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[Assistant] Five, six, seven, eight. The thing is, nine, ten, eleven. Because it counts, uhm, it counts the College of Winterhold. No, it counts the College of Winterhold. So if you count the College of Winterhold, there's a lot more, but like, the College of Winterhold has a higher population than the actual


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[Assistant] Look, anyway, also, like I said, there's more, like, it's hard to distinguish. It really does depend on how much you, like, weight in the College of Winterhold itself, but if you, if you,


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[Assistant] No, but I think that's a pretty good list. I think that's a pretty solid, respectable list. Like, even if you, even if people like, oh, like a placement or something, I don't think anyone's gonna necessarily be like, be able to strongly argue, for example, Windhelm's number one.


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[Assistant] I feel like we're pretty firmly it's not number one. I feel like people could do that for Whiterun over Markarth.


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[Assistant] It made the ideal Skyrim and redesigned everything and so on, but conceptually have a look at that for the holds of the smaller towns and so on. Like there's ways to execute Morthal better and Winterhold and so on. Like even, I even ran with it, like running with the Winterhold idea. Like the idea was instead that you have it actually being


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[Assistant] Uh, it's great towns and cities, uh, mods, um, do a really good job of.


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[Assistant] Outside of the college itself, it doesn't really look like there used to be this big grand city there, whereas, cause if there was, like you'd kinda want ruins crumbling into the- Like the moda.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure if that's another mod. That might be JK Skyrim or something. The greater towns and cities I think is just the small poorly done cities, but another mod. I guess at the end of the day.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, it doesn't, it'd be interesting to do, uh, I mean people can see if they want it, but uhm, like Cyrodiil's best city is like Oblivion, in the time of Oblivion, cause I wonder if there would be some interesting stuff there. I don't know, but then once again though, I kinda feel like, well not once again, but I feel like Imperial cities are pretty clear.


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[Assistant] Alright, well thank you very much for listening, ladies and gentlemen.


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[Assistant] Let's rank ESO cities. I unironically will, but I reckon one of you two will chicken out first.


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[Assistant] Oh, absolutely. Uhm, one thing we can kind of, I'm just going to say because we're actually going with the gameplay, right? We'll put Kvatch at the bottom because it's ruined. It's completely ruined. Like theoretically it could be a cool city.


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[Assistant] I would put, I still kind of think, as much as there's some I have preferences over, I think Imperial City is still like, it's just the biggest, has the most attention, the most central.


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[Assistant] I would kinda, I kinda like laying on a little more, like.


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[Assistant] It's not, no any high, high, high, but I, I do...


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[Assistant] I do like it. Like even the Argonian Khajiit sort of conflict in terms of feeling. Oh, by the way, this is the other thing. All of the cities feel more like cities, not necessarily because of just the size or something, but the feeling like, oh, there's the walls, they separate districts, wells, there's plenty of shops.


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[Assistant] They also, oh, here's your local guild of each respective place. It makes every place feel a little bit more full and lively. Every place has a chapel.


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[Assistant] Some of them are in retrospect too, I can say as well, but like, I'm...


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[Assistant] I see, as a kid I really liked Bruma because I was like a Nord character. I'm like, yeah, you're like a Bruma, you know, Nord. And it's cool that you can get your like statue there and so on. But if I'm actually looking at like a lot of the ones that I find the most interesting, I'd probably put Bruma pretty low.


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[Assistant] But I will say in it, uhm, the one thing about that adds to Coral for most people I think would imagine is that it's very quest related. You go to Wain and Priory, turn the Amulet of Kings, naturally you go to the city next door. So a lot of people have a lot of memories in Coral. I know I do. Yeah, and there's also-


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I think in terms of, it's funny when you actually go back and look at coral, there's actually a funny amount of like empty kind of space inside the walls.


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[Assistant] Coral last, and then I would consider, uh, I would- Bruma? I would consider Bruma, then.


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[Assistant] Oh, um, Skyblivion, well they're kind of both doing ambient Skyrim.


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[Assistant] I think just real quick, I think with these lists, the hardest part is getting the middle. So I think it's easier to close it in from both sides. So I would kind of put like, if we were going from the bottom, if we kind of go like, uh, okay, we can put Coral and Bruma kind of.


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[Assistant] I kinda don't like, Breville in retrospect, I kinda liked it cause you could jump on the roofs. That was bad as a kid, like the really thing. But in terms of actually going back to it, to really...


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[Assistant] And it's got a bit of a shanty vibe to it, which is kinda cool. But it's really... Ugly. I don't know. Like, I would rather-


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[Assistant] You go in, you got the Countess who tortures Argonians and stuff behind the scenes. Oh, I forgot about that. Um, but then you've also, I just liked the actual layout of Leowen. I mean, you should check out the Sky Bolivian trailer. Like the way that they've redone it, enhanced it even more. It looks really cool.


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[Assistant] The reason I would say Coral and Bruma are the most plain. They're the most geni- possibly generic kind of one.


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[Assistant] The cities I liked being in most were things like Anvil and Skingrad. And when I did have a Nord obsessed character, I did go into Broome because I had this like Nord obsessed character, but it was a very role playing angle.


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[Assistant] Right near Bruma. But remember, for the same reason, it's not necessary, for the same reason discounting Azura's statue, it's not an implicit sort of like connection to, it's not like, oh here's your white run guard tower.


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[Assistant] I mean, to be honest, you could, I don't really, I don't really care about Breville that much. I actually don't like being in Breville as much. Yeah. Like you could jump around as a kid, like, yeah, I'm jumping from roof to roof, but really that's not a, it's not a pretty city. It's a really ugly city.


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[Assistant] Although I do kinda like, I think Anvil's still pr- I- I- I would probably put Anvil then Skingrad, cause just purely based on the aesthetic, and also by the dock, there's lots of like early fighters guild memories for me, and- and the majors guild quests there, but,


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[Assistant] Uhm, also the Knights of the Nine Chapel thing and also the Bannerous Manor and also like, you know, you go out to the ship and there's that ship with the ghosts on it and like, I dunno, Anvil for me and the golden grasses around it, I really like the Gold Coast.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's right, there's that too. I also remember the, oh, and also, you know, it has a lighthouse, like, so it has a bit of a harbor going on, and I like, I don't know why it stuck with me, but the armorer there, the blacksmith, he just had a really good setup, he looked like wealthy in his armor out there, I don't know, it just, it just looked like a really good setup.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but Anvil feels a little more affluent as well and I just, which makes it have more expenses.


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[Assistant] I really like skingrad 2 or so on, but I think the palace at the top of the hill with the vampire count stuff really does weigh it for me. And also like, you know, around it there's like, you know, vignettes and stuff. Best player home.


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[Assistant] If you actually look at the, the layout of it, when you go from the middle, it's really, it's really plain. This is big thing running through the middle. I understand why it's there, but Skingrad in parts looks more city-like, but then in other parts, it kind of a little more.


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[Assistant] I think I would just because I really enjoyed being in there and there's all the rich shops and stuff and there's the kind of like some of the bars even when you kind of like go up the stairs and then you go in the door and then go down like skin grad's got a nice layout still like don't get me wrong it's still a top tier. The party quest.


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[Assistant] Can I, I'll put my case forward, weirdly enough, I'm putting a case forward for Leowen, like none of these are really particularly fair, I like them all, but the reason I like Leowen too, it-


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[Assistant] If, uh, in weird way it makes it, if, maybe we could argue this, maybe I haven't thought it through enough, but it feels the most, um,


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[Assistant] Like kinda lived in or city, like there's he's a little shanty area with the Argonians and Khajiit and so on and he's like a like chapel area with the guild and stuff and then there he's the palace and then the palace was pretty big from memory and like


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[Assistant] I kind of like its situation too, it's like kind of an important area at the bottom of the river and then the swamp area around it's kind of cool because I like it's just, oh, it's this, it's this big city in the middle of the swamp. Whereas Breville looks really like a raggedy rag, it's just not that good on the side of the river.


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[Assistant] On the other things, to me, Coral feels really rural of a city.


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[Assistant] In the way that there's lots of flat space out, there's the one ring where the guilds are.


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[Assistant] But then there's like, you- I've ne- I never really spent much time, I never went to the- had much reason to go to the palisade coral, and then there's that random like shack where the-


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[Assistant] Uhm, sorry, Mordren, isn't it? The Fighters Guild Dark Elf guy is in his house. Yeaah. There, like that area is just more sort of shaggy kind of parts, which I don't mind, I get it's a poorer sort of area, but there's these huge fields of grass behind it and stuff, it just feels a little less, I don't know, coral feels less lively.


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[Assistant] Doesn't feel, uhm, necessarily as hyper lively either. It feels like a northern...


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[Assistant] Frontiery sort of city kind of thing and it's dense like, I don't know, I just, I prefer the layout of Leyland to Bruma, like the actual physical walking around.


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[Assistant] Oh, also the ever scamp kind of thing in there, like the staff ever scamp. I didn't like that too. Okay, well then I think this might just be a bit of a subjective thing too, like you don't like those quests. But like even the majors guild layouts and stuff, like a lot of the layouts of the houses themselves in Leyland are quite cool and nice.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, I don't know, I just kinda, I kinda liked, uhm, I-I-I wouldn't put Laywin above, below.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the reason I wouldn't include Mournhold for doing Morrowind is only because when you do go in the Tribunal DLC, you're only going into a small sort of section of it, like the small tiniest bit, like it's not...


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[Assistant] I really like Vivec City and I think it's the biggest thing that feels like a city. It's the most city feeling and when you actually play like Morrowind back in the day and like you've got to account for like yeaah, okay, in terms of like gameplay like there's not


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[Assistant] As many chattering characters as stuff in like future cities and future Bethesda games and stuff, or they don't move around necessarily as much. But walking through when there's all the canals and the ordinators and the boat, you look, you literally have ferrymen that will take you from spot to spot going up to the temple of Avek. It's got a meteor hanging above it. It's all floating in the water.


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[Assistant] I've got my take, personally. I don't know if you- what do you think I'm thinking?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I agree. I agree. I actually like Alderaan more because another one of those things, but Alderaan feels more...


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[Assistant] Like a, like a city, city. If you actually look at the layout of Satrath Mora, there's the big Telvanni tower in the middle and there's the Telvanni in there, right? There is a little bit of the port, but then there's the, there's the market with the, like the slaves and stuff in there.


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[Assistant] There's not as much outside of that, it's like this very sort of hilly, rurally kind of feel and so on, and as you go around, it doesn't feel like, it doesn't have the same like,


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[Assistant] Clustered, I guess, environment that I like in cities, but when you have Alderaan, you've got the walls and the silt strait at the front, but then you've got like all of the different houses all around just sort of layering up.


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[Assistant] And then there's Temple over there and then you get up to the, to Scar itself and Scar is like deep when you go inside and there's lots going on. So I think-


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[Assistant] Uhm, the classic Reterran architecture too is really cool. That's, dude, the other day, I think, I think Morrowind has the best cities of them all in terms of, uhm,


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[Assistant] The closest that we've come since, I think, is Markarth, because it's like, oh, Dwemer ruined something interesting.


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[Assistant] But, but beyond that, like Alderaan has a giant, eh, the architecture's already interesting, but then there's this giant crab, the, the council chambers and stuff you go into. Instant, like, what the hell's that? You got Vivec City, these pontoon cities with a living god there and a floating meteor that is also doubles as a jail for heretics. Like, and then you've got, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, Giant Mushroom Towers and Saturth Mora and so on. Balmora you could argue is a bit more of a standard sort of city, but it's already got interesting that like,


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[Assistant] You can't even do them, they just don't look like that anymore. I think you could do them. But they look so similar.


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[Assistant] Alright, well this turned into a longer podcast and we included, I'm still gonna call it ranking Skyrim series. For views! And then we're just gonna do the bonus ones.


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[Assistant] Just looks better in general across the board. Just for the aesthetic of the whole game.


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[Assistant] What's your take, Drew? None of them are particularly interesting. I think...


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[Assistant] Skyrim is the most iconic, because I think it's probably the only one that


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[Assistant] Just looking at it as iron armor, you could probably place it in the province. You know, even though if we're talking Vikings, there shouldn't be horns, but you know what I mean. Uhm, I think Skyrims is the most interesting to look at, but at the same time, to me personally, Morrowinds is the coolest. Like, if I had to wear it, that's the one I'd wear.


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[Assistant] Although, one last thing on iron, if we're going to talk in any way about practicality, Skyrims is probably the weakest because you get both your arms chopped off.


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[Assistant] I mean, if we are including steel plate, I really like the steel plate from Skyrim. I love the helmet from Skyrim. So are we counting that here or is that a separate section?


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[Assistant] The general steel armor for Skyrim I'm not a fan of whatsoever. And it doesn't, yeah, it's very boring looking. I don't think anyone chooses to wear steel armor in Skyrim. It's just Lydia's armor.


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[Assistant] I think, I think Morrowind is nicer than Oblivion, but something about the entire art style of Oblivion. Steel armor looks really clean and pristine and it suits the kind of knight wearing it more than any of the other games. So I'm leaning towards Oblivion.


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[Assistant] In oblivion as well. I think the bassinet is what sells it for, for Morrowind. Yea, like closed helmets do look cooler than having your, especially in oblivion with your goofy face, your goofy face hanging out.


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[Assistant] Alright. I think there's going to be a trend of, I mean, I don't want to predict too soon, but I think Oblivion, it's going to be hard to throw them bones. So when it's close, I'm going to maybe be a little biased towards Oblivion.


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[Assistant] I feel like in both games to an extent it was intentionally boring.


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[Assistant] It's kind of almost supposed to be low level gear that you rapidly get past.


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[Assistant] There's probably lots of mods for tight lever I'm sure you could find.


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[Assistant] Can you count, uh, coluvian fur helms as fur armor? Ugh, I guess you could.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think I'd lean towards Oblivion as well. Hmmmm.


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[Assistant] Fur armor often gets overshadowed by the fact that there are some cool fur variants, you know, like your armor of the old gods, your saviors hide, things like that. You rarely will wear fur armor if you have


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[Assistant] The variance definitely sells it. I think if you could only compare one to another, maybe it's closer, but all of the helmets are so fascinating in Morrowind. Yeaah. I think Morrowind definitely.


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[Assistant] Neater. Especially when, you know, you told the story of how bone mould was supposedly created as well.


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[Assistant] I think Bone Mold is up there with potentially one of the coolest kinds of armor in the whole series. Even if we're not comparing it against itself, if we're comparing it to other armors in general.


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[Assistant] It looks salvaged, yeaah. Like things aren't form-fitting and you can almost get the idea that they came from completely different machines that have been repurposed.


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[Assistant] The Skyrim face is so iconic. And I think if you removed all the lore and you were just looking at these in a line up and you had no context, Oblivion wins it for me in terms of just looking cool. But there are aspects about it that I don't really, that's not how I envision the dwarves.


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[Assistant] This isn't like Lord of the Rings where the dwarves are inherently like, kind of...


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[Assistant] sharp edges and very kind of, because in the films at least they were depicted as kind of, you know, everything was slightly hexagonal rather than round and things like that. And I don't think that is the case with the Dwemer in the Elder Scrolls. They can be more artistic in how they


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[Assistant] That might be what draws me away from it a little bit. I'm not totally sure I like the kind of feudal Japan look to it.


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[Assistant] I do, I do love that actually. And yeaah, thinking about it as more Mongolian does work. Okay, now I'm, now I'm very torn, cause I was leaning towards Skyrim, but that is also so iconic to me, cause I loved playing a kind of, the more barbaric aspect of orcs wearing that armor.


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[Assistant] Stronghold orcs I can see wearing the Skyrim one, but at the same time,


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[Assistant] I can see them very much kind of taking pride in the Morrowind version of the armour and the craftsmanship that goes into it, as you've kind of alluded out already, then just slapping


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[Assistant] In the Skyrim one it's a lot easier to see the parts of the creature repurposed, as opposed to like, in Morrowind obviously this is somewhat a graphical thing, but it does, it's much more form fitting in that it seems almost perfectly crafted around a mortal body shape. Uhm, the Skyrim Heavy one


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[Assistant] I see what you mean. Like, you can't really work that much with Kite in, you know, depending on the magical properties of it, and I think that's done well in Skyrim.


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[Assistant] No, Oblivion- I love Oblivions. I think it's fantastic.


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[Assistant] I might be being too nice to Oblivion, but if you took the goofiness out of Oblivion, maybe even had a version that kind of closed off the face.


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[Assistant] The, the spikes, like kind of like the wings, you could call it, that come out the top, feel very elven to me. Not only, not only in terms of the kind of like the wingspan aesthetic, but also just kind of reaching higher, adding to their height, uhm, rather than


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, I, I, I agree. There, there is something a little bit alien as well about the oblivion. That's what I was about to say.


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[Assistant] Maybe it could also be partially the aesthetic of Oblivion is everything is much more bright and colourful and the shield, I much prefer the Oblivion shield as being High Elven even if we are accepting the fact that there's a difference between Somerset and Cyrodiil High Elves.


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[Assistant] Mhm. Yeah. Okay, well, yeah, I think, I think the helmet is probably the part that sells it for Oblivion, personally. Okay, that's kinda- But, fair enough.


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[Assistant] I do like the look of the Skyrim one, so it's no problem. I mean if I had a criticism, I'd say both of them could be more elegant.


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[Assistant] I think the Oblivion one is more elegant than the Skyrim one, personally. Skyrim one, to me, even though it has the kind of feathered style to it, is fairly solid. And I don't know, obviously there's gotta be the practical purpose, but I feel like the High Elves would...


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[Assistant] Prioritise beauty, even when it comes to their smithing.


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[Assistant] That was what I was gonna say. I can't decide between the two, but having it look more Nordic is probably what sells it for Skyrim.


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[Assistant] I wanna properly have a little look at them first. Okay, alright, fine.


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[Assistant] And black and gold looks mad together, I think. So maybe it should be more ostentatious, rather than as practical as Skyrim's Ebony seems to be.


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[Assistant] I, I do, yeaah. I think if, I think if, if Oblivion had a full helm, more, more in line with, obviously it couldn't look like Skyrim's because it would need to fit the style, but I think I like Oblivion's the most but for the helmet.


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[Assistant] Maybe it's harder than I think, because. Especially when you consider the fact it's supposed to be such a rare and expensive metal, and then you look at the shield, the ebony shield in Oblivion, and it shows wealth, doesn't it?


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[Assistant] In that picture, it's a good picture. The male helmet is a lot better.


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[Assistant] Yeah, having it be volcanic glass, and I'm forgetting the story, but isn't it that, you know, it's always kind of originated from Morrowind as well, glass armour? Even though it's been used by the High Elves?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think having the glass be quite jagged and like you have shards of it embedded into the armour as opposed to this, this formed glass that just, I dunno, like the idea that it's been blown into the armour doesn't look as good as the way Morrowind has it.


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[Assistant] I can't help but give Morrowind extra credit, not just for the way it currently looks and the way the helmet looks, but the way the other var- like the various kinds of Daedric helmet you can find, uhm, fit the style so much.


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[Assistant] Morrowind, the greaves on Morrowind's one look so good, like the, the faces on the, um, on the knee pads and, um, and the pointed shoulders I like the most on Morrowind's. Yeah, for me it's Morrowind.


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[Assistant] But Skyrims is iconic and I, I do love the jaggedness of it. I almost, I almost wouldn't want, uhm, Daedric Armour to be any one of them. I like the idea that it's kind of more malleable as a concept. But I think it's too black. It needs to be more...


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[Assistant] Well, I think as well, the helmet does look cool, but to me, I like, I associate it more with kind of like a dragon aesthetic than a demonic.


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[Assistant] If we're talking about Oblivion in general, there are so many ways Daedric Armour could really manifest.


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[Assistant] I think it needs to be creepier. And uhm, there's something about the kind of, just the black pits for eyes in Skyrims that kind of evokes nothing. I like it.


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[Assistant] I like Morrowinds the most because it kind of embraces a slightly obscure look on top of the scary.


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[Assistant] I think, I feel wrong giving an opinion on this because I think it needs to vary so much. You can't really pin it to one culture the way you can with a lot of the other armor sets.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I like, I think personally if it wasn't for Morrowind's helmets and the variations of those, Oblivion takes it for me. Uhm, but I just, I just love the various forms of Daedric helmet you see in Oblivion.


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[Assistant] I dunno, like- I think having it look more like actual scales, which Morrowind does well,


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[Assistant] Uhm, is better, but at the same time, I think you're only really giving, I mean, it's fair, but you're only really giving Morrowind any credit because Skyrim is kind of ugly.


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[Assistant] I don't know how well it meshes, but I feel like if you remove the helmet of dragon scale from Skyrim and maybe mix and matched it with a dragon priest mask or something, I do like it. I feel it feels wrong to give it to Morrowind.


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[Assistant] Even though that the Curious does look alright. Uhm, so I'm, I'm going, I'm gonna go for Skyrim.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the variety is what does it, for sure. I mean, obviously, if you can bring mods into the fold and show, like, the diversity of Skyrim's guard armors, then there's no question, but the guard armor is iconic in Skyrim, but it's, they're all very samey.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, that is really cool. The Skyrim helmet is so iconic. Yeah. But not for being, I dunno, yeah, I guess, like, it isn't really fitting for a guard. And the lack of variety does take points away, but it is, like, one of the coolest looking helmets in the game. Like, I dunno, I like it a lot. I like the aesthetic of the Skyrim guards.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And the variety in the shields as well is much stronger in Oblivion.


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[Assistant] This is just getting into practicality, but for the kind of peacekeeper of a city, you don't really want everyone with covered faces. You know, you want your guards to be kind of relatable and individual. You don't want them to all be the same person, so if you're talking to a guard, you should be able to recognise them.


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[Assistant] As much as the helmet in Oblivion is boring and it's just, it's just a whatever helmet.


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[Assistant] It fits, it fits what it needs to be much better than Skyrim.


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[Assistant] I mean, the Elder Scrolls games have always been fairly good at it, but there's kind of that strange dynamic as well where when Morrowind came out, and this can be said of a lot of old games like Nintendo 64 games and things like that, is that the limitations of


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[Assistant] Don't you think it's kind of like when you spawn in a game and the textures haven't popped in yet? That's kind of what it feels like.


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[Assistant] For Skyrim, you need to have the closed helmet for it to compete. I think that adds a lot to Skyrim's aesthetic. You know, the closed helmet you can find.


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[Assistant] I do, even though there's not much of the Roman to it, with the exception of the helmet.


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[Assistant] Nostalgia, for sure. I feel like those neutral people from Futurama who have no strong opinion one way or the other. That's exactly how I feel talking about this.


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[Assistant] This is a big question, so we could, we could always make it more confined than just any armour from any game, but which of the armours we've talked about kind of jump out at you the most as your favourite for any reason? Or is that a whole nother topic in itself?


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[Assistant] I think for me, like, the obvious answer is the various iterations and different ways of having Daedric armor will always be, to me, the most interesting and the ones I find the coolest, but that's kind of also probably the obvious take.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the variations of all the different helmet styles, like even, um, on the kiting and the, um, the netch leather, when you've got these kind of like, the goggles, they kind of add the really alien aesthetic to Morrowind.


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[Assistant] Well, I think Morrowind would be the Daedric for me.


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[Assistant] Sorry, not mates, not Nomura, in Oblivion. Well, I guess it would be for both, but I meant in Oblivion. Uh, Daedric stands out the most to me.


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[Assistant] Ebony. But I prefer the steel. Yea, I feel like I've never ever said I like steel armor in an Elder Scrolls game. It's kinda just like when you're forced to make a decision. But I like steel plate in Skyrim. Oh yea. If I had to say one. That's, that's true. That's true.


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[Assistant] And, and I guess we should be saying two words, thank you, uh, for all the support over the years. I know we already kind of gave our thanks in the spooky lore Halloween podcast last week, but seriously, thank you very, very much.


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[Assistant] And there's all kinds of questions being sent in about this dream, so we'll have lots to talk about, to reminisce about. And of course we have lore questions and things like that as well, so.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I think I got some more confirmation on this recently because I spent a very long time on YouTube just watching, uhm, cinematic compilations, but Mass Effect.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just, I loved it so much. Uhm, unfortunately, in a different way to Elder Scrolls, it's not the kind of game series, well, by our standards, when I say you can play over and over, it's like, yeah, you can, like, five times, max ten times, at least for me, but I,


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[Assistant] Elder Scrolls you can play hundreds of times, so it's different in that, in that way at least. But, I don't know, I get goosebumps man, especially Mass Effect 2, the suicide run, the last mission, I watched a video, you know it was like 24 minutes of cinematics in that quest.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and ugh, it gets me going. It just, I love it.


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[Assistant] You know, I thought of a thing, and I haven't watched a lot of speedruns, but I was gonna keep it as a secret for some sort of let's play, but I think I'll just reveal it now because if this theoretical let's play happens, people will already have forgotten it. But you know, Net Jelly paralyzes you, it's the first effect on it.


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[Assistant] And so, if you consume Manetch jelly, you can survive any fall.


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[Assistant] And I wonder if anyone's thought of that for a speedrun or something like that, but I went and tested it. And so I jumped off the throat of the world. And you use net jelly and it's more fun too because you get that funny rag doll with like stiff limbs.


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[Assistant] Your character rotates instead of actually, oh, it's the worst. If you, if you spam next jelly too much, you'll get that glitch, but.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I thought that could be a really fun thing to do in a let's play without telling you two first, but I've just ruined it. I was gonna jump off like, oh don't worry, I'll go and kill Mirak and like jump off one of those huge Apocrypha towers and, but then survive.


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[Assistant] That's my first playthrough. Bad memories with that part of it.


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[Assistant] I mean, we're also big fans of uh, Knights of the Old Republic. That was pretty awesome. Yeah, that's probably some of the


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[Assistant] Every hour we could spend, you know, doing an extra curricular activity such as that, we just make a video. Um, and we just do some really cool thing on the actual, you know, YouTube channel Fudge Muppet. Um, so that's kind of where our priorities lie, but perhaps we'll get around to it.


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[Assistant] I can almost imagine a game like that, I mean, less interesting, uhm, lore perhaps, but you know the Elder Scrolls Online kind of like, Daggerfall or High Rock, Nightblade Assassin vibe, you know, with the mask and the daggers, you can imagine a game kinda like that.


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[Assistant] This is a really weird one that I just thought of in my head, but I can imagine some kind of like story, almost horror vibes game where you're actually in Morrowind when the Argonians invade and it's scary. Yeah. Like they're actually scary and you're a dark elf and you have to like.


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[Assistant] Being a slave rebelling and like, kind of becoming part of the Elysian, uh, rebellion would be pretty cool.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it was always the plan kind of, like uhm, we, Scott and I, when we started the channel in 2013, we had the luxury of living with our parents, so we didn't really have costs or like need a job or anything like that, uhm, but we were also


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[Assistant] Thirteen was my last year of high school. Yeah, we were in school.


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[Assistant] We went to uni, uhm, and then we had to basically find a way to drop out of uni.


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[Assistant] We did keep doing Elder Scrolls though. I remember we planned 10 Skyrim builds ahead of time so that they could continue to release throughout Fallout 4's release, which was pretty, pretty hectic. I can just say our mentality at the time was basically this.


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[Assistant] Uh, to get any degree, you know, that's not, I don't know, there's, there's bad degrees out there, but you know, like a good degree, you're gonna be spending three or four years at uni, you're gonna be going there, spending a lot of money and a lot of time studying and, you know, doing all of that.


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[Assistant] So, our logic was, what if you just put all of that time, like actually, into trying to do YouTube? Uhm, and in my mind at least, I couldn't see how that wouldn't-


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[Assistant] You can, you can go and make a YouTube channel next week and get a hundred thousand views on every video and you won't be making much money. Yeah. Because you'll have ten videos.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, we, we started off to just wanting to share our Skyrim builds and I remember as far as


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[Assistant] I can remember really early days just thinking


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[Assistant] All I need is enough money to not have to do a different job. Like I don't need lots of money. I just need enough money where I can say, I don't have to go into an office five days a week, nine to five. That's it. That, that was my, that's what, that's all I wanted.


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[Assistant] And I can remember as well, people back then when they made builds, like if there was a backstory, it was like one sentence.


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[Assistant] Another weird niche thing, and this was like, I guess this is all subjective, but I remember Scott and I, we were looking and we're like, man, everyone sucks at aesthetics. Everyone's build looks crap.


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[Assistant] Like in terms of design, there was no flair in a lot of, obviously there would have been cool builds out there, but just, you know, generally speaking, there was a huge lack of nice looking builds.


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[Assistant] You get capped out with effectiveness in Elder Scrolls pretty fast anyway, like if-


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[Assistant] If I look, if my build looks really, really cool and the sword does 130 damage and yours, your build doesn't look cool, but your sword does 150 damage, I don't care. Like, like, you know, we're basically going to kill enemies just as fast anyway.


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[Assistant] It was definitely a mix of both. We didn't go in expecting to fail, but we did know kind of.


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[Assistant] Subjectively is a bad word because, uh, look, I'll just say this, according to other people's expectations, we knew it was a pretty pie in the sky type thing to, to achieve, but we just wanted to try.


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[Assistant] May not be like the nicest thing to hear, but you wanna be the best.


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[Assistant] Doesn't mean your first video has to be the best at what it is but you wanna at least be able to look at what other people do


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[Assistant] Think, I can do it differently in this or that way, and it will be better.


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[Assistant] Um, eventually, this isn't to say like, like our first videos were not the best things in the world, especially compared to now, but it's, it's the taste. It's like anything like music, like you may not know, you know, exactly how to make a certain song sound a certain way, but if you can at least know.


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[Assistant] Final piece, final piece of advice before we move on to the next question. Unless you're absolutely hilarious or have the best personality in the world, don't try and do a little bit of everything.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the best at kind of, you know, winning, staying in your lane.


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[Assistant] I always thought it was just like that because people, uh, yeah. Anyway, I don't know. Actually, it's almost got some kangaroo leg. He's, he's a man.


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[Assistant] Generally speaking, I'm not a fan of doing that, but I'm gonna try and think of something.


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[Assistant] I mean, this is a bit of a cop out, but like, pulling speech check type stuff from Fallout games is something we'd really want. Like, proper dialogue stuff, being able to say, cause you have, you know, 60 in sneak, you suggest some stealthy approach to a mission, and then actually get to change how that quest unfolds.


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[Assistant] And you can also do that with attributes if attributes returned, which is something we think would be cool as well.


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[Assistant] And they quarrel amongst each other and you can choose who to help and maybe help one become Yarl and things like that. Sorry, just before you go there, uhm, what was the question again? Because I have a feeling it might have said fantasy universe and then I took something from it.


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[Assistant] Will change so much the second I see the character creation menu, see how all the races have been overhauled with like, new designs and


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[Assistant] Interestingly, I want to know what their passives are and things like that. Although I will say this just quickly, there's always going to be a temptation there to choose the race that, uhm, kind of, you know, the province is their homeland, the game is set in. So if it's in High Rock,


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[Assistant] Picking a Breton kinda becomes like, oh, that would be a nice classic first experience. And uhm, in Hammerfell picking a red guard and things like that could be interesting.


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[Assistant] When you say it like that, it's like, Imperial and Cyrodiil is a bit like, uh, I mean I played a Dark Elf.


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[Assistant] Right, okay, I did my build terribly. I ended up using, like, stealth and dual wielding daggers, but then also using destruction magic, which has no carryover when you invest in sneak, and then, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeaah, basically like, sneak assassin, couldn't really be a good warrior though, but also a mage, and I was wearing the archmage robes, so it was just like this cat in a poncho with two, um, sacrificial blades, you know the ones


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[Assistant] I pretty much always do a battle mage, uhm, I think in Elder Scrolls 6 something that's tempting is to actually give me some oblivion nostalgia and do what I did with my first build then, which is like heavy conjurer, like lots and lots of conjuration and then


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[Assistant] It will just completely depend I think on if attributes return. Whether or not Schuma does that or not. Which I am not too hopeful for, I mean sorry, hopeful like regarding Bethesda actually doing it. But I would love it to happen. I don't know if they would.


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[Assistant] Why not though? Oblivions are not that complicated if you actually think about- Get rid of the whole like level up thing where it's weird like how you trained is how many attribute points you can allocate to a certain thing. It was just adding flat points, isn't it pretty easy?


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[Assistant] Oh, it was much better. Jet in Fallout 4. I'll give credit where credit is due.


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[Assistant] They say they are going to, it's gonna be more of a role-playing game than Skyrim, apparently. So if that's true, and people respond well to that, it might be wishful thinking, but perhaps Elder Scrolls 6 could be, it sounds, I feel like an idiot saying this out loud, perhaps Elder Scrolls 6 could be more of a role-playing game than Skyrim. But, could be.


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[Assistant] Someone would just crack it and you would just play a non-updated game for free.


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[Assistant] I-I-I don't think I particularly have anything outside of, you know,


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[Assistant] Obviously we know a lot about Elder Scrolls lore and Fallout lore and I kinda stopped keeping up with 76 lore after it just got weird with all the Brotherhood of Steel.


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[Assistant] And things like that. Often when you're doing Elder Scrolls deep dive stuff you end up stumbling across real life stuff that it drew inspiration from and then you go down that rabbit hole and then suddenly, you know, you've


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[Assistant] Read everything about some niche community from the 1600s or 1300s and you're like, that was cool. And that's the law.


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[Assistant] I do remember a question, it was saying like, what would be your favorite historical period, and I think there was potentially another question tied to it.


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[Assistant] Is not Elder Scrolls related, but I'd like to know your guys' favorite historical period and or mythological story. Congrats on One Mill and thanks for the amazing content.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's tough. I mean, if I had to pick broadly, I probably would have to say middle ages as much as that's a very mainstream take. Like, there's, there's such, there's so many cool things in very early middle ages and at the very end of the middle ages too. Um, I don't know. I kind of, I'm kind of- You go, you go. Okay.


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[Assistant] I tell you what, kind of off topic and like full disclosure, we were sponsored by Ubisoft when Valhalla came out. Uhm, but I thought Valhalla was really nice. Yeah, I thought it was like a very, very solid, good Assassin's Creed game. I liked it.


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[Assistant] I love the black flag, which was like, you know, sticking onto pirate ships, killing 20 people with, you know, just me. Uhm, as much as I enjoyed Assassin's Creed 1 and Assassin's Creed 2 a lot, uhm, and 3 was decent. Uhm, yeaah, I still like the new stuff as well.


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[Assistant] You would think that England might, well maybe you wouldn't, but to someone who's not as super, like, familiar with England.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you can kind of expect the terrain to not have that much variety, but it actually does, and there's some really nice regions in the game that feel very different to other ones.


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[Assistant] Tying it back to Eldest Girls, but that's what I'd want to see in High Rock more. Like we talked about I think in the Breton's video, or High Rock video, which one was it? Basically saying like the druids, uhm, and all those parts, you know, that were alluded to or mentioned in Daggerfall lore and things like that would be really cool to see.


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[Assistant] Hey, unironically, he was my, one of, you go through different periods when you're a kid. I was always a Spider-Man kid, but there was this one point where I was a Captain America kid, and it was solely because of the shield. Isn't there some meme somewhere where he's not actually Captain America, he's Captain something else, like if you actually look at the design of his armor?


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[Assistant] Yeah, just real quickly, it's Captain Puerto Rico was what I was thinking of. That mean. Anyway.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm just waiting for Elder Scrolls 6, like you said. Yeah. To just really, you know, make a whole bunch of...


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[Assistant] I wish we were given the rights to do an Elder Scrolls novel. I really wish because, I mean, look, I can't say I read them, but the two Elder Scrolls novels, like I've tried to read and I just really don't vibe them. I don't vibe.


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[Assistant] It felt, it felt very like, name drop stuff too, like very like, like, uh, deep lore by using descriptive words to say this is a, this Khajiit or this, but it didn't have that like, passion of


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[Assistant] I don't know. Like, I don't want to, I don't want to like be too, um, harsh considering I haven't read the full things, but from the chapters that I have read, it seemed very like name dropping lore to try and like seem like it was more lore heavy than it really was.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's hard to say, obviously I think that time period we already talked about right before Fallout 4 and during the initial release was pretty awesome.


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[Assistant] It was that feeling of knowing we were going to make it. I think when Drew came on was another high point because it felt like...


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[Assistant] No, it just felt like, you know, that it's really like growing and that like, you know.


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[Assistant] I'd almost say as well, this sounds, this isn't like marked by a specific date that I can remember, but I remember, Drew, when you first came on, some people, as you would inevitably have, would be like, oh change, like I'm resistant to change. But the time when I could see in the comments that people enjoyed Drew.


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[Assistant] As much if not more than us was like really cool. I'm like.


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[Assistant] I'd say the two other fun things would be, uh, two specific Bethesda events, one being the one that Scott and I went to in Kangaroo Valley.


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[Assistant] Where we hung out and did a bunch of random things like shoot bows and, you know, like archery and have nice food and whatever. It was, it was really fun. And uhm.


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[Assistant] Going to West Virginia, obviously, before I knew that 76 would be, you know, uh, the kind of fail that it was, um, at least at the time, and to me still, mentally, uh, going to E3


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[Assistant] A3 was a good one. Yeaah, there are some fun event memories of that when we all went on like adventure parks. There's some fun parks memories too. And some fun memories meeting, um, meeting different fans and stuff. It's always nice to hear from people.


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[Assistant] I've been recognized in shopping centers, before movies, at the gym, but you know when I've never been recognized, really? When there's a big gaming thing.


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[Assistant] Like outside that one guy who said hi to us at E3, um. Yeah. Like I can go to, we'll be standing in the queue to try out Skyrim VR and there's just hordes of Bethesda fans. Not a single one will recognize us. And then I'll be with you. You remember when we were walking near the beach and it was like,


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[Assistant] Well, I didn't have a job, not really. I kind of, I mean I'm the youngest out of the three of us, so I started, I started when I was...


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[Assistant] Gosh, how old was I? Was I 16 turning 17 when I started YouTube? So, you know, I, I was very fortunate in that respect. I had a few like side gig jobs that aren't really worth mentioning. It was like a, like four times a year for some extra side money type stuff.


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[Assistant] What career would I be? I dunno. What job did you start as?


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[Assistant] Yeah, things lined up. I don't know what I'd be doing though. Oh yeah, that was part of the question wasn't it? Yeah, probably some sort of-


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[Assistant] It's a bit of a cop out, but a similar thing, like trying to start some kind of like online business revolving around something that I'm passionate about.


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[Assistant] I don't think you would ever pursue that, but in a weird way I think you'd be really good at it. It's like the history teacher that they need but won't get.


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[Assistant] That's very easy to answer because we're not that, yeah, we're closest as in we actually hang out with and we can spend time with Camel.


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[Assistant] Other Elder Scrolls Youtubers is more like a, I hope I'm not forgetting anyone, but it seems like a more online basis. Yeaah, it's pretty, well they're all international. Yeaah, I can't think of any that are international.


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[Assistant] I thought that he had like less at the time. He did. I think he had like 8,000 and we had like 20 or 30,000 and then soon he was doing all these easter egg videos that were just going nuts viral and he ended up getting much more subscribers than us and then we were like kind of like oscillating around.


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[Assistant] Same, same as backstories for builds. I remember I would, and you can do both still and people don't mind, but we would kind of do it like a extensive bio, like a wiki and less like a


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think for me it would just be, uhm, kind of, uh, representations of different things. Like, I mean, this is more like a religious thing, but I don't really like...


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[Assistant] It's just, it's just, it's just not as nice. Cause obviously when you go to a new province, you want to be like, what's super unique about this province that I've never experienced before.


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[Assistant] And you get there and all their gods, except for their, they kind of like have all these quotes and they exclaim, oh, by Shor, but then they're not really following Shor. And it's, oh, it's the same gods that were in Oblivion like very much.


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[Assistant] They have such a good set up for it too, for diversity's sake. They have the crowns and the forebears, so they should have a full pantheon of traditional, more Yakudian style gods, as well as a more cosmopolitan, like more imperial type, uhm, group of gods.


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[Assistant] I do think that Skyrim's cities were pretty, like, not in scale, but in terms of uniqueness. They were decent. They weren't terrible.


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[Assistant] There is a lot of, if you lived in the Elder Scrolls universe, what race would you be? Where would you live? This kind of stuff?


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[Assistant] I know they can only do so much with games, but like,


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[Assistant] Forget it's the afterlife, and Sovngarde suddenly, it's not that interesting. It's a big misty expanse with this hall that, okay, you can have no- you'd get sick of it. I would wanna pro- I would wanna prolong my life in Tamriel, for diversity's sake, in terms of seeing different-


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[Assistant] I think I'd still pick, I still think I'd pick the one with the highest, um, mortal lifespan just to experience that for as long as possible considering that it will probably be the minority of my perception of time if I'm gonna spend all this time in an afterlife waiting for the next calper or something like that.


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[Assistant] Well, the Nuhartan Flu was, was like a thing that happened and it kinda just kills, just kills a bunch of people and...


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[Assistant] Just pray at an ulcer. Any ulcer, cure disease, don't-


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[Assistant] Didn't you name one of your Skyrim orc characters after a Warcraft character? Yeaah. Thrall. I thought that was pretty, yeaah. Yeaah. It was a bit cringe. Yeaah. Befora.


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[Assistant] I can still remember loading up Oblivion, because funnily enough, the first time I played Oblivion in 2006 was on PC. That was a Windows XP.


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[Assistant] What was the word to describe something in space? Say it again.


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[Assistant] Okay, so, so here's my take on answering this very abstract question.


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[Assistant] I feel like it's very like science textbook type stuff. Uhm, I'm pretty sure the worms in the volcanoes, it would be like a worm that derives its sustenance from- Like chemicals in the vents or something. Yeah, things that aren't organic matter and then somehow turns that into organic matter to like,


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[Assistant] Like as opposed to plants having photosynthesis or other animals just eating other animals. And then I think the space worm thing relating to elder scrolls is like the idea of space being this like, not space as we know it, but you know, magical, magical


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[Assistant] Well, it could be, like, if you could imagine some sort of, like- Yeah.


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[Assistant] Well, I was thinking too, like, yea, with the, yea, with the


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[Assistant] But you can't make some of it canon. Yea, some of it. Well you can, but it'll just be that thing where it's like crazy contradictions in the lore where it's like this shouldn't exist in Skyrim. Yea. It cannot exist in Skyrim according to previous lore. Like things like the amber armor and stuff where it's meant to be made by


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[Assistant] You shouldn't be able to. They might just go, haha, it was all a mistake, and you can make it from any armor.


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[Assistant] With the addition of this one specific flower and then it becomes a thing. I don't know. I'd prefer they don't. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I'll go with Starfield is very much like


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[Assistant] Uhm, take it as it comes. We would love for it to be like a thing as significant and big as Fallout 4 was for our channel, while maintaining Elder Scrolls content of course.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's just, would I be willing to bet that that's, it's gonna be good enough where that's the case? Probably not. But I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm really surprised and it is as good as, uhm, Bethesda's making it out to be. And I really like it.


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[Assistant] Some games as well are not YouTube friendly, uhm, as far as editing and stuff goes, like it's a part that a lot of people would never consider as a viewer, but like, uhm, console commands thankfully make our job.


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[Assistant] You get what I'm saying here, you can't even freecam or get a tool from the developers to let you use the freecam, you've got players running around in all your shots, like it's... And when you do a quest once, you can't load back and oh, do it again, and it's just, it's done, the quest's done.


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[Assistant] We do a good job. We do a good job with what there is. Drew's kind of mastered Elder Scrolls Online footage as best as it can be mastered.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I feel like I kinda covered it, a lot of them have games.


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[Assistant] We should get an audible sponsorship. Promoting all these books.


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[Assistant] And where it goes from black and white to shades of grey is that people will have a theory that seems very plausible. Like it, but it's not confirmed, but it seems very plausible versus some Kirkbride continuation of writing where it talks about


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[Assistant] Yeah. Exactly. That is exactly right. It's canon that this is written in a book, but not that what's written is true. Yeah.


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[Assistant] An interesting question that kind of ties into that from Azara Sorethi is basically like what's a typical work day for you like, uhm, does the person who narrates


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[Assistant] Uh, a specific video also do the script and visuals for it. Or do you split tasks for every singular video?


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[Assistant] Generally speaking, Drew's been doing the editing, um, for a while. If there's a very specific video that I want edited a certain way, or it's just easier, then I'll do it. Same for Scott. But typically,


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[Assistant] How we work has changed a lot over the years and for the last, I mean, I've got this calendar down on the floor where I'm actually doing a Jerry Seinfeld on how we got better at comedy by writing a joke every single day.


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[Assistant] But I basically have a set amount of words that I always exceed, but I have to hit every single day, seven days a week, but it's not excessive.


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[Assistant] And the reason I implemented that was because I wanted to have.


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[Assistant] Uhm, more, sounds weird, but more votes each day for my own kind of conscience of like, I write Elder Scrolls content. And it's just being reinforced every single day. Because what was happening before essentially was that I would do an insane amount of work in three days and then nothing.


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[Assistant] For, for a while and then an insane amount of work and then nothing and it wasn't sustainable.


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[Assistant] So a typical work day and it also involves, at least for me, I like to wake up as early as possible. Uhm, you know, if I can wake up at 5am, that's amazing because then I can just work until midday and kind of then the rest of the day I can kind of wrap up some easier stuff.


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[Assistant] But definitely frontload the day with the hard stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know especially, I use commas, uhm, I don't really use them grammatically correct. I use them to be, uhm, read by someone who is speaking. So for me, they're actually just pauses. They're not meant to be like perfectly, you know, grammatical.


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[Assistant] The gradual loss of her powers caused her much grief and eventually resulted in paranoia and obsession with returning the old glory at all costs. We haven't seen that arc of you yet, so let's hope he's gonna start sacrificing the lives of her fellow tribunes.


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[Assistant] Oh, Michael, you usually- No, no, I didn't even want to say social media, it was just sweet. Okay, sweet and timbre. See you later, caring mother lady Drew. Says goodbye.


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[Assistant] Although it is used for the sneak, rolly stuff and, I dunno.


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[Assistant] I mean look, I've seen this take before, like I've actually seen this take a lot and it's because the modders in the Elder Scrolls scene are so good, right? Like they are good, they do help people get longevity out of the games.


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[Assistant] I dunno about everyone else watching, but I personally played a lot of Elder Scrolls with zero mods for a very long time. Like, I mean, back in the day, I didn't even have a PC.


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[Assistant] I would play like my thousands of hours of Skyrim on an Xbox 360.


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[Assistant] A really cool plotline. The problem, for me at least, as I've talked about before is that it wasn't


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[Assistant] Go beat up people in Riften and then get caught up in the internal politics of, of the game.


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[Assistant] But, that said, there are a lot of problems of similar nature in Skyrim.


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[Assistant] So, except I say the Dark Brotherhood is, you know, it is go and kill, kill people.


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[Assistant] Yeah. It's, it's not a perfect plotline, but it, you are an assassin. Yeah. Which is cool.


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[Assistant] What do you think, Scott? Like what would you say is the best guild storyline? Because it's not the mage's guild, and the companions, if you take out being a werewolf, it's not the companions. Like that, the companions are carried by, oh my gosh, werewolf form. If it's out of all the guilds,


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[Assistant] I think the Thieves Guild characters were actually the most memorable. Like easily, cause I remember their names.


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[Assistant] You know what would actually be really cool, this is a bit of a side thought, but just thinking of how well Witcher did.


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[Assistant] I think someone actually said this in the last Hot Takes episode, something about lacking emotion.


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[Assistant] I mean, I actually really like the way that Fallout has handled quests in XP. Because there are heaps of problems with the Elder Scrolls format, like heaps, and that's why when people say, oh, in a future Fallout game, we should have level by doing, I'm like, no.


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[Assistant] Absolutely not, but in the same way, I don't think I can ever see Elder Scrolls switching to that just because the level-by-doing system is so loved by fans. I mean, I like it, but I'm also aware that there are these issues.


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[Assistant] The reality is, yeaah, the reality is you end up standing in front of a giant with his mammoths holding a shield in one hand and a restoration spell in the other wearing a certain brand of armor to train three skills.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I, I uhm. It's, it's a weird, there's already in my head all these different balances and checks that you'd need to... Look, I guess here's the conclusion to that one, there's no perfect system.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there will always be a trade-off, whether that trade-off is immersion, or at some point, you know, your character, things can feel a bit out of balance, and you need to address that, but...


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[Assistant] It also provides I think for some more interesting scenarios when, and if they do add more choice to quests.


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[Assistant] Like for, like instead of just thinking of reward, you could think like, oh, if I go and do the quest this way, which perhaps is like a evil way or more evil way, maybe there's more opportunity for me to get more XP because it sounds really intense and difficult rather than just doing the good guy thing and handing in the quest early.


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[Assistant] I've never heard somebody argue that well. Every time I hear it, like, oh, we should be able to do science and stuff to level up. I'm just like,


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[Assistant] Different games, man, different games. I mean, even the fact that you can allocate, like that's a good thing about Fallout, is that you can allocate skill points so that you can become like,


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[Assistant] You know, you can max science really early so that-


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[Assistant] Uhm, game developers can actually put a computer that needs 80 science in some early game area. And that's kind of like a special moment for that character. Otherwise...


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[Assistant] It would just be like, oh, we're going to put all of the high science things in the high level places and, and they'll do that for lockpicking. You know what I mean? Like it's cool to have that scenario. I mean, like even in Fallout 4 wasn't.


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[Assistant] Get back there earlier. Basically. Yeah. Or you can use some glitch with Dogmeat.


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[Assistant] Even the doom to fail aspect of it gets removed, which is kind of interesting that- Cause it's not like if Orsinium exists, Strongholds don't, you can have both.


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[Assistant] But this idea that they constantly throughout the timeline have tried to build this Orsinium and like things keep going wrong for them and then, you know, there'll be this whole idea when they build the next one like what's gonna go wrong now because this has never stood the test of time.


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[Assistant] You know, and I feel like that even makes them resilient in a way, and it's interesting that they're so resilient and adamant about trying again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but not just taking the obvious side of being anti-something. Because then it's like you have an army of people who agree, it's kind of just different sides. Be the third party that's kind of like, I think this is all stupid and here's my really unique opinion. But make sure it's genuine, like don't just make-


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[Assistant] I mean, you could make stuff up if it's funny, but we'll never know.


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[Assistant] It's weird, I feel like I can be hyper aware of existential things and like any meaningless or anything like that, but at the end of the day, I still find it like easy to accept and then just look at myself and be like, well, I'm going to enjoy my subjective existence for what it is.


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[Assistant] I don't avoid it, I'm like hyper aware of any of that, it's just like, okay, and what?


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[Assistant] Bro, you gotta hold two beliefs at the same time. You gotta understand that in its entirety and then just be like,


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[Assistant] Nah, but I am. That's achieving Kim. You gotta achieve Kim. You gotta look at the face of all that nihilistic crap, understand it, and then just, you know, Chad face, no. And, you know, you gotta live your life.


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[Assistant] Like, it doesn't, I don't know. Like, I wouldn't say it justifies their plan. I feel like it's just like, depends what you think.


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[Assistant] No, no matter how convincing their, their evidence was, I'll be a champion of mortality on this one. Um, anti-destroy the world. Hot, hot take. I don't want to destroy everything.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I actually have a hot take from Brazen Cyrus.


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[Assistant] And his hot take is that Imperials are his favorite race.


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[Assistant] And he was a bit upset that we ranked them so low. He says, I think I throw, but he says, I think I throw too much into the bin of Imperial, like the Empires and Cyrodiil itself, but I think a case could be made. I was seething during the Races ranked podcast. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think that's fair


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[Assistant] I think we kinda said that though, didn't we? I mean, I know I've said it before that if you include all that then they're very interesting.


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[Assistant] All I'm thinking of is that, that meme you put on Twitter where it was like Fallout lore and then it was like Elder Scrolls lore and it's like all the like flashing stuff except it's like, I don't know, one of the other races and then it's like Empire's lore and it's like flashing all through and you see like Riemann and Talos and all this stuff.


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[Assistant] I feel like inherently it's bad. Ugh, well apparently that was our last video in a nutshell.


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[Assistant] I feel like it's fair on, on, I can imagine them coming into battle and there's some like, you know, queen and maybe if there's any high ranking like female officers, they would have it. And then you're kind of run of the mill infantry. They don't have it.


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[Assistant] Now I'm gonna take it back to breasts, because, uh, I was just looking at the armors, and it's not like they do it on every armor, like it is the better armor sets.


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[Assistant] You know, that are like rare and special, right? Like I'm having a look now, like Ebony has it, like Elven has it, but Elven is a very ornate looking beautiful thing. If you go look at like Iron Armor.


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[Assistant] There, it's designed differently, like it looks like there's a bit more space in the chest area, but it's not like there's two, two spheres hanging off it. I mean, same as steel, look at what Lydia wears, it's not.


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[Assistant] Like there's two spheres hanging off. Like I'm just trying to give them some credit. They didn't put it on.


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[Assistant] On everything, I mean, steel plate has it a bit too much, I think, but like even, like, you know, it's, it's, I don't think it's that.


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[Assistant] That's severe. Maybe people are thinking of mods they've seen too much. I don't know, like it's on pieces of armor that are rare, like glass.


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[Assistant] Fine. I love watching people seethe about your Elder Scrolls Online armor takes. You make people seethe, really, cause you kill one episode, you'll be like, oh, they're just too, like, bulky and over the top, like World of Warcraft, and then you'll be like, oh, they're just too tight to the body, like they're just too tight. I basically, I reclarified that.


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[Assistant] Maybe you see it a lot cause it stands out as such a unique take to you. Cause I feel like most people's favorite Daedric Princes aren't Jiggalag. Especially because he didn't feature in Skyrim at all. It's just like-


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[Assistant] Isn't that kind of just saying like a sanguine worshiper is just a big hit?


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[Assistant] I mean, you could say that about lots of things, like even Dagon is so much cooler because of the Mythic Dawn and the experience in Oblivion.


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[Assistant] Do you think, do you think then a god of insanity or madness then just can't work? Because I feel like the-


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[Assistant] The concept about it that you don't like is just inherent to what it is. For example, like, he does have in Mania and stuff, you know, there'll be like some crazy artist or crazy this and, and maybe people think that they use their insanity to produce cool things. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But what's the philosophy around Dagon? Besides the stuff that we know as kind of...


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[Assistant] I mean, at the end of the day, I guess my point is, I mean, we just did the Mythic Dawn podcast. I understand what his fear is. I'm just saying a lot of his followers, their philosophy is very like,


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[Assistant] I mean, Shivering Isles has the zealots and all the lore about art and soul and what really happened.


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[Assistant] But, but name, name a cult to Clavicus Vile and what their philosophy is.


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[Assistant] Here's a ho- well not really, but perhaps the reason you don't like it is because Bethesda actually went and executed it. And so you got this huge Sheogorath sandwich, and all your execution ideas for the other gods that are yet to happen are cooler than what Bethesda actually did with his shivering arse. With shivering arse, right?


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[Assistant] But I guess he kinda has to be like that, because as someone who represents madness, it's a very subjective kind of mortal thing. You don't understand other entities mad- like, if someone says madness, you think of a human psyche that's- that's nuts.


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[Assistant] It's the controversial podcast, you'll have, everyone will agree. Nah, they won't. Alright, alright. It's reverse psychology. I'm trying to figure my own-


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[Assistant] I think it says Teladonis the law seeker. Anyway, unpopular opinion, the high fantasy rendition of Cyrodiil in Oblivion is so good and has such a unique vibe that I don't care that they had to slaughter its previous lore for it.


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[Assistant] Sorry, starting again that Cyrodiil is- Basically the high fantasy setting of Cyrodiil is so good that he doesn't care that they had to slaughter previous lore to do that instead.


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[Assistant] It's actually funny though, I'm looking at it now, the biome though, the biome does look quite similar. I think two worlds was a straight rip.


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[Assistant] The elves, the elves look awful in every game except Elder Scrolls Online, by average thing I like in Joyer.


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[Assistant] Once you know how a magic trick's done, it is not interesting. You're just a loser.


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[Assistant] I can't, I feel like, well I mean I've said a lot of hot takes, and I've said a lot, uhm, like, well not hot takes, but my personal takes on things. I, I, I do share them, and I'll make entire videos about them, so I'm just trying to think.


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[Assistant] I just ca- I can't think of anything legit, I can only think of things that are just like jarring and silly, like Mafala's just a bit of a boring spider, Daedric Prince, and like, it really is just like, you play up all these elements of like, like what she's about, but really in reality she's just a big spider.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's funny how it's still happening too. Like we don't know what other cultures exist on other planets, but we may look funny to aliens that we've got this really, really good internet and computing and stuff, but then don't have something else which they kind of made at the same time. It's kind of like looking at Fallout.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like look at Fallout and how that universe basically, like what was it, they didn't make the microchip, so all the computers are like super old school, like it's a nice play on tech.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for sure. And I think that's fair, like- Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's annoying, like frustrating to complete, I guess, like just as a whole. Which, so Oblivion's is more frustrating to complete. Yeaah. Well, I'd say. Like it's less enjoyable.


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[Assistant] I feel like it's feels a bit longer. I don't know if that's just a thing in my head. Skyrim is pretty quick. Having played the Skyrim, you can smash through Skyrims. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but annoying is the word. What does annoying mean? They shouldn't be annoying unless you feel like a need to, like you have to complete it on a certain character just because. But I usually would just avoid it. If I don't want to play it, I just won't play that main story.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was like, wait, no, that's surely the oblivion one, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] It doesn't have to be that long. That energy was good. Ah no, I like that one. I mean it's fair enough, like here's the dialogue when, when you kind of like, when she comes out and you kind of like...


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[Assistant] I was expecting someone, like me at least. Can't you tell from looking at me? A vampire. And then she's like, you go, why were you locked away? She goes, that's complicated. And I'm not totally sure if I can trust you, but if you want to know the whole story, help me get back to my family's home.


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[Assistant] I'll admit she could have been way more interesting. With way more to say. But uh, anyway.


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[Assistant] So, so what does, what does that actually involve though, like, uh, to make a tribe specifically? Is it just like a setting, a name, or? Cause I mean, you're not giving them different gear and stuff.


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[Assistant] Damn. Yeah. Uh, yeah, okay. I mean, that's as good a theory as any. Like, why else would they not be there?


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[Assistant] I feel like the only real connection you can draw is the fact that Khajiit, let's be honest here.


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[Assistant] If you're gonna have anyone, any Khajiit god who is also Mayik, then it might as well be the one who can supposedly shift its face.


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[Assistant] If that were the case, I'd just say he's his own god. It's just, it's just a god that isn't really, um, that isn't really recognized.


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[Assistant] And you're like, no, no, no. Well, okay, yeah, so that's, that's, essentially, that is my argument, is that just because you can draw a connection, cause like, oh, they both speak in Tamriel, they both speak English, or you know, whatever language they're speaking there, oh, therefore, they must be them. It's like, it's drawing connections based on nothing, there's no...


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[Assistant] I'm not failing to understand any of this, the part I'm asking right, is why Rajin?


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[Assistant] He's making YouTube videos. He doesn't. Kinda. Yea, no, I guess uhm, I mean like to, to stray a bit from the argument, I think the most interesting thing about Maik is to have no understanding whatsoever of what he is, and if he is some kind of god,


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[Assistant] Sure. Well, I think this is one of those theories that will always be a mystery, because Bethesda are never going to associate him with anyone other than themselves, you know. It's kind of like the conduit between the developers and the player, not anything that can be explained in lore.


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[Assistant] I think he, he must have just been sick of living, because couldn't you just, couldn't you just have the decoy be assassinated, like the uhm,


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[Assistant] Takes a bit of mental gymnastics. Yeah, true. Bit like the other one.


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[Assistant] He would resent being the kind of pariah. Uhm, I'm not sure, yeaah, that takes some thinking.


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[Assistant] At least, I'd say at least among the- of all the gods who are kind of...


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[Assistant] Uhm, just kind of in the whole universe at the time, or in the mortal realm. Yeah.


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[Assistant] If Malekath is mantled, would that free Trinimac to become Trinimac again? And the Malekath aspect would be taken away in Malekath?


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[Assistant] It's hard if he's baiting orcs to mantle the corruption and essentially just take that off him and create a new god from it.


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[Assistant] And I think the other slight problem I have with the theory, which is just my personal preference, is that I think the corruption that happened to Trinimac to turn Trinimac into Malakath became so fundamental to the identity of that god to the point where I wouldn't say that Malakath is ashamed of those aspects.


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[Assistant] Because Malakath is still very much like Trinimac, being the kind of, uhm, the father figure, the paragon of strength and unity and things like that, but now it's more condensed to the people who stuck by him. So I almost feel like-


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[Assistant] Yeah, would Malakath really be desperate to return to the good books of the elves who neglected him once he was covered in doodoo? You know, I doubt it.


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[Assistant] You know, we do know bits and pieces of snow elven worship and religion, but we do know that Magnus is more of a god of elves than men.


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[Assistant] And uh, you know, on top of all the worrying about the power of these nords growing with the Eye of Magnus, you can imagine if an elven race learns that such an artifact that you could associate with an elven god has been found on their land, they're gonna be much more covetous of it and want to be in control of it.


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[Assistant] Well, plus this ha- you know, this happens when a community so in love with a series is starved of content for so long. Uh, we- we end up doing this. You know, we all do it. Oh yeah, yeah, of course. No, but I 100% agree with your sentiment though.


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[Assistant] Wait, so you're against it then? Huh? The Ebonhart Pact? You're not a fan of the Ebonhart Pact?


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[Assistant] There's a few awkward things about that, yea, cause like, obviously we have the whole dynamic of how much power do the aedra actually have after committing their power to creating the mundus. And then if you've got this idea that akatosh can get involved, which we kinda have seen can happen,


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[Assistant] Why would Alduin exist in the first place if Akatosh doesn't want the world to end? Unless you've got the idea that Alduin kind of ascended to the role of being the firstborn of Akatosh and the World Eater. Like unbeknownst to Akatosh, if that makes-


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[Assistant] Right, so you're kind of getting more at the idea that Akatosh, as like an aspect of the Akka Oversoul would be, would want to maintain power over other aspects of itself rather than Akatosh slash Oriel versus Lorcan, like not wanting Lorcan to win that kind of Dawn War.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and Shaw would absolutely want it to continue, but when you've got both of them as Akatosh,


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[Assistant] It's like, yeah, this kind of insanity, this duo of wanting to end and maintain it simultaneously.


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[Assistant] I mean, I, I, if you guys see it in the comments, uhm, take over from me because I don't have it open so I don't want to butcher it, but I did see a theory that was essentially saying


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[Assistant] The heart of Lorkhan is the reason that Morrowind is the most alien of the provinces.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I saw that one. So, I mean, like my first reaction to that was...


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[Assistant] I mean, obviously there are, there are alien elements described in, all over Tamriel and away from Tamriel, like, you know, look at Akavir, or even, uhm, look at Somerset, the way Somerset was described, is very alien, so it, it, in a way it does just come down to the natural flora and, and, uhm, architectural style of the races, but then there is also the argument to be made that,


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[Assistant] I think we've talked about this before, that because the heart of Lorcan, kind of, it's essentially the heart of the world, and the lava that, the magma that flows under the, under Red Mountain, and in the subterranean depths of Tamriel, is kind of like the flowing blood of the dead god. So the idea that, where, the closer you are to that,


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[Assistant] The more kind of like, padamaic power exists, uhm, exudes from it, is possible.


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[Assistant] Design changes. Plus, and if you're talking about it being inhospitable as well, obviously being the only active volcano in Tamriel, the, the Kraglands, uhm, is gonna make sense just purely on that biome, you know? Yeah, like, unique feature that creatures have.


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[Assistant] When it comes to something like a kalpa, it's really hard to actually have any evidence, proper evidence that a kalpa exists because the whole idea is that it resets the cycle. But obviously we do have plenty of evidence of worlds being unmade or destroyed or coming to an end without necessarily a new cycle beginning.


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[Assistant] Whereas we don't have much evidence of the cycle renewing, you know, so say you've got the 12 worlds of creation from the, uhm,


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[Assistant] The Anuad that are all destroyed, and then you've got, say, Lig, which is unmade by, uh, that's how it's insinuated anyway, is that it's unmade by Meryn Stagon and the Slaves.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yea, evidence for the cycle is less.


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[Assistant] I feel like if there was significance to these twelve worlds, the number twelve wouldn't just be a coincidence, there would be an explanation for each one, but I feel like it was kind of just an off-handed creation story.


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[Assistant] I mean, when I think of the Redguard story of having the kind of the dead world skins that he's rolled into a ball to create Mundus,


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[Assistant] As you were kind of getting at, it's more of a metaphor for him kind of taking ideas, the ideas of creation when all these spirits are finding their place, and formulating the idea for this realm, as opposed to it literally being the kind of salvation of these dead worlds being brought together.


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[Assistant] It's hard to, it's hard to justify that, because I feel like there isn't a whole lot to support it, but at the same time, this is the first time I'm hearing this, so.


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[Assistant] I mean that's kind of the idea that we were getting at with Ligg and adjacent places is that they were other attempts by Lorcan to make a, uh, this kind of experimental realm, the mortal realm, and sometimes it fails, you know, in this instance it failed with Ligg.


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[Assistant] And I mean, I feel like the idea isn't, it's not mutually exclusive, the idea that it could be a cycle, but also kind of a fresh start, because that's the whole idea of this walkabout, is that the powerful deities, the gods can like learn to step aside and, and,


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[Assistant] dodge the destruction, which would make sense when you've got the new dawn era, where all the gods come in first, and then you've got, I guess you kind of pull, the idea is that you pull the souls from the afterlives, from the dreaming sleeve, and they populate this new realm.


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[Assistant] So in a way it is a new cycle, but it is also something completely new. So they're kind, it's kind of synonymous in a sense.


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[Assistant] Less theory, more analysis, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, kind of like demonstrating why he is the way he is, because he is a fairly one-note prince if you just boil it down to what he represents. So as a way of kind of analyzing and, and justify it, well not justifying, but explaining the way he is, it, all of that makes sense to me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's interesting to sort of- Cause you can, you can kind of apply some of that logic to just about every prince in that, like, they, they brag about the fact that they didn't invest their power in creating the mortal realm, but they're constantly trying to seek validation from the inhabitants of this realm, as if they do feel like they were left out of


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[Assistant] What is essentially kind of described as being the centre of the universe. The Mundus is kind of the culmination point, the arena, the most important part. And these Daedra are more powerful, they can get involved, but at the end of the day they're not.


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[Assistant] The creators, they're, they're bystanders, so they are kind of desperately in need of attention. And that kind of ties into what was said about Molek Baal wanting to be loved.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it makes sense, you know, we've, we've a group like the Dark Brotherhood where it's a bit more surface level, it's kind of just assassination for the sake of it. Obviously, I'm, I'm, I'm oversimplifying that, but the Moraitong, as we've discussed a lot, it's much more...


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[Assistant] Integral to s- to, Dunmer society, in that, yeaah, it's like my father's idea of using political assassination, as I said, politically, like, it- it's important to maintain a balance, but yeaah, there is no balance anymore, and when you have one dominant class, one dominant house,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it doesn't really have a purpose, so that does make total sense, yeah.


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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 talking all about the needs. Uh, and you might need some elaboration on that for people who aren't into the, cause I guess it's like needs doesn't come up often if you're just playing the games. It doesn't.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, well we gotta, like two also, so needs, to understand needs too, is like if you were to compare it to, uhm,


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[Assistant] A real life culture to help understand. It's about as useful as saying Kelts as in that


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[Assistant] They have some broad notes and broad strokes that are similar, some sort of biological and like language ties, but they actually form quite individual cultures themselves.


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[Assistant] The needs, and it's just the one term that we've got, needs is kind of like the equivalent of Celts. There's lots of certain geographical areas, like there's the needs of the Deathlands, or the needs of, you know, Black Marsh or Cyrodiil and stuff like that. They all have quite distinct cultures and stuff. Of course, there's some broad similarities, but the more like...


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[Assistant] Yep, but I'd argue that all of it is incredibly important and it challenges the Elven narrative, which is the dominant narrative traditionally and gone through all cultures, which when the more you can poke holes at the traditional Elven sort of Aldmeros, the whole old Elden of Hay story, like we were all the Tamriel and the races of men came and ruined everything and that kind of thing.


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[Assistant] You get a much more, like, nuanced look at all of Tamriel when you're not just taking, oh, it's as simple as like, you know, Aurel and the gods are down and baddie, Lorkhan stuff. So when you, when you bring in


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[Assistant] Um, the idea that all needs might have actually been here all along. Oh, maybe actually even the Bosmer were here as the ooze before and the Argonians and everything. And then these high elves that came and then just colonized and dominated in all these different cultures are actually diluted as hell and they sort of just put their sort of.