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[Assistant] I'm gonna go with Oblivion. Yea, me too. I think I've been changed, yea. I really actually, looking at the Oblivion one again, really like the legs down, like, as well, like, yea. All the intersecting plates and stuff. Do you know what? Even in that one, I don't mind the helmet in that particular shot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the other one looks like a bit, it just, yeah.


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[Assistant] Well, that's what I think, like, they've, they've kind of, it's probably, Glass is probably one of the armors where they had a really different idea for each one. So like,


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[Assistant] The initial one, if you look at Morrowinds, it's all of that, like supposed to be kind of what Somerset elves were, and it's all like this, this glass.


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[Assistant] Um, uh, but it's added onto metal, which kind of makes sense, but it's all like decorative and there's parts of it and like, you know, chipped everywhere and stuff like that. Skyrims kind of goes with the same like idea of that. It's not just entirely sheets of glass. It's like, you know, metal incorporate with the glass, but it goes for an entire, like that really Thalmor-y elven sort of like modern aesthetic, which I think is not as,


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[Assistant] Interesting. But then you have, um, Oblivions, which I'm actually, like, past, I enjoyed it as a kid because it is this big standout green armor. I just thought it looked cool.


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[Assistant] My personal take is I love Morrowind's one over the top, like, for me, but...


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[Assistant] I think it's what the high elves did with volcanic glass or something. I can't, I can't remember the exact of it, but initially the one in Morrowind, the idea was that it was like of an elven sort of design and glass still is of an elven sort of design. It's just the elven designs changed. It's no longer this sort of exotic-y looking crystalline.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know what you mean. I, I do like the, I do like the bright green. I think it's honestly like a big part of it within Skyrims is that it went for a teal sort of color as opposed to like this bright green glass that makes it.


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[Assistant] I'm a big fan of the, the, just the standard sword. Um, yeah. Yeah. Glass sword, but yeah. So yeah, I would, uh,


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[Assistant] I think a lot of armor in Morrowind has a lot more prestige because it literally, you couldn't just smith it and it wasn't just appearing on leveled enemies all of a sudden.


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[Assistant] It was like certain characters had it and it was like, you know, a bit more, uh,


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[Assistant] It was cool like that, like you found ebony on rich characters you found. There's cool mods for Skyrim that do it, like Morrowind.


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[Assistant] Prestigious sort of characters, prestigious armor, you know what I mean? Make it a bit more exclusive, but...


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[Assistant] I think I- Yeah, I like cause Daedric at its base is supposed to be Ebony. Is Ebony that's corrupted with like a Daedric soul kind of thing, or essence or whatever.


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[Assistant] So the shield too, having a face and everything and still like, eight, it, Morrowinds to me looks the most like, demon.


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[Assistant] And it like high crafted and like kind of, I dunno, I really vibe.


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[Assistant] But that's also in that photo, do remember if you go into dark spaces, the red glow underneath all of the things, which I kinda like.


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[Assistant] On the greatest Daedra video thumbnail and stuff, the legends art of the Daedric armor too, like that will help you just upscale it in your mind, but you've sold me on that being second. Like I would, I think, I think Skyrim would be the least. I do still like Skyrims though.


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[Assistant] Do you know what Daedric Arma has always, um, reminded me of? Did you ever watch, uh, were you, I don't know if you guys were Power Rangers fans?


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[Assistant] Okay, did you watch, uh, Power Rangers in Space, which was like two of them? Okay, maybe not, but there's this, there's this guy called Ecliptor, who's the villain. I'll send a picture in, and it's what Daedric Armor in Skyrim always has reminded me of.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, and I can see what you mean with the legends, uh, there too, with it more, uh, buy it more. But see this, see the big pauldrons and stuff, the designs, how it went out and jagged and spiky and stuff. It always reminded me of, uhm, the Skyrim Daedric always reminded me of that, I don't know why, just the look.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so there really isn't, there's obviously dragon scale and dragon bone, like there is technically, there's a dragon bone legendary, uh, dragon bone, uh, cuirass in, uhm, Morrowind.


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[Assistant] And it's just a, it's just the chess piece and it kind of like, yeah, it looks like cool. Uh, it's, I don't know. To me, it wasn't enough to qualify, I guess, but with dragon scale, there's the Imperial dragon scale and Morrowind, which is the Khorasan helm. And it looks unique enough, I guess, that it just kind of pops a bit more that you could compare it to dragon scale in, um, Skyrim.


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[Assistant] I actually like the Morrowind one more because it looks like a hide of a dragon more. I've actually never been a fan of dragon scale much in


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[Assistant] Skyrim. I think there's, once again, the creation club actually did a, a, a started dragon scale variant, and I think that's much better. Uhm, there is something that looks a little bit like,


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[Assistant] I don't know. Why do I sound too hard? It's kind of like, I don't know, I just...


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[Assistant] If you told me that was an Amaset from He-Man, I'd 100% believe you. That makes sense.


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[Assistant] Nah, I wouldn't as much, it could be, it could be like, obviously lots of things could be He-Man, but I just, I don't get, it doesn't look as Hasbro to me. The dragon scale in, in Skyrim just-


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[Assistant] Yeah, but even the back, I like how there's like the scales down the spine that kind of creates the dragon scale thing. And once again, it's that sort of...


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[Assistant] It's an older interpretation of the lore when like dragons had way more to do with the empire and they had dragon scaling, like the position on dragons was different because Skyrim lore hadn't been written yet, so uhm.


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[Assistant] Look, if you would put it this way, if I took the gauntlets and the boots off the armor in Skyrim, if you just looked at dragon scale cuirass and helwit, if you want a fair comparison, I'd absolutely go imperial.


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[Assistant] I'd still, I don't know, let the audience decide, but I'd, I'd, I mean, I might get absolutely ratioed on this. No, you won't. You will not. You fell off.


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[Assistant] No, no, I'm serious. I think some people really like the, um, dragon scale stuff, but I just think it looks a little too...


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[Assistant] But if you look at, for example, if you go on the US page, the studded dragon scale, I do prefer that to the default dragon scale, and I think it just looks...


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[Assistant] I don't know, it looks more like armor, it looks less toy, like the helmet still, I'm not great, like huge on handheld designs, but like the actual like armor piece, pieces and stuff, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it could have been made from the scales, but cut into squares and stuff. I just kind of like that look. I think when every- It's cool. It's the same, it's too much.


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[Assistant] I mean, I feel like you feel strongly about that part, that it's not a complete set. I feel like when you, when it's two or more, I feel like you can kind of get in, especially for example, it's not like comparing, like for example, boots and gauntlets make up less of what an armor is than the chest and helmet.


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[Assistant] But the majority of, of the armor, if you know what I don't know, like I feel like there's enough there. It'd be different if you're like comparing a helmet or a pair of gauntlets.


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[Assistant] All right then, well, let's hit, uh, let's hit, uh, guard armors. So now for this to preface, we're going to have to basically look at the guards of each of the different cities, holes, um, and, and,


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[Assistant] Well, because it's more exotic, I guess. But the one, and it's also, for example, it doesn't fit other areas. And I also didn't know where to include Ordinators if we do, like, because they are technically the guards of all of Avex City and everything, so that's kind of like your equivalent of, like, your, say, Imperial guards.


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[Assistant] Let's, let's just, for the moment, let's just establish Skyrim to Oblivion because Morrowinds is a little bit of a weird exception because they


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[Assistant] Look, they, they, it's categorized differently, but let's just look, uh, Skyrim hold guards to Oblivion hold guards. Um, for me, the answer is Oblivion quite clearly. I like they, they like,


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[Assistant] The classic, but also remember like Skyrim, obviously Skyrim is trying to make a


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[Assistant] Skyrim looking guard armor, but like if you go look at the guard armor replacer or something like that, you can see it done well. Like another thing too, it's just a little bit of like that silly design kind of feeling. It's just like the sleeveless thing again, like someone lobs your arm, like what's the use of that? Like little chainmail half sleeve when someone just, they're gonna, like most of your arms not covered, you're gonna have it cut off.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like that, but it's just like, it's just kind of like, well, what's the point and why is the chainmail like, or like raggedy? That's like really like anal kind of stuff, but it's not actually, um, I don't know. I just don't think Skyrims is as, I think Oblivions, I like also there's different sigil and the colors on the tabards and stuff.


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[Assistant] Skyblivion, Skyblivion again has obviously done concept art that looks much better and sort of execution. They actually kind of changed design a bit, so we won't want to focus on that too much, but.


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[Assistant] And there was a Blood Rider one as well, I think we choose the Solitude guard armor, cause it was like a red look.


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[Assistant] For a, for a, to help like sort of narrow some things a little bit more too, like just to, just to clarify again, it's like, you know, the graphics and so on, but when you're comparing the different guard armors, you're sort of also looking at like, like how well they


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[Assistant] Yeah, the hold guards are just like, they've got the symbols painted on, but it's like wooden with like- It's always the same shield in Skyrim.


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[Assistant] Have a look, I sent, I sent through the Skybliving concept art ones, and some of these have been rendered, but I just love how they've altered them all slightly to make them, like, especially, I love the Bruma one with the big two-handed axe and the kite shield, like, really like,


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[Assistant] All of them are really good projects, but I think sky oblivion has the one I'm actually most excited about also cause I would say.


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[Assistant] I think Oblivion, the base game, needs the most help, like it needs the biggest like facelift in terms of like, you know, culture and stuff like that. Like Morrowind, you go back and play Morrowind, outside of the gameplay mechanics and stuff, like yea, they're clunky to work with, they're old, but in terms of like the story and the environment and stuff to enjoy, I think it's like well executed for what Morrowind is.


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[Assistant] So in that sense- It's kind of the weird way, it's just like Oblivion looks worse than a highly polished, specifically like low poly game, if that makes sense. Like those games that are meant to look like they could run on the PS2, even though they couldn't. Do you know what I mean? Like, cause it becomes more of, that's a style choice. It's like, it's like comparing like pixel art versus-


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know what I mean. It's the same reason like a lot of CGI of the early, like, you know, late 90s, early 2000s kinda looks pretty.


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[Assistant] Shrek, Shrek 1 truly is the one, like, you know, I can watch Shrek 2 and there's a big difference between those two even, but Shrek 1 really does look like, wow, that is old. Like it looks like, yeah, but you forget, yeah, it was made on computers from that time, so.


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[Assistant] Well, just, just so, just real quick to clarify the last part, like Oblivion would put down as the winner for between Skyrim and Oblivion.


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[Assistant] Kind of a variety. Yeah, there is in Oblivion because they have the Palace Guard armor. Um, and then there is also in, in Morrowind a variety of arms. So I keen to hear your guys.


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[Assistant] I actually, so I enjoy a lot of them. Yeah, yeah, that's really cool. Like I enjoy, um, a lot of, or like all of the Imperial Armors, and I grew up with Oblivion, so I thought it was iconic and I really like it. Oblivion is actually my least favorite.


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[Assistant] Uhm, if I'm comparing, the problem is like actually if I was really going like what's my like least least favorite, it's the Imperial light armor in Skyrim, but the Imperial heavy armor, like the default one, I much prefer over Skyrim's. Uhm, I do though actually prefer Morrowind's kind of look.


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[Assistant] More, I think, across the board. Just with the sort of...


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[Assistant] I don't know, like I like that classic, um, there'd probably be a different name for it, not just caress. I don't know, whatever the Romans called it, but like just the chess piece and stuff and with the horses and the pauldrons and it's that really like.


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[Assistant] Because there's a little bit of Romanian Oblivions with the skirt thing and the sort of like, head.


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[Assistant] Shape but then again there's parts of Skyrim's armor like the heavy armor if you get the the Imperial the variant with the clothes phased help like that's really really cool.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it would be between, to me it would be between Oblivion and Morrowind and Skyrim. I think I'd put Oblivion at the least for myself, but what do you guys think?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, that rare one. That's what I'm saying, I really like this guy with that. Like basically if you look like a centurion build.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, cause I will say in the Morrowind's helmet, I think it's the Imperial Silver, uhm, they look pretty wack, some of the helmets. The other ones look kind of standard fare. I'm looking, when I'm looking at Morrowind's, I'm looking more so from the neck down, uhm, for the most part. I don't mind the helmets and the standard guard helmets, but uhm, I kind of like,


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[Assistant] I don't know, just the sort of like the Roman shield and the sort of, it just looks the most...


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's kind of hard, like, because, but this is what I would say, I prefer your average Imperial in Morrowind to your average Imperial you'll find in Skyrim, because in default Skyrim, most of them are wearing that leather one, the light armor, like you only ever see really the center, uhm,


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[Assistant] So I would actually, I don't know if that really factors in too much, but I would just say, if I was to say, cause if you just said, oh, what's your favorite Imperial armor in any of them?


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[Assistant] Probably just say Morrowind, because in Skyrim you don't actually see the coolest Imperial armor for most of the game. For a lot of the time it's like, hidden.


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[Assistant] If that's the case, then I would probably just go with Morrowinds, I think. I mean, I don't know, actually, there is also another one I really like. It's called, from Morrowind, uhm, it's another variant. It's a rarer variant, but the Imperial Templar armor. I'll just send it through in case.


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[Assistant] I'll just send through the other picture that literally has them all together. I mean, this one actually has the Imperial dragon scale there because it's technically an Imperial arm, but like, let's not, don't factor that in. Not that you either really liked it. Yeah, the Imperial Emperor.


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[Assistant] But that would be your equivalent, I guess, you could equivalent that to like the Imperial Palace Guard armor or something like that. But I, I just think this is more of a Rome Byzantine sort of look and it has that kind of, um, I also like that it has like, if you look at the,


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[Assistant] I really like Amorowind's Imperial armor over the top. I think, yeaah, it wins by, well, sorry, it wins in variety, it just has more variance, but I think for the standard Imperial, sort of, that you see around, like when you go to the forts and so on, I generally like, and if you imagine them, like, you know, up to a graphical standard, a modern graphical standard,


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[Assistant] I prefer Morrowinds over it. Skyrims are not that like, Skyrims could get there easily, like Lscroll6 could be of that, you know, standard equivalent. It's on the way there. I don't know. I just, I don't hate oblivions or anything, but it just, it's just kind of.


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[Assistant] I don't know, the hard iron sort of look, it just doesn't, it doesn't, I don't know, it doesn't shout empires. I like it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would say Morrowind, but it's not some, yeah, I, but I still agree in the general, like it's not some crazy, like definitive, like any of them are really like horrible, but just, um. Okay.


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[Assistant] No, there's no point in comparing that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the ESO stuff doesn't follow necessarily the same thing and it looks different. Somewhat like, uh, I think there was a comment or recent stuff about, um, was sort of saying that like we're harping on about Elder Scrolls.


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[Assistant] Look, sometimes when I go back and look at ESOs, especially the standard sets, when people tell me that this is not a poor looking armor, like dude, it's...


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[Assistant] No, no, it's, yeah it is, it's the same as there's all the styles for the different, because there's the whole like, you can make your armors like look different styles and so on, like whatever you want.


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[Assistant] I don't know, dude. Look, just let's, this is, this is why we're not doing it. It's just a, like, all day, whatever the extra losing, like ESO, like the bone mold or they didn't kind of do bone mold. They turned it all into like a steelish looking, I can't even remember if they call it bone mold. Cause it just looks.


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[Assistant] I don't know, like, doesn't look like bone mold anymore. Where is it? A lot of it. Uhm, some of them are okay. I like, this is a shot from the trailer. Hold on.


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[Assistant] From the, like, the Vvardenfell trailer, you'll see all, all of them. Bit like...


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[Assistant] One of them kind of looks fine, but do you know what I mean? It looks...


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[Assistant] Instead of saying World of Warcraft, cause I think people get like lost with what I mean by that, that it's like all these giant like huge pauldrons and it's not so much the proportions, but what I'm saying is ESO has a tendency to look manufactured as in the armor is made in a modern factory and then it's pushed out. Like it looks like, oh, here's my spec ops cyberpunk sort of.


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[Assistant] Kind of like, designed armor. I wouldn't expect- it doesn't look like-


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[Assistant] Sounds like, I don't know, it doesn't look tactile, it doesn't look like it's made in the 15th century, do you know what I mean? And that's generally my preferences, I like it to look like, though that, you know, it was built in that time period. But yea, even though it's not strictly historical, obviously.


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[Assistant] Probably a whole other topic. Sometimes it's also like what mood, but I do think like you kind of said before, I think bone mold is


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[Assistant] Looks super cool, super iconic. Um, and it just kind of, and also has variability and stuff. I think the whole concept of bone mold armor and the different guard style, it's really, really cool. I think it's something you don't really see. That's the other thing. It's unique. That's what's going for it as well.


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[Assistant] Yeah, oh, I have to say I really do like, like Indoril armor, like the Ordinator's armor and stuff, I think is really cool.


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[Assistant] Obviously for me, it's a huge Morrowind, but it's just the visuals, I really like it. And I made a tweet ages ago, a long time ago, but I was like, I wonder what it is, but I have a very specific taste. And it's like this closed sort of visor thing. It's like, if you go, if you ever play Nightsealed Republic,


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[Assistant] Uhm, the Mandalorians, I remember being so into their armor and it's the same visor style kind of like as the bone mold and I swear I just like that kind of.


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[Assistant] I like how Morrowind incorporates a bit more of that sci-fi look into a fantasy and I think the mix makes it.


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[Assistant] The fact of the matter is, if you took the Kite Nama set and you threw it in Star Wars and said that this is a bounty hunter and give him a blaster, you'd be like, yeah, makes sense. But that's to me is the sellout. Some people really prefer the...


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[Assistant] I like the mix, but like, I can see if it's not everyone's cup of tea. Like I can see if it's not like, but for me personally, I really like.


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[Assistant] A little bit of the genre bending kind of stuff. I think it, to a degree, you don't want to lose touch with what the initial genre is, but if you just tweak it to, to give it some flavour.


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[Assistant] I even really like the natural leather and stuff, but I guess, I don't know, unless you want to talk about like Skyrim oblivion sort of sets is probably a little bit more of a grounded answer because it's not just, I love all the stuff from Morrowind.


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[Assistant] Oblivion's actually kind of a tough one because now I'm like so spoiled for choice because to me I actually


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[Assistant] I generally prefer the armors in the other games for the most part. Like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, except the Ebony. Yeah, I think Ebony for me personally was the only one.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Ebony was the only one that I preferred oblivion over many of them.


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[Assistant] Actually I have to be fair too, you know with Skyrim, actually Skyrim won some of those with less competition, like for example, like Starrim is only competing with Morrowind, or like Kitein is only competing with Morrowind, or Elven is only competing with Oblivious.


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[Assistant] In terms of design, obviously not in terms of graphics, but in terms of just concept and design. But man, I will say,


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[Assistant] The whole Skyrim Anniversary Edition, all the Creation Club stuff, a lot of the armor variants are really good, like, if we included them in this, uhm, it would change a lot of my views, like you can't, like if you were including Anniversary Edition, but I feel like it's kind of, even if it feels very official now, cause it's part of like an official released game, I do, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, it just feels like an uneven playing field, but like, I actually really like the iron. There's iron plate. Uhm, if you're on the US page, they're all there, like, all lined up, but there's the iron.


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[Assistant] Uh, iron plate, there is the steel, I think it's called steel soldier?


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[Assistant] Or something is another really cool set. I think a lot of them are inspired by blades. Some of the times they could be a few tweaks, but there's, you know, the, the spell knight armor, silver armor, ebony plate armor. Like I actually prefer both of the variants of that. There's a dragon plate insulated armor and the studded dragon scale, like we were talking before, but I prefer both of those to their original.


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[Assistant] But like, you know, even things like, some of them are only partially, but there's like dwarven plate.


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[Assistant] Uhm, which I think is only two pieces, same as the Dwarven, uh, Daedric plate. But like, you know, Daedric male is another cool variant. Like, I just think they, they...


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[Assistant] Added in a bunch of cool variants they needed. Even I prefer the orcish, um, orcish plate and orcish, uh, I think it was called scaled orcish or something. It's just cool variants and stuff.


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[Assistant] Oh, and Dwarven Mail actually looks more like your, I feel like that's actually a take. If you, can you see where that is? It looks more like the Oblivion-ish armor in terms of the visor, but it still looks, it's a nice mix. It's a nice midpoint, I think, between the two designs. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But yea, well, I think, uh, unless we've got any closing notes, I feel like that's a lot of, that's been a pretty big discussion on armor. We'll think we might not get as much.


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[Assistant] I'd actually be down to do that. I think that's pretty good.


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[Assistant] There is a million people who still care about the Elder Scrolls and that's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] It's not for you guys, we don't get to do this, and honestly, this is the dream. We love it, so thank you.


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[Assistant] That's up there, but continue Scott, I'll get to my-


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[Assistant] Pokemon is up there for me, but it's one of those games where I don't really enjoy playing it that much anymore, but my love for it hasn't decreased whatsoever. Yeah, same. So even though I don't play the games as much, I obsess over Pokemon art and things like that.


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[Assistant] And I mean, if I do play, I'll go back and do challenge runs, like Nuzlocke's and stuff like that, where, you know, your Pokemon have perma death.


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[Assistant] I would, no, what I mean, it's, so I was trying for a little while to work on getting a world record in Skyrim speedrunning, but it's like,


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[Assistant] Dude, people are good at that game. It's insane that like, the strats people come up with because you can't, you can't sprint or wait in Sovngarde, sorry, you can sprint, you can't wait in Sovngarde. So people will play the game and pick up wine all the way through the run so they've got like a hundred bottles of alto wine.


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[Assistant] And then we'll just spam drink it when they get to sovereign card. So you just completely pissed off your head, but you're able to keep sprinting. It's like, man, people are, people are smart.


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[Assistant] Yeah, finding strange ways to get up the throat of the world without using the path that's there for you is really fun as well. Ah, that's my first playthrough.


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[Assistant] But I mean, like, just briefly on the question, I'd say, for me, like, RPGs, with the exception of Skyrim and the Witcher games, like, uhm,


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[Assistant] I usually play, like, either platformers or movement shooters. There's like Your Dooms, and there's a recent game called Ultra Kill that I'm just obsessed with, but other than that it's like Ratchet and Clank, Mario, and obviously I'm obsessed with Legend of Zelda as well. So I'm more of a Nintendo guy, honestly.


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[Assistant] Well see, I never played it, so I'm really excited to play it fresh when it comes out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I wonder if the law, because you know how Star Wars law kinda got considered, what is it, legends or something like that? So I wonder how they'll deal with all that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and like, it was really nice. It was really nice having the interaction, but yeah, you kind of need people who are willing to...


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[Assistant] If everyone, if everyone promises to be good, then we can just whip, like I could whip one up in five minutes and just be like, okay, well there's a link in, in some YouTube videos if you wanna, cause I'm on Disney all the time.


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[Assistant] I like the informal nature of just kind of playing the game and hanging out essentially, but then, you know, there's less, there's less quality control in that, yeah, making a video from scratch will always be better quality to give to people than us just kind of talking crap.


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[Assistant] Well, I feel like I know your answer, Scott. Isn't it first-era serendipity?


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[Assistant] Also, it could be cool to have like a Left 4 Dead Vermintide style Oblivion Crisis game where it's like you go to a different region maybe, but there's actually a lot more Daedra coming out of these portals and they're


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[Assistant] Well, with Vermintide, you know, you got your casters, your crusader types and bow and arrow and stuff, it'd be cool.


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[Assistant] It really was a turning point because I went to uni with Scott and I remember you when you made the decision to abandon me and drop out of your degree. I was an idiot and kept going and my degree does nothing now. But I also remember we went to the same midnight launch for Fallout 4 and you guys were like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're gonna go home, it's midnight currently, we're gonna go home and play this for like 30 hours. This was before we were all together on the channel. I was like, wow, you guys are insane, but it obviously was the smart move.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, a tiny bit of advice that just applies to everyone is that if something like this is your passion, then you kinda have to approach it at first, at least.


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[Assistant] Like, it's a hobby, it is a passion, and you do it, you have to do it with the expectation that this will lead to, you know, like, don't be negative, but expect nothing from it and do it because you love it. Uhm, and if it works, it works, but if you go in trying to make a video that's gonna make you money,


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[Assistant] In my opinion, that's the quickest way to be like, wow, this is awful. You've gotta love it.


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[Assistant] And roleplaying is what gives these games legs. You know, you don't play them over and over again because you necessarily want to be the strongest of every kind. It's like the reason people continuously make characters in ESO and continuously revisit these games.


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[Assistant] Is because it's so much fun to pick a race, to pick a culture, to pick where you're from, to pick your classes, to pick your factions, and


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[Assistant] And to roleplay in it, yeah, like that is the purpose. And even if we're doing less builds now, a big thing about the lore and really diving into that is that once you understand it enough, it just expands your possibilities for roleplaying. Yeah. Infinitely. To the point where it's like, yeah, even though the games are old and we're waiting so long for the next one.


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[Assistant] There's just, it's just endless how much fun you can actually get out of it.


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[Assistant] Definitely fantasy. Uhm, but yea, no exactly, like, uhm, I mean, let's be real, a lot of the best games, obviously you want to be original, but if a game comes out that does something really well or does a series of things really well,


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[Assistant] Other developers should be inspired by that and find natural cohesive ways to implement it into their own games. Like, I think one of the reasons, in my opinion, Ghost of Tsushima is such a good game is because it took a lot of inspiration from The Witcher 3.


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[Assistant] Uhm, did it its own way, and it just, it's just a fantastic game, and I think the Elder Scrolls, if it's set in High Rock, could really benefit from taking elements from other franchises, like we've discussed this in our ideal Elder Scrolls 6 videos, but...


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[Assistant] Simply having, like, the ability that politics can come into play quite a lot and having, like, depending on who you help, it sets your character up in a specific scenario where you have allies, you have enemies, you have whole things of your own that you wouldn't be able to have unless you made those decisions.


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[Assistant] Knowing the lore can kind of mess with how you choose as well, because playing Skyrim blind the first time, I went with Akaji. Same. I joined the Stormcloaks just because it was the first option, it's like those who I encountered first. Same. And like obviously it's fun, but it's ridiculous, and I feel like


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[Assistant] For the most part, anytime I would start a new Elder Scrolls game, I would pick a high elf because...


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[Assistant] You also have the possibility of roleplaying into, like, the offshoots of a high elf. So say you picked a high elf in the Iliac Bay, High Rock, and Hammerfell.


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[Assistant] If you pick a high off, you can kind of roleplay potentially as a, you know, you've got lineage from the Dureni or something that there's lots of opportunities, but.


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[Assistant] If it comes out that this is gonna be a very linear main questline, kind of like becoming the Dragonborn, but you become the sword singer who frees Hamethel from Falmore aggression, I'm not really gonna be wanna- I'm not gonna wanna be a high elf doing that. So it would completely change my decision.


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[Assistant] Mine was bad, which is why I'm asking, because it's funny if it's the same thing.


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[Assistant] Because I wanted to be a mage, but I ended up just using a sword most of the time anyway, so I guess I became a spell sword.


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[Assistant] To take it in a completely different direction, if you're gonna have a lot of foods and drinks that will just give you stamina buffs and things like that, I'd much rather they, especially with skooma but also with alcohol, is that just have visual or


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[Assistant] Crashing somewhere against your will and then you wake up a day later. You know, something like that, I think would be cool. Top 5 things we want in Elder Scrolls 6. Drugs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just make it subscription-based. Every week you gotta pay another $30. So after 10 years, that's what he means by game of a generation. It's a game that will pay befes-


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[Assistant] So, before Fudge Muppet, when I was just doing admin in an accounting firm, and it was the most boring work in the world, I was just, I went so deep down the Song of Ice and Fire rabbit hole that I probably know more about, uhm,


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[Assistant] Song of Ice and Fire lore than I do about Elder Scrolls lore. Really?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a little bit rusty now because I haven't read the books in a little while, but...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was obsessed. And I mean, it is pretty deep. Like, I don't think anything really gets quite as deep as Elder Scrolls, but I was pretty far down that. And I love Dark Souls lore, but uhm, yeah. Like, that's great, but it's also great because it's so mysterious too.


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[Assistant] Wasn't there a question that essentially ties into that about what real history, real world lore you're into? Wasn't there a question following that?


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[Assistant] Kind of. I'm kind of- You go, you go. Okay.


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[Assistant] I'd say for me, in terms of mythology, I would say King Arthur and Chivalry. So like, you know, the way that he's kind of become this figure that's a conglomeration of


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[Assistant] historical figures that may or may not have existed, could be folklore, could be true, and it spans from Wales to France to all these different influences, and then you've got, you know, the kind of like, after this great final battle,


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[Assistant] I really like, even though we know nothing about it, the pre Anglo-Saxon England, when it was all druids and everyone was connected to the land. And then the Anglo-Saxons are awesome, they're so much cooler than Vikings, even though they're similar. But everyone obsesses over Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons are way cooler.


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[Assistant] I will, I will. I mean, it's one of the reasons why I almost don't want to play Assassin's Creed Valhalla, because it's, everybody's so obsessed with being a Viking just messing up England. It's like, dude, the amount of culture you destroy. I tell you what.


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[Assistant] Having it, having it have this new legs of yeaah, being an RPG game, they hold up really well, and like, I loved Odyssey, and I will eventually play Valhalla mostly to explore.


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[Assistant] Well, hit on your historical period.


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[Assistant] And I mean, when you mention the Dark Ages, just a fun fact as well, it's like, you know, nothing against the French, I love, I love France and French people, but obviously, when the Normans came over and kind of...


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[Assistant] Essentially took over, uhm, as the head honchos in England, and the Anglo-Saxons were very fond of building things from wood as opposed to from stone. So the Dark Ages kind of happened because


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[Assistant] The reason we have the Lord of the Rings is because Tolkien was obsessed with


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[Assistant] Pagan religions are essentially cinematic universes, if you think about it.


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[Assistant] But I mean, like, the engine is, I mean, it's only an updated engine, it's not a new engine, so surely they will, but, but I mean, yea, like, being able to actually go and get really fresh, modern-looking footage, uhm, would just be inspiring in terms of how visually it would upgrade.


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[Assistant] The content, but yeaah, in terms of like making any content, like you said Scott, like, when we did the Fallout Redemption series, it was really fun, and just writing narrative prose in, related to the Elder Scrolls world is great, but visually it's really hard to


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[Assistant] Yeah, look, I haven't read them, but it probably is a case that say you've got, you know, say you pick someone who is a proven, talented author, and you're like, oh hey, can you write something in this universe? Just do a bit of research into the universe first, obviously, but it's like, well, do a bit of research, that could take you years. You know, like, we've been doing this for years, and there's still things you learn.


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[Assistant] That's a really good, ah, I appreciate that, that's, that's nice. That was cool. Yeah, no, definitely, cause there, yeah, there is always gonna be resistance, it doesn't matter what channel, it doesn't matter what TV show, what form of media, you know.


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[Assistant] People don't really want the formula changed. And yea, it was good because, you know, not only did you guys welcome me in with open arms, but the community did as well. So, so I've always had it very easy. You know, it could have been a real uphill battle, but it wasn't.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So, I mean, it does tend to happen in weird places because yeah, obviously it doesn't happen often, but I've, without being with you guys, I've only been recognized twice.


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[Assistant] This is true, this is true. Yeah, uhm, and like, when they've said, Drew, I've been in the middle of peeing. Like, you know, everything is out. Hey man, can you just give me a sec?


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[Assistant] So, you know, maybe it's a curse that any time I pee at a urinal someone is gonna know who I am, but that's the only time. I don't know what you did in a past life to deserve that.


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[Assistant] I think I've gotten unbelievably lucky in that I haven't put much effort into anything, but somehow things, the stars have aligned for me, because I mean like, my first job was, other than just doing kind of laboring, was I worked at McDonald's for a few years, in the cafe section, and then after that I was just doing


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[Assistant] Boring crappy admin at an accounting firm. But the problem was, like, my family are all high achievers. And they're all really mathematical minded. But I just like, I can't work.


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[Assistant] I just didn't want to do that my whole life. So like, you know, when I was doing that, I was just really interested in writing and whatnot.


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[Assistant] I've said it before on the podcast, but by pure fluke at uni, I don't- I never met you guys, because obviously I came from England, went to a different school.


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[Assistant] Uhm, in a compulsory class, just got sat next to Scott by pure fluke, and, and it's like, man, if that didn't happen, I don't know what I'd be doing, cause I'm just not driven enough to...


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[Assistant] Because I was only doing admin, I like, can, I, I wanna skip my lunch breaks. Cause I don't, I don't, I don't care to eat lunch, I'll just eat when I get home. And I'll leave slightly early and beat the work rush and my boss obviously didn't like it and he was like getting angry at me and I don't like being


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it's lucky I did that. I was always daydreaming about world building and stuff because Scott, you knew, like we've both talked about it before, that we like to world build and we like fantasy and stuff like that. And that's the reason, that's the reason you contacted me about it, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're good at getting people's attention and keeping it, so I think you'd actually be a good teacher, but obviously you never know with kids.


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[Assistant] I'd be working a dead-end job trying to sell a book, probably, and failing miserably, and then just working a dead-end job is probably how it'd go.


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[Assistant] And we ended up kind of, a lot of this was before me, but collaborating on builds. So Camel would be making a weapon guide videos to find certain weapons and we would be implementing those weapons into our builds. And it was a good way for us to kind of grow together.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think to add to all of that and like with the, with how Skyrim was portrayed is that you, you, you can't really be too harsh on the designers and the lore writers because some of it is just practicality, but you do see a lot that descriptions


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then, so it becomes a much less interesting place than the descriptions, and then you have characters in game, which is kind of just the lore masters talking to the audience, that says, oh, these were just, you know, hyperbolic statements, these were, they were speaking metaphorically, and it's like, well, this is a fantasy world.


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[Assistant] Don't. Just like, if somebody says it looks this way, make it kind of look, I don't know, yeaah. It would be nice if every culture had extremely unique visuals the way Morrowind does. But they've strayed from that path more and more with each game.


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[Assistant] Oh no, I was just gonna say, like, would it change the question if you put yourself in a specific time, maybe prior to the third and fourth eras? Like, if you could join, if you could be a part of an ancient culture in the Elder Scrolls.


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[Assistant] Who would you pick? Like, I mean, my answer to that was going to be like, oh, I'd want to be either a Doreni or an Ayleid at the height of their empires or something like that. Um, which could be interesting, you know, cause then you've obviously got the Elven life, so like you wouldn't want to be an Imperial no matter what because your lifespan is a fraction of an Elven.


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[Assistant] At the beginning, like, when the Durenni and the Aliens are like, uhm, discovering new forms of magic by like, you know, having the starlight fall into their wells or by plunging into oblivion for the first time in, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's essential for making the content we make fun, you know, cause we've talked about it before that there is always a discussion between people who really don't like when anyone talks out of canon.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I think, I think we do a good job of whenever we speculate, we always say we're speculating. So take it with a grain of salt, but feel free to just enjoy the ride.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the most fun you're gonna have with Elder Scrolls lore is when you don't have specific dates of this thing and that thing happening and this is the outcome and it's like no, well how do you interpret that?


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[Assistant] Well, and I mean, returning to the initial question about branching out into different lore, I think like, obviously, yeah, as we've just said, the Dark Souls games, the Soulsborne, Kiro games, are all


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[Assistant] There's amazing lore on YouTube for it already, but since, you know, like I mentioned before, I absolutely...


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[Assistant] I mean, love with a Song of Ice and Fire's lore, an Elden Ring coming out, which is kind of like, it's all of, uhm,


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[Assistant] Fromsoft's kind of crazy ideas combined with kind of maybe some of George Martin leveling it out and adding kind of like, you know, houses and politics and lineages and all of that stuff to the point where there could be really good potential


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[Assistant] I wonder how well restoration can deal with these kind of plagues, because it obviously didn't do that much.


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[Assistant] I love the idea of it. Like, like I do with most RTS games, I love the idea of them, but I feel like either I'm not smart enough, or I don't have a good enough attention span, I just can't.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, it's kinda- I don't really like sand. Yeah? Is there a reason? It's really coarse and rough. It gets everywhere as well. It sucks. Crazy.


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[Assistant] Exactly, you have to make an entirely new character, grind through it again, and then when you do get there, you know, you can turn off the hard and go into kind of screenshot mode, but you're still kind of just crouching along the environment, so you can never get footage off the ground and things like that. We do a good job. There's a lot of obstacles.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I like a lot, but never to the same level of depth as Elder Scrolls or Song of Ice and Fire. Like, the amount of fantasy book series that have really great lore, but obviously it's only as deep as these books, you know, you've got like,


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[Assistant] Stormlight Archives from Brandon Sanderson, Name of the Wind, Pat Rothfuss, and universes like that are great.


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[Assistant] I mean, I absolutely adore Cowboy Bebop, which has kind of a cool aesthetic and universe, but you can never really ever dive as deep into these things as the Elder Scrolls. I'd say Lord of the Rings is the one that comes closest if you really want to get into it. But even then, I've only barely touched the surface of Lord of the Rings, Lord.


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[Assistant] Dude, I could, I could, I could go for a million, it would be, it would be endless. But yeah. Alright, fair. Fair.


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[Assistant] I mean to be fair, I read a lot more historical stuff now than I used to be. I used to be like 70% fantasy, 30% history, now it's like the reverse.


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[Assistant] Actually to add a final book series onto it, I think, uhm, I haven't even read all of them yet, there's so many of them, but Terry Pratchett's Discworld is wonderful as well. Like, it doesn't take itself too seriously, so it allows itself to be really wacky.


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[Assistant] Um, and yeah, and it's hilarious as well. So that Discworld is great to get into if you, if you care for that as well. And they're very easy short reads too. Yeah. Rest in peace.


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[Assistant] I was just gonna say, I'd really like to write a prose version of Rajin's life. Just because there's so many individual stories you could attack for his life.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean if it's just, it could be a cool thing to have, because I'll normally put at the end of videos, if there's like 10-20 seconds of, you know, music and a fading out of a visual shot, just showing some people's cool artwork is always a- It's kind of a thing, it's just-


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think the key is to recognize canon, but not get hung up on it completely, you know, like-


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[Assistant] Since we have the unreliable narrator, you can't actually take every word you hear in the canon as gospel as well. If one character says one passing line about something that they have no right knowing anything about,


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[Assistant] It doesn't mean that anything you say on the topic from then on out is just dead. You can't talk about it because that one oblivion NPC said blah blah blah or whatever. It's like- It's only canon that they-


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[Assistant] Like, for me, my relationship with the Elder Scrolls has changed over time to the point where I still play the games a lot, especially when I'm making a video, but my love for the Elder Scrolls has almost


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[Assistant] I don't know if transcend is the right word, but it's transcended being a game that I play, and it's more of just a mythology and a universe that I love to think about, to read about, to theorise about, as opposed to go in and play it myself, so I don't really play it much unless I'm...


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[Assistant] The one guarantee with the content, at least for like the last four years or so, is that


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[Assistant] It's, it's guaranteed that whoever wrote the video, voices that video, basically. So you voice your own writing, because it's a lot easier, you know. I think we all have slightly different styles, both for narration and for writing, so.


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[Assistant] You know, there's been times where we've voiced videos that the other person has written and you just make infinitely more mistakes as well because you're not used to the way you do it. So that's the one thing that's consistent is that we will voice our own writing.


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[Assistant] I think people do get hung up a bit on grammar. Like, grammar is important, but at the end of the day, something should be written so that it's spoken well. For YouTube, yea. I'd say even not for YouTube.


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[Assistant] I may, I may have even been talking in a, in an interview who said it, but yeah, like, you know, if you're, say you're writing a story, you want it to be, you want to be able to read it to people. You want people to read it to their children or something. But there is a, there is a difference.


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[Assistant] I mean, one thing I do, which, which may be helpful advice to some people, to others, it may, they may do it already or not at all, but I find that, especially when you've got all these screens around, it's incredibly easy to have your brain be constantly going, constantly worrying, so every morning before I do anything else, I have to sit


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[Assistant] Quietly and read a bit of a book, just because it's like there's something about reading a book versus every other medium of anything.


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[Assistant] Where you have to solely focus on that, otherwise you're not going to interpret anything, if you know what I mean. You're not going to be able to visualize it. You have to sit there and focus purely on that. So I find if I, even if it's only 15 minutes, if I read a few pages or a chapter of a book every day,


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[Assistant] It's so much easier to then slip into a work, a working attitude or even just a focused one. Cause yeah, don't go on TikTok. That's for sure. Don't go on your phone.


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[Assistant] I guess, hm, okay, well let me think, I think we all agree that Scott would be Vivek. And the thing is, I see, I think there are elements of you, Michael, that I would agree is very so facile. But at the same time, me, I don't think, I don't think any of us really are like Almalexia in that she's


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, she's the most popular, the most charismatic, and the, she's probably more talkative. Yeah, so the shoe fits. I feel like I fade into the background in any situations, I mean. No! Okay, remove the talkative part.


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[Assistant] I think the thing was so facile is that like in terms of like the kind of mathematical orderliness, I definitely think Michael like nails that aspect. You're much more orderly in your life than I am, but I'd also say you're less reclusive than I am.


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[Assistant] I guess if we were doing the anticipat- the anticipations, then I would be more, Boifer and Mike would be more Azura. Yeah, I agree.


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[Assistant] That is peak snob. I'm not saying it's not earned, but it's like, yeah, we're so famous, so successful, so significant that if you just wanna stop talking about us for a bit,


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[Assistant] That's fine, it makes sense, it must be hard to always hear about how successful we are.


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[Assistant] That's right, he was chewing like some black lichen root or something, something like that. And basically had that in his mouth so that when he drank his own poison, nothing would happen.


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[Assistant] I imagine that there could be some goblin, goblin ken type things, but it was mostly needs and to be completely honest compared to some of the other elves who left the Somerset Isles and ventured out.


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[Assistant] It wasn't that bad for the Doreni. I mean, like, look at the Kaima who traveled to Morrowind and had actual full-on civilizations, like the Dwemer to deal with, you know. Um, it wasn't too bad going and it's like, oh, here's a bunch of like, needs.


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[Assistant] We're just gonna kind of become their overlords. Stumble overlords.


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[Assistant] Basically, everything's not there yet. Like, all the kingdoms, all the like, oh, Hieroxis province of turmoil and, you know, this kingdom of Wayrest is fighting this one. None of that was even there because that's all from the Bretons, which is, you know, the result of what the Doreni ended up doing, which was interbreeding with the Needs.


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[Assistant] I suppose they were kind of like, in some ways they were the best treated, like local population.


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[Assistant] At the same time, it's still pretty bad, but it's kind of just that thing where it's like, well, they did survive because they were integrated into the society. They didn't have to, you know, be subject to intense slavery and flesh sculpture, torture, arts, and then have some big Elysian rebellion rise up kind of situation.


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[Assistant] You know, nor were they hunted down and slaughtered by all the Nords returning from Atmora.


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[Assistant] I mean, I mean, just, just to clarify for everyone, cause we've been dancing around the topic, there was basically a rule put in where the high, uh, the high-offs, the Doreni,


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[Assistant] They would interbreed with the needs legally, basically take concubines. They would even compete with each other, like who has the most attractive concubines and things like that. They were like trading cards, basically. Yeah, yeah. Do you know, do you know what the name was? There's actually a name. Perquisite of coition. The perquisite of coition. And basically they would interbreed with them. Is it coition or coercion?


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[Assistant] The more elven you were, you know, the higher up you were in society.


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[Assistant] Every time I hear Sirubane, I just think of how I heard it pronounced in Older Scrolls Online. And it was like Sirubane, or some- some- something, I was like, it was like, really? It was like Mademarco and Vanus Galerian in, uhm,


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[Assistant] In, uh, on the Isle of Artaeum, I think in Trader's Vault, and then you're like watching a projection and it's like, Cirobane or something.


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[Assistant] Oh, for sure, and if they were being particularly like, you know, uhm, horsey about it, you can imagine they'd be incredibly competitive amongst each other.


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[Assistant] I mean, like, like Drew was saying in the opening, they did all these different things. I think when you were talking about conjuration,


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[Assistant] Um, I think the explanation for that was that, which there's so many Dureni names to remember, there's a whole list of them. Corvus and Kalani. Yeah, basically he made it so that the spell to summon the creature from Oblivion, but to like bind it there, was


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[Assistant] It's a very hyper efficient way of thinking, like walk this way, you'll get more mileage. You'll, you'll, you'll live longer. It's, it's more fuel efficient, you know? But yeah, they were, they were conjuration like.


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[Assistant] Really, Conjuration Pioneers, some of the stuff, mind you, is very like, let's justify silly Elder Scrolls Online things, like, this Doreni member was the first to summon a Flame Atronach horse, which was used in the Battle of Glonumbra Mors, and, and, and, you know, this one was the first to summon a


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[Assistant] I think it was like an iron, yea, an iron atronach cinch.


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[Assistant] To free her from captivity, like, there was a bit of Mount Slore in there.


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[Assistant] I guess it depends how elven they are too.


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[Assistant] Well we can talk about that briefly to kind of explain that because I think in racial phylogeny they're saying that the offspring basically have the traits of the mother with


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[Assistant] Some traits of the father. So that's one of the theories as, or contributing factors as to why the Bretons look like they do, because you can imagine a bunch of male, elven, kind of like, uhm,


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[Assistant] And then they can inter- so it all mixes and dilutes over time, especially when you look at the- the idea of uhm, you know, like elven birth rates and things like that. I mean, and eventually what we'll get to is that-


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[Assistant] That was kind of their undoing because they got so outnumbered to the point where their own empire, their own culture was essentially disintegrated by the Bretons and the culture that they formed after.


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[Assistant] That's my, that's what I have to say about your massive attention.


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[Assistant] I know the sauce you are talking about. Don't google cozy, you'll just get chicken noodles.


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[Assistant] For sure. Because you can imagine it may appear like broken Nordic to someone, but it wasn't really. Because broken Nordic was just their language with influence that's been around forever that probably influenced the Nordic language.


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[Assistant] To me as well, with the conjuration stuff, I find it quite interesting that they...


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[Assistant] Basically, like, I wonder what it was like before that, like, if we were talking about needs doing rituals, perhaps they really needed, needed, uh, a Daedric prince to basically, you know, give them some Daedric aid.


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[Assistant] Whereas the Dereni were able to use their understanding of magic and kind of forming these binding charts to do that without that. Like it was basically, it's kind of implied that, like, I mean, here's one of the sentences from The Origins of Conjuration.


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[Assistant] Maybe they could be given as almost like a gift from a Daedric Prince temporarily to help, but they weren't actually like summoned by the needs. It seems like a very Dureni thing, like, oh, we have figured out how to bring Daedra in and have them do what we want and be allies to us.


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[Assistant] It is interesting too to wonder just how true it is in the book, cause it kinda implies that the Doreni are also responsible.


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[Assistant] In part, or significantly, for the fact that there are interactions between Daedric realms and Tamriel. Like it talks about, oh they flung open the doors so far to the Daedric planes and it became impossibly difficult to shut.


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[Assistant] Like they washed out other people's contributions almost, like hijacked it all and said, and then we did this and this is our invention and this is our invention and kind of not give credit.


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[Assistant] I suppose you could argue that their contributions to Conjuration kind of were the building blocks by which a lot of bad people did stuff going forward, but I don't think that's like a rock-solid, like, kind of philosophy, because you could say that about anything.


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[Assistant] That sounds like some barsabic alyd type stuff, the ones who fled because they were the, they were the aedra worshipping alyds who fled, the aedra worshipping ones that were, you know, that schism kind of happened in siridil and they left.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Le- LeLauri- LeLauriarandinar and his people arrived in 375, and the Dureni gave them a place to settle.


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[Assistant] How the Dureni did actually grow quite a lot and expand quite far.


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[Assistant] Like besides conquering Hyroc, they went into Hammerfell, they went into some parts, some parts, and they went into some parts of Skyrim as well, like going into Markarth in Skyrim, Elen here in Hammerfell. So they did actually expand, you know, a decent amount. They didn't just chill out in the Iliac.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, the Imperials even, like, Craglorn was lost to the Imperials in 479. Uhm, in 480 and 482, the Elysian Order basically comes to High Rock. I suppose you could say the Durenna are already on the defense at that stage, you know, having just lost territory. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And then the battle of Lunumbria Mors goes down, and they lose even more forces, and it does the weak thing.


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[Assistant] In the Battle of Glenumbra Moors as well, they got help from Hoag Murkiller, didn't they? Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's funny to think too that that's like, oh, only a hundred and however many years, but it's like, that's a whole, you know, human's life. Like that, like they would go through multiple generations just in that phase.


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[Assistant] Because the first error, because it's so spread out, it makes everything feel shorter by percentage.


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[Assistant] I mean, arguably, like we've said before, it didn't need to be so spread out. You could have chucked all that history into a much shorter timeframe, but when you compare it to timeframes from like the third era, it's like, so much happens.


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[Assistant] That would happen in like 600 years or like more thousands of years in the first era. At least, at least that we know about to be fair. It's not like we've got like a picture perfect timeline of the entire first era.


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[Assistant] It's just a really nice setup, it sounds clean, it has nothing to do with the main character being a dragonborn or some prophesized hero. I would be happy if that was the main story and then outside of that you have heaps of just-


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[Assistant] I mean, not that they have to do this, but you can, I could imagine as well with a centerpiece like that, you could even have a bigger element of choice in Elder Scrolls 6 than you've ever had before. Nothing huge, but even in the main story I'm talking,


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, it could just be like the civil war, like pick a side, but you know how New Vegas has you fight over Hoover Dam.


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[Assistant] Like the adamantine tower, I can definitely see like, oh, you know, who are you going to help kind of.


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[Assistant] But I don't think if you, I don't think if you help us out more. It's like, and now we unmake the world and it just fades out to white and the credits roll.


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[Assistant] Here's an interesting idea, but what if the options were, whatever isn't the Thalmor, but then in joining the Thalmor.


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[Assistant] While you side with them and perhaps push their interests, maybe there's a, a schism within the leadership there where you have one who's more like


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[Assistant] I'm going to unmake the world and you just can't side with him, but in helping, if you choose to help the Thalmor, you help kind of like depose that leader and in place, put a different Thalmor leader who's more about like the tangible, but still wants to take over Tamriel, but is like, Oh, we got to get rid of these like philosophical kind of like.


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[Assistant] Preachers of madmen, yea, obsessed with tearing down the mortal veil.


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh, double Skyrim, like, two, two of them.


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[Assistant] But what if it's not super significant, like let's just say with the boats, you can go out and find a handful of unique, fun locations, little islands, maybe an old fort, but


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[Assistant] It would be like in someone's brain, it would be like, oh, I'm in a solitude. I need to go to Riften. Fast travel. Like taking the boat might be something you do once or only to explore some of the islands, but then everyone just fast travels. Like you don't walk.


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[Assistant] Do you know what I'm saying? Like in Skyrim, it's like, oh, there's this huge expense between where I need to go. And if you've already explored it, there's no reason unless you're doing some unique role playing playthrough that you need to walk it or travel it on horse.


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[Assistant] Look, I-I just hope with all this Microsoft money we get an Elder Scrolls 7, uh, that's not over a decade, uh, you know, a decade and a half potentially.


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[Assistant] We'll see, we'll see. I think if we want to get back on track with the Dureni, one of the things that we could talk about is any significant members of the bloodline that we haven't talked about yet.


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[Assistant] Uhm, cause I know there's a list here of different figures. Uhm, they've done all kinds of things. They've been the Imperial Battle Mage, actually.


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[Assistant] Uh, multiple times. You had Jovran, Imperial Battle Mage, uh, to the court of the Dunmer Empress of Tamriel, Katariah. You had Peladol, who was Imperial Battle Mage to the first ruling potentate, versus Duche.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, that was the one you said who did uh, Black Rose Prison. Yea. Yea yea yea.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you've also got- I just wanna say too, it is interesting the whole idea with alchemy that basically, cause you told the story about the invisibility potion and stuff, but-


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[Assistant] In the same way that they pioneered conjuration, supposedly.


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[Assistant] It was the same, and enchanting, like you said, it was the same with alchemy in the sense that it was turned into a science. You know, in the same way that magic was not as, uhm,


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[Assistant] Structured in the past and was far more experimental and dangerous, it seems like the Doreni really


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[Assistant] Uhm, unhinged is the wrong word. Unstructured feel of like, let's just mix these three things together and basically how you play Skyrim and all, let's eat this, let's eat this ingredient. You know? Imagine if she broke bad.


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[Assistant] That is some scary stuff. There is not, there is not much that, she creeps me out big time. Like I look at that and I get some real like 90s claymation show that I watched as a kid and gave me nightmares. Like that is a creepy. Yeah, I didn't realize how bad that was. What's the name of that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, like that's a scary looking witch, not a fan. There's also, uhm,


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[Assistant] I think Lady Thorn is actually listed as, uh, one of the Dereni, I believe.


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[Assistant] But uhm, she basically was, took, took over a, like a castle in Skyrim, I believe. Like it was, they were having vampire problems from, it sounds like a Castle Volcaha type situation. And then she's like, you know what, I'll, I'll clear this mess up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, as long as I get to keep the castle. I'm pretty sure that was the story. And turns out she's a vampire lord. They didn't know. She killed them all and then it became her little vampire lair.


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[Assistant] Why was there, why was there the hype though? I felt like, maybe I'm just not as up to date, but I felt like usually when they do an expansion for Elder Scrolls Online,


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[Assistant] They don't hype it like that, like they- it felt big, you know when you had the opening trailers and they're showing the ocean? And they're like, we're gonna go somewhere, like you've never been and like, what, it's just an island with more Breton stuff on it?


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[Assistant] I mean, imagine, imagine the trailer starts and it's some like druid revealing, like pulling their hood off and there's all these like strange mystics and cults and-


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[Assistant] That's alright, as long as they- as long as they do Hammerfell really well, I'd- I'd be stoked.


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[Assistant] If you've been sitting in a restaurant for 15 years waiting for your meal to come, it's gonna taste good cause you'll be dying of starvation.


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[Assistant] There are some amazing deserts all around the world. If you go looking, Utah looks less unique. I mean, it still looks super cool, but like there's some awesome stuff. One of my, this is a bit off topic, but one of my favorite deserts, I'm pretty sure it's in Egypt. When I say favorite, I don't know everything about it, but it's got, it's covered in like white crystals.


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[Assistant] So there's like all this white sand, but it's almost like, you know, if you're playing Borderlands, there could be like, oh, we're on some place and there's generic crystals popping out of the ground. It's kind of like there's like crystals and I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yep. Yeah. Well, I suppose that brings us to the end of the Durrany podcast, unless you- Peace out! Unless you too- Just, joom. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, thank you so much everyone for watching. Uh, we really appreciate all of your support. If you want to help support the channel more, you can get a fudge muppet t-shirt, which now actually looks like our logo because we, uh, changed our logo.


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[Assistant] Anyway, social media links are in the description. And remember, I'm pretty sure next time we're doing hot takes part three. So don't miss out on that and make sure your takes are very hot.


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[Assistant] We've been building up the temperature, there's been some room temp takes, getting into a little bit of Australian summer maybe, but it hasn't gotten that hot yet.


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[Assistant] This is kind of like the nature of fandom, you know, it's a bit rich coming from me because I can be a bit of a contrarian sometimes, but you get in communities that have been around for long enough, you get, it becomes cool to hate on things.


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[Assistant] But then, if you get to the point where you're hating on the very concept of the thing that you're a fan of in the first place, it's getting a bit ridiculous. Like, why are you in this community if you think tez games are that bad? It's like, let's be honest, we all love them, even if we're gonna take the piss out of some things about them.


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[Assistant] To say that Skyrim, like you know, just use Skyrim as an example, to say Skyrim isn't a great game when it's vanilla, like we all played it vanilla for so long, and then mods gave it that extra life. I will say it is a hot take. It is a very hot take.


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[Assistant] I think it's better than the Dark Brotherhood's questline, personally. You reckon? I mean, I have more memorable moments from that than the Dark Brotherhood, personally. I mean, look, Nightingale armor was pretty cool, but... Like, meeting Nocturnal and the confrontation with Mercer was all pretty good.


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[Assistant] And it's a lot easier to write dialogue between an NPC and a clear protagonist character that you know and also has a voice, and like, we're not- wouldn't say that it's a good thing to have a voice protagonist, but you can understand why dialogue would seem much more fluid when you have two voices talking to each other.


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[Assistant] In saying it's boring to have them attempt to do something different, it's like, so wait, your solution to that is for them to never do anything different to their initial culture.


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[Assistant] I think that what makes Orsinium interesting is not that they're building a city and they're trying to live a cosmopolitan lifestyle. It's the fact that they're doing that against all of, you know, all of their culture and all of the, um, the impressions that the other races have on them. So it's like, it doesn't detract from stronghold culture to have Orsinium as well.


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[Assistant] I heard some, I saw some random theory that I can't even remember what the details of it were, but since we're talking about orcs, I was like, that's a bit weird, but also interesting. Someone was like, uhm,


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[Assistant] The reason orcs have tusks is because Malakath is so scared of being betrayed again that he doesn't want his people to be able to kiss.


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[Assistant] So the idea is that they would get, like, the betrayal of Buwifia disguising and eating you if you're capable of kissing, which, in a way,


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[Assistant] I mean, I think in part three we're definitely like, even if we write some of our own, try to come up with the hottest takes that we can still somewhat justify. Something unique as well, like,


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[Assistant] It's exactly like that scene in Spy Kids 2, where Steve Buscemi is living in his little hut because he's afraid of all the creatures. That's basically what he's saying, right?


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[Assistant] Look, I think if the Falmore came up in the real world and they made it clear their ambition was to destroy the universe, I've got a feeling this guy probably wouldn't join their ranks.


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[Assistant] I think that's fair. It is fair because their history is arguably, it's up there with the most interesting of all of the races.


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[Assistant] I think Oblivion and Skyrim, like without shitting on either of them, Oblivion and Skyrim did a lot to take the magic out of the race in question. So you know, a lot of the magic about the Nords that you would have felt in say Morrowind.


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[Assistant] Once you actually see what their, uh, province is like, and once the limitations of game design get put on it, it makes them, it probably makes them rank lower than they would have before, and the same could be said of Oblivion, with the Imperials.


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[Assistant] I feel like it's impossible for Skyrim or Oblivion to be the most faithful, because earlier entries into the series, the game came out alongside a lot of the lore that explained the place, if that makes sense. So, I'm now using your terminology, if that does make sense.


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[Assistant] Whereas Skyrim and Oblivion, there's already a lot of, uh, everybody knows a lot about these provinces and these races before the game comes out, so there's so much more to diverge from. But, you know, when you've got Daggerfall or Morrowind, what you get in those games is, that's the way it is. So it can't really not be faithful.


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[Assistant] Let's see if there's a way to justify this. Yeah, sure. I mean, a lot of their...


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[Assistant] I mean, if you're talking about the high up, yeah, okay, it's pretty impossible to defend this. I'm trying, but like a lot of it is a cope. And a lot of it is like, I dunno. Yeah, no, I've got nothing.


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[Assistant] I'm really trying. I mean, I saw a slightly hot take, because I'm trying to find things that have no likes, because I feel like that's where you find the hot takes, and in a way I was going to defend this, but I just did a bit of googling and I can't really defend it, but PetrusExtine says, boob armour makes sense if men get crotch armour or ab armour like in real life.


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[Assistant] So obviously, like, the idea of having ab armor is kind of just for show and whatever, but, I mean, the idea of boob armor, if you think about it, would make sense in a world where there's not the same stigma around women fighting. Like, historically, like, the battlefield has been a place for men, historically.


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[Assistant] Accentuating the breasts in armour creates a large weak point in the cleavage which can be punctured easily. So there's a very good chance you get shot straight through the chest if you've got


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[Assistant] Yeah, well that's the thing, there's a big thing about like, uhm, you know, there's a real thing in armor, it's just to be intimidating sometimes. You know, there are some very impractical things that made it onto the battlefield purely because it would scare the shit out of the opposition.


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[Assistant] I mean there's not much to work with, it's kind of just a poorly written character with a whole lot, not a whole lot going on, so you kind of have to headcanon if she was cool at any point really.


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[Assistant] The reason I don't think he is, is because he's not really rated much at all. Nobody really gives two shits about Jigglypuff.


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[Assistant] I feel like Daegon, I mean, people like him, but he doesn't really get credit for any of the things that make him interesting.


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[Assistant] You know, if he is bipolar, if he has his manic episodes and he's got his dementia, like whatever, I'm not an expert, but simply having the contrast in his character, that really doesn't exist. You don't see it much at all.


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[Assistant] So it's hard to ever take him seriously. So he's fun, but with a god you kinda wanna be able to take them seriously as well.


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[Assistant] Which I think, like to be fair, Daegon, the portrayal of Daegon, his worshippers tend to be more interesting than him.


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[Assistant] Because other than the Mysterium's arxies, which you only see through Mankar's eyes, you would never perceive Meirin's Dagon as being kind of like, thoughtful and, and, and considering why he's doing things, you know, like the idea of him actually writing a manifesto versus just swinging his arms around like a lunatic. It's like, you only really see the latter. So there's poor execution on a lot of gods, I think.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to figure out my own controversial take to just kind of nuke the podcast with, but I'll keep mulling over.


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely. But at the same time, I feel like the easiest thing to shit on with Elder Scrolls is ESO, because it's the most recent and it's the most in the spotlight, and I don't want to keep doing that, so I'm trying to think of horrible things to say about the other games.


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[Assistant] I'd almost call that weird fantasy as opposed to high fantasy. I would call oblivion high fantasy purely because of the abundance of magic.


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[Assistant] Look, I'll take it a step further. I think Oblivion is just a cheap shitty version of Two Worlds. Did you ever play Two Worlds?


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[Assistant] Maybe it does a better job of kind of like a tropical...


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[Assistant] I think by definition that would be subjective. I mean, using the term worse there is very broad. Like, yeah, I don't know. I'm not going to go to bat for the orcs, but I don't know. I think they're one of the more interesting races, which should give some brownie points. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I mean I did see one where someone was like, this is fairly basic, but someone was really, I've closed it now so I can't name who it was, but was really keen.


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[Assistant] Something under the microscope, the less interesting and magical it has become in the Elder Scrolls. It does happen that way. Like some of, some of the most beloved parts of the lore are the things we don't know a great deal about, you know, like say Akavir as well, or, you know, and the fact that there's so many mysteries surrounding the Dwemer.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think honestly, I think one of the hottest takes, which I'm not going to necessarily say I disagree with, but one of the hottest takes I've ever seen in the Elder Scrolls community, I think came from you, Scott, in the form of a video where you said,


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[Assistant] Elder Scrolls is, I can't, I don't want to misquote it so you correct me, but it's the greatest world building of anything ever. Is that essentially what you said?


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[Assistant] When I sat down and thought about it, I was like, you know, you've got Lord of the Rings being an obvious contender, and for me personally, Song of Ice and Fire is like the, I'd probably say I know as much or more about that lore than I do about Elder Scrolls lore, but then when I thought about it, I was like, yeah, I really can't argue that it is the most in-depth


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[Assistant] So good, but uhm. I feel like Michael's raring to go with a hot take.


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[Assistant] We wanna be glad that the dislike bar is gone. That's how bad we want it to be.


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[Assistant] To truly have fantasy without that, you know, I don't think I could ever think of an example where, I mean, obviously nothing is original. Nothing is truly original, but Elder Scrolls, I'd argue, does one of the best jobs.


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[Assistant] That's seeming completely original to the point where it can actually be difficult to see where the inspiration comes from unless you have a lot of experience in a lot of different areas and you know a lot of things, like...


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[Assistant] Uhm, they're much less obvious about it. And then when they do, they take it in really different directions. Using the orcs as an obvious example, they are very unlike orcs traditionally in fantasy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like advancing society and technologies realistically depending on what this culture actually has access to. So, you know, theoretically a culture can be so vastly different based on the small differences between them.


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[Assistant] You know, like, I mean, a small real world example that I think we've talked about before is that, you know, I think the abundance of porcelain use in China


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[Assistant] Prevented the fi- the discovery of lens grinding for a long time so that it ha- it almost contributed to stagnating a little bit because people were losing their eyesight earlier and were less able to contribute to the society, et cetera, et cetera.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think I'm- It's not more in love with the lore now than the games, because yeah, I just kinda get tired. I- I like a ton of genres, I- I play a lot of games, so I just generally stop playing older games, but I still like, maintain my love for the Elder Scrolls because of the lore.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I like, I'm almost in Elder Scrolls 6, I'm excited obviously to play it and I'm excited to have a new playground to make videos in, uhm, you know, casually and for work.


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[Assistant] I am also just really excited to see what new additions come to the, to the gods and to, to certain characters and what, what new lore comes about. That's like 50% of the excitement for me for Elder Scrolls 6.


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[Assistant] I mean, the main story of Skyrim, like if you're just doing the main story, you only have to fight a couple of dra- like, there's like three dragon fights total.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and part of the interesting part of the story is just the civil war stuff, which you could argue isn't even a part of it anyway. So there's practically nothing to the main story of Skyrim. To enjoy it, you kind of have to get, you have to explore the world and fight a bunch of dragons and things like that.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I feel like to make that take you have to just not really enjoy playing Oblivion. Like, I don't know, I feel like it's the only reason to not like the main quest or playing it is because you just don't really feel like playing the game. I don't know. What's, what's the other hot


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[Assistant] I feel like there's a tweet that pretty much perfectly encapsulates the way you work. You've written, so today I've learned it takes exactly 3 hours in creation kit, 4 hours editing and 5 video layers for a 6 second shot of a ship sailing in Skyrim.


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[Assistant] If you're, if you're sticking to buy the books when it comes to lore, you, you can, you can really fall into making a stale video where it's like, you feel like you're just reading from a Wiki or something like that. So that was initially the idea. And yeah, it did kind of transform like the way we looked at everything. Get really into that code ahead space.


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[Assistant] A cod montage with your, with your editing style, a cod montage with the, oh, would be epic. Oh wait, Michael's not here, we can swear.


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[Assistant] To be fair, we've got some weird videos on the channel. Some really weird ones.


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[Assistant] Before I came along, there was a high school friend, high school friend, uhm, who Scott and Michael would bring into videos, and they would just like pop his head into videos randomly, and he's just a meme of a human being.


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[Assistant] I also think we're, we're quite, we're in a unique position in that we're three white guys with a podcast. Which, you know, I feel like nobody's really doing that at the moment, so we're hitting that. Cutting edge.


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[Assistant] So, my concern with Tez Smash or Pass, or any Smash or Pass, which I've voiced this to Michael and Scott in the past, is that when you're just posed with an option to smash, but nothing else is involved, it's like, smash and then like, you disappear and it's back to normal life. Are you ever gonna pass?


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[Assistant] Are you gonna bring up all the pictures or do- Yeah, I think-


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then there's the oblivion. There's oblivion. I reckon we should- I mean, if we have to factor in things like relationship, like could you last in a relationship with them? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Maybe that would change it. Because then maybe Astrid or Ayala may be a bit crazy, you know? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Just as context, I haven't seen like any of the Marvel films.


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[Assistant] He's also like old. He's wise. He could teach you a lot.


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[Assistant] Look, I'm gonna go ahead and say that I'm not a big fan, I have a beard, but I'm not a big fan of beards. When it comes to sexual attraction. That's no offence.


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[Assistant] Well at least if it's a werewolf, you couldn't be like, is it a female werewolf? Like, cause they've got the same character models, you know?


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[Assistant] I mean, that's smash. You know what? I think you should go like, oblivion or Morrowind characters because they have a distinct look about them that doesn't look human and attractive.


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[Assistant] Like you just, you just wait, you open your eyes and you get that zoom effect and his face is right there. What are you gonna do?


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[Assistant] I wonder who is, would it be Heyman Cameron? Who has like taken the most, who's killed the most people? That's a heavy subject matter for a video.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but the problem is, will she put you in there if you displease her in any way?


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[Assistant] The problem is it- Do you like worship? In a situation, if you, if you smash Azura, you don't really get to leave. If she wants you to stick around, you, you pretty much have to. I'm okay with that. There's no like- Yeah? Yeah. So you'll, you'll commit?


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[Assistant] Maybe you bore her. Well what if you kind of just like tactically bore her to the point where she's done with you and doesn't even care enough to curse you? Maybe you could do that, you know, just pretend to be disappointing in the bedroom.


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[Assistant] Honestly, Bwiffia might be my number one of all of the female-form Bwiffia. You want that looming danger that she's gonna chop you in half.


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[Assistant] But I guess that could be true of any, any


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, okay, great point. Absolute smash. I'm, I'm all in.


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[Assistant] He's the twink of the Daedric Princes. At the minimum, at the minimum, Barbas is going to be- I feel like he can be a bit of a, you know, Dionysus kind of Chad.


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[Assistant] I mean, of all the, of all the male Daedric Princes, Clavigus Vile's probably the most feminine, right?


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[Assistant] This is my, this is my wave, like if I'm gonna throw any bones, quite literally, to any of the male Daedra, Daedra Prince, male, then it probably has to be Clavicus.


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[Assistant] Okay. It's a lot of tentacles as well.


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[Assistant] Plus he, as if he's, he's not going to be warm. That makes it sound very honest.