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[Assistant] Generally, I think this is like our kind of like job and what we try to do just for the audience is when there's conflicting sources, we try and pick the ones that make the most sense with the broader picture.


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[Assistant] Uh, because at the end of the day, you can go, well, this source says this and this says this and that's unreliable narrator. But if you can kind of build a better picture with the construction of these and it makes it more cohesive.


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[Assistant] But the interesting part there is that broken language about like broken Nordic, but you could easily have Nordic influence if they came.


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[Assistant] By the time this is take, um, you know, this firsthand account or whatever, which is like, you know, end of the Merethic era, if Nordics have been there for 400 years, their language could have spread through Nidic tribes and stuff in some capacity or something or addition, or maybe they have a very familiar route in, in their language or something.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, I mean like, look at like, you know, the Latin to all of the romantic languages, uhm, all of the Spanish and Italian and so on, like, there's lots of familiar things in all of it, so you can imagine. Yeaah, and there are plenty of...


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[Assistant] Oh, another thing to support it as well, but I'm pretty sure, uhm...


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, that's the thing with, we could just be writing problems, right? And you could like chalk it up to this, but Serana, so she says that she says she's surprised that there's an empire from Cyrodiil at all, right? And theoretically it could be like, Oh, I don't know anything about the world. And I was like born in this interregnum period, like after ESO kind of thing. And that's where it happened.


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[Assistant] But then later she sort of comments on the ruins of the Dwemer. She's kind of comments like, Oh, I'm surprised they let it get like this or something like implying that she was sort of contemporary with them somewhat, which then puts her like, you know,


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[Assistant] I'd have to double check that, but it's something like that. But uhm.


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[Assistant] I know they're Nords, this is the thing we have to kind of consider too, the lore to the gameplay, like yea, you go and Harken and Sarana are Nords, and like, you know, all of the Reachmen are Bretons, but there is a other, there is obviously a genetic distinction between like,


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[Assistant] What Bretons are supposed to be on the other side and what uhm, the Reachmen are. Like the Reachmen I would almost argue are like more far removed from uhm, Elven interaction and mingling and stuff.


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[Assistant] And then it's gonna be, it's something I will work on soon, but like a picture of like, I guess like a prehistoric Skyrim or Tamriel, like that, you know, the whole like needy, the idea, the theory that basically I want to like gather up some stuff for it, but that the needs were a more Daedric worshipping sort of.


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[Assistant] And hey, maybe that's why the Doreni, when they came, maybe that inspired a lot of, um, you know, delving into this sort of oblivion and conjuration and all that kind of stuff, because maybe they see like, you know,


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[Assistant] Neetic, Daedric-y sort of worshipping type Neetic tribes similar to Richmond that are doing like certain rituals or something or trying to communicate with their gods and so on and maybe that, cause before that otherwise you'd sort of say like, well, what, what's their real, I guess, exposure to these sort of ideas.


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[Assistant] And I think that's the good distinction there is that generally what conjuration anyway is, is dominion over that.


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[Assistant] When you summon it. So you know, there's the whole unbound drumora thing and because it's unbound to you, you can summon that and to get it to bring you a seedle stone or whatever. And you try and kind of tame it. But the whole kind of concept, I guess in the lore or so on is that they're summoning these atronachs and they've got a sort of strong hold over it and convenient. They're controlling it. It's like bound to their will.


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[Assistant] Whereas before it feels more like, you know, sort of like, oh, you know, Daedric Prince give us this or even other Dramore or something, but it's a very like exchange packed ritual kind of oriented thing rather than zip. I'm just going to pull you from oblivion and you do what I say.


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[Assistant] What, what if it's all like this like big like Doreni revisionism kind of thing because at the time they are arguably one of the longest lasting elven powers in those northern areas and so on because they, they obviously retreat like later and they also have like


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[Assistant] Somewhat like a cooperation and reverence of Bretons and so on in the caste system for a while. But, cause you know, the alyds and so on bite the dust, the snow elves bite the dust, all of these sort of things around them that interact with mankind.


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[Assistant] Um, and then the Doreni could kind of maybe position themselves as like, yeah, yeah, we did this and that. So like disregarding. Like they washed out.


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[Assistant] Well they were saying, to be fair actually, in the text I'm pretty sure it's they made deal with Daedric and did big sacrifices to summon armors of Daedric.


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[Assistant] Cause then, cause then there were also some, I'm pretty sure even the last King of the Alids, he goes to High Rock and sets up for a while, doesn't he? I'm sure there was some interaction with them in the Doreni.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. It's, uh, huh. It's interesting looking at the time, like, I love trying to create like a big picture out of all of the time and like a case of sort of understanding of the things, but when does it... the...


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[Assistant] Battle of Glenumbri Moors is 482, and that's seen as the sort of end to Doreni dominance. Doreni are like fine on the Isle of Balfeira from that point onwards, but they're no longer, I guess they delimit the dominant political


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[Assistant] Factor of Hyrule in the Iliac Bay and so on. They're now like just equivalent of like, oh, we're a noble respected house, but we're not like the rulers of everything. And now the Breton Kings sort of.


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[Assistant] But that also ends, I think, to before when the Skyrim Conquest under Varago, like before even Alicia, he stomps all over the fight, the Dorenian Germany and so on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, you know, and, and also I feel like too, everyone's after the battle of Glenumbri Moors, like everyone's sort of pitted against them, uhm, somewhat like, well,


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[Assistant] You also got the dealing with all of the reachmen. The reach has always been historically like a wild area and how you sort of get the reachmen is a...


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[Assistant] Mix of like the Doreni taking over this area, then the Nords take over this area back and then it kind of like.


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[Assistant] You know, look, trying to fight between, I think, trying to fight from High Rock into Skyrim or-


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[Assistant] More so into Hammerfell or into Cyrodiil is such a like, they're kind of constrained by geography there in the Iliac Bay, like the Doreni, like it's kind of hard to sort of spread, so they've got things working.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the Clovian Estates, I'm pretty sure too, were at least somewhat involved.


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[Assistant] You know, Elysia or like the Emperor Belarzer and so on, and you've got like, um, you know, the Minotaur Guardians of the Empire and all of that kind of stuff. That only lasts like a hundred, a hundred and twenty years before the Elysian doctrines kind of get enforced. And then it just becomes this crazy leg.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Well, especially because there's just like a 1200 year dragon break just in the middle and it's kind of like, does that need to be there? But you know, this is the, you know, nature. That's when it comes back.


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[Assistant] The stop, look, the classic stop the Thalmor from unmaking the world, the clan Doreni are the keepers of the Adamantine tower, especially if you can justify all the other towers going, like that whole tower theory thing.


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[Assistant] Could just be, they could just absolutely run with it and it does give a cool plotline.


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[Assistant] I can just tell you, they're not gonna let you, the Thalmor is going to be the default enemy in the way they're set up. Probably. Because they're too, the way they're angled, it's too like, morally reprehensible, I think. It would be nice.


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[Assistant] Well, I also think, and you've seen some deserty rock kind of stuff and so on, but I also think Iliac Bay does change the focus for them in the way, oh, you, you need boat travel. You kind of need like, and that complicates things a little more.


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[Assistant] Unless they do do Hierarch and Hammerfell, because I feel like too, that could be a sort of, uhm, from a- from an-


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[Assistant] Like kind of doing Daggerfall now in the way that it accepts more of it to more of the land. It kind of gives a sort of, um, you know, for the franchise, like a fresh feel. Do you know what I mean? Like, look, we're taking the old thing and like putting, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I just at the end of the day don't like the idea of a giant body of water sitting in the middle of the playable map. It's just, it's just not a nice look.


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[Assistant] But that's what I mean. It becomes a Navy sort of oriented game. Like, do you know what I mean? Like, if you don't use the boats, you're going to have to.


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[Assistant] That's what's so sad to me about the new, like, the new ESO thing. It kind of just looks like, oh, you're just going on the sort of classic chivalry night and the more of the same versus just even a little bit more. Why was that?


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[Assistant] That's the thing, it's not, we're also not advocating for like, oh, like just completely flip it or so on, but providing some sort of like druidish sort of mystic cult and all of that kind of stuff creates a nice contrast against the noble stuff that's there and so on and then creates a more interesting world.


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[Assistant] Versus just like, oh, it's just more knights. And I feel like they're going for that same sort of like, it's some sort of like, you know, there's that knight guy in the throne and, and the assassin's eye. It's just, okay, another plot to overthrow some kingdom or something. Like, I don't know.


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[Assistant] If they also don't do Hirocaneer 6, if it is just Hammerfeld then the Bretons will remain Bretony. Standard humans to contrast every other human against.


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[Assistant] I'm far more keen for Hammerfell. I'll be actually a little disappointed if it is Hierarch.


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[Assistant] And I don't know, I just, I'm just so keen for like, I imagine like if they really go interesting with the, the uhm,


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[Assistant] Like the, the environments and so on and they can pull a bit from like potentially like, uh, some sort of the American geography of like the kind of like Utah and Arizona kind of stuff. And, you know, with some African kind of geography and the interesting like kind of Baobab trees and then like,


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[Assistant] It's just some cool stuff, but. There's such cool potential to it.


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[Assistant] Um, whereas I feel like High Rock will, it will just look closer to a Skyrim, just a little less cold in areas. And do you know what I mean? Or it's going to be a mix of Oblivion Skyrim rather than something fresh.


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[Assistant] We're not talking about Oblivion as much anymore.


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[Assistant] What is up ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Fargemarpert, this is the Older Scrolls Podcast, I'm Scott here with Michael and Drew as always, but we've got an extra person today, Heavy Burns, the, uh, mod editor extraordinaire for Skyrim. Introduce yourself, you can, uh, give us a little...


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[Assistant] Yeah, there we go. But like, I feel like, um, for people like have obviously been watching videos recently. So like our, um, our editing style, the graphics and the editing style and stuff's changed over. That's thanks a lot to the heavy burns, extensive help.


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[Assistant] Um, but yeah, like we were obviously inspired, like that's when I first like reached out to you and so on. Um, because I just watched your stuff and your editing and your.


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[Assistant] Like the effort that goes into the visual of your videos.


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[Assistant] Well, to catch people up to speed too, so you're like, you're work, functionally working on Skyblivion stuff now, and you started with the dev diaries you started. Do you want to just fill people in where you started with that?


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[Assistant] Actually, you should probably expand on that too, but like that's one thing I noticed because we were like looking to like sort of do something different up a bit of, you know, the visual stuff because I saw a lot of your videos and I'm like the editing's insane or just sort of the, um, the care and attention to the, to the, to the visuals. But then I also noticed that, um, Sergeant Gimley and, um,


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[Assistant] And, uh, sin gaming and so on and seeing that I'm like, there's all of these...


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[Assistant] It's kind of like a similar-ish sort of story to us, except it's all contained within Fudge Muppet. Like, Michael and I started, um, the channel in like 2013 or something, but by the time 2016-ish, like sort of after Fallout 4, like we drew on, but then,


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[Assistant] You know, Drew sort of like learnt the ropes and started doing, um, you know, writing scripts and stuff as well and so on. But then like his...


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[Assistant] Style sort of like he started like doing there was a point where I think it was even


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[Assistant] Uh, I actually talked about this in the Let's Play, so here's a good, here's a good direction for the conversation. I, well, like, so I was talking about Dibella statues, I got a new statue replacement, I really quite like it, and obviously the boobas are out there. Shout out Cynthia. In that, in that, uh, scenario there,


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[Assistant] There was the stunning statues mod that we previously had and you know, the boob are out there too, but the problem is they look fake to me. They look like fake boobs, like, like porn star boobs. They're like the way they don't look natural. And for me, I was literally talking about like,


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[Assistant] In an absolute full seriousness, for immersion's sake, I prefer more natural looking booba on the statues and so on, because it actually kills immersion if everyone's walking around with these big plastic giant booba, you know?


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[Assistant] So Scott is a boober connoisseur we've learned today. Yeah, absolutely. I actually, we had an idea where we were going to go with this eventually, but we still got to do some more, uh, interrogation of Mr. Mr. Burns here, but, but we were thinking we could go, you know that, have you seen that Twitter?


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[Assistant] Page on like, uh, be able to scroll smash or pass.


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[Assistant] It's gonna get throughout. Uh, but we're, hold on, we're, we're, so. Okay, interrogating me, go. Interrogation. So, so you, you just, you started, so I'm assuming you got into Skyrim and you like playing Skyrim and you like Skyrim mods and stuff. And that's how you're like, let's start the transforming Skyrim series and stuff like that. And try and start making videos.


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[Assistant] We may have purged some of them. We might have gone on like an unlisting sort of purge.


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[Assistant] No one will get any of their effort, but we'd put them in there for our own enjoyment. So like, we'd like characters of like, of people we knew and stuff. It was just, um, yeah, that was old days.


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[Assistant] That's all those builds. The builds was like what we were mainly doing, but we started doing like, it's kind of like uhm, we started doing like vlog-ish sort of style at one point, kind of things, and like, it's like me eating a lot of food.


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[Assistant] That's crazy to me because like, I mean, like even things like the, like Drew's got the, the one of the British accent, like the TH thing. Oh yeah, yeah. Right. Even like it to me, to me in an Australia that stands out so much to me.


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[Assistant] But like, I can understand, like for example, Michael and I, uhm, like we've been like friends since, uhm,


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[Assistant] But then I didn't, I don't get the, um, the, the true thing, but even then to me, I can definitely hear if I listen to any video, I can hear whether it's, you know.


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[Assistant] I think there's one of me waterboarding him, uh, for the old Elder Scrolls. No, no, cause it was all in a sort of, I mean, it wasn't like a full sort of, you know, like, like deal with the VCR camcorder and like, it's not that kind of setup. It was like just a skit.


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[Assistant] Wait, oh wow, I'm trying to frost troll. These are monsters, this is basically bestiality, like you can't, like. Well, basically what is it?


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[Assistant] So a lot of the time, like if there's not a female of certain things, it's usually cause they just haven't been asked to make the model for them at all or do something, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I guess so, the thing is that it throws in lots of like, like we'll skip the ones that aren't like, look, I don't know, like when it's like as for Nightwield, it's like, I don't know, dude, it's, it's, it's a...


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[Assistant] Okay, hold on, uhm. Well, to be honest, you know, you don't actually have to, like, you just need to be able to see them, so if you've got it open, uhm. Okay, wait, what are we opening?


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[Assistant] Oh, he has a name. I can hear the comments right now. This is not an Elder Scrolls podcast.


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[Assistant] Alright, here we go. Do you know what I'm doing? Alright, and it's up to you guys to look up and see the picture. So I'm going to go through guilds because guilds, I think people are more familiar with these characters and so on. Alright, we'll start off nice and strong. Okay. Kodlak white main.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna search for some things that like, kinda, uhm, yeaah. Okay, yeaah, alright, fine. Dark Brotherhood, what, uh, Oblivials.


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[Assistant] I feel, I feel like, I feel like he's got game. He's like a real like, you know, I feel like he can be, when he's not being as creepy, he can be like a smooth talk. Do you know what I mean? Like, you know how there's like those, the girls like the, um, that real sort of,


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[Assistant] You know, there's like that dark anti-hero kind of thing, like that kind of, oh, what's the phrasing? Hold on. What do girls like tell them to write it down? Come on, Scott.


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[Assistant] I need to take notes on this because I need to, you know, it's like, yeah, that's the thing that you'll see you say. It's just like a hero will sacrifice you for the whole world, whereas a villain will sacrifice the whole world for you. Okay. And that's the kind of, yeah, but that, that, that's the energy. Like they're like, you know, how much obviously.


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[Assistant] Oh, actually, you know what? A lot of these characters are too like, Australia. What if we did the gods? Cause that's a bit more like the Daedric Princes. Nocturnal, yes. Okay. Cause I feel like there's a lot more we know about them and they can kind of like, it blurs the lines a little bit more. Okay. So like, all right, let's start with Azura. Smash. Smash.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't know if I'd like, like, you know, there we go. We're advancing it more if you consider like the ramifications, but the smash. Yeah, we've got to have ramifications. Yeah. Okay. Well, we'll in this smash part of it then I, I maybe then I wouldn't because you know, I don't want to be like,


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[Assistant] I don't know, like there's the power imbalance there that's like, it's like, you know, fun for a, for a, for a swing, but not the full, not for the, for eternity, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] That's the best. I'm gonna, I'm actually gonna go, in the context of I'd have to be like, committed forever kind of vibe, uhm, then I'll pass. But if it was, if it was just a, smash, even if it's eternity. Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] Azura's like whole like fault is kind of like, as long as she's being like adored and loved, she's very vain and so on, um, by all of her followers and the people that worship and love her, it's great. But if you turn away,


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[Assistant] It's like you're, you're dead to me idiot. Like she's, she only loves you in as far as you love her more. Do you know what I mean? Is she going to kill me though or is she just going to let me go?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't know, maybe she'll screw up your face.


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[Assistant] Well, how about Boethiah? So just to refresh a Daedric Prince of plots and murder and conspiracy and... I feel like that's good role play, right?


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[Assistant] has been described as cold, impersonal, and cruel.


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[Assistant] The thing about Boethiah 2 though, if you survive the one encounter, I think you're like sweet, like they're not going to come back to.


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[Assistant] David Pritz at trickery and bargains and- Doesn't involve Barbas.


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[Assistant] He might every now and then in Clavicus Vile, mid intercourse would say, oh, shut up or something like that. Like kind of like he would like quiet a barking dog or something, you know, but it won't be a barking dog. It will be his same voice.


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[Assistant] Alright, I-I-I think I'd pass Clavicus file, I don't really. Uhm, uh, Hermaeus Mora.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I-I'd smash. I think it's just- You'd smash. Yeah, dude. All of that knowledge and there are just infinite sort of limbs and it's like, well, whatever, so on. At least for the story. You minimum gotta do it for the story. At least for the story, yeah. And then that story he'll know in the, you know, will be bound to the black books.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but look at them, they're all like half ruined and stuff, I guess. Yeah, but, ugh, yeah.


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[Assistant] Alright, her scene. The huntsman. All of the hunts.


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[Assistant] I don't think I, um, yeaah, no, I, I, I, I'm gonna say, uh, smash. So you're passing, Drew? I'll pass. And you're smashing. Two smashes, one pass, yeaah. Two smashes. Alright, let's, let's, uhm, let, let, let, let's go to Jigglelag, the Daedric Prince of Order.


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, Malacath, god of curses and the orcs and all of that kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] I think he's just heaps bitter. I think he's like, just like, like, I, I don't think I'd like him because of all of the, um, he just, like, he's a bit of a downer, you know what I mean? Like he's just, he's, he's just built, he, he's literally, he may as well be the Daedric Prince of resentment.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I know, but just even the, just the energy they bring, you know, is going to be just that sort of pessimistic kind of, uh, I don't know. Yeah, I agree.


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[Assistant] I mean, even outside of the ESO body pillow, uhm, I think the forearms is a bit of a game changer.


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[Assistant] My father, I'm an instant smash.


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[Assistant] Oh, I mean, if you see the pictures, like don't think of an actual spider, like I'm actually a bit of a-


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[Assistant] I mean, look, she's, she's also, one of her titles is, uh, one of the spheres of her influence is sex. Like, I'm just going to say that like, sex is seduction, she's probably like the best at it.


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[Assistant] I mean, if you're prepared to go, I feel like into Azura's sort of like, you know, eternal sort of- enslavement, yea. It's like, if anything, I feel like Mephala's more likely to let you go or anything. It's like, oh yep, sweet, served your purpose, kind of gone, like you should've gone. Oh look, I'm a definite smash anyway. So there's no reason to play the other side.


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[Assistant] Honestly, the whole like, uh, very, uhm, preachy.


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[Assistant] I feel like it's kind of like a, if you were sitting across from a ca- like, kind of you've just met them, and then they sort of like, oh yeaah, I'm vegan. And then they like start preaching you're a vegan, the same way she like, preaches you out loud, and I'm like, ugh. Like I don't mind that you're a vegan, it's just the whole like, uh,


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[Assistant] Well, no, no, no. Vivec had a choice. He gave him his, his headed apple, like whatever. Vivec was the living god.


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[Assistant] I don't know, the spear is like, is, is, his spear is like, uhm.


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[Assistant] It's getting there. Um, Numeera then, that's a no. The Daedric Prince of like, revulsion and like, slugs and like, basically the Daedric Prince of scat in the context of this, so okay.


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[Assistant] Not within the mirror. Huh? What was that say? Dinner parties. Dinner parties. Yes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, true. Uh, so cannibalism and scat. Are we feeling about that?


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[Assistant] We just had a casual chat about how you got into modding and, and, uh, how you got into the editing and, and, um.


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[Assistant] Wait, what was the bestiality one? What did I say?


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[Assistant] I said no because he's like an older sort of dude. He's a silver fox. I'm not really in the geriatric kind of thing, you know.


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[Assistant] So is that saying Smashbit because of your career pass?


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[Assistant] You could probably escape. Yea, with the thieves guild, but they're not like doing it to get in the smash. They're like...


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[Assistant] They're so- Like he's got a word in it, you think, yeaah. And it's, and it's where he'd take you, you know, you'd be going to these big like, orgy party kind of things and stuff like that. With a Hagraven. Uhm, yeaah, so they'd be, you know.


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[Assistant] He's also psycho, like, there's a lot of other reasons beyond, you know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, so. Yeah, Date of Prince of Dreams and Nightmares. I'm probably gonna say no because she's usually just, uh, tortures people through nightmares and stuff.


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[Assistant] I mean, we barely even ever see her, she's kinda got like statues of things, like she never has a...


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[Assistant] Yeah, but the difference is, is, is that the tentacles come with all of this. Like he's basically got all the sexual knowledge in the world. There we go. Search them.


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[Assistant] It feels so funny to go like that because usually it like dissolves into, into the end, but, um, I guess, yeah, we, we devolve from that.


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[Assistant] Are you particularly interested in, or is it being like a hobby or interest of yours in like...


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[Assistant] You know, cinematography and film and stuff in general, because you mentioned before that you were


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, shooting like basic little movies and Red Dead Redemption and GTA kind of thing, right? Uhm, you also did, uhm, Samson of Bruma, uhm, on your channel, which is like a machinimary style kind of thing, two episodes, but then also even just your videos in general generally have like, you know, a lot of cinematic quality to them and sort of even in familiar characters.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's that thing about the YouTube as a platform anyway. You've kind of got to play a balancing game of like what actually, you know, you can't like, you can't, you know, theoretically you could spend a whole year making this absolutely perfect video, but obviously there's always the points of like diminishing returns where people


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[Assistant] Like there's, YouTube doesn't reward it, you know what I mean? Like you might even have like the one perfect video or something like that. And then you've got every single shot just like, just indisputably perfect or so on. And that might go like crazy viral or something like that. Say it's 2 million views or something, but like in terms of like, um,


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[Assistant] What that can do for YouTube, if that's like a cost a whole year or whatever, uhm, it won't always, it just doesn't translate, you know what I mean? It's the same reason I'm kinda like, not exactly the same, but like, you know how animators and so on don't really...


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's kind of, like, in a way it's funny, like, how, like, YouTube's changed from, like, originally when it set out, it really was, like, I feel like it really was that sort of...


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[Assistant] Uh, people who are interested in like making movies or things like that could sort of make content stuff there, but a lot of that stuff doesn't really, to be honest, it does work sometimes for the ones that have been established that are super established and have lots of other stuff around it and so on, but it's kind of hard to like, I guess, uh, break into.


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[Assistant] It's funny that like even in 2013 when we started, uhm, even then we, we felt like we were like late to the party in 2013 and then it's like 2014, 15 go past. And then it's like, they do Skyrim special edition, which did help like, you know, choose it back up. But it's so crazy how now it's like 2022 when it's still not here.


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[Assistant] But we know, we know it's coming after Starfield and so on. Like they've got such a big IP. Six years after Starfield. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, and I, that's one thing, um, to give ESO it's fair to you. They've added lots of lore and lots of things to talk about more and interesting things that can help build out theories and so on. Just little details here and there.


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[Assistant] It's uhm, there's a lot of good new interesting ideas added, as well as some poor ones, but I think to be honest, if you're putting like, Elder Scrolls 6 under any scrutiny, it's gonna add new cool ideas, and it's probably gonna override some cooler ideas in the previous and replace them with, you know, functionally shittier versions of, of the lore and, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I'm not, I'm not huge on MMOs in general, so it's not really my thing, but from what I've heard all around the place, it's just a really good MMO, like outside of uhm, the fact that Zelda Scrolls or anything like that, the way it actually plays and functions and everyone seems to enjoy it.


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[Assistant] We've seen, you can do with it and some of the changes we've made to our video style. Like now that there's all of these extra things you can do with certain mods and all the manipulation of the console and all that kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] That you just cannot do in ESO or even, I mean, arguably, arguably, if you went back to oblivion, you're something modded the hell out of it. Maybe you could do a lot more with it, but still it just looks.


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[Assistant] It's just not as configurable, I guess, as Skyrim, and also the modding base isn't as big, clearly, cause it's, you know, the difference between a 2006.


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[Assistant] Well, I guess a 2011 game, but functionally it's a 2016 game.


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[Assistant] That's so crazy, you need such an extensive mod list even just to make it look good to start with as well and then throw that out. I can't wait until you get to Elder Scrolls 6 and where it's like the first mods you're downloading are only those kinds of things that enhance.


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[Assistant] And Cyberpunk is, it was a, it's such a cool, like I've seen some modding videos and stuff on it that have like changed it up so that you can like make it sort of a more, um, noir sort of looking like Blade Runner kind of vibe and like I've seen all kinds of visual things and visually it's such a cool game. It's just a,


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[Assistant] So they changed, I swear they changed like design direction half way. It was supposed to be a bit more of an open sort of an open world kind of RPG and lots of different like.


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[Assistant] But like, you know, some of the stuff that's there, it's still good.


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[Assistant] Like I think people like tend to like polarize and it's like there's two, two types of games. There's a nine or a 10 or there is a four and a three. Like there's no in between, but like, um, it's definitely a really, um, solid game, but it's for what it was sold as. I think it just completely fell short of so many promises and stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I feel like, I, like, we started when, when Fallout 4 came out, we were like playing it with like YouTube stuff in mind and so on. And we would like make stuff and make guides and stuff for parts of it. But I still, I don't know, I, before I thought I still really enjoyed it overall. I didn't have, I don't think it impacted it that much. I think sometimes it kind of does depend on what the,


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[Assistant] Just, just what the game is and what it's like, you know what I mean? Like, I dunno. I, I, I see what you mean and I feel, I, I feel like you can change your mindset. Like, I'm going into Elder Scrolls 6 really optimistic. I'm just gonna enjoy it as like, as a, as a kid. Like, I'm channeling that energy. It's like, oh my god.


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[Assistant] Elder Scrolls 6 is coming out, I'm gonna go play it and so on and really challenge you that because I think it's very easy to when, when you've been sitting on a game like Skyrim for, you know, by Elder Scrolls 6, it'll be something like 15 years.


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[Assistant] It's very easy to be hypercritical in every single floor. So like a floor exists and it's there for three years, four or five, it doesn't matter. But then you're like really looking at it and then newer stuff's coming out and doing things better. And then you're like, Oh man, this was horrible. Like, and then you're looking at it and you're really just, you're fixating on every single floor it has.


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[Assistant] It's kind of like, like, you know, like a bad thing to do in relationships. You know what I mean? Kind of thing. Like you stop seeing the rest and you fixating on all of these flaws and all of this kind of stuff. And it's because, you know, you haven't done anything new. You haven't gone out.


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[Assistant] To it's like, it's, I think most kind of like maybe even with any creative project or anything.


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[Assistant] Potentially, not, I'm not necessarily sure, but like what you're trying to do, like


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[Assistant] Maybe they do this, but you should create like a, a like hierarchy of like needs of like what you're trying to achieve. And like, if it was me designing Elder Scrolls 6, like.


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[Assistant] Emotion and all of that's great and has like voice acting and stuff, but I would go like, oh, it's superseded by the need of role playing, which is a higher value for like the Elder Scrolls 6 kind of thing or, you know, whatever systems or open world exploration is a higher value than perhaps even role playing in some area or whatever, but like create a, uh,


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[Assistant] Because sometimes, otherwise, like what, Fallout 4 kind of, I think, suffers a little bit, like it does lose a little bit of like, role-playing or like, you know, settlement build- settlement, uhm, building and stuff, for example.


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[Assistant] That like, they, because of having all of these spots where there's theoretical settlements for the player, it feels like they didn't put like, real handcrafted settlements for people to explore and see. So they've put this sort of like, oh, player customization above sort of the exploration of the world and things to interact with. And I feel like, for me at least, that bit on the, on the butter bit.


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[Assistant] It's a cinematic thing, yea.


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[Assistant] I was saying before, it's like, there's some that you, I would never say that, oh, I played Skyrim emotionless. It wouldn't be the case because I would find these places or have some cool experience. And I'm like, whoa, that's awesome. That is so cool. And I'm like, over one, like with.


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[Assistant] They're both good, but the problem is the whole, I'm so sad this person dead kind of thing. You have to tailor that a bit more. You need to make sure the player is here to experience and so on. Then you're restricting freedom.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I, I feel like, I feel like it's, it's, unless, unless you want to end the podcast, Heavy Burns, if you have becoming- Well, you are Michael. You are Michael. Replacing. See?


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[Assistant] Yeah, review our, review the Smash and Pass, uh, takes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean the logic is sound, uhm, with the idea of him just being sent forward in time and nothing really changing in that time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I kind of buy into this. I'm trying to think if there's any specific dialogue with Alduin where he's, where he's giving away his motives, whether it's more actively trying to destroy the world or just dominate again. But either way, it's obviously a threat to style.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's not really Alduin who's got the, you know, he's not really responsible.


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[Assistant] Aside from being called the world eater by everyone else, there isn't a whole lot specifying that he's out here eating water.


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[Assistant] Well, he doesn't exactly the same kind of thing he would be saying during the initial dragon war, you know, just dominating the humans.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'd say the theory's, it's got a good point. But at the end of the day, it doesn't change much about the reality of things. It's just an interesting way of looking at it.


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[Assistant] Well, that was the thing, when he was in that, um, that simulacrum kind of pocket realm, he was getting plagued by nightmares constantly. Yeah. So, yeah, you wouldn't really want to trust his dreams. You know, they're probably quite ominous, but there you go. Yeah, I mean, that's a good point.


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[Assistant] Because- I was just gonna say, if you're gonna bring back any character and not have it be corny and kind of forced, Sophosil would be the one, but you'd have to kind of acknowledge that you're not truly bringing him back, you're bringing back a kind of imitation of him.


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[Assistant] And yeah, like, his ideas living on would be much more important to him than his self living on. You know, I don't think he cares if his consciousness ever were to return to Nirn, so long as his philosophies get carried on by his disciples.


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[Assistant] Yeah, his legacy is kind of the most important thing, which would play into his ego.


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[Assistant] And even being called nerd root implies some sort of importance. The song of creation is very annoying. I think it'd be something a bit nicer.


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[Assistant] Special healing properties as well, that are kind of unexplored.


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[Assistant] Yeah. It's an interesting theory, in that you can't really say one way or the other, but it is, uh...


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[Assistant] My problem with this theory is, it's kind of like saying, if I decide to stop showering for a week, I've turned to worshipping Namira. You know what I mean? It's like, it just, it's by proxy of what they're doing and where they live, that we're making this assumption.


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[Assistant] The way I've always perceived the relationship between Perriot and Oriell and Akatosh is like, if you imagine it kind of like with the Akarova soul and it's split


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[Assistant] Almost all into like, kind of you could say different roles. I feel like Peri-ite was the part of Akatosh that was


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[Assistant] Cause there's nothing decisive about Fargrave's lore, so I really do like, I especially like the


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[Assistant] Maren Stegon idea that the failed prototype. All you really get.


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[Assistant] Built from, built from what the Deadlands looks like now. Uhm, that, that's where he would have been created, but the idea that they had a separate little realm that they just conjured up.


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[Assistant] It would be interesting if the Elder Scrolls 6 and, you know, the core Bethesda team did embrace Fargrave and make sense of it, because there's not a whole lot to go off.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a few years ago we went through it pretty extensively, but it does make sense, because you do have, uhm, you have sources suggesting that, uhm, Alid refugees pushed through into Valenwood and then eventually onto Somerset.


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[Assistant] And, uh, they, they, it's, I think it's, there's a quote that says they mingled with the, uhm, with the nobility in Somerset, and you can see kind of like them, over time,


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[Assistant] Gathering resources, gathering power, gathering political sway, and then...


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[Assistant] I mean, that would kind of suggest that a lot of the elven gods, if they're like Oriell's contemporaries, would have been also mortal. They would have been like his allies. You know, so your syrobains, your finesters and stuff.


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[Assistant] The more you spread it out, it's like, can you justify so many of these important figures, like Trinimac as well, you know, being the right hand man of Oriel, that means he would have been mortal as well,


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[Assistant] And you know, the further back in time you look, the more kind of...


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[Assistant] The less magical it becomes, so a lot of the more magical feats of these early figures like Oriel could maybe be justified at that time in history.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, you know, even if he did have more than one motivation, the Mankar Cap, sorry, the Meirin's Dagon stuff by far takes precedence in terms of what he's, like, what's clearly motivating him.


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[Assistant] I feel like Namira's too, like, nebulous of a concept to be, like, boiled down to the Night Mother and to the Dark Brotherhood's practices. To me it seems more like, you know, you've got from the Khajiit story, you have


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[Assistant] And being, when Lorcan is born in the void, born in Namira's great darkness, it corrupts an aspect of Lorcan, and you could almost, you could almost make the argument that Namira's influence


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[Assistant] Yeah, just if you're putting the disgust stuff in there, maybe that explains it, but...


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[Assistant] There is a lot of crossover between what they represent.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, the metaphor of the prism is kind of perfectly encapsulates the interplay of Anu and Padamite, like, you know, Anu being the ineffable light that can't be, that's just untainted completely and Padamite coming along is the prism that allows that to then expand into everything that comes after and it's constantly branching out from there.


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[Assistant] I mean yea, there are parallels to it, but direct correlations, not so much.


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[Assistant] Too big brain for us. It's like what?


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[Assistant] So wait. So the Argonians are essentially like the constructs, the kind of automatons. So the Shellbacks who aided the Dunmer and the Nords in the Ebonarpt were actually Dwemer. So it makes a lot more sense that the Dwemer would align with the Dunmer than the Argonians would.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Argonians are Dwemer, confirmed.


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[Assistant] And the fate is often like associated with tides, you know, that kind of, uhm, those kind of metaphors are used, so.


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[Assistant] It would be cool if like in the Elder Scrolls 6 you kind of, you do kind of like in the Phantom Menace where they go underwater and swim down to that, that old Gungan city and that's where Hamaes Mora is.


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[Assistant] If you're saying magic is dying out as in, like, the practice of magic is dying out, you could make that argument, but obviously magic itself, whether or not it's being tapped, is going to be there for people to use.


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[Assistant] Maybe yeaah, maybe it's because I look so pale in this light. I wanna say not pale.


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[Assistant] Justify why. Like, so why do you think that the events of Morrowind would have a drastic impact on the Empire? Like, I actually can't really think of anything drastic that would affect the Empire from that.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And at the end of the day, it is the, it's the Dominion who kind of set the downfall of, like obviously the downfall of the Empire is gradually happening, but it's the Dominion's fault.


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[Assistant] For it to actually get into the position it's in now, cause you know, the events of Morrowind, obviously the people who are most affected by that are the people of Morrowind. Uhm, so, while the Empire were not in conflict so much with Morrowind,


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[Assistant] Also, with the idea of the empire crumbling, if we tie it back to the oblivion crisis, if it wasn't for the oblivion crisis, you would have had...


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[Assistant] Causing way more, uhm, you know, hatred among the- the people of Morrowind. So if you don't have the Oblivion Crisis as the kind of setting in- setting in turn like losing everyone around them,


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[Assistant] The Empire could really have had quite a good thing going with House Lalu.


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[Assistant] It was pretty good. It was actually unironically pretty good. And I have to say to the commenter, it's Giorno. Who was it? Was it Michael? I bet it was Michael. It was Michael, wasn't it? It was Scott.


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[Assistant] What are we gonna start with? What are we gonna start with? The one you pick mate. The one I pick. Alright, boldcaster.


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[Assistant] There were no audio problems. In reality, you guys are secretly being contracted as lawmasters for Bethesda, thus resulting in fewer podcasts. You guys accidentally got on a long discussion about a subject too closely related to some of your suggestions for Elder Scrolls 6.


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[Assistant] So much so that cutting out the segment would result in too short of a podcast. If I'm wrong, send proof.


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[Assistant] Well, how about the idea from Valon that the Old Merry Dominion is actually an unknowing pawn of the surviving aliens who use it as a tool of vengeance against humans and the aliens.


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[Assistant] But I feel like this comment is kinda saying that they, like, are still puppeteering.


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[Assistant] At what point do they stop becoming alyds though? Cause it's kinda like if they integrate, is it just basically a kind of high elf faction or group with like a lot of


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[Assistant] A lot of these don't have heaps of evidence, but...


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[Assistant] They're like, kinda just like, maybe this is true, and it's like, yeaah, may- maybe it is.


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[Assistant] I do, I do have another theory to read that's actually also from Boldcaster and we did read this one last time and I liked it so I really want to bring that back in and that is basically that


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[Assistant] So rendering the Falmer blind and dumb was to make them, quote, subhuman and thus a less volatile soul that can be trapped in smaller gems. They could be slaves and astral livestock at the same time.


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[Assistant] PS, I don't think this is explicitly stated in the game, but if it is, I'm sorry for stating the obvious.


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[Assistant] Now, this is an interesting, interesting theory, especially considering as well that like, I remember kind of saying that the Dwemer have all these automatons and robots that can kind of build stuff and like do functions anyway, so you have to wonder why they even needed the Falmer in the


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[Assistant] It's kinda weird though, cause the Dwemer, you know, are all about their gods of reason and logic.


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[Assistant] But then, like any kind of culture or individual can do, if we are to believe what you're saying is the case, this would be a very like, not rational thing to do. It's like a big waste of resources and time just to, you know, flex. But ego, they were like- Yeah, ego, yeah, that's what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but then again, the more I think about it, it's like, I don't know, it's pretty twisted form for like malnourishment or like, you'd think if it was that poisonous, they'd just kind of die.


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[Assistant] Uh-huh. Alright, what else do we have?


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[Assistant] Just, just not about it. How about the Reaper?


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[Assistant] The Reaper is an ideal master's experiment from Killscrub. We read this one last time and...


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[Assistant] The idea is basically that after Battlespire got, you know, attacked by Dagon, the Ideal Masters started making more things than just Mistmen and Bone Men, like they have the Keepers, who, you know, they have their Dragon Bone Armor kind of things, which are hard to come by.


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[Assistant] He decided to abandon the shell so he didn't have to molt. Afterwards, his form grew more chaotic, structuralist limbs, eyes dispersing across his form, and occasional pincers as memories from his origins depicted in the apocryphal book, Delving Pincers. It is also why the Khajiit believe he lies under the sea.


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[Assistant] Now, I don't know why specifically he'd be a mudcrab, but uhm, I mean he obviously takes on a crustacean appearance in uhm, some of his shrines, which is really cool. What do you two think? Where's your mudcrab ascending to godhood evidence?


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[Assistant] Okay, look, Revyrem says, and I don't know if you two have heard of this, uhm, I think it's a Kirkbride thing, but there's a realm called, like, Marr. Basically, like, just as League is an adjacent realm, there was another unmentioned counterpart to it, referred briefly to as Marr.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and together they formed Ligma, which translates in common language as, what is it?


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[Assistant] Try it the next time you play, pick any fox and follow it, it'll take you to treasure, to hidden dungeons and valuable loot, or sometimes even just show you convenient ways through wilderness that otherwise is hard to navigate.


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[Assistant] In the ancient Nordic pantheon, the fox represents Shor. This, I dare say, strengthens the theory that the dragonborn is some kind of


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[Assistant] No, no, I've heard they do. I mean, this is not the first time I've heard that. I think that's a cool theory then, if that's true. I actually think it might be. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Oh no, apparently. Okay, this like, this is very shallow research on my part. I'm reading like Google's spit out answer back. But says no, Skyrim's foxes aren't intentionally leading you to treasure. Sadly foxes aren't interested in loot. A myth involving Skyrim and its foxes is that they take you to places, blah blah blah.


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[Assistant] I don't know, but I feel like if you follow a fox, which is like kind of coded to just run anywhere for long enough, it will run into an area that has a container that you can open that has stuff in it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Some of these gaming articles, yes, Skyrim's foxes do lead you to treasure, sort of.


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[Assistant] Okay, here is, here is the, I'm assuming the person who uhm, designed this.


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[Assistant] Like, for Bethesda, basically, the myth of the Treasure Fox is actually down to the creature's pathfinding abilities and how it was programmed to leg it from the player if it ever got spooked.


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[Assistant] He explains it in great detail, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Basically, they were designed to get frightened and run away from the player, and when they were choosing where to run, they would, thanks to a quirk of the way the map was created, head towards the parts of the map that contained the most items. Shezareen confirmed. But yea.


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[Assistant] Hey Scott, you right there. Mmhm. Just checking that you're not freezing. No. Very still.


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[Assistant] Hey, I got a theory that just makes me laugh. But, uh, Luna Athena says, I think Boris was, from Oblivion, was a mole. The only blade to survive the sewers. He knew where Joffrey was, etc.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of things about them that make you think that they were once part of the Companions, particularly their kind of reverence for Isgrimor, as opposed to them just being like, I wanna hunt werewolves. You know, they are desperately searching or trying to get these fragments of Wuthrad, which was, you know, a giant axe owned by a


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[Assistant] Uhm, and they all have, they have a chance of possessing the books, the songs of the return, which is about Isgrimor. Uhm, and obviously when you look at their actions, even like in the main story, they come in, yes, they kill Kodlak, but they kinda just run off with the fragments.


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[Assistant] Devolved in a sense from their intended kind of mission statement, if you will, like, you know, the, these proud Nords who are very like pro, what Isgrimor would stand for. And now, you know, it's like all their top members are like lycanthropes essentially who have pledged their souls to Hircine and you know, it's supposed to be a great war.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's an interesting idea in kind of principle, but you kind of figure out that you're the listener, I suppose, quite fast. Like, it's not like the guild is, um, purged or like the numbers culled, so to speak.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean the purification itself that was done in Oblivion, you'd feel like you wouldn't want something so catastrophic to be overused as a tool in the Brotherhood. Especially when some of the best


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not sure as well what would be the real reason for that. Like...


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[Assistant] Clearly, if you can't, uhm, I mean, there's the idea that, like, Mephala is the Night Mother too, and Mephala likes, kinda like, I mean, betrayal, uhm.


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[Assistant] And this kind of thing. But I don't think to the extent where you have to have such a like, perfect, perfect guild with like, nothing wrong with it. You know, it just kinda reminds me of like,


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[Assistant] You know, like I didn't put this perk in this one thing and like this was before, I mean back in the day you couldn't just like go to Apocrypha and use that thing to like reallocate your...


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[Assistant] You have perks and like basically build a new character and there was no legendary skills or anything like that where you could just bring it back down and get more perk points by like playing more.


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[Assistant] Here's, here's what I wanna talk about, something we discussed last time, but uhm, what's so funny?


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[Assistant] First of all, Trinimax was left-handed, and so is Malekath. Source, Trinimax, statues in Elder Scrolls Online, Malekath's Daggerfall appearance and statue in Elder Scrolls Online.


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[Assistant] Left-handedness is often associated with being the other throughout history, and it was seen as a flaw. Vivek went to Yakuta, who supposedly played a part in creating a race of monsters in Sermon 17.


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[Assistant] It's pretty clear the two I linked, thematically and historically, the orichalch tower was in Yakuda before a great tragedy befell it and the left-handed elves. The orcs fled to Hammerfell, only to be destroyed once again by the Yakudans. The reason why orcs don't have a homeland is because they've already lost it, it sank with their


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[Assistant] But there's no reference of that, is there? Like, of them being like, oh, this reminds me of, like, this is my ancient enemy here too, when I landed Hammerfell, right?


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[Assistant] Have you ever tried to play a left handed character?


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[Assistant] Even a small thing of having Volendrong conveniently, you know, a Dwemer-created thing claimed by Malakath is interesting as well.


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[Assistant] It makes me wonder how many people in real world history could have made multiple people and like just, you know, take some credit from one person and stack it into someone else's kind of historical record.


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[Assistant] They dislike Daedra worshipers. That's pretty cool and righteous, right?


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[Assistant] Also, we don't need an all-around Daedra killer because the Silver Hand kill werewolves.


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[Assistant] Because they kill people, good job. The dawn guard kill vampires because they kill people, fantastic work guys. But the vigil is really just all-rounders who stomp out the occasional cultists.


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[Assistant] Which would really be something for the Jarl and city guards to do if the worshipers are even breaking the law.


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[Assistant] Mulag Bao, Mehrunes Dagon, and so on are all bad, but Azura is generally portrayed as more well-meaning. The vigil also haven't done anything to the orcs who literally live in isolation and kill outsiders because a Daedra who influenced their creations tells them to.


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[Assistant] They actually try to take out vampires and get absolutely wrecked. The Skyrim branch of the Vigil was pretty much entirely destroyed after they went after an actual threat, instead of some guy worshipping Sheogorath. Why are they so bad at their job? Surely something that has roots all over Tamriel should be, I'm sure meant to say, shouldn't be so dumb.


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[Assistant] I guess what I would say to that is kinda like, yeah, but you also have to remember that like,


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[Assistant] I mean yea, maybe they are very incompetent, but there are groups all around the real world and in Tamriel who...


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[Assistant] Don't have to not exist because something else exists.


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[Assistant] It's kinda like filler void. It's kinda like saying, oh, why does this fruit shop exists? I can also buy fruit at this shop.


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[Assistant] You know, there can be lots of different groups of, uhm, you know, people who hunt different, uhm, things, and maybe their ideologies aren't always, like, extremely, extremely, like, consistent and, like, you know, have no flaws in the way they think.


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[Assistant] But yea, I mean, if you're just kinda saying they're incompetent, I'm kind of inclined to agree, like, they don't seem to be like...


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[Assistant] Look at things by scale, but you're like, oh, the dawn guided you. It's like their presence in Skyrim, especially as like random occurrences versus the vigilance is like probably five times higher.


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[Assistant] No, even without that, they- the dawn guard do show up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, that's what I was saying at the start about the fruit shop kind of idea. I mean, as, um, Obedient Dormat came back and hopped in the comments here and said,


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[Assistant] I don't think they're enti- like, you know, they- they're about a faith, they're like a community, you know, there's lots of different cults and communities that kind of may follow a certain deity and- and a lot of their lifestyle is about doing good by this deity, not necessarily like where the spec ops of Daedra are hunting and like all day long where like,


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[Assistant] I don't think there's enough lore on Restoration, is there? There's not like a good amount of...


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[Assistant] Hey, I just thought of a fantastic video idea. I'll make a video that says why restoration is a valid school of magic worthy of study.


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[Assistant] I could imagine doing that but, and you actually drop some like really good restoration lore.


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[Assistant] I agree, but also just hold onto that thought. Is Colette Marantz like that meme well known? Or am I just like too much into it? Like everyone knows the quote, like, you consider restoration a valid school of magic.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I dunno, it kinda gets down to like why do people swing swords if you can just shoot lightning bolts.


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[Assistant] Magic are intensive, to be honest. They're better used in a healing temple of sorts.


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[Assistant] That's why I wasn't a huge fan of some of the dragon shouts actually. Because a lot of them were just like, mages can do this. Like it was cool that it didn't cost Magikarp and that a warrior could kind of just like, shoot out some fire from their mouth. Really cool. But like, I wish there were more of the unique effects that couldn't just be like, thought of as, you know, like at least Iceform and Capsule


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[Assistant] But, but the ice has to last, like maybe that's actually really hard, I mean it does fade away after a certain amount of time.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I mean they actually do use, you wanna have some world building knowledge of the Elder Scrolls. They actually, some people do use ice wraith teeth. Yeaah. To kinda like put around their alchemical ingredients and keep them fresh. Yeaah. Huh, that's cool.


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[Assistant] But it's like not a super widespread thing, but if you know, you know. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And we do, as one of the comments asks, what are their color combinations, and do they sleep in the same placement as their webcams? That would put you in the middle, Drew. And whatever, Scott, whatever colors you put around us, make sure they're Powerpuff Girls.


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[Assistant] Alright, well thank you everyone for watching, social media links are in the description, and we look forward to nerding out with you again very soon.


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[Assistant] What is up ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Fudge Muppet, I'm Scott here with Michael Drew. As always, this is the Elder Scrolls Podcast, and today we are doing a part two of the Elder Scrolls Conspiracies, where you guys have sent in conspiracies that you have about the Elder Scrolls universe, and we're sort of like, assessing them, I guess is the nice way to put it, you know? So uhm.


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[Assistant] Well, he, he's, we'll, we'll start with, like, someone's gonna get the, like, most recent sort of comments, okay? I'm just gonna read one of the top ones, because, yeah, okay. So, DezGash says,


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[Assistant] The thawed out mammoth carcass in Winterhold shows that the province is going through a period of warming, and in previous games the entirety of Skyrim was said to be snowy, but now it's only year round in the north.


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[Assistant] It's not unreasonable to assume that once the Sea of Ghosts was entirely frozen over, and this may have only ended due to seismic activity or heat from the Red Mountain over thousands of years, but it had an accelerated pace since the Red Year. The reasons the cliffs of Winterhold eroded so fast during the Great Collapse was probably because the permafrost and glacier had been thawing for centuries,


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[Assistant] Or perhaps Tamriel and Atmora were only linked by seasonal ice like the Arctic that bridged the gap between Atmora, Roscria, and Solstheim Skyrim peninsulas that have since eroded into islands. This may have been why the Kamal invaded Skyrim because they long ago, uhm,


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[Assistant] Also, the reason the Skjall religion likely became so culturally distinct from the other Nordic religions was because when the ice sheet retreated, they would have been isolated for millennia until new waves of Atmorrans arrived by ship, maybe something similar.


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[Assistant] In parts, but I think uhm, because, what do they call it, is it the bearing straight one? The one between Russia and the U.S., where they theorize that's how humans first got into the Americas, though there's plenty of theories around, but also,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean, I think often it is land bridge things, like the ice has frozen up more of the water, so more of the land's exposed, so like how you could walk from like Germany to Ireland, like, cause it was all above, I think like 10,000 years ago or something.


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[Assistant] By the way too, I'm pretty sure, cause I just wanna like, just to make sure everyone's uhm...


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[Assistant] Up to, up to speed, but I'm pretty sure out of most maps, there's no app, like most maps of Atmora and Akavir and so on are all based off like either word things or sort of speculation. Like I'm pretty sure we only get Tamriel and Yakuta is the only other thing that's like being on a physical map, like a canon map that we've seen.


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[Assistant] So I don't know if we actually know the distance of Atmora to Skyrim.


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[Assistant] Well that was saying it's going for warming, right? Like that it's warming now. It used to be colder.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but saying that like, I guess the idea there was that, that if way back when everything was actually like, there was a, it was colder, so there was more of an ice age kind of thing.


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[Assistant] I think even the name translates to Elderwood, which, you know, as in like woods and so on. And I know that the companions, one of the lines they say, uhm, I think as Kodlak says it, when you get inducted into the circle and it says something about like distant green summers and like, like that could be a real,


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[Assistant] You know, bounty fertility, but the one thing too is like there was in, at least in the mythological.


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[Assistant] Wondered back and forth there. Like I, I, we've made videos before suggesting that perhaps the Nords are actually telling like their truth or there's a mythological truth to it that they were breathed onto the world at the throat of the world by kine.


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[Assistant] But then, uhm, you know, there was all the wars and stuff with the Old and Wandering Elnife, but then they got trapped on this side when the Sundering occurred, so they got trapped on the Antmorin side, so in that way they are like returning home. That could also just be complete like Nordic propaganda and mythology, but you know.


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[Assistant] What's the, but what's the motivation? What's the, uh, modus operandi as they say in legal studies?


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[Assistant] Also the other thing that just doesn't stack up to me is also that the Thalmor are in the dark about the dragons. They don't understand the full extent of all of that, uhm, and all of that going on, so.


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[Assistant] Cause this involves, like, that they know about Parthenax, and then they know that he's the Stone Tower, like, they, they should know, like, Thalmor intel should have way more on the dragons, if this were to be true.


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[Assistant] But even like, Elenwerner and all of them, like basically no Thalmor then in Skyrim, so unless it's like, Delphine's working for some highest super echelon of the Thalmor back in Somerset, but then it's like, why is a random X-Blade Breton woman working?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Like her motives for killing the dragons are all based on like old sort of dragon guard kind of vibe things, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, hold on. Okay, here we go. Bad luck. Conspiracy. The Underforge is the original forge built by Hircine to support Lork.


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[Assistant] And the wandering Elnife during the war against Oriell and the old Elnife. Kain, the hawk, and her followers build a monument, the Skyforge, over this structure to cover up her scene and his followers' contributions to the war.


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[Assistant] Sooo, I mean, it could, it could be, it's hard, sometimes this is a problem.


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[Assistant] They feared it and they thought it was the gods, it was like made by the gods, like before them, because this is pre, it predates the, um, Atmor in Arrival, but if there was that sort of idea that the wandering Elnife like, you know, which is like the proto-proto-proto-humans or whatever were there,


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[Assistant] First, and then they build that forge. Like, this is the time that's talking about.


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[Assistant] Even though, even the hawk though, even if you treat it like maybe, I don't know, but the whole hawk thing too doesn't necessarily have to be associated with kind. Like if you treat it as more a hawk, you think could be associated with like, I mean like,


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[Assistant] Some Aurel type thing or, or even just honestly, it could just be another representation of like, if you look at, um,


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[Assistant] You know, it's Stendar being praised as uhm.


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[Assistant] As a, as a whale, uhm, or whatever, isn't universal. It's Stendar, isn't it? The whale.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause Sun's the bear. Um, yeah, like, you know, that's not a universal symbolic representation of him. It's a Nordic specific representation, or like not everyone sees Dibella as a moth or, or Mara as a wolf. So.


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[Assistant] It doesn't necessarily have to be a kind thing, but yeah, like maybe it is the underforge was built for that, but maybe it was to some other, maybe it was just wasn't actually two separate, like one built than the other. It might've just been a.


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[Assistant] I don't know, sometimes people just, you know, copy things that are around, and if you see hawks in the sky, they're like, yeah, these are the symbols, the animals I have access to, I'm gonna make monuments and stuff.


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[Assistant] That one's just too hard to, I think, really like dive deep into because it's so myth, it's so based far back in mythology, you know what I mean? Like it's, there's nothing to, um, ground it outside.


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[Assistant] There's a, there's another one by Dezgesh, this is becoming the Dezgesh podcast. But this is, it might be decent, I've only read the tagline, but uhm, Conspiracy. The Stormcloaks were the ones who attempted to reanimate Potima in Skyrim, led by the Windhelm court wizard Woonferth the Unliving.


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[Assistant] As the last surviving direct descendant of Tiber Septim, Patima has the strongest claim to the throne of the Empire. In the Pocket Guide to the Third Empire Edition, it states that there is a strong underground movement called the Horm that believes Patima and her deposed son of Uriel III, uhm,


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[Assistant] To be the last of Tiber Septum's true blood and under the principle these raids against imperial interests in the province. In the fourth era, this group must have been even more dissatisfied with the Mede dynasty of emperors that have no relation to Tiber Septum.


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[Assistant] Being so devoted to Talos, this group almost certainly aligned with the Stormcloaks. This would explain why Ulfric has a court wizard when he has a disdain for magic and why his name is Wunferth the Unliving.


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[Assistant] Wunferth is obviously a necromancer, as he recognizes the necromancer amulet in the blood on the ice quest, and Wunferth is likely the leader of Horn, and is it Horn?


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[Assistant] I just thought of this myself, but I can't remember if someone said something similar earlier, so sorry if so, not trying to steal credit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, Patima, uhm, I guess it's an interesting sort of, uh, idea too, cause if she did come back, but then,


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[Assistant] I don't know if that would align with Ulfric's sort of deal.


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[Assistant] Cause like their version of Talos is like this kind of like, you know, Adra, like Nordic war hero kind of thing, true empire kind of stuff. Patima was like, you know, she went off the deep end with like armies of, of raised undead and Daedra and so on and she was just trying to hold on to.


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[Assistant] Power. Power and so on. During the War of the Red Diamond, there was a big, like, split and so on, uhm, between the dynasty.


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[Assistant] He's putting out disinformation though, he's trying to throw us off the course. Classic.


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[Assistant] Ashlander names are variously Assyrian-inspired slash ripped straight from a particular name or place name, and due to their lifestyle and geographical location, might be seen as a useful language isolate, like the mountainous Basque people for non-Indo-European languages of the real world. Uh, Dwemeruans minus some...


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[Assistant] Okay, some consonants and the occasional, this is getting technical. Maybe I have to flash this one up. It's, I don't know how, I don't know what.


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[Assistant] They're two letters. Uhm, and the occasional odd consonant clusters look and might be pronounced like ancient Sumerian and Assyrian language. Maybe this is because the Dwemer were close to the Velothi people economically or culturally before the conflicts in Rezdain, but I prefer the idea that the Dwemer were just another Khmer house, merely profane enough to warrant treaties to keep peace.


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[Assistant] Of course, due to their lack of religious beliefs, the temple would want to distance themselves from the Dunmer people as much as possible.


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[Assistant] I think the Dwemer people meant that. There isn't an uhm, there isn't a powerful living Dwemer stealing the power of Godhood like Dagoth. They can s- they-


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[Assistant] They can simply call Shaman and be done with it, so they other the Dwemer instead to create a more pure Dunmer history and further down the Sixth House for working with Outlanders. Okay, you've got a little messy. I'm getting the essence there is that they were trying to make some kind of connection.


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[Assistant] Like they could, because originally it's described, they were described as like another house.


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[Assistant] But the Dwemer and Kaima, like, he could have been born well after that, like, before the distinctions, sort of.


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[Assistant] One thing to maybe like throw a little bit of a bone to it as well is that, you know, saying that the sort of like Sumerian sort of derived feeling names and so on.


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[Assistant] Dunmer Ashlander names, which we can make the assumption they are closer to perhaps original Chima names or something, cause otherwise where they come from or something like that. But they're all pretty, I don't know if they're the exact, like, I'm not a language expert or so on, but there's a lot more Ahars, Amuran, like, Musan, like,


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[Assistant] You know, uh, Minnesota, uh, maybe their heart now has or something like similar sort of complicated sort of, uh, like,


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[Assistant] Actually, just throw it there, but uhm, I was just reading and someone put together a post on-


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[Assistant] Oh, they're like the, but, I don't know what the comments were saying.


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[Assistant] Babylonian, referred to them as, which they're all Sumerian origin. Oh no.


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[Assistant] I mean, look, dude, he's a name, like a Persian name, like Ahura Mazda as a god, but like zeds and stuff do get used or Nebuchadnezzar is like, I forgot which one, but it's one of those, um, things. Like they do have some, like, interesting, like, I don't know what it like ancient. What does he say?


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[Assistant] But yea, but what I was kinda like, I guess anyway, like, we could get the technicalities of it and so on, and at the end of the day, this is just like, oh, they're like, if you take the inspiration from it, but doesn't make like a in-world connection necessarily. However, you could probably argue that there's like, that the names of the Dwemer, like, places or stuff or something might be closer.


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[Assistant] To the Ashlanders, then the Ashlanders are close to modern... Velothi names? Dunmer names?


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[Assistant] The Babylonian names is things like Ardorak, Kara Indash, Kurigalzu, like there's like Nabunazir, Nebuchadnezzar.


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[Assistant] Just to throw, like, just some of the names, like, you're looking at the lists of, like, there are, like, things, like, in the Dwemba, like, Brazefk and Mithas, and, like, some of these kind of, like, there were some names I was looking at before that sound, so.


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[Assistant] But any other NCH, I don't know, all of those kind of ones remind me of like- I mean, how's the Dwarf a Dwarf anyway?


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[Assistant] I mean, obviously too, they're like smi- look, I think a big truth of it too is they're probably like throwing in a decent amount of like, uh, Lord of the Rings style, Dwemer style energy into it all. Yeah. But yeah. Um. Yeah, man.


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[Assistant] That's why Bob Francis 123. But some of these are like, I don't know if this is a deep conspiracy, like conspiracy, the thing about conspiracy, it's kind of like shown.


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[Assistant] I dunno, conspiracy? I feel like you gotta, like, put more things together. Like, I kinda could be, but I don't necessarily know if he has to be to work alongside him.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to think, I'm trying to like scan through some of these, cause some of these are very like, uh, one line.


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[Assistant] Then you can see the Shivering Isles trying to break through to Tamriel because of Jiggle Egg's sword, so maybe Sjograth is hiding bits of his power all around so he can never return. I guess it's not really conspiracy as much as Liko's trying to return.


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[Assistant] I mean, we'd be down to do that, but like, give us a comprehensive list. Cause like, off the top of my head, I can only think of sort of like, Nazeem, YA, Shay Ogora. All your hated characters.


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[Assistant] Adoring fan. Wait, wait. Oh, just the girl. Well, there's lots of memes been around her. She's just a little bratty, like, running around and so on. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Like, and his aim's supposed to be an annoying character, but the reason he has so much meme potential is just because of...


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[Assistant] Look, uh, obviously Starfield got delayed, so 2023, uh, 2028 sort of seems like the like safest potential bet for Elder Scrolls 6 or something, or like, I don't know, man. But what I'm saying is gonna be a long way off, but it's gonna be crazy to see the scale difference, like surely, cause you cannot wait.


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[Assistant] But at the time, I was really like, kind of like, oh, so like, and I knew it was thrown like that, but I'm like, whoa, we may be getting Starfield like a 2021 kind of thing, like three years from the announcement point away.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, I feel like we're kinda out. I'm like, I'm reading over some of them, but sometimes it's like, I need to like have a good look at them first to see if they're...


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[Assistant] Cause it's the most sort of acceptable kind of one. And I don't know, maybe I'm only speaking, I have no idea. Cause I can't remember if it was said in Morrowind as like a line, like when you bump into people, but it would make more sense referencing Azura in Dunmer culture.


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[Assistant] But hers aren't even that strong. I think she goes there, I don't think you have to be there, I think you can meet her there.


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[Assistant] She does, but you get- but like, the thing is, like, like, any person, like, that's the- that's part of what makes vampires, like, scary anyway, uh, at least in mythology and stuff, is they're supposed to be able to blend in, you don't immediately know that they're a- that they're a vampire with, like, giant-


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[Assistant] I mean, it's immediately quite interesting to talk about the fact that they're associated with Malacath, because


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[Assistant] Other than their appearance, not much really ties them all together, except for the fact that Malakath is the god of the awesomer. Which, there's gonna be a whole argument about the connection between the orcs and the goblin ken as well. So, it is a strange situation.


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[Assistant] I always got the impression that, you know, no offence to the Goblin Ken, but they're not really of the level of intelligence to seriously think too hard about the god they worship. It's more...


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[Assistant] It's probably more ideas that they would worship and sim- it'd be- it's much more tribal in nature as opposed to looking at Malakath as their father figure. I feel like Malakath probably- it's more likely that Malakath was imposed upon them than them choosing him for themselves.


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[Assistant] And that's the thing, when you're dealing with the, kind of, the myth of, of Boethiah consuming Trinimac, it's the ultimate embarrassment. And in, in Old Merry Society on Somerset, there's really no class.


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[Assistant] And there's an example of them using runes as well, right, like carving into an obelisk face in the western reach. There is? There is like- Sorry. No, I was pretty much gonna say that it's like, you can almost- I'm not trying to assert that they could have been as intelligent as say the snow elves, but you can see how like, the subjugation


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it like, I guess it also does come down to the temperament of certain animals, like the idea that we were able to tame horses, but not like zebras. Yeah. Because they were, they've got such a difficult temperament, it was just never done. Yeah. But uhm, you know, maybe these derzogs were actually quite nice. Maybe, well, to goblins, yeah.


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[Assistant] It's like, it's conflating intelligence with sophistication, like the idea that if you're sophisticated high elf who has like straight shoulders and, you know, 12 piece cutlery sets, then, uh, for every dinner, then you're more intelligent than other, than other creatures. But it's not necessarily the case, depends, as we've gone over it, depends on your needs and things like that.


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[Assistant] Pretty much couldn't come up against a more difficult foe, and they, really, like, it was very close for a lot of the time, and, is it, uhm, Frendar Hunding's son dies to an orc tribe, right, battling an orc tribe, so that they are formidable. They're not just, you know, dangerous animals to slay.


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[Assistant] And when you got tribal societies, you're not


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[Assistant] Really document- documenting your knowledge and history for other people to see. You don't have architecture or anything that's going to last and endure and be remembered as your kind of achievements. You're just gonna have the word of mouth between


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[Assistant] Oh, it's- Oh, okay, yeaah, for some reason I thought it was his son, but right, okay, good, good, good.


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[Assistant] It's funny how we have evidence that goblins communicate, and you know, they have their own language, but the only words that


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[Assistant] Uhm, the other races of, the more sophisticated races of Tamriel know them for saying, uh, words like master, and shit, and like their way of yelling. That's, they're basically the words ergola, maluku, and mulk. Maluku. It's like, maluku means poop. Nice. To the goblins.


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[Assistant] And if they do have cultural exchange, it's probably just mimicking some of the things they see from the nords, like the skull and you know, like, and a lot of it is just practical, um, application of, you know, furs and things like that, which is some of the main things that separate them from the goblins. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they see some kind of cultural significance in the use of magic. You know, beyond just, oh, this is just another way to kill.


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[Assistant] Well, that's, that's the point, I guess, is that it's not just like, it's not purely


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[Assistant] You're saying we're essentially, we're essentially goblins who just stumbled across better tech.


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[Assistant] What do you make of ogrims then? Which is a slightly unusual, cause you've got the Daedra.


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[Assistant] They're not, they are not their own unique race. They're probably, as is the case with a lot of Daedra, are kind of a mimic of a real life creature. So using the ogres in the world. And they serve princes like Molag Bal and Mephala, not necessarily Malakath, but Malakath still takes patronage of the


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[Assistant] Um, Daedra who don't like Malacath or don't like the Orcs and kind of create this like, because it's, they're immediately described as like low intelligence, fat-faced, ugly ogres.


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[Assistant] And it's like, hm, it's almost like they want to laugh at these things. So they have them. And Sanguine has them as like, bounces at his parties. It's like, they're just ridiculous.


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[Assistant] It's a weird, yeaah, it's a stylistic choice for the ogrim. Guess they are fashion conscious. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Are you saying that's not a great design? The one image we have of a gremlin?


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[Assistant] When you said wraps, I was just imagining their language, how that would, how that would work for wraps, but you meant wraps as in like with a W. Sorry. Don't worry.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like goblin freestyling. Yeah, do you wanna do a goblin?


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay, rain check on that, but we will do it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we kinda need to have conversations with goblins to get a better idea, but-


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[Assistant] Holy shit, that's a- Miles, I didn't realize that you were that close to the big 4-0. That's crazy.


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[Assistant] That's the thing, I saw the tweet yesterday where you're like, somebody said to you, do these guys have a high enough MMR to be taken seriously as commentators and or...


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[Assistant] So if you guys are like 1.5k MMR and you're commenting on people with 500 MMR, that's probably okay, right?


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[Assistant] Well, it just shows the skill cap in Dota 2, like they say that it's probably got the highest skill cap of any game out there right now that's played competitively, right? So it just shows, you guys have like 5,000 hours.


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[Assistant] I've got 828 hours of Dota 2 and I suck balls. Like I can, I barely win games. Like I have to play really easy heroes in like really easy roles where I'm just like, I have my handheld or whatever. Like I can't play carry. I can't kill people as a carry. I mean, I can't do shit in that game.


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[Assistant] I like, I like the destination though. I like it. That's nice, like destination, you know, the gutter.


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[Assistant] We're enslaving and seducing natives. You guys can like Attenborough that shit too, you can just be like.


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[Assistant] It is, yeaah, that's a tough one actually. I mean, I tend to think that you guys have it already in what PFLAX has called it. The most basic descriptive title. It's very specific. It does what it says on the tin and that's important nowadays, right?


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[Assistant] What should that be, Sips? Lewis, Perian, Flax, and Sips. Uhm, do an introduction, talk about the name of a podcast, talk about some game stuff, do some questions, and then they're done.


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[Assistant] Or if you're a member of the mafia, sometimes they will call you fully Christopher.


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[Assistant] They'll only shorten Anthony to Tony, but everything else they will say in full, for some reason.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they- yeah, that's it, they'll make it even longer. Whereas most people want to shorten a name,


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[Assistant] You know, just to sort of save time and effort and stuff like that. The mafia have no problem making it even longer.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, they have to give them nicknames within their actual names. Like you could have like Jimmy Filoni and he says everything twice. So they'll call him like Jimmy two times Filoni sort of thing. And then they will fully call him that every time as well. It's crazy.


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[Assistant] And it's all from the Sopranos, which is obviously-