what the answer really is to it, but, uh, the Ashlander says, would you guys be willing to have fan art submissions and showcase them on the channel? Picking up digital concept artistry as a hobby and would love to cover Elder Scrolls themes. It just depends on, I don't know, like, like, I mean, like, what do you, like fan art of...


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[Assistant] It's kind of a thing, it's just like if, if you had some cool artwork and you're like, if you are, you'd have to like, it's, it's like case by case basis, you know what I mean? You'd have to be like, hey, look, this is a, would you be willing to share?


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[Assistant] Canon isn't the only important thing. That's the thing, because you're listening to the world like strictly the way we understand Canon is...


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[Assistant] Any of the stuff in the games and so on, or like official Bethesda content, stuff that's written and, and like, you know, any of the books in there and stuff like that. But all of those books and everything in there is, you know, sub, what do you call it? Subject to the, to the unreliable narrator.


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[Assistant] Every single, like a lot of, you know, videos and stuff too, we've like, you know, and given our theories and interpretation and so on. Like for example, if you have cool theories about stuff, you're outside of.


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[Assistant] Because none of them are explicitly true until confirmed. So, what you should, instead of, I think there's a lot of like, canon war stuff where people start fighting about what's canon and what's canon, like, and this is and this isn't and all that kind of stuff. Instead, it's a lot better to take, well like, look, this official Bethesda stuff is the canon.


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[Assistant] But all of your theory crafting, all of your interpretations and even like bonus stories and stuff outside of that are


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[Assistant] Doesn't mean they're not valuable because they're not canon, you know what I mean? And especially when they are by like,


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[Assistant] Take things as your own headcanon and work with it. There's more fun to the Old Scrolls universe than what lies within the canon.


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[Assistant] Honestly, like a lot of, cause there's a lot of, a lot of the coolest stuff in the Elder Scrolls is the interpretation. It is the theories. Like if it was just strictly canon.


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[Assistant] The ideas, like I obviously will only present like canon stuff and out what's clear like our interpretations, our theories on top of it. And there's a difference kind of somewhat. It's obviously all shades of grey where your


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[Assistant] Interpretation on canon versus interpretation on interpretation on interpretation of canon. You know what I mean? Like going down the chain. Cause some people construct.


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[Assistant] The strength of some theories that we've found before, we've tried to like source or like kind of work with some theories that are there, that are reliant on so many like,


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[Assistant] Steps, you know what I mean, that are all, you know, first it's gotta be interpreted like this, which then,


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[Assistant] Then, then only then can the next interpretation work or the next step of your theory, whereas the-


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[Assistant] If you're trying to, you know, use a convincing theory, it should be kind of trying to like string a bunch of different canon things that are here into sort of one central idea. But whereas if you kind of, do you know what I'm getting at? Like instead of making this giant long chain of assumptions.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and especially sometimes is really helpful, like, uhm, the nor- in the recent, uhm,


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[Assistant] Actually, I think that the Bozma Gods is- oh, should actually be up by now. But, uhm, the Nords- Nords Gods Explained, uhm, is next one, the written end.


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[Assistant] Um, there is all canon, there is canon sources for all of like the idea that they understand everything is cyclical. Um, and, and the universe is cyclical. So they buy, kind of buy into the calper idea, whether they use that word or not.


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[Assistant] A cyclical sort of nature of things, rather than one singular sort of creation story.


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[Assistant] But, uhm, because of that, there's, but there's not as much elaboration on it, but I did use and I bring it up and obviously stated to Michael Kirkbride thing, but there's this, uhm, a piece that he wrote on the, on the Nord's lack of creation story, which really helps contextualize it. So it's like, yes, technically that's outside of the canon, but that is outside stuff that supports.


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[Assistant] Things that are there because sometimes for example the canon things are like,


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[Assistant] That's kind of like, sometimes, like, that's all you've got, whereas you need more elaboration or contextualization to really, like, build a better understanding, or same as things like Kim, or stuff like that.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to pick through some of the questions that are, uh, how do you, how do you all know, sorry, from Colton Rock, how do you all get, uh, not get burnt out exploring that much lore and playing the same games for so long? Do you ever feel uninterested in the Elder Scrolls and need to take some time off to enjoy other things? Does someone else want to take that away first?


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[Assistant] Playthrough of Oblivion, uhm, every year. Sometimes hitting those old ones. I'm almost like with Anniversary Edition, I would be keen to do a- I'll do another Skyrim playthrough for sure. But I'm so, but overall, we've, I think I could speak for all of us, we've played the game so many times that


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[Assistant] It's kind of hard, even playing things in different ways, all of our playthroughs over the hundreds of them kind of crisscrossed and you've kind of experienced everything before, or it might be the slightest change. So it's kind of like, yeah, like, but exactly like you were saying, Drew, it's kind of transcended to the point where I actually just enjoy the universe. Like I could read.


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[Assistant] Yeah, kind of like I, I visually want to see it. It's like half of, I really love, um, the project Tamriel and Tamriel rebuilt projects for Morrowind, which is big, like they expand the mainland of Morrowind or add other areas like Cyril and stuff. And they sort of go with a different,


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[Assistant] They, they, it's basically as if it was the word Tamriel as it was described or as you could, you know, expand it upon from Morrowind's era, like Morrowind time.


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[Assistant] So, you know, it's all like jungle, you know, jungle sort of serially giant imperial city with like, you know, sprawling out into all of the, into the lake and so on. But, um, all of that kind of stuff. I love when I get into it, I like do some of the quests and I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'm going to do this playthrough and so on. But then I end up just going like, oh, I need to like.


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[Assistant] Yeah, or, but even reading about, like, I love on their, if you should, you should follow their, um, the Twitter pages, but like, I'll often like them on Twitter, but, um, they were just like, you know, here's a picture of something and here's the Lord Diamond. I love how they've kind of gone, like, they, they give a little explanation as to why kind of the things the way they are. And I don't know, there's just a lot of thought into the world itself.


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[Assistant] Cool, cool, cool, cool. Um, but yeah, I think that's the answer. It's kind of, uh, answer to your question is we kind of do, and we do, you know, pursue other interests in between. Like it's not like our entire life is nonstop looking into Elder Scrolls lore and reading.


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[Assistant] But there is a difference between what makes it pleasant. Tolkien's pleas- to me personally, Tolkien's pleasant to hear it read.


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[Assistant] I find reading, I was trying to read the children here, right? And I really don't actually vibe his writing style. It's, it's too much, cause you know how you, when you read something, it's just different to when you're speaking it out loud, hearing something. Like I feel like you could kind of.


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[Assistant] I feel like people would have a different experience reading out our scripts versus even out narrating or something. I think it just does come across differently because you can go a lot of the really like heavy Tolkien sort of like really heavy lyrical kind of stuff. It's like, it's kind of like how they say like poetry is meant to be read out loud. Like it's written in a way that's read out loud. Whereas when you just,


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[Assistant] Read poetry, you don't get the same feeling as if you- cause they say like, you know, read poetry out loud to yourself and it actually-


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[Assistant] Kinda like hits better and so on. I think there is a difference, I think.


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[Assistant] Anyway. But yea, I guess typical day, like yea, uhm.


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[Assistant] It varies. I wouldn't say typical day. There's never a typical day in the life. But I usually subscribe to the sort of get up early, like I like 5am kind of, like wake up and the first thing you do is work.


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[Assistant] And just work, like the stream of consciousness, consciousness straight up when you wake up and work into it. That has been faltering so much because, um, I've got two young kids. So like my sleep has been just thrown all around.


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[Assistant] Yeah, phone, that's what I'd say, like, set, like, I, I, I, big believer in the sort of set your day right, like whatever you sort of do first is kind of like gonna set you up. Like if you, yeah, you know, yeah, uhm, do, do what you wanna, we've, we've been going on for, uh,


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[Assistant] Strong agree. I was really hoping I'd get so facile, to be honest. I kind of, I'd agree, I think.


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[Assistant] I think I kind of agree with this assessment. I feel like you could, like, you know, if you want to like, so you don't have any dysphoria, like imagine a male version of amyloxia, like you don't have to be


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[Assistant] I guess you don't want to throw that too, also, but it's like, she's, I guess, really, uhm, like...


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[Assistant] Cause, cause Evac wasn't a capacity 2, but like it's, Almalexia is like the most popular of the Tropian.


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[Assistant] If it's any constellation, if we didn't have to put it into, to, to three, if you had to put it over the spectrum, I think I'd put it like you're both.


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[Assistant] Close, the reason I would say, like I wouldn't say you are Almalexia, I just think it's like you are the most, like Michael would be more Sotha Sil than you on the whole, but I think you're still more on the Sotha Sil side of things.


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[Assistant] Well, I would say he called, he or she called right. For a good estimation. If you had to fulfill one of the slots. Maybe we should do this, it would be fun to do it with like, some of the other gods, like where you fit in like, when you have a bit more options.


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[Assistant] Anyway. Yeah. Well, thank you all so much for 1 million subs and I hope you enjoyed our little Q&A here.


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[Assistant] Just kicking it and talking about some questions. Uhm, but yeaah. It was fun. Yeaah, it was fun. Like, thank you. So, it's kinda hard. I don't know how to like, thank people more and people say, oh no thanks. Like, just keep doing what we do and it's like, we plan on doing it.


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[Assistant] Well, we plan on continuing, so. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you again.


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[Assistant] Look, I think the Doreni need a bit of credit, you know, like, of all the migrations to Tamriel, the Doreni are the forgotten ones, let's be real, like, you know, obviously you've got the Kaima who become the Dunmer, the Ayleids who are, you know, we like the Ayleids, but the Doreni, like,


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[Assistant] Arguably had one of the biggest impacts on Tamriel, the amount they've done


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[Assistant] Lay the foundations for what alchemy becomes. You've got, they, they push enchanting, because enchanting used to be like 19 times out of 20, it would fail.


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[Assistant] Enchanting became a viable form of magic. You've got conjuration, you've got, I mean there's more, there's more as well. They pioneered a lot of things, didn't they? And they pioneered everyone's favourite race, the Bretons. Pioneered. Pioneered.


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[Assistant] Well I would be curious to know how much of their history is played up a little bit, because you've got, if you look at the Doreni estates in Somerset now, or like say contemporary with ESO in the second era, they have these incredible lands with these beautiful palaces and what not.


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[Assistant] But they, they started off with just, yea, as I said earlier, one guy on a farm.


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[Assistant] A wa- a girl was being preyed upon by a vampire, so he came up with a potion that turned her- her bloodstream to poison. Didn't hurt her apparently, but it killed the vampire when it tried to feed on her. And then there was also raiders coming down the coast, and he gave everyone invisibility potions. And then when the raiders came along, it's like,


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[Assistant] You know, one of the needed groups that wasn't affected so much by the Dureni were the Duraki needs, who actually prospered, but they were more in the kind of Kraglorn-y, Hammerfell region, so it seems as though the Dureni were like, we see Hammerfell, obviously it's not called Hammerfell at this point, like, we don't really want any part of this, so they just skip straight by it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, we can go down a whole rabbit hole with the adamantine tower, because, you know, like the white gold tower and the crystal-like lore were essentially built to mimic it, because, you know, you've got sources, which I can read out later, that, uhm, essentially say that once you actually look at the adamantine tower properly,


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[Assistant] You can prove that it's impossible to be built by mortal hands. So essentially, it had to be the Zero Tower, the tower built by the gods.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I was gonna say on the topic of like, uh, how they treated the needs, it kind of is the ultimate irony for the Durennes because what they essentially tried to do was rather than horribly subjugate them, which you can argue this is a form of that, they just, it was genetic assimilation basically.


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[Assistant] That's the thing, because they are, sorry, I was just gonna say, they're very closely tied to their high elven roots. So you can see why they'd have that attitude. Sorry, go on.


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[Assistant] It's either Finaster or Syrobain, but... Wait, so Syrobain's more of the Sigic, so I think it is Finaster.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was- Sorry. I was gonna say, just, uhm, it's-


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[Assistant] This is at a time where you don't really have classifications for magic. So, you know, there's a description of like Corvus and Kalani and their clan.


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[Assistant] Throwing open the doors of oblivion and they're essentially the first to ever really poke their head in beyond the mortal realm. So you can imagine how terrifying that would be. So you kind of have to be committed to the, you know, the advancement of magic and something that kind of transcends just your race's, uh, longevity.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, to, to chuck in some cope, you can, you can definitely draw plenty of connections between the Dureni and the Sigic order, because obviously you've got Aslil, who I mentioned at the beginning, he's like the, the alchemy one, he went to the Sigic order to study. And then, you know, you hear a lot about on Isle Balfeira, there's a lot of kind of,


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[Assistant] They're kind of cross-bred children, because there's mention of, I think, the first visitor to the Sigic Isles, uh, to Artaeum, who isn't a High Elf, is actually a Breton called Vernet.


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[Assistant] Well, technically yes, but I know what you mean. Like, an individual Breton would be created overnight. Yes, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's kinda, it's hard to say what the order events would have been, because if you assume that the, you know, while the Drenie may have been somewhat abundant towards the beginning,


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[Assistant] I always got the impression that they were never so abundant that they had total control of the entire area that we now know as High Rock. And I feel like if they did predate the needs,


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[Assistant] Does the source reference like uhm, the fact that they look distinctly unhuman? Like they look elven?


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[Assistant] See, I definitely, I mean like, I can totally understand why the Bretons become almost human looking by the modern times, but I definitely think having the elves be a stronger strain and their genes being dominant would be way cooler for the race and having them look kind of like the image that you associate with Bretons that comes up first on the wiki would be nice.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's almost like it could be collaboration between the snow elves and the Doreni elves in terms of like a bit of a slave trade going on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and adapting to the climate the same way that the kind of other groups of elves that migrate did. Yeah, and there's plenty of time for them to evolve as a race.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and there are plenty of areas of high rock that are much more Nordic when you look at them than


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[Assistant] I'd totally be right, the Doreni could be. And tying it back to the needs with their rituals, this does all pre-date the Elysian covenant with Akatosh and trying to fix the holes in the mortal realm that allow the Daedra to walk so freely around. This was all before that, so there's much more freedom.


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[Assistant] But I agree that there are definitely little snippets of their history that kind of almost seem like they're delving into the fields of other groups. You know, you've got like a, there's an example like Peregrine Doreni who drove an entire regatta flotilla back to Sentinel by merging her very will with the waves of the Iliac Bay.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah. And then you've got Pelladil Doreni who in a single day built Blackrose Prison from the scattered rubble of Lil Mephite Ruins by summoning an army of Stone Atronachs. It's like, what are you doing in Blackrose? That's all the way over in Blackmarsh.


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[Assistant] He's part of the battle of Glenumbra Moors against the Policians.


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[Assistant] It is important to distinguish, I guess, is that the Battle of the Glenumbrian Moors against the Elysians, they won that battle, but it still led to the downfall because they just didn't have an abundance of Doreni Elves and eventually they just, they just kind of naturally lost control of the province to the Bretons.


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[Assistant] Because remember, the Elysian Order were not loved at this point in time. No. Um, at all. You know, it's not like when they first arose and it was, you know, this great liberating force, they've kind of been a bit tyrannical for a while.


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, I think, well, we're seeing ESO expand more on Breton lore. Oh god, the new trailer. Yeah, I haven't properly watched it, but I guess we can, I mean, I want to talk about it more, I think, in the next Hot Takes episode.


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[Assistant] I still think there's a very high likelihood that the Doreni will be a serious focus of Elder Scrolls 6, and I think we've talked about this maybe in the Bretons podcast or maybe in a separate Doreni video, but there is a lot, once you start looking into the lore of the Adamantine Tower, it does seem like perfectly suited to a main questline. Oh yea. Yea.


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[Assistant] And I mean, yeaah, and there is like a canon source that's like, to be honest, this is a guy called Berodamo the Signifier who writes about a lot of things.


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[Assistant] Conducted to the Foundation Vault and shown the Zero Stone, we are allowed to touch it once so as to feel the transcendent mystical power that courses through it.


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[Assistant] But you know, who knows, Elder Scrolls 6 could be nothing about it whatsoever, but I think the fact that ESO is completely ignoring Hammerfell and completely ignoring the Red Guards


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[Assistant] Guarantees that the Red Guards are the focus, more so than the Bretons.


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[Assistant] Even then, like, uhm, the Iliac Bay could be Elder Scrolls VII and Elder Scrolls VI could be more of a focus on kind of the, the front, the, the front before the Iliac Bay, so kind of like Hammerfell versus, uhm, Somerset clashing. Could be. And the Iliac Bay is still to come.


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[Assistant] I think that's a, that's a hard thing to wish for, because it's so unlikely if they keep to the same group, but I think one thing that is realistic, which we're not really talking about during right now, but you know, uhm, would be much more spin-off games. Uhm, like they really, I'm all for them using the franchise in more ways than just ESO expansions.


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[Assistant] You, you also have, uh, that Medora Doreni, who was pretty prevalent in, in Daggerfall, because she was the kind of, the court sorceress, but also mistress of King Lysandre. You have that whole treachery. Have you seen, uhm,


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[Assistant] What's the name of her dragon? She has a dragon as well that looks really dopey. Skaakmat. Skaakmat, that's the lad, yea.


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[Assistant] I think the Dureni are without a doubt the most interesting part of Breton law. I think everything we've talked about here, if this can be considered Breton law, it's what makes a Breton interesting.


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[Assistant] It's like, it's trying really hard to just be, I mean, I was saving this for the Hot Takes podcast, but it's like, it's kind of just this very generic, soulless kind of grimdark fantasy that just doesn't have any character of its own. It's like, it felt like watching a Witcher trailer minus all of the things that make Witcher interesting.


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[Assistant] And I think they would be so much better off. Like, you could easily do this by looking back at Daggerfall, because Daggerfall had so much of the kind of...


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[Assistant] It's kind of like, yeaah, I feel like I've seen that on David Attenborough or something where the wind blows, it's kind of like the, the, the dunes start to shimmer and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] What is up ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Fudge Mopper. This is the Older Scrolls podcast. I'm Scott here with Michael and Drew as always, and we are back with more of your guys' hot spicy takes that we've sort of gathered from YouTube. And last time we asked for them, we've still got so many to go through. We only got through like


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[Assistant] Tez games were never that good. They're carried by their modding scenes and Bethesda is fully aware of it, which is going to be sub-, uh, to subsequently result in The Elder Scrolls 6 being a shell of a game, because why put effort into your game when your modders will do it for free anyways?


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[Assistant] But then again, the only thing I would say maybe it's a little less hot is cause I could see a few like I'll put my eyes down. It's like, oh, Marshall Beck. Skyrim was overrated from the start. It didn't improve on anything in the series. And I'm just like, I feel like Skyrim- That's a hot take as well. Skyrim hate in general is I feel like it's so-


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[Assistant] Uhm, one and there's like some changes that we aren't happy with but there's other things that you-


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[Assistant] Completely underestimate and so on. Uhm, or you just take for granted because you're not really looking at it by comparison from Oblivion or Skyrim or whatnot.


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[Assistant] This isn't, I don't know if this is hot, but, uh, Eijitsu Studios, the Thieves Guild has the best quest line out of all the guilds. And I'm assuming he's talking about Skyrim. Um, oh, what if he's talking across all the games?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I just said, well it says the best questline out of all guilds, but there's two.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I kinda lean to Dark Brotherhood just because there was lots of memorable characters. I think assassinating the Emperor is a pretty cool peak for it. Uhm, and uh, you know, like, the memorable characters and assassinations and stuff, like, it's always a little bit fun.


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[Assistant] I do, I do also, to be honest actually, if you really break it down, I think that in Skyrim,


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[Assistant] Uh, the Thieves Guild and Dark Brother would have the better characters, and that makes them far more memorable too. Like, you remember Brynjolf, you remember Carlisle, you remember even- even Mercifra is an enemy, like-


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[Assistant] I think it's something that Elder Scrolls does well anyway.


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[Assistant] Greatness or like enjoyment from a lot of Elder Scrolls is...


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[Assistant] The sum of parts, not the parts. Like, you know, like that individual quest isn't the most amazing thing you're going to experience in gaming or that individual character or whatever, but it's the sum of all of it and the ability to kind of like do all of it or experience it different ways is really what Elder Scrolls strength is because then I think that's a lot of what's


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[Assistant] The criticism that comes at Elder Scrolls games and so on is they go like, oh, well, you know, Witcher does X better or this does X better or yada yada yada. But like, it's the sum of everything in the package that is like Skyrim or whatever that obviously, um, is very popular for.


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[Assistant] It's very wooden. It feels like a bit more constructed. Like, and I think it's also game design thing. It's like, uh, Elder Scrolls is built generally to have these characters so you can do things around them or like play around with ensembles. Witcher is constructing lots of little stories into a big story because the story ultimately is the appeal of Witcher.


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[Assistant] Uh, the leveling up by leveling skill system is actually pretty bad.


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[Assistant] It's a cool twist on the XP formula but ends up doing more harm than good. It limits your progression based on the race you chose, a Khajiit.


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[Assistant] And makes you reliant on trainers so you can keep improving the skills you don't actually use. Having skill ranks is great, I just think your actual level should be improved in another way. Maybe a Fallout New Vegas style could do wonders.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's an immersion part of it that really like sells it, but I have, I have seen it done


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[Assistant] Differently in other ways that I enjoy more as well than I do even the Elder Scrolls version like I've seen in, uhm, uh, Bannerlord 2. The way it sort of works is you have like all of your skills and then you have like little points at the bottom like five bars and basically like each bar you fill up you spend a skill point on.


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[Assistant] I think it marginally increases the skill, but it increases the rate at which you learn the skill.


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[Assistant] So it increases though, like, so say if you have, you know, five in swordsman or whatever and you pump it really early, you will then like,


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[Assistant] Get that right, uhm, speed up a one handed or whatever it's called. You will level up. So imagine if you got like alteration and so on, you start off, but then you start a pumping points into alteration and increases the rate that you actually increase your alteration skill.


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[Assistant] I don't, I kind of enjoy that, but maybe that's also just like, it's that specific kind of game. Like as a general rule, I do prefer like the whole like traditional sort of XP formula. And the reason being too is.


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[Assistant] It's, it keeps you engaged in doing the game. So like, like for example, you going in New Vegas, you doing quests and engaging in combat and doing that kind of stuff or discovering new places. It rewards you for that in XP. Theoretically, you can run through an entire.


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[Assistant] Uhm, quest line and not gain any XP in Skyrim. For example, if you've maxed out your one handed and heavy armor and block,


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[Assistant] You run the companions quest line or something like that. You're not, you've kind of got a natural cat. You're doing all of this stuff, theoretically getting more experience, but you're actually not getting any level back or any skill because you're not using those things. So yeah.


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[Assistant] So sometimes, and then it can encourage that kind of grinding thing. Well, it's like, I'm going to sit here and train that thing. And it's like on paper, you know, sometimes there's cool experiences with it, but a lot of the time it really does come down to a grind.


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[Assistant] You know, but that was kind of weird in itself too. It was weird. The way that worked. It's like, oh, you're a master at destruction and now you're not start again. And it's like.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I hope like, look, the fact is they're going to keep it for Elder Scrolls 6. Um, I don't, I don't mind it. Like I enjoy it, like, but I do think other systems are still better. Anything that combines the, the actual experience of leveling up and all of that combines it with the core of what your game is, I guess, is, um, far more interesting, you know, like doing quests and so on.


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[Assistant] With a Fallout New Vegas sort of system, it does allow you to roleplay easier because there are some skills that just aren't really feasible outside of, you know, having to grind them up or something. It's not really feasible to use them as much. Like for example, uhm, the science skill in Fallout like helps you with computers and so on.


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[Assistant] But there's not enough computers to like train that skill. And then so by time it's like, imagine if you had to do basically, you know, hack every single computer in the game to get it to like, you know, to 90 or something. And now you're at 90, you know, science and there's no computers left to hack. Like, why do you have the skill?


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[Assistant] And I think too, if you kind of, if you just imagine there is no like Orsinium never was and it's just always just tribal orcs and so on, uhm,


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[Assistant] It removes the sort of like, uh, dynamism of, of the culture that there's like different ideas emerge and here comes Gotwog and he's got this idea of bringing together everyone under Trinamack and, and you kind of remove the culture. It's like making everything sort of one notes. Like if every single elf on the Somerset Isles was exactly Thalmor, like most stereotypic, they could become boring or, you know, you want that sort of.


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[Assistant] And like, personally, I just think it's so cool that you, uhm,


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[Assistant] Orcinium, they're kind of like, there's that dynamic between the sort of tribal orcs and the sort of Malacath kind of thing, but they're trying to sort of resurrect the sort of idea of Trinimac, the sort of pre-corruption kind of thing. And that becomes like the champion figurehead of this sort of.


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[Assistant] Civilization or what they could be. I just kind of like that sort of, uhm, dynamic as well, but I think if it was just, you know.


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[Assistant] Malacatholx running around. Uhm, I dunno.


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[Assistant] Contrast is good. It's good in cultures to have cultures that are one-note. Because then ultimately they become not too distinguished from goblins, really. Or something like that, you know?


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[Assistant] That's a neat, that's a neat little, uh, idea there.


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[Assistant] Some of the, like, I actually, just to throw this out here, I just want to find it. Uhm, yeaah.


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[Assistant] All hack, 1982 fudge muppet. Why can't your fan base understand the simple concept of hot takes and then underneath it, a lot of these takes are lukewarm at best, but it is kind of true.


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[Assistant] There, there's like, you like this kind, like anything of, like this. William, uh, Lazenby. Bethesda has a lazy writing staff and lacks imagination and creativity. They only know how to write fetch quests and are not engaging or whatever, but like that's, that's not a hot tag. You go to any forum or anything and it's like everyone just braids that kind of thing.


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[Assistant] Okay, go on. Because let's say there is a bottle made of some kind of particle. Let's call it gibbium.


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[Assistant] But the law, uh, but the laws of physics state that this particle may never be observed, no matter how much science progresses.


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[Assistant] No matter what kind of technology we develop, we will never get to interact with it. However, it does exist, and in fact, this jib and bottle exists at all times next to the reader that is reading this. But the reader will never see it, never touch it, never interact it.


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[Assistant] All it sees is null. It's only, uh, it's only the bottle in an eternity of nothingness. But where does the scale of the gibbon bottle end? Does gibbon house matter? Does a gibbon earth? An entire universe made out of gibboness.


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[Assistant] Okay, really, to be honest, this was a really convoluted way of trying to explain it. So, the end part was saying like, this clearly means that matter and the demiurge is nothing more than a prison IRL as well, and we should all strive to return to this. So basically, he's just declaring, I'm a gnostic IRL, and gnosticism is a good thing, and basically like,


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[Assistant] But we'll, yeah, we'll look at, let's get to the essence of what he's saying. He agrees with the Thalmor's plan because I guess the idea, the idea is that like the ultimate world should be un, unmade. It's just basically. But isn't that like, yeah.


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[Assistant] But that's kind of the argument, that's, that's kind of what they're saying is that like everything, any, one of these limitations are a prison, but I would argue you kind of lose all, I mean, when every, it's kind of like you just become one with the nothingness, I guess. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's weird. I feel like.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's like the, you know, there's like the whole like sort of ignorance is bliss kind of argument and everything is a reference range. Like even, even any subjectivity is all based on like, you know, you sort of the subject experiencing the thing. So if you're.


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[Assistant] If you're not aware of these outside experiences or whether this is fake or right or whatever, it's kind of like living in the matrix. If it's a, if it's a very pleasurable life, it's like, is it a bad thing? It depends what you value. It's like, do you value truth more or do you value like happiness more? But like, I wouldn't necessarily go that like truth necessarily is like.


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[Assistant] The highest moral good necessarily. You know what I mean? Like because a lot of truth, I think a lot of truth would be that really cold kind of like, oh, everything's kind of meaningless or like, you know, nobody cares about you type vibe things. Not that that's true. I just mean that like that's the kind of.


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[Assistant] Interesting. This is what we, maybe it was the last hot takes one or something. It was sort of getting in conversation. I was suggesting maybe, and it's kind of hard to do like we sort of said, but like.


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[Assistant] It's really hard to divorce, like, the race from the culture. Like, if you were just talking like,


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[Assistant] Races of what's interesting. It's like Argonians and Khajiit win in terms of like biology and stuff, but that's not what really factors in. Usually people aren't talking about


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[Assistant] Like, you're not talking about, oh it's so cool that dark elves have grey skin and red eyes and pointy ears. It's all of the culture and stuff that's around it and so on. So, to be fair to Imperials, all of that culture is very intertwined, uhm, with them.


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[Assistant] I, I, I, I, overall I do think, I do think that's a, that's at least a hot take that most, cause most would disagree.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, some people might say to that, they would go like, oh, well, that's the reality. If you go to a, to a game, to a some area or someone, it's never going to be as good as you think. And that's kind of the cope they use for like ESO Somerset and why it doesn't look crystalline. But it's like, that wasn't the case for Morrowind, for example. It's very interesting and so on. And there's feasibly.


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[Assistant] You absolutely could. There's no reason that Skyrim couldn't be way more barbaric and Nordic-ish kind of feeling with the Old Gods and all that, or there's no way that Cyrodiil could have been a, you know, a jungle with this kind of Imperial Chinese flavor mixed with Byzantine Rome, and they've got this big economy with like rice paddies all up this jungly Nibonet Valley and, you know.


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[Assistant] Like, there's no reason, outside of whatever game limitation kind of stuff, but like, like,


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I dunno, uh, I-I like Imperials, it's also especially like, I'm a big fan of, uhm,


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[Assistant] No, that's like, sorry, if you know what I mean, like I say I, I don't know when I picked this up or what happens, but now I do it all the time.


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[Assistant] This is a, this is a hot take. Like, okay, uh, the changeling prince. Skyrim is the most faithful representation of any province I've ever seen. Even without the Nordic pantheon, it's only real misdirt.


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[Assistant] Basically snowy everywhere and really like northern sort of like you kind of like imagine like Siberia rush kind of thing, except the reach was supposed to be like this really fertile area, which was like.


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[Assistant] That's why it was so fought over by the needs and elves in the past and the nords and so on in a highly contested area because it was like functionally the breadbasket of Skyrim in older interpretations of the lore and the rest was really mountainous.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I, uh, yeaah, I dunno, I, I, I agree, I don't think Skyrim, um, it's a hot take, but I, I don't agree with the take. Sorry, King. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Cause man, I like, one thing I remember seeing, I think it's in the pocket guide, uhm,


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[Assistant] There's a like a little concept art or something and it's like a, I think it's even a Nord with like a nail in his eye or something, but I just love the idea that there are some Nords and it was like some Nords haven't even heard of this Septim Empire and so on because where they are and they're so connected to the sort of like


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[Assistant] Secluded even that they don't even know about this sort of broad empire or something that they're supposedly a part of kind of thing. And like, I just thought that's cool, the old stuff, but yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like the whole birth of like, or all of the, uh, the, you know, the Chimera, the Chimera, but dude, each of the Elven, like dude, the Nords, humans are just actually not like, I would say maybe the Red Guards probably have the most unique spin of them. So, you know, just at least mixing in some of the like sort of, um,


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[Assistant] Japanese kind of like samurai inspirations and then mixing it with like sort of like a, a Moorish North African kind of Middle Eastern feel. But then outside of that, it's like Imperials.


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[Assistant] Arguably some of the earlier interpretations with like, with a little bit more interesting stuff in there. But Imperials like being basically just Rome, fantasy Romans, and Nords being basically fantasy Vikings or, you know, Danes or whatever. Like...


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[Assistant] They do really riff off closer to what their sort of original like pantheon or whatever it is. Do you know what I mean? Not original, uh, inspiration is. Do you know what I mean? Like they are closer to their original inspiration. Whereas if, you know, dark elves, um, absolutely just off, off the walls by comparison.


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[Assistant] But uhm, you know, even the wood elves lore, I mean even the orcs and so on, their whole origin story and stuff, and obviously these are things that are uhm,


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[Assistant] In a decorative sense, but not in a functional sense. The reason they say they're functional is because the way it's sort of built, usually it's so skin tight and plastered, there's no space for the impact to protect you. It's why like, you know, even on dudes,


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[Assistant] You know, it's sort of, the chest kind of has like a weird kind of shape or like, or, you know, different plates and so on. It's not like a.


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[Assistant] You know, muscled ab kind of thing. Like in terms of practical.


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[Assistant] But to be honest too, like you could, I mean theoretically if it didn't obscure things, but you know, you take your classic like grass kind of thing.


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[Assistant] That, that sort of like, you know, it peaks out a little bit or so on, but just touch two boobs to the, to the front of it and it wouldn't necessarily in the same way that people have those ridiculous cod pieces and stuff. I guess this is what the guy's getting at, that it's not.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and people back then and in the Elder Scrolls, really ceremonial, gods are really important and also it's fantasy as well. Like, I mean, look, to be honest, if you're in a realm where like there's things like, you know, Daedric armor and glass armor and so on, I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that they might ceremonially put


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[Assistant] We made a video recently on the racial perks for Elder Scrolls 6 or an idea of a perk tree or so on. And obviously my preference is always going to be more diverse races to begin with and I don't mind being a little bit more pigeonholed in, but I was sort of like creating a sort of system working off the parameters Skyrim's already made.


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[Assistant] But I really like the idea of that you own, you know, like orc and then you can pick sub race and it's like sort of like a city sort of or city Trinamac kind of vibe orc or a stronghold Malacath orc or, or you can pick, you know, if you could be the different race sub races to a degree, like obviously you can't be like an elf feek.


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[Assistant] But you could, uh, from the Khajiit, but you could be like the taller variety or, or the sort of smaller variety kind of thing, or Argonian, you could easily be like Anaga or something else, or just, you know, more traditional kind of one. But then also like, you know, you have Clovian or Lebanese and you know, the, the, the Nordic ones, you could like Eastern West or.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Red Guards, Crown, Four Bears, and they could just be small like little abilities or, or, or skills and so on that just further allow you to define your character. I think it's, it's a really cool, uhm.


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[Assistant] See, I wouldn't be surprised too if, if you actually look like a ESO and so on. And this is, I guess, my critique a lot of ESO armors. It looks very like close to the skin, any armor, even on the guys and so on. And like anyway, um, so, and then with the boobs, they can be a bit more pronounced.


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[Assistant] It looks like a cosplay. That's how I feel. It doesn't have the sort of like texture or build that looks like it's made by a blacksmith in it. There are exceptions. There are some good armors in ESO, but a lot of your base ones, if you go into the character creator, you flip through the races and you like, oh, heavy armor line and so on.


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[Assistant] Yes, some of them, some of Skyrim's armors do as well, but I think on the whole, um, you know, they don't. But, uh, let's keep having a look.


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[Assistant] These aren't hot takes eh, these are theories, these are so many theories, they're just like, uhm.


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[Assistant] He's a hot take, but we're immediately just gonna be like whatever, but like, uh, we've, uh, no, uh, Nermanin. Um, Delphine is actually a real badass, and she deserves more credit for her service as a blade.


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[Assistant] I think she's just straight up, it's just kinda, I think people don't like that she's annoying, but like really, she kind of, I guess she stole the horn of Jörgen Windcrawler, which was kinda impressive, I guess, even though it doesn't, I don't know. But she just makes dumb decisions, man, like the whole path and next thing I kind of think is a bit,


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[Assistant] I don't know if this is a hot take or not, or maybe it would be more common, but uhm, I can like literally just say the top, the first line instead of, there's a whole explanation afterwards, but uhm, Ben Bittinger says Jigglelag is overrated.


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[Assistant] And I tend to, I basically, I think I, I mostly agree in the same way that I think sort of


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[Assistant] Maybe it's just there's these niche groups, but that are just jiggle lag fans, but I, maybe they're very vocal or something, but I see it a lot. Now jiggle lags my favorite prints and I'm just, to me it's kind of like, why? I don't, I don't know.


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[Assistant] A good way of putting it, and I think why he doesn't appeal to me as much and so on, and it depends like what you're quali- like what you're trying to like look for in a god, but here's a hot take. Shaya Gorath isn't a good god. He's a good character.


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[Assistant] He's a, when you experience him in Oblivion, he's a character, like for me, uh, like what I find interesting in gods is usually their sphere, their sort of like, you know, origin stories and stuff like that. Sheogorath has some of those to be fair, like he's not like, I don't think he's a bad god or anything like that.


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[Assistant] What's his fear? What's he represent? I'm a crazy. It's literally anything kind of, you know what I mean? Like it doesn't have like sort of, there's not a feel of philosophical depth to share, Goreth. And I guess that's what I enjoy out of a God because a God is what is worshiped in a religion, which usually has a fair degree of philosophy intertwined with it. Like if you were to say, what is the most


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[Assistant] Basically, you're just crazy, uh, uh, what Shagrath worship is kind of functionally.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I agree, I'm not, he's not my favorite either. Like the ones I sort of like are ones that I, like, for example, I think Meryn's Dagon is a really good god because there is such a cool cohesive philosophy around him and it's understand why he's worshipped and it just kind of, he's probably the best.


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[Assistant] He's got cool stories, like the sixteen accords of madness and stuff are really cool too, but I just think...


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[Assistant] You know, especially even in the time of Morrowind, no one, until it was Shivering Isles and the sort of like Wes Johnson sort of...


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[Assistant] The, the god, what interests me about gods is the.


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[Assistant] Well, like their function as a god, as in an idol to be worshipped or, or sought after or whatever, how they function in a religion, that like god and religion is kind of the same thing. This is kind of the argument with like a Dwemer, like they don't see these great


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[Assistant] Whereas basically it's just anything goes with Shergarth. Like if I was to describe like what's a cult of Shergarth look like, it's usually just, oh, a bunch of crazies or whatever. Do you know what I mean? It doesn't have the same sort of like, you could create really cool cults for basically all of the Daedric Princes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and you know, even Shogorath, like this is the thing, I'm not like actually like, cause I can speak about it and people assume like, he's the worst, I hate him and so on. I'm just saying, it's mainly, I guess, just compared to a lot of the other princes.


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[Assistant] He, the reason people like Shagrath so much is because he's a good, like, character and he's really interesting and his realm is cool, it's fun, it's cool to talk to and so on. But, uhm, his actual, like, religions around him or the philosophies around him aren't, uhm, interesting.


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[Assistant] People studying the law. Yeah, but that's what I mean, like all of the mythic dawn commentaries and so on and the idea that he is the sort of like vehicle. I really like some of the water of the walking flame stuff or some of the ideas that he's the, he's the vehicle for like some of the magnus worshipers, um, enjoying cause to tear down this sort of creation, this world.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I, I just think all of like, you know, I mean obviously like Azurabu, Ethium, and Phala, there's all really cool stuff with, and uhm, and even the way that, you know.


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[Assistant] You can do both. You can have both, I think too. Like, like theoretically there's arguments to be made that a lot of the gods could have a much better characterization and


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[Assistant] And talked about more, but like there is no, like, for example, I prefer like, you know, Clavicus Viola and Barbas and so on, but their sphere is really good. The dynamic between the two characters, I think is really good. But then also as a God, I can understand how people get into this sort of like deal with the devil type thing. It's a really cool, um, concept and so on and, and cults are around like a sort of.


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[Assistant] To be honest, I kinda think that's a little weak. I'm not that, the whole art and soul thing, like dude- But compare it to cults of other d-


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[Assistant] Yes, but what I'm saying is yes, like you, you could theoretically like anything could be made a good job of, but it's like, what's the zealots philosophy outside of this sort of like, it's like a, Oh, we truly believe this through sugar. I thought the other one, like the heretics or whatever that it's art and soul was or whatever. I forgot.


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[Assistant] Could be, or do you know what I mean? Or like the ones that do exist, like the Mythic Dawn, or not necessarily a cult, but like the entire religions formed around, uhm, the, the different Daedra in, in, uhm, in Khajiit, they're there elsewhere and...


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[Assistant] With Shivering Arms, by the way, this is a thing, and especially as a kid, like, I really like it, and it's like, even now, like, he's a good character, I wouldn't want him to disappear, and the Shivering Arms is a really cool DLC and so on, so I wouldn't say it's so much, uhm, the execution, but I, I almost do think it is kind of like Sheogorath, it's partly the execution, like he could,


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[Assistant] Have other more serious darker sides emphasized, but it is also, and you know, it can be a little mean cheese whimsical kind of stuff that, you know, a bit.


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[Assistant] But uhm, it's, it's that as a concept, I guess I'm not as sold on him as a god. Like he's a leprechaun, basically. Like that's kind of what...


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[Assistant] I feel like I've derailed these two. Anyway, hot tank. I'm gonna get so much shit for that.


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[Assistant] I feel like you absolutely have some like hot takes buried away in there.


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[Assistant] But is it high fantasy? Or is it just very, like, right?


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[Assistant] I mean look, Oblivion's environment and everything and for the time and so on is all very, uhm, enjoyable. Uhm, but, uhm.


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[Assistant] No, I still prefer the like crazier thing. As a kid, and this isn't some, I, uh, this isn't some like, uh,


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[Assistant] Uhm, elitist, like I'm older now, wankery or so on, but like I've personally, and I think it just comes down to taste thing, but I've always been drawn to really.


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[Assistant] Weird looking thing like my favorite, you know, like that's why I think what really got me with like Star Wars, like the Cantina kind of scenes and Tusken Raiders and all of that kind of different looking stuff. And I think that's what grabbed me about Morrowind when I first played it. It's like, it looks so interesting, like movies like, um, Dark Crystal and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Just anything that's a little bit, I really, I really like uhm, like a lot of like puppets, like even if you know like movies like uhm, uh, The Labyrinth, like David Bowie and uhm,


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[Assistant] I forgot the girl's name. Jennifer Connolly, I think. Yeah, Jennifer Connolly. Yeah. But like those kind of, how it has that kind of really weird kind of uncanny element and parts, but I've always been a big fan of that kind of, um, look of things. Um, and generally if something's a little bit,


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[Assistant] Different or alien kind of worlds, but I really like fantasy as well, so I don't, uh, and I like where they intersect basically, but, yeah.


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[Assistant] I think that's the difference between liking, like, and I think I generally do prefer the more alien look or something a little bit different looking versus the sort of humans with ears look. But it's just a taste thing I guess, right?


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[Assistant] Orcs are objectively the worst race ever, as they're actually mutated by a pile of Boethius poop. They also worship a guy who got beaten up, eaten, and crapped out on the dirt, who went then on to be the angriest guy in the oblivion.


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[Assistant] I feel like it's like the reality of knowing them, they're just all like this sort of, I don't know.


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[Assistant] It's kind of like fantasy's job too, it's like to inspire wonder and like kind of like


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[Assistant] Theorists and so on and why that becomes more interesting because you know less about it less concrete and it becomes such a


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[Assistant] Oh, could this have happened? Maybe that happened and like, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, exactly. Uhm, and that's a big part of, uhm, the-


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[Assistant] It is built because of the nature of it and even like arguably like absolutely it's because of lazy writing here and there or people have different ideas and so on.


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[Assistant] But the realistic thing is, is that that creates a far more believable, it's a far better one to one with our world in terms of the believability things, the unreliable narrator and all of the wonder and the different ideas about things. Like if you go through cultures throughout the,


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[Assistant] Um, throughout our history, like certain cultures will have different ideas about history and world and time and, and, and gods and so on. And it just creates such a patchwork of.


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[Assistant] Of the Elder Scrolls world you can't understand, which is how we understand reality. It's just a matter of fact, before cameras and video, we, and, and photos.


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[Assistant] We are basically working off, you know, written word and stuff like that. Um, and then that becomes in itself, like, uh, uh, you know, a big abundance of biases and so on. And you're creating this sort of.


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[Assistant] And I think that no other fantasy universe creates that the same because most come from an authoritative, um, perspective. Yeah. So even for example, Lord of the Rings, which is where you're going to get the most


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[Assistant] Yeah, but Lord of the Rings, it's, here's your Bible, it's called the Sumerillian, this is exactly what happened, bang, there you go, and here's the story, bang, there you go. Which is fine, it's like that's how lots of things are told and so on, but that is not representative of like what our like real world experience is.


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[Assistant] The, for me, the big appeal to it and what makes it so great and so compelling is Elder Scrolls, is that it is kind of like everyone, there is so much of a mishmash of different, uhm, things and unreliable narrator and there's wiggle room for theories and so on. Like, I'm sure there's Lord of the Rings theories in gaps and stuff, uhm, and you know, same as there are in, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, well, I think I, so you probably know this, like Song of Ice and Fire uses unreliable narrators somewhat, I guess.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, generally I just think the unreliable narrator is such a cool, uhm, world. And the other thing I also like because of, which is obviously less realistic, but things like dragon breaks and inbuilt metaphysical concepts that can support retconning and stuff like that, it gives the world such a, like,


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[Assistant] Continued existence and so on, but in a believable way. It's not like the jarring like, oh, here we are, um, Star Wars. We're eliminating all of the expanded universe and we're starting again. Like that's very like jarring and sort of upsetting. Whereas if there's just an autoscroll six, it just builds on top of this and this and this and this. And it just, it just feels the most organic.


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[Assistant] I guess the real red pill is that there's like a lot of uhm, the most collaborative...


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[Assistant] Uh, world building often turns out to be the best because most people would go like, Oh, look at our real world. Get into real life world building. It's like, yeah, okay. Go back and look at mythologies and all this kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] That's what really creates an interesting thing, rather than, you know, there's the Silmarillion, it's the one, the only, and it's definitive. I like it, it's very enjoyable, but it doesn't make it feel, uhm, as...


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[Assistant] You know, real, I don't know, like, you know, when something feels real, it's something that tricks you that like, you know, we sit here right now as a podcast talking about elder scrolls, like historians, like analyzing something completely fictitious, but you just, you can do that with other things to a degree. You can regurgitate the information that is known for certain, but there's no real like.


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[Assistant] Is this Boethian mean this or that? Or was Lorcan this or that? Or, or, you know, do the...


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[Assistant] Riemann really cum crackers or whatever the hell is, like that kind of stuff. I just think open source is such a cool thing and it's probably a very modern idea that runs against it, which is very


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[Assistant] It's a, uh, it's a very financial oriented thing. It's like copyright, like imagine someone copyrighted the Bible back in 2000, back in like, you know, when it was made, you know, 2000 years ago or whatever. Um, you know what I mean? Like it's, it's that sort of thing where it's because nobody can reinterpret.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I just like, I like the organic growth of things and I find it very interesting in history and culture and so on, looking at how certain beliefs and ideas sort of organically grow through mixes of things and yeaah, I just think Elder Scrolls.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you personally, like, what do you think would rustle the most Jimmy's? Think about it for a second while I just comment on guys on this, on this podcast in particular, get down into the comments below and we want hot takes as in they inspire controversy. Like if you think I'm saying this thing and I'm pretty sure 80% of people agree with it, it's not a hot tag.


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[Assistant] I want you to put us in positions where we have to really like, you know, discuss and talk these things and out ourselves as people who disagree with you. So uhm, but yeaah.


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[Assistant] One thing too I'll just add, we should clarify, guys keep them a little bit more lore oriented, cause in lore takes and stuff and subjective things about that, because to a degree when, like there's a lot of comments here that it's like,


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[Assistant] Oh, you know, like it's not actually a good role playing game or actually custom spells will work and all of these kinds of things. It's like they're cool, but you kind of.


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[Assistant] They get, I dunno, boring discussing the gameplay things after a while. Uhm, but yea, so just keep them, I guess, more lore oriented, what so ever.


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[Assistant] I think Elder Scrolls being derivative is to its benefit, not to its detriment. A lot of people go like, Oh, I really like, um, you know, XYZ thing when they go really crazy with a world building. But I think part of the reason it's also a great universe is the.


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[Assistant] It being derivative in areas and then expands upon it in its own way and so on helps ground people in things. If I, it's like if I was starting a new, a story or something and I say to you,