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[Assistant] Uhm, saw that in this nothingness, there is possibility. And in this possibility, so he came to Namira, who is the queen of this sort of spirit realm, this big darkness, and then basically let, you know, I'm going to make my own little realm of challenge and suffering. So he killed himself, sacrificed himself to create this realm.


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[Assistant] That was hard and so on, so spirits could come into little fleshy mortal beings and then...


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[Assistant] No, it's not a piety, cause it's all consistent with like the Richmond mythology, which they believe like sort of life is to, you know, live it hard and suffer and like, but you're, you know, growing through challenge kind of thing and you know, coming on a top, but if you die, get kicked back. It's, it's a different sort of view of things. Like piety is obviously not part of the picture that people learn.


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[Assistant] No, they don't. Yeah, they don't. But what I'm saying is that the essence, the main reason she's worshipped is not just because, oh, I'm going to wallow and be a gross thing. Like, there's like gross components of Numeira's sphere and everything, but it's not the overall like philosophical headline, if you know what I mean? I guess not. I guess not.


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[Assistant] But also in, in, even in Khajiit mythology, it's a bit more antagonistic, but she is more so associated with these, these, these great darkness, which knew its name was Namira. Um, how do they pronounce it? The Khajiit? It's just with an extra I. Namira.


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[Assistant] I did specify that. Just to add, so just to talk just to the great spirits of the Reach,


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[Assistant] While most religions strive for some sense of harmony, rich theology is inextricably linked with conflicts like these. This obsession with conflict as an essential force of existence no doubt plays a role in their belligerent attitude towards outsiders and others.


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[Assistant] But uhm, paradoxically, most Reach folk do find some measure of peace in Namira's teachings. Clan Witches often describe Namira as the one who gives and takes, giving life and taking life until the spirit finds deep wisdom.


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[Assistant] But uhm, and obviously there's plenty of reachmen that, uh, you know, not the most savoury folk, if you know what I mean.


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[Assistant] But what I'm, yeah, but what I'm saying is usually it's like the older sort of interpretations of Nomira and view of Nomira is just like, ooh, yucky things. Like that's why I like to be yucky. But now there is sort of a.


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[Assistant] What we can remember too is like, you know, the void when we often hear the void you hear, uh, is quite often associated with Scythus and, you know, you could say like Padome before it and so on.


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[Assistant] But uhm, it's interesting to sort of see that, like, what possible connections might be there, but even in, uh, in Khajiit mythology, Namira is referred to as an Urdra, like, which...


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[Assistant] We know he's implying like one of the earliest and oldest sort of spirits. So it's funny to sort of, and you know, in that, their mythology, the great darkness is literally referred to as Namir as this sort of like void like entity. So it might be interesting to see that the.


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[Assistant] How like, closely connected Namira is to like, the Sithus, the idea or whatever, because they kinda seem like the same thing, like they seem relatively interchangeable if you were to look in Khajiit mythology for example.


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[Assistant] Whereas like, you know, you might just not, like, because a lot of religions don't really acknowledge the things before. But I mean, funnily enough, it does have, uh, Khajiit has Anur and Padmai or however they were called to be.


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[Assistant] Do you not think that maybe she actually kind of enjoys it? So if you take the Richmond mythology for, for example, um, that, you know, that it was kind of an agreement with Lorkhan, like, yeah, you can create this realm, you'll be, you know, the king of the realm of flesh and I'm the realm of spirit, the spirit queen or whatnot. And that's the sort of like deal there that she kind of,


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[Assistant] In the same way that, you know, in the Khajiit mythology, how


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[Assistant] The great darkness sort of gaining a consciousness and becoming aware is actually something that she likes because now she's got something to do rather than just being a nothingness. So I just don't really buy into the idea that she is


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[Assistant] I think she enjoys screwing it up and being it, making it dark and corrupt and, you know, harsh and challenging for which the Richmond enjoy her for, but plenty of others don't enjoy all these things like catalysts and slugs and disgusting things. So I just don't really find her like philosophy and alignment with the sort of.


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[Assistant] You know, adriac kind of idea of like mortality is a bad thing.


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[Assistant] One other thing just to like sort of like we can explore a little bit more too is that like Nymera also seeing herself as the rightful ruler of all spirits and that's from some dialogue, um, with an Argonian and ESO but then there is also obviously in the Reach mythology spirit queen and like sort of seeming in those like this


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[Assistant] It seems like, you know, it's kind of like an originator of spirits and in an Urdraar even you can kind of go as like one of the eldest spirits. Like I wonder how much of that Tua Sphere is kind of like a-


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[Assistant] Kind of, yeaah. And like, I do, yeaah, I wonder what, uhm, what we can like, extrapolate from that. And sort of expand on a little bit more. I dunno. I mean, I feel like that is the expansion, isn't it?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but like uhm, I'm trying to like connect, cause, you know, she's, you know, we can like kind of link her to the void and this sort of great darkness kind of thing, and then,


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[Assistant] It's, do you know what I mean? It gives it a little bit of a different sort of view of


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[Assistant] To be fair, to see yourself as the rightful ruler of all spirits, it doesn't need to be literally true, and that's also true for a lot of things when you've got this big mythology-based


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[Assistant] Metaphysical structure, you know, sort of belief drives reality to a certain degree. So she might like out of trying to be the ruler of all spirits or cause she believes herself to be, that's part of her corruption. That's why she likes the disgust and revolt. She wants you to be accountable. She wants this because it's kind of like extending her claim over.


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[Assistant] Uhm, all of these spirits to a degree. Do you kind of see what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] The entire story, like the, um, the beggar prince where she sort of like,


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[Assistant] I grant you the power of disease. You may choose to be afflicted with any disease you choose, changing them at will as long as it has visible symptoms. However, you must bear at least one. I grant you the power of pity. You may evoke pity in anyone that sees you. And finally, I grant you the power of disregard. You may cause others to disregard your


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, yeah, it says it takes place in the first age when gods walk like men and Daedra stalked the wilderness with impunity. See? Doesn't that mean Dawn Error?


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[Assistant] It does say it was a time before they were confined to oblivion, so the only possibility- It would be Merethic, maybe. It's either Merethic or it could be before Pa- before Alicia. It could be like the first hundred years of the first era.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and so he was heaps jelly and wanted to be powerful too.


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[Assistant] Obviously there's like always gonna be like severe sort of crossovers. You can't like neatly box everything, but it's funny that Namira, uhm, sort of,


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[Assistant] You know how more like bells associated with corruption, but like corruption kind of seems to be a big part of like quite literally stated in the Khajiit mythology for Namira, but also just in general, like turning people into cannibals or like gross diseases.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, and then you can also, uhm, even go to her like wanting to be this sort of ruler of all spirits. It's kind of like a domination kind of aspect and somewhat, so there's a double crossover almost with Molag Bal a little bit there. It's interesting.


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[Assistant] I feel like it's the case with a lot of the gods when you peel back their sort of like, uh, physical, uh, manifestations of things or their sort of like surface elements. If you can peel them back a lot and look at their sort of like,


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? What really distinguishes Namira here is gross stuff. You know what I mean? Like that's really what's like pulling her away like from just being some sort of corruption domination-ish.


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[Assistant] And you know how we go, like as we kind of like try and look for, uhm,


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[Assistant] Like physical details in the world that sort of affirm like a God's presence or previous actions. So for example, like Lorcan's existence, he literally has a heart there. You can kind of go like, yeah, he's been here. But also you have the dark heart, which is in, you know, in the Khajiit story when, uh, she had to rip out, um,


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[Assistant] Uh, the Lorkhan's heart to, to sort of save it from further corruption.


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[Assistant] There was the sort of dark heart that's been created and it's kind of like this, it's actually under blackreach and it's like this sort of portal almost to the void and it's had sort of like these...


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[Assistant] Interesting kind of effects nearby and you even got this, you know, night hollow clan and it gives them sort of a vampiric appearance and they've got this in the mirrors.


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[Assistant] So you know what's interesting? Here's a funny thing, like you know the whole Azura, like Azura pulling the heart kind of thing instead. Uhm, there's a lot more evidence obviously for like Daedra's interactions in Earth and so on because the Aedra just created the world and now they're gone. But it's interesting that like, there is kind of, well at least in Elder Scrolls Online lore, there's a lot of like, uh,


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[Assistant] Physical evidence for, you know, the Khajiit version of events or for happening, for example, or something like that, over say that it was Aurel who took it and so on, because there's this Aurel, like was he, who is he, who is Aurel, his akatosh, is this, is that, it's so on and so on. Whereas the Daedra, you've got these really concrete, um. Yeah. When you hear.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and you can easily see, like, in Imagine, just cause, you know, Daedra all have their own sort of motivations and so on. You can have that Lorkhan up there have his, like, you know, his council of Aedra or whatever, but they weren't Aedra back then. They were just other, you know, lesser Daedra, but then they conspired to overthrow him and they ripped out his heart and everything and all that. And then it is...


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[Assistant] But uhm, we could also start talking, I guess, about some of the basic, uh, Daedric things to cov- Daedric Prince things to cover, like her realm, the scuttling void. And it's interesting that it's also like the dark behind the world for the Khajiit. But uhm, for some reason, I kind of like imagine they would...


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[Assistant] Something like that. And I'm just like, it's just obviously not what I imagined, but once again, like you can have realms reshape themselves and sort of like, you know, I guess.


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[Assistant] Or, or what, what's the Princes of Oblivion? Is that the, sorry, the book that goes through all the dated princes and explains them?


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[Assistant] But just while we're talking, I guess I can bring up some of the artifacts, the, uh, well there's obviously the whole, the whole dark heart. Uhm, but then there's, uh, Ring of Namira, which we know about, but that's, it's funny, like,


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[Assistant] There's a really cool Legends card for it, uhm, in the thumbnail, like it's a person wearing like this sort of like old haggard looking witch with a, with a green ring on the ring of a mirror like holding the arm and it's like got all this like black stuff going through the guy's veins and so it's really cool.


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[Assistant] I'm really interested to see where they go with so many of the Daedric Princes and Elder Scrolls 6 because Elder Scrolls Online has added so much expansion. Like, you know, if you look at Nocturnal, it's like, you know, day and night. If you look at Nymeria day and night, like there's so many, um,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm just saying I hope they do, but like, it's easy with all the dated princes, and if they only do like, oh, single quest age, it's easy to reduce them to something that's relatively like, you know, stale, I guess.


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[Assistant] You know, like glossed over Daedric Prince, I'd say. Cause even Peria kind of got a little bit extra with the Richmond mythology, just sort of integrating it a little bit more.


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[Assistant] You know, it's, I know it's just a little nod to and like an explanation of, but there's a little bit of an inclusion, but I swear I can't even think of an instance where Vaymin is mentioned in any sort of...


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[Assistant] Pantheon really, she is really just a side gig. I mean, she might be in a- Oh, Varmina is in the Khajiit mythology but she really is just a little side piece.


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[Assistant] And if, if the, if she is the primary Daedra, like if you imagine like she's the, uh, the Mehrunes Dagon or the Alduin or whatever of this time, it also adds like nightmares as gives such a sort of


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[Assistant] Like, and that kind of like dream manipulation gives such like an, like, you know, you could kind of like drum up and she could kind of take this.


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[Assistant] You know, convince a, say a crown son or something to kill her father because you know, he's had his dreams and nightmares manipulated to believe that he is, you know, the heir to some prophecy or something like that. And then she's kind of.


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[Assistant] You know, screwing with politics and stuff around the place with these nightmares and you know, going in and out of the realm of cleansing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you jump into their dream in the matrix and you summon your spirit sword. Put on your sunnies like Keanu Reeves and go to town.


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[Assistant] Well, could it not be like Sheogorath, just cause I'm going off memory from the quest, couldn't it have been Sheogorath sort of like manipulating the situation where she, you know, takes it and so on. And he was doing that just to mess with people and so on. And then you have to return it to the shrine, which was of Nymera cause it belongs to Nymera.


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[Assistant] She's definitely become one of my, um, much higher ranked on my list of Daedric Princes the more I've read about her and gotten into her. Just because, um,


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[Assistant] Before she was pretty, like, stale, I'd say. Like, you know, anything's interesting, just like, oh, you know, prints of disgust, but I'm always more, personally more always interested when they've got, like, a greater sort of, like, web of influence and it's nuanced to, like, why they are the way they are.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause, I mean, I mean, they've somewhat done, uh, like they've, they've kind of done that with Meridia a little bit, how before she was just a bit more like, yeah, bad, undead, undead, like Perjure, but they've really played up the sort of, um,


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[Assistant] And before someone jumps in and says lycanthropies only for werewolves, well, this is a scrolls lore, and they changed it to be all kinds of werecreatures and werebeasts.


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[Assistant] So we've got all kinds of things to talk about today. I guess the general summary is, it's a blessing or curse, depending on your viewpoint, given by her scene, uh, originally at least to someone, and they can turn into, not always in their control, some sort of were-creature, usually a werewolf.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's been instances of when it involves the moon cycles, instances of when it doesn't, sometimes it's just random. It's a similar inconsistencies with the vampires and stuff, like. Exactly, it is very inconsistent, like the ones in Skyrim, the companions, they can seemingly have full control over it.


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[Assistant] Perhaps not use it unlimited times, like you can with her scenes ring, I'm not sure, but they- they will never turn into it when they didn't pl-


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[Assistant] Sorry, just to clarify with Cindy, it wasn't his daughter, but didn't he transform because of the cursed ring?


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[Assistant] Uh, maybe it could've been. The ring being cursed does, um,


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[Assistant] Now I may look like a man, but I still feel the animal inside of me as strong as ever. Uhm, and when he talks about the ring, he basically says, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, it happens at the worst times. Like, Hersin put this curse on it, and I could never predict when I was gonna change. So by this dialogue, it seems like a werewolf


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, the mods have all taken different approaches at it, like I know some of them will actually do like a per- it's based on the moons, but it's percentage based, so it's like,


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[Assistant] Say that there's just a slither of moon. They'll be like, there's a 5% chance you turn tonight. Which is interesting, but I kind of prefer a more established, like, you know, a full moon, 100% it'll happen type thing sometimes. Whether or not you can resist. But I feel like giving it a massive anytime.


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[Assistant] Multiple moons, it can get a bit tricky.


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[Assistant] They're extremely rare, but you can find them in the wild in Skyrim as well. Yeah. They're so rare though, you could go, like, 100 hours and see one.


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[Assistant] My first look at Skyrim was actually seeing the companion storyline being leaked. It's just a fun little story. I remember Scott, you showing me, someone uploaded a video to YouTube and it was called layingcarpets.mp4. That was the title. And like, just to not like, you know, tip it off to the algorithm as being a leak.


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[Assistant] And uhm, it was the part where Farkas transforms into a werewolf when you're stuck and the silver hand come out and we're like, oh my gosh.


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[Assistant] I guess something just for everyone's imagination listening to this. It's good to keep in mind that all these were creatures are hybrids. It's not like animorphs were if you're a were shark.


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[Assistant] The were-boar kind of, you know, has a stature similar to a werewolf, but with boar features. Yeah, and little pot belly. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So we should see them. We should. Daggerfall did introduce...


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[Assistant] Uhm, I pretty sure I introduced, I don't know if it was in Arena, but werebears are in a book in Daggerfall called On Lycanthropy.


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[Assistant] And it talks about how werebears are in Skyrim and how the locals actually smear canisteroot around the trees near their homes to keep the werebears away. And we didn't see them in base game Skyrim, so they must have been pretty good with their canisteroot upkeep.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and when you search werebears, it says, uhm. Yeah, the most common lycanthrope in Skyrim. In Skyrim, they're the most common. But they were. But there are northern parts of High Rock, the Imperial province, which you can assume is Cyrodiil, and Morrowind. Um, werewolves are in every province, the seventh lycanthrope. Oh, it goes on to talk about weresharks. But the thing is, they're.


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[Assistant] And do the- do werewolves count as uhm, as undead?


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[Assistant] Or are the silver hand just really, really silly? Because they're all wielding silver weaponry and they're werewolf hunters. But the effect for a silver sword is more damage to undead.


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[Assistant] Cause it would have been cooler if they were like using things like canisteroot poisons and things like this, you know, that specifically dealt more damage to a werecreature.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's interesting too if you look at the, uhm, lycanthrope effects, the benefits you can actually get in Daggerfall. I mean, it's like vampires, let's bring back some more weaknesses, but some more benefits as well. But I particularly like how there are benefits to being a were-creature in human form.


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[Assistant] You actually get plus 40, which is huge, to strength, speed, agility, and endurance.


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[Assistant] So you can actually really feel like I'm a werewolf now and I'm strong. Yeah. Like I'm very strong. Unfortunately they don't raise it past a hundred, which I feel like arguably they should. Cause if you're like a super strong warrior and you become a werebeast, it would be cool to be even stronger.


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[Assistant] But I mean, that applies to the human form too. So you can, and you get plus 30 as well to hand to hand. So you can just like punch people and do more damage, uhm, to climbing and running, which were skills in, uh, Daggerfall, stealth, swimming, jumping, and critical strike skills.


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[Assistant] Uhm, which, you know, is cool. Also, obviously, immune to all diseases, but interestingly, uhm, you actually had immunity to iron and steel weaponry.


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[Assistant] So, so, and I mean we saw this in games like Oblivion, remember to strike like a ghost. I think you needed like silver or daedric weaponry.


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[Assistant] I should, I should mention as well that that one specifically in dagger falls only in werebeast form, which I think is fully, is completely fair.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. I mean, the, the were bats from Elder Scrolls Online do have humanoid features still, but they just look so much like, uh, a creature. Like, they've, they've very much, like, taken away a lot of mortal.


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[Assistant] I guess, I guess because of the whole aspect of like, don't ever change your form. Yea, well that's the only thing that works. They have the Wild Hunt ability, which is like a, you know, shape-shifting thing, but only use it as an absolute last resort for the Bozma people, so I guess that just-


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just, I just wanted to say, um, about the were bats again, something that bugs me. It just, I just feel like they're not were creatures. I guess they are, but like they're, they spawn around dark anchors. Like.


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[Assistant] They seem to be associated with Mo-like-Bao, don't they? Yea. Like, uhm, cause they're part of a great host. And then the other one, powerful werebats sometimes encounter dark anchors.


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[Assistant] Oh, and, uh, and encountered alongside though, the werewolf.


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[Assistant] I am obsessed with werebats cause I keep bringing it up. But, but here's werebatfact50. Uh, if you actually look there, there was a thing called a giant bat, which looks exactly the same, pretty much.


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[Assistant] And it wasn't called werebat, just a giant bat. And I feel like that's always been there. Was werebat added in...


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[Assistant] Look, there's a thing called a giant bat that looks the same, not a werebat. Not a fan. How about that? They should redo that if it were to feature.


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[Assistant] You look at how- Which we know can be a werewolf as well. Oh, the were- the were Daedroth. And wasn't that created by her seeing her fight against-


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that is what it was. But that, okay, but when we look at the word werewolf, it's always like, that's the second thing is what it's turning into. It's not a daedroth werecreature. Because what's that based on? Because werecreature isn't anything.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, I have, I have a feeling that after, after hearing that, that it is a Daedroth enhanced.


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[Assistant] And I suppose it's not a very epic choice for her scene to pick. Like you could just pick a Daedroth, but it's like, I'm going to pick a man with Daedroth characteristics as my hero. Like it's not as, not as epic. So yeah, it could be some just behemoth Daedroth looking thing.


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[Assistant] I don't really like that. I mean, don't get me wrong. What I actually do appreciate and it would be cool to see.


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[Assistant] Potentially, I can see how it could ruin character aesthetics, but not that they don't already with vampire stuff, but you know how guards will say like, is that fur coming out of your ears? Like,


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[Assistant] It would be interesting, like just in real life mythology when like someone becomes a werewolf, let's just say Drew turns into a werewolf.


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[Assistant] And in his mortal form, suddenly he's just like quite hairy, but like, but almost like believable. Not like, not like, oh, like he looks like some monster. He's just like, oh dude, like what's going on? Your forearms look like, you know.


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[Assistant] I mean, I like the subtle, the very subtle aspects. Very subtle.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean, there's also the werewolf behemoth which


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[Assistant] Right. So it's like, it's like. It also says ordinary werewolves can become behemoths through alchemical alteration.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's okay. I just, I don't know. There's, I guess, I don't hate it, I'm just like, there's cooler things you can do. Like if you're gonna make new forms or change things with werewolves, there's better ideas than upscale.


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[Assistant] And the werewolf, the werewolf lord is like not, not my favorite too. You could convince, you, you could convince me that that was like, oh, here's some really rare breed of Khajiit. Like it's not, it's not based certified cringe.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, one thing I haven't really talked about but it would be cool to give werewolves more drawbacks as well.


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[Assistant] Um, cause it's, it's fun to talk about how they should be so, you know, super powerful. Um, I know in Daggerfall they had more disadvantages, like you had to feed on innocents particularly, which I don't know if I liked that cause I don't know why innocent has anything to do with it. Um, twice a month.


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[Assistant] Uh, so basically you have to kill an NPC or guard in a town every 15 days. If you don't, your max health will gradually decrease until it bottoms out at 4 HP.


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[Assistant] The transformations were every full moon, and they happened automatically, and you couldn't change it back for the duration of the whole day, which is pretty...


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[Assistant] Pretty nuts. Um, and once a year, a werewolf hunter would come after you, which is interesting.


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[Assistant] Cause in Skyrim they just stripped it out completely. I'm not saying we need to enhance it beyond oblivion, like you go outside and just instantly die of sunburn.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cool, uh, just more pluses and more minuses, you know?


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[Assistant] It's not a playstyle changing thing unless you want it to be.


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[Assistant] I-I don't know if I mentioned it, uhm, maybe one of you two did already, but it isn't also just a blessing that Hircine can give you, like you can catch it as a disease, uhm, in Daggerfall. It, uh, what is it called? Sanguine-Sanies Lupinus? Yea, it wouldn't be Sanguine, that would be the vampire one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's, there's a variety of ways. Yeah, Seneas Lupinus. Um, disease caught from werewolves.


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[Assistant] They did it the same as uh, vampires. Three days. Otherwise you become a werewolf.


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[Assistant] It's, it's interesting, uh, in Legend of Thane Ice Hammer, it talks about how he didn't actually know they were were-creatures. Like he was just on this hunting trip and happened to kill them, which I find kinda weird, like how don't.


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[Assistant] I mean, I suppose if it was a werebear too, cause it says werecreature, um, imagine just seeing the bears head, and imagine you're an archer as well. Like, it'd be strange.


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[Assistant] It's one of those stories that make Daedric Princes far more, uh, I guess human in their emotions and their decision making. It's not like a perfect objective, like these are my rules and therefore I do this one day.


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[Assistant] More, uhm, I dunno, people seeking it out more. Like for example, I-


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[Assistant] You're far less tempted to go and seek out the blessing if you think, oh, her scene might just kill me, even though I'm a really good hunter, just because.


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[Assistant] Like being able to summon spectral werewolf allies to your aid is, is, I don't know, it's interesting.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean- That's how I felt too, but I- I guess-


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[Assistant] I agree with both of you. Uhm, I like, like, Drew, what you're saying makes sense. I can just remember when I was playing it, and I feel like the description of the power was a bit vague, potentially. I just remember feeling disappointed when I summoned them, and they were glowing red. Where are the real ones?


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[Assistant] If you just make everything like a spell, it starts to feel a bit like dragon shouts, which I mean, it was the same button, wasn't it? Like you just press it to roar or summon or power button.


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[Assistant] I guess, I guess we could talk about curing it as well. Like, uhm, similarly to curing vampirism, curing being a werewolf is not straightforward. Uh, in Skyrim, yeah, just shave all the hair off.


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[Assistant] So, yeaah, in Skyrim, obviously at the end of the companions, you cure Kodlak, uhm, by, with the Glenmoral Witch Coven's Heads, you throw it in that fire in his grimoire's tomb, and kill the spirit wolf, and you can cure yourself as well.


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[Assistant] I can tell you a little fun fact. Did you know you can actually cure Farkas and Vilkas? A lot of people don't know that.


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[Assistant] You actually used the Glenmoral Witches in Blood Moon as well to cure your Wycanthropy.


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[Assistant] Oh, this says weird. I don't know. This is weird. Whatever I just listened to. Whatever it is. We can look it up later. But yeah, so with that, how do you do it in that? I'm pretty sure you actually, there's berries involved. Road to the cure. Bella Donna berries.


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[Assistant] Uhm, get these berries, which are common. Uhm, then you go to this altar. Then you kill an innocent lord on the altar and take her heart.


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[Assistant] You have to kill the new werewolf you just created by giving the innocent lord the heart of the wolf and your lycanthropy with it. Then the corpse on the altar turns into a werewolf and attack you and then you kill it. That's crazy. It's a bit convoluted, isn't it?


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, was there some law somewhere, I think this is vampire's law, where, uhm, imperial, like, government or something like that, or society, they actually kind of like, would get rid of, uhm, knowledge on curing vampirism, basically. So that people wouldn't-


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[Assistant] Yeah, I read that too. Because if everyone knew, oh I can just get it, muck around with it, oh cure it if I want to, it's common knowledge then.


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[Assistant] I mean, why wouldn't you? Like seriously, if I told you that like, it's so easy to cure and I could prove it, you'd probably test out. Yeah, just dabble, just dabble and- Crazy weekend. That's the, yeah, boys. Let's all get on the vamprism and go have some fun, you know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, it sounds pretty crazy and it wouldn't be useful for society, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but no, I agree. It should be hard to cure. It makes it feel more impactful as well when you make a decision like, I'm going to become this, and I know if I wanna, you know, revert, it's gonna be tough. Or at least a challenge.


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[Assistant] It's the perfect place to do it, and look, you just keep hearing


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[Assistant] It's the same as being like, oh, I'd rather it just be one province done really well. I still stand by it, but in my head now, I'm just like, do both provinces really well.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what I mean. Anyways, thank you everyone for watching. Thank you for supporting the channel. If you want to get a sick fudge muppet tea, there is a link in the description. Social media links are down there too and we all look forward to seeing you next time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, in the Khajiit mythology they actually, so I mean, which doesn't really make a lot of sense if you, if the idea is that they're all from an Urun Fatimae's litter, but I guess Meridia isn't explicitly mentioned as coming from them, so perhaps the litter mates go on to have more litters and whatnot and it's just not explained.


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[Assistant] I mean, yeah, if we're talking about gods, you can kind of say it's a metaphor that he's their father. It's like, you know, it's not going to be strictly true.


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[Assistant] At a curiosity, is uh, is Meirin's Daegon the grandson of Magnus if the Magnege created Meirin's Daegon and Magnus is the father of the Magnege? Perhaps. Anyway, that's a good question.


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[Assistant] When you get into the topic of the Ayleids becoming, you know, diverging so far from their origins and becoming Daedra worshippers, you think of Meridia. She's a really good, like, gateway Daedra, if you put it that way. Like, she's got a lot of aedric elements to her, obviously, you know, even after.


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[Assistant] Um, being separated from the Magnege. So yeaah, it makes sense that their veneration for her opens the door to a bunch of other Daedric Princes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, cause you could, if you're going strictly by the definitions of Adric and Daedric as ancestor and not ancestor,


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[Assistant] But they fled, but they'd still be considered Adra, right? Well the thing is, I guess, I guess they lumped Magnus in with Adra. But at the same time- Because I mean, if you were there for most of it, yeah, there's no sacrifice, but uhm, which I guess is the most important thing.


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[Assistant] And one thing about the element of light is not just her aesthetic, which is very light and holy as we've already said, but it's like, when you think about this universe, it's like,


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[Assistant] Light comes through rifts in the world to Aetherius, so the light is just coming straight from Aetherius, so it's inherently very, like, magical and, and, and, um, Aedric, in a sense, so if she shows herself as being, like, a goddess of light,


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[Assistant] Then, it's hard to really look at her as a Daedra other than the fact that she exists in Oblivion.


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[Assistant] It's a bit of a façade. Like, you know, when she uses terms like purified, it's kind of a bit hypocritical coming from a corrupted magnege who has, you know, has got consorted with illicit spectra and become a daedra. She's hardly the purist of light.


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[Assistant] I think it's her opposition to Molag Bal that gives her a lot of, you know, aside from her aesthetic that makes her seem so good. It's just because he's considered the worst. And for the most part, unless you're looking at Khajiit mythology, where it seems to be the opposite, but normally they're considered opposing forces.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the Hollow City. Uhm, yeah, it gets, it's like, uhm, it gets pulled into, uhm, Cold Harbour, but Meridia's kind of magic, or whatever, however you wanna call it, protects it, so it's kind of like a piece of life, a piece of living nerd that exists in Cold Harbour that defies Molag Bal.


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[Assistant] I guess a lot of those Ayleids would be worshipping Ava Daedra, if not for Meridia as well. And, uh, there's a good chance that some of the more egregious, uhm, Ayleid cities would have been doing


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[Assistant] So yeaah, it does follow along, but, but yeaah, no I know what you mean though, she's kind of, whether she means to or not, is doing general positives, at least, you know, compared to some of the


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[Assistant] I was just saying, Darien, I think he was a Breton, wasn't he? So I guess maybe she just likes the urban aspects of him.


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[Assistant] Almost in a way that, like, the good Daedra guided their chosen people from the Uldmar. Perhaps Meridia did it with a group of her own.


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[Assistant] Because the idea, right, is that Molag imprisoned Dagon, and then Meridia and Molag Bal both kind of used him as a tool, essentially, to assault the Lunalattis.


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[Assistant] And uh, Azura kind of, um, foiled that plan. And I think it says, I'd have to find it now, but I think the idea was that Azura actually, in the Khajiit mythology,


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[Assistant] I mean, just what you said there, that makes me think of Azura talking about, you know, the positioning of the sun and when you've got the low sun and it's kind of like the realms of twilight. I feel like there's gotta be more between her and Azura than we know about.


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[Assistant] I remember we were talking about, uhm, the inspiration for Ayleid kind of architecture and their, their dress and stuff like that and, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, because there were the bird people of central Cyrodiil that obviously must have played some role. So I guess, you know, that combined with Meridia's aurora and asphatic, they were pretty much, you know, guaranteed to end up looking the way they look now.


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[Assistant] I wonder if uhm, I mean I doubt it, but I wonder if they have any kind of relation to Meridia.


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[Assistant] The bird people. Yeah, I mean we know nothing about the bird people really other than they're just a native beast race.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they were, they almost seemed to, they looked a little more tribal at the time. So I think the description of Pelennor when he's, when his blade is covered in the blood and bits of the alids and there's just like beads and things hanging off of it. So it seems like he's gone and...


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[Assistant] I think we've butchered a bunch of tribal types as opposed to this really high society of a-wild.


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[Assistant] Yeah, more like the kind of, when you imagine Cyrodiil in as more of a rainforest.


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[Assistant] Kind of like how you'd imagine, you know, almost like an Amazonian tribe aesthetic going on. Cause they, you know, cause the idea is they would have lived more in a rainforest, uhm, or a jungle, you know, however it was before it kind of just looked like the way it looks in oblivion looks a bit different.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what made me think Breton, but then I think I looked it up before, it's like, no, he's indistinct race. So I, who knows, but.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I really can't see her having a huge role in the Elder Scrolls 6. I feel like there would be a solid 5 or 6 princes who would get major priority over her for having major quest lines or even DLCs, you know? Because the Knights of the Nine unfortunately really didn't add a great deal to talk about with her, but uhm,


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[Assistant] The potential is there for her to have really cool lore, because she should have a lot more interactions with the Daedric Princes, for example, but a lot of what actually makes her interesting is the people who worship her, like the Ayleids are the most, probably the most interesting part about Meridia is, um, the Ayleids, so. Yeah, I'd agree.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, when the Daedric Prince is kind of convened to screw over Jiggalag, perhaps she was kind of against that idea. Maybe she was actually more in support of Jiggalag if she was there for that.


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[Assistant] I think I remember years ago you talking, Scott, about making that video and I think you'd started writing it and you were a few lessons in, you were just like...


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[Assistant] No, but then we could just be like, no, I'm gonna hold you there Michael, I think you're wrong on that one.


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[Assistant] I was trying to be realistic with my one, like what do I actually like to do, but then what's different about me that would kind of impede that?


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[Assistant] Farming is interesting, and England is beautiful.


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[Assistant] But uhm, no, I was thinking like Sanguine is probably up there with my favourite princes. So I feel like I'd be like Sanguine but without any of the charisma. Like him but socially awkward.


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[Assistant] And I'd have like the Myriad Realms of revelry, but not too much revelry, not too loud. Just a little bit of fun, but then I get socially awkward and you gotta leave now.


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[Assistant] I feel like the best way, the best way to answer the sphere question is to say each other's. Because it's, I feel like we know each other better, like better than describing yourself. Like what sums up each of us.


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[Assistant] No, no, but specifically just like having a laugh, having fun, playing some pool. No, it doesn't necessarily have to be pool. Just chilling out.


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[Assistant] I think it's safe to say that no one would worship any of us.


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[Assistant] That my realm would be a pub where you've got all these different daedric creatures, all of these visiting mortals. You said you wanted song and stories. In a pub you've got musicians, you've got people having a chat like having a drink and telling their stories, you've got people playing sport, you've got people having chats, all of this, everything good. Some guy just gets glassed. Look, in a daedric realm that's part and parcel.


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[Assistant] I think when, I've thought about this a lot as well, and I think what was really special about Redemption was uhm,


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[Assistant] Having the artwork from, uh, Tom, what was it, what was it? Yeah, Tom Hanchard. A fantastic artist, and he was able, even though it was only a few images, to kind of bring to life the characters we made up, whereas if we were to do it again, we wouldn't really be able to do it properly with in-game footage, because you don't want the story we'd write in prose to be


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[Assistant] Constricted to just what we can show in game with character creation like that. I almost feel like you need the kind of original images.


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[Assistant] It's one element, but at the same time, it would still be really fun to do.


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[Assistant] One thing that would be cool is if we got into writing short stories in the universe, you could like, uh, I don't know exactly know how you do it, but mod them into books in the game as well. That'd be pretty cool to come across in your adventure.


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[Assistant] I definitely didn't come up with this fan theory, but I kind of like adopted it so much that it's canon in my head, but the idea that Mankar Cameron is a descendant of a long line of aelids who's just gradually been working on a way to get revenge for the Elysian rebellion, I quite like the idea of him having aelid origins.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like a lot of these theories, even though then, yeah, he did specifically say unconfirmed law, but most of the unconfirmed law...


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[Assistant] It doesn't really matter that much if it's confirmed. If there's a lot of evidence to suggest it could be true, you can kind of...


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[Assistant] You know, it's fun to consider the fact that it is true. Like, the Tower's theory, not knowing the true motives of the Old Merry Dominion is part of the mystery that makes it interesting to be like, is that what they're trying to achieve? Or are they just basically trying to conquer Tamriel and that's it? You know, it's fun. Having conspiracies in the Elder Scrolls is fun.


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[Assistant] Is that anything related to the Dwemer as their pick?


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[Assistant] Certain things can be so hyped up and the mystery around it can be so hyped up that no resolution is going to be as good as the mystery.


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[Assistant] Fits in perfectly with the way the lore has been built up for however many years. But there's also the unavoidable reality that it is an MMO with millions of protagonists running around doing so much great like massive feats of history in the span of a few years.


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[Assistant] You kind of chalk a lot of that up to, yeah, it's canon, but I kind of just... don't pay attention to it. Like, if ESO add...


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[Assistant] Yeah, the lore itself is interesting, but it actively detracts from what makes the Nords interesting in certain respects and turns them into much more just Vikings, Scandinavian types. Takes away a lot of what really makes them unique.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause I'm trying to think outside the box cause I guess like with Vivek.


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[Assistant] Choosing Vivec almost lets you choose Shea Gorath, or lets you choose a Daedric Prince. So I do get what you mean, that if it says in-game, maybe we should like stray away from the real game.


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[Assistant] Well, Ulfric is good as well because for the role he plays in the game, he's kind of perfect because you can see him as like a heroic leader figure to rally behind if you choose to join the Stormcloaks, but he also makes a great villain at the same time without being a ha ha ha, twiddling the moustache, evil villain.


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[Assistant] I mean, Parthenax is a really cool character, at least. Just, if we're talking very much in-game, just having dialogue with him, he's got some of the most memorable lines of dialogue and gives you the one of the most like- Cruiser. That's my favourite quote, man, that's so cool.


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[Assistant] So, he's an answer as well if we're talking specifically Skyrim.


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[Assistant] Dive at Fear is pretty cool, but I know that's not Skyrim, but that's definitely a good one.


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[Assistant] And I mean, I didn't want to say Mankar Cameron, but he's also a really good-


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[Assistant] But picking just one is so hard. Yeah. Cause then like Yaggrim Bagan's a good one too.


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[Assistant] How do you even confirm, like, this sounds a bit weird, but how do you even confirm that, like, Tiber Septim has ascended to godhood? We've got confirmation of that. Is it, Talos to me feels more like a symbol that, that more serious, like, real gods who have been there since the beginning just kind of use


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[Assistant] Yeah, like as a symbol, I see Talos as just an aspect of Shor, as we kinda talked about in the last podcast.


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[Assistant] So, so is the idea that he ascended but he was still alive enough to interact with people at the very beginning?


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[Assistant] That he essentially just dies and then he's revered as if he joined the gods as opposed to- Well that's how he's revered. Yeah, as opposed to him like, okay, like I'm now the god, I'm now turning, like, clicks his fingers and the jungles are now, um, flattened.


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[Assistant] I think a boring answer, I probably would go and join the College of Winterhold and just, um, like, I'd keep my lore knowledge but then add to that a bunch of actual magic. It's hard to turn that down. And then I'd go open a farm in Whiterun.


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[Assistant] If the option to go south across the border, I'd probably do the same, but then do something similar like join the College of Whispers or something like that.


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[Assistant] I guess the big question, when he says, dropped in with all your lore knowledge, would you try to achieve Kim? Would you try to achieve him?


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[Assistant] You guys played, or I assume you heard of, but do you know Hades?


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[Assistant] Wouldn't that- couldn't you just essentially say that for every realm? Like, there's gonna be other occupants, people to-


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[Assistant] I imagine every realm has hordes of Lesser Daedra just existing there and potentially, um, worshipping.


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[Assistant] Cause the thing is, like, I feel like with a lot of them, like, say Boethiah, where you just get to fight all, all day, every day for the rest of your life, or hunt in her scenes realm, a lot of that you'd get bored of, whereas, I dunno, I feel like in Azura's realm, so long as you venerated her and worshipped her properly, you could kinda just enjoy the beauty of her realm. I feel like Azura is one of those choices.


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[Assistant] It would be awesome, but yeah, like being a fan and making videos is also kind of like...


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[Assistant] We wouldn't want to give that up. If we could somehow write quests or write lore for Bethesda that would make its way into the game and then be able to make videos on it, which is kind of, you know, is a big part of our passion, that would be amazing. But yeah, not having the best of both worlds would make it a tough call.


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[Assistant] Also, uhm, on the second part of that question, I, I think the Drew, the Drew's a hottie part, or? On the, about, in terms of whether the, when you think Yota Scrolls 6 will be released. And this might...


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[Assistant] Yeah, so coming out like back in 2014 and still being a thing now, I think it's been incredibly good for the community because it keeps people interested in it. Like people, there are so many people who still love and play that game and they've added a lot of cool lore, but I do think it's a reality that the success


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[Assistant] ...of Elder Scrolls Online as an MMO and the amount of money MMOs make versus single-player experiences.


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[Assistant] That definitely has allowed Bethesda Softworks to take as long as they possibly want to bring out an Elder Scrolls 6. I think if MMOs didn't exist, ESO didn't exist, Elder Scrolls 6 would not have been 15 years after Elder Scrolls 5. I think that is the reality of why rush when you're making so much money.


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[Assistant] You'd probably want to live somewhere around Mournhold, maybe in the centre of Morrowind where the conditions aren't quite so rough.


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[Assistant] I think if I could have my ideal situation, I'd probably be a high elf who gets recruited into the, um, the sigic order, go to the Isle of Artaeum.


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[Assistant] You also have hundreds of years of life. It's not like you, you don't really need to rush and live it up in your twenties or whatever. You know, you can, I, I'd, I'd take that gig if I like was in, in the order for 50 years or something and then went on to do my own thing.


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[Assistant] One way that I think it works quite well together is if you, you imagine that some of the kind of out of canon, out of lore stuff that Kirkbride writes, like for example, I mean, yeah, it's technically not canon, but there is references to some of the things that happen in Skyrim, like the snow whales or the flying snow whales that hover around the throat of the world, for example, who drop like,


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[Assistant] And it could have just been some, some crap that someone's made up in a tavern or something like that. And it, it's, it's, that's how the real world works. There's, there's stuff that we take as, as gospel truth that happened in history that, you know, like uhm, some things don't happen, some things do. People embellish stories, you know, the, the winners write the,


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[Assistant] Right, the histories, is that saying? Things like that. It makes the world so much more alive.


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[Assistant] When you have that, that kind of thing happening. But yeah, and like one more thing about Kirkbride as well, is it's uhm, something I said in, actually in a video I'm writing at the moment, is that it's kind of awkward if you have


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[Assistant] A, uh, someone who's essential to writing the lore early on in the game, and then they stop working there, but they had intentions for how this piece of lore was supposed to develop, or why it is a certain way.


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[Assistant] So, if they go on to say, oh this is what I meant with this character, it's technically not canon, but the whole foundation of that character is in that.


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[Assistant] A few years ago I made a Twitter meme that was like the YouTube title Top 10 Anime Betrayals and put like Lucy and the Chants hanging in Apple Watch Farm. It's like, so that's a bit of an anime moment.


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[Assistant] There is meta lore like that, kind of like the idea of the Godhead. You can imagine it's, oh, the Godhead is just the real life human beings who fought up the Elder Scrolls universe and things. You can get, kind of, uhm, yeaah, as you've pretty much said, get meta references to lore that's in the games, but it's almost more of an easter egg than something to take too seriously, because if you go down the rabbit hole of


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[Assistant] Thinking that oh, you're the player characters are, are an important part of the calpic cycle. Like, oh, in, in, in a million different calpers, everyone's story is canon or whatever. It's like, you can go down a lot of rabbit holes with that, that are fun in a meta conversation, but don't really lead anywhere.


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[Assistant] And that's one thing about it being an RPG is that stats are kind of important. So if you have a combat system where skill alone can kind of do everything, then the stats become less important. And then yeah, if you have first and third person, it's also harder to make something that is satisfying to do in both. I mean like,


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[Assistant] I've been playing Chivalry 2 recently and that does a really good job of...


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[Assistant] I think, yea, Shagorath would need some tricks up his sleeve. Like, drop a Wendy's milkshake in front of Maren's Dagon as he's coming at him, or something like that. He's not gonna win in a fair fight. But it wouldn't be more like bow, we can all agree on that.


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[Assistant] No, he- he- Molek Baal prefers to pick on people smaller than him. I think is a- is a pretty-


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[Assistant] Yeah. It is, it is a little weird though, because, you know, the idea that they evolve from the ancestor lizard, that the size of the soul for the basic lizard would be different to an argonian, so the soul would in some ways change.


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[Assistant] Okay, I was just gonna say, because I didn't, I didn't grow up in Australia. I came out to Australia from England as a teenager and I didn't know these guys, um, at all until uni. The first, like the first class of uni was a, um, like a compulsory class where you don't get to choose who you sit next to or anything like that. And I happened to be placed next to Scott.


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[Assistant] And, uh, you know, we got to talking, we both liked Pokemon, we both liked Elder Scrolls, we didn't shut up in class, and then eventually, one thing led to another.


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[Assistant] Well back in those days, it was a bit more difficult as well, like making builds on an Xbox 360, where you guys had to like, get the Ogma Infinium on every character, you couldn't use console commands, stuff like that is a slog.


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[Assistant] I think the drastic differences you get from Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim aren't going to be the same anymore. Because ESO, yea, they did make some small changes, but for the most part, excuse me, they were very similar to Skyrim. And I don't think, I think they've kind of reached the point now where they're not going to change drastically from here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, I mean, for me, the Elder Scrolls kind of indirect- indirectly led me to fudgemup it because I've always been a big reader since I was a kid, but after playing Skyrim back in 2011, so like, you know, four years, five years before I'd meet you guys,


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[Assistant] Uhm, Skyrim is what got me really into, to personal writing, to just write like,


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[Assistant] I'm writing, uhm, fan fiction initially for Skyrim, which eventually led into me world building and writing my own prose outside of...


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[Assistant] Fudge Muppet. And then, you know, that, that is kind of what got me fairly decent at writing enough that, you know, when I met Scott, I was like, oh, do you want to help, you know, come and write some scripts and then see how it goes and then here we are. So.


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[Assistant] It's all kind of circled back. Skyrim kicked things off for me, because I could never, I could never do an office job, I don't know how I'd do it. Like, working in an accounting firm when I was in high school was just like, ugh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is hard to say to people like, oh, you know, like, go all in on your dreams if it's something like YouTube, because it's bloody hard to make it in things like this, but at the same time, like, never, also never give up on the things you're passionate about, because if we had, if we'd done that, then we wouldn't be talking right now. It's not a good strategy.


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[Assistant] I think having them, yeah, as we've pretty much said, having them as being two different strains of need, removing all the stuff about them being a half breed and just kind of


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[Assistant] Yeah, just the hiss-controlling lizards, but the lizards aren't a playable race.


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[Assistant] Kind of like in All in All's video where it's just like a, there's a Dramora, a Dunmer and a Bosmer sitting around a table in a tavern having a muted conversation and you can kind of tell it's us, but it doesn't impact your game at all. It's just a little easter egg. Would probably be the best.


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[Assistant] No, I was, I was gonna get into the kind of killing light of Pelennor thing as well. So long as it's not, you know, it's just a reference to the Amulet of Kings as opposed to him being an actual space cyborg.


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[Assistant] Having a few more armor pieces, slots as well, is better than just kind of dumbing it down to a few.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because every major thing they've been involved with has allowed the mortal realm to continue to exist. You know, it's, it's padamaic.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like you, you're watching, you have a camera's view on everything happening and you get all the perspectives and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] And watch, watch the, you know, the conversation about what they're gonna do with Lorcan after they defeat him and his armies of men.


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[Assistant] See all of the gods convening, see, uh, Magnus and his, uh, Magnege flee, see the ripping of his heart and the firing it across the sea and just get, see everyone's perspective of all the aedra who would commit to...


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[Assistant] Alternatively, maybe the destruction of Ligg. So Meirin's Dagon being created, the Dread Kings, and their tyranny, and who the slaves were who destroyed the realm. Yeah, that's cool.


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[Assistant] So like, we all love Fallout, but we could probably cover Fallout's entire lore in this amount of- however long the podcast has been going so far, we could probably do it in this amount of time. Result of scrolls, we've got endless content.


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[Assistant] I wanted you to say some crazy take and I got it, I'm glad.


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[Assistant] I mean, talking about Lord of the Rings or A Song of Ice and Fire would be amazing, but I assume, I think, I think I've seen some, but that stuff is fairly well covered already by people who are as nerdy towards those universes as we are towards this one. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I think my retcon would be as much as, as much as I understand why the devs of ESO did it and they kinda had to do it, I would make Somerset much more like the description in the pocket guide of like the, you know, this, this


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[Assistant] So I guess if the Elder Scrolls ever went to Somerset properly in a single player RPG, I'd want it to be alien.


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[Assistant] Cause uh, yeaah, as, as you said, I think most of our 20 minute videos, if we weren't trying to be concise, and like, it may not seem like we're being concise all the time, but for the most part we're trying to boil it down to the most important information.


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[Assistant] Most of them could be an hour long if we just let ourselves go on tangents that are somewhat relevant, things like that, and go into all the detail, but trying to keep it


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[Assistant] I think it needs to be animated as well. Wouldn't want it live action.


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[Assistant] Also, adaptations scare me. Like, I feel like if something like this were to happen, I'd want as many of the big original minds behind the Elder Scrolls to be a part of it as possible, because both of the examples Jason gave of the Witcher series and Game of Thrones


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[Assistant] I like thinking about them make me physically uncomfortable cause I love, I love both of those series. I love a song of ice and fire.


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[Assistant] Ooh, straight downhill, so I'd be scared that Elder Scrolls, like nothing would ruin Elder Scrolls, I still love The Witch, I still love the Song of Ice and Fire, but it'd be nice if you get the original minds involved.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know what you mean and I agree, I agree. Look, I'm being overly cynical, but to me it feels like more so with The Witcher, it's like you're hiring writers as opposed to people who love the series who are also writers. It felt like they didn't care that much about the world they were writing in.


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[Assistant] Honestly didn't know. Probably saw one of the news channels say something and just chalked it off as a click pay title or something.


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[Assistant] What is up ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Far Tremor, but I'm Scott here with Michael Drew. As always, this is the Elder Scrolls Podcast, and today we are talking about Molag Bal, the Daedric Prince of Domination and plenty of other unfortunate things, but let's get into it, which one of you guys would like to take it away?


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[Assistant] And it's also like torment and like suffering and pain does sort of really seem to be part of his fear as well, like through the domination, like he does like, you know, getting with the, with the magnifying glass with the ants and like burning them alive in the most brutal way possible to like.


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[Assistant] As an example, I think it was like of the Reachmen, I think it was like Cinderheart clan or something where they basically do the same thing and they worship Merlach Bell and they do the same thing for the Briarheart ritual. You know, they tear out the heart and everything and, but instead of replacing it with a Briarheart, they put hot coals in there and like burn them alive.


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[Assistant] Maybe, uh, maybe the way it's said, maybe it does, maybe it is something, like a bright heart of some sort, some modified kind, but I, I at first thought it was just a, a torture really, like a gruesome death.


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[Assistant] Well, even if you look at two, like to just connect it to ego, like the whole,


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[Assistant] Yeah, well that's the thing too is like, I mean, obviously he's, he's pretty, you know, immoral. Most societies even in, um, Tamriel would agree that he's immoral. So his worship's usually been.


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[Assistant] Just uhm, really, just quick too, talk about that.


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[Assistant] The alyds as well there is, uh, and I think of this would be a fair assumption. This is just my, like, interpretation of guests, but,


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[Assistant] Most of the tortures and all of the horrible things that like, you know, fire king had hool and like, you know, setting kids align all that. I reckon mostly I can imagine is more like done in the name of more like bow. Like I don't really find any like torture really is his thing. There is actually a pretty.


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[Assistant] Two, two other quick things. One's just a little, uh, tiny little trivia piece of information, but in the language of El- the Elmeri language, his name translates to stone fire. And you know, or you could reverse that and maybe they speak, you know, you know.


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[Assistant] Languages flip and reverse like verbs. So firestone, but it's very clear that it's like a hellish kind of thing. Like, you know, if you think fire and brimstone, you're thinking like hell and all that imagery. It's trying to convey like most evil.


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[Assistant] Effort to, to dominate, not just like this sort of like physical kind of like, yeah, I'll dominate you and, you know, kill you or make you a physical slave. It's like a metaphysical spiritual level for all time. I want your souls and gather them up and.


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[Assistant] One direction to sort of take it, uh, maybe a place to sort of focus it down a little bit on is, um, is corruption and, and even when you're talking about like his image, Cold Harbor, you can look at is just, you know, a corruption of


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[Assistant] of, uh, Tamriel itself and like, you know, covering the Imperial city and excrement and blood and all of that kind of stuff. It's like a, uh, like a profane sort of move or like, you know, taking the beautiful things and making it.


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[Assistant] You know, these soulless sort of undead. And...


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[Assistant] That corruption, like even in, in, uh, Morrowind, um, the, the Dunmer know him as one of the four, uh, four corners of the house of troubles. And he is known to like, you know, corrupt Dunmer purity. And he always wants to try and like, you know, screw up bloodlines and so on. There's this real corrupting element, even if you look at the oblivion.


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[Assistant] The quest in Elsgross for Oblivion where you, you take this guy and you're trying to get him so angry so that he murders you in, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah. It's like, if you're going to mention like, you know, he wants, he wants the creation of Darth Vader where it can be like the idea of some sort of hero turning into a villain would be seems very in his sort of. Oh yeah. Like the.


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[Assistant] Well, just sort of, I mean, I just sort of like, that was enough to say. But like, I mean, people can look into it more or so on, but more or less, it's, you know, just, you know, having a hero murder you so you specifically provoke him.


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[Assistant] Obviously too, we, the creation, one, one thing I just want to bring up because I just love, you know, I love some Morrowind concept art, but you know how they have the Daedric Helms and they have them of like, for like, to represent different Daedric Princes, there's this comset art of, um, the, the face of the Forbidden Tickle, which, you know, is obvious what that's alluding to. But, um, yeah, it's, it's just an interesting sort of.


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[Assistant] Interestingly too, even if you wanted to, if you look at, you know, uhm, Merlach Baal as he's depicted in, basically, like, Daggerfall through to sort of Oblivion even, his face and depiction is much more, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, like you could kinda see that as another sort of corruption on like the sort of form of the Elnife and it's like mixed with beasts and weird stuff and pieces of everything. Elnife isn't like, you know, elves and men and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well we would like to go next with Merlach Bell, cause-


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[Assistant] Cause I kind of like the idea you're saying about, like, you know, maybe in a previous calper or whatever, however you interpret league and all that, that at least in the past, whether that be a whole other timeline or something, he was like, you know, dominating the whole world, whatever, maybe he's working to get to the same spot. I mean, he attempted it through the plane mail.


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[Assistant] Which is interesting too, because Meridia, I mean, in the story of, um, ESO, like you, you have those, the two, like, uh, the Meridia worshipping Aylid, City-State and the, uh, Moloch Baal worshipping one, and now we're at odds and so on. And, and in, in the plot, there's these, there, there are Meridia and Moloch Baal are opposed to one another, but what's, um,


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[Assistant] And also, even like their spheres, you know, Merla Bell's often related to the undead and, and stuff like that. And then you've got Meridia who absolutely despises it and so on. And it's like, you know.


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[Assistant] This Daedric Prince's enemies are, but, but, but, but, but, but, is, is Daggerfall era stuff, but there's some, you know, there's fun interpretations from him, but like,


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[Assistant] This Meridia is stated as one of the, um, enemies, but another one, and you could expect like RK and like Lemebel, they're all there. But, um, Belwithia is also mentioned as an enemy of Molochbel. And you could say maybe like, oh, well, the good Daedra generally sort of stick together and they're opposed to, um,


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[Assistant] That might even make more sense, because if you're actually looking at like, you know, the monomyth, they kind of talk about like, cast out of the Magna-Gi.


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[Assistant] Uhm, for consorting with illicit spectra, but that sort of kind of feels like, because they are known as Magnege in that time, that Mundus has already formed, and if Mundus has already formed, then Lorcan's probably already gone. Or like, dead, like, you know, his heart sustains the world and so on. So, maybe it was something else.


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[Assistant] Is there, I think it's a similar deal with the Daedric Titans, you know, the skeleton ripped from a dragon and then through modifying it and substituting the soul for a Daedric Vestige creates the Daedric Titans and so on. So it's kind of cool. It's kind of on brand for him in terms of like the corruption of things, which I think is the more interesting part of it because domination can


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[Assistant] Yeah, like corruption of, corruption of love or what's, you know, sex is what you, it was, but sex, also sex just being usually a beautiful thing between two things, a thing of pleasure, corrupt it and turn it into a thing of pain and obviously very physically turning them into a vampire.


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[Assistant] Losing your soul, like it's pretty rough.


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[Assistant] But yea, that's another thing too, like the pain, like pain in inflicting misery upon people seems to be part of his thing in torment. The Daedric Prince of BDSM, but with no safe words. That's the title of the video. Yea, Prince of BDSM, no safe words.


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[Assistant] We should also, I guess too, touch on the dregs, because another thing that ties the dregs to him or so on is the idea that


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[Assistant] Uhm, from the previous couple when he was like torn down or defeated or whatever, that he's, uhm, I forgot the exact wording, but he's a carapace or whatever, fell to earth and a Dunmerry child.


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[Assistant] War and so on and became this beast called the ruddy man or which Vivec had a battle with. But if you even take that again, like he's wearing his carapace corrupted him.


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[Assistant] It's what he called it. Yeah. Right. And, and, um, turns him, you know, you corrupts a small child into a terrible monster once again. And then, uh, yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I'm trying, I'll find, cause I, I'm, we should probably also, uh, the pomegranate banquet. That's right. Oh god. The, uh, everyone's favorite. So, um, this is where- Scott, you can handle this one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, basically, uhm, Molag, there's a time where Vivek, uh, Vivek...


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[Assistant] Basically a pro, I think, I forgot the, hold on, I have to like look up the exact conditions of the beginning or so on, but the essential part is, is that he gives, uhm, I think it's just Vivek's head, uhm, and he basically has, or he takes his feet, and then his head is also


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[Assistant] I mean, but also like, um, there's the part of the creation of the spear.


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[Assistant] So, uh, but Vivec made of his spear a more terrible thing from a secret he had bitten off the kip from the king of rape, and so he sent Molag Bal tumbling into the crack of the biters and swore forever that he would not deem the king beautiful ever again. Vivec wept as he slew all those around him with his terrible new spear. He named it Muatra, which is milk-taker, and even the Chimera mystics knew this fury. Uhm, but s-


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[Assistant] Is the line before, but basically there's probably, more or less it was like, uh,


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[Assistant] The specific quote cause people love it. So, so Vivec, who had a grain of AM's mercy set about to teach Molag Bal in the ways of belly magic. Uh, they took out their spears and compared them. Vivec bit new words onto the king of rape so that it might give more than ruin to the uninitiated. This has since become a forbidden ritual. Those people still practice it in secret. But there you go.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it's uh, it's, you know, he's interesting. Interesting demonic figure, you know.


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[Assistant] I mean, this is just sort of too, like how US kind of divides them up or so on. Like, you know, I personally like regard more so the weapons or individual sort of items or pieces or something that seem significant as the artifact.


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[Assistant] But yeah, they're significant pieces of things, but a lot of them, like, just, they don't have the zhuzh.


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[Assistant] Which I feel like is just very kind of, I feel like that should always be there for, um, the mainstream. It's just, it's exactly what Mal wants to do. Crap souls.


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[Assistant] Which is all? Sorry, go. No, no, you go. Oh, I was just gonna say, which is also kinda cool, like,


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[Assistant] Like, if you, if you, you know, we like to do this and talk about it, but you can talk about every Daedric artifact from like, kind of like a gameplay terminology, like perspective or the, or the, uh,


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[Assistant] Well they do essentially the same thing because attributes aren't the same anymore, they're limited in how they can do a gameplay, but in Skyrim it's damage, stamina, damage, magicka, and soul trap.


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[Assistant] As if it's not in spy, like I want to think of it, I just think of like Sauron in the Lord of the Rings movies with his big mace, you know when he's like smacking the elves like flying and so like just some giant demonic-


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[Assistant] It's just, it's just mainly because I guess like, you know, I feel like what, you know, what sells a piece of fiction to you is when you can kind of like take it seriously, but you know when sometimes it's too...


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[Assistant] Like too much of a parody of it, so like the whole scamp and wigs thing and so on and like the 15 different Atronach type mounts and there's just


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[Assistant] These are, they're gameplay things. I just don't really treat it heavily as lore, though they do kinda ride it into the lore. Like it's, look, technically this is the, this is the problem with-


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[Assistant] See, I, I kind of, I, sometimes there's, there's, there's examples, or other examples, I think it was like Malekath and his son, which is like an orc or someone, it seems kind of like- That one was biological content.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, but that's kinda what I mean, like.


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[Assistant] But then for there, when you, you know, he, he's got other children, like somewhat, you kind of consider it like to specify as a child, but it's not just some favorite date or something that had some role like personally in their creation or something, but that could also.


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[Assistant] I don't know, just a combination of like them particularly pulling the best each. Like it doesn't have to necessarily be like a mother father conception.


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[Assistant] May, may, may, maybe this is where the, the allied with Azura once. Maybe it was a secret little fling and Molag Grundr is actually Azura's kid because winged twilights are like known to be in her realm and, and are often associated with Azura. So there you go. Maybe, uh.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think it's like the trial of Vivek or something. I forget which piece exactly, but where Vivek gets Muatra, which we previously know is representative of as discussed and like specifically like silence it, like jams it into her mouth. Um, Azura's mouth and so on.


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[Assistant] This is some out of lore stuff. Yeah, but this is, it's set, it's a trial of a vex set, I think it's set after the fall of the...


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[Assistant] I can't remember exactly, but yeah, it's out of law stuff. There was just this comic thing, um, that went around or so on and it was on a thumbnail of a YouTube video, like a popular YouTube video at one point. And then they changed it, but I just remember all the comments were about it. Yeah. Anyway, you get it. You can look it up.


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[Assistant] But uhm, yeaah, the forbidden tickle. If you actually look at that mask too, it's got like a protruding tongue that looks sharp in the


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[Assistant] See, I kinda like, um, forget that, but I, I don't, I like the


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[Assistant] It's somewhat the, uh, you can rationalize it in this way that the, the blue fire, but as a corruption of actual fire and if cold harbor truly is like a cold place, but there's fire everywhere, but it's blue and cold and like, imagine it, you get like, you know how you get like cold burns and stuff like that? Yeah. Um, like imagine that as how you put your hand on the fire and that's what it is. It's a corruption of fire.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's, uh, he purportedly has terrible hygiene and smells of rotting food.


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[Assistant] I think inevitably it's going to happen in any sort of like, because I think a lot, like, there's-


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[Assistant] A decent amount of cringe with Moloch Bell because of ESO and the whole playing mill thing and basically just being a mare in Stagon 2.0 and giving him more demonic stuff and lots of, um,


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[Assistant] You kind of lose the, the flavor of a character if you wash them out with so much stuff, like everything bad. You see, and that's why, like, generally I find, uhm, the corruption as a more interesting part of him to, like, take something and then


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[Assistant] I feel like it's fitting for what his sort of domain is. Like some, some Daedric Princes too, like I feel like- I don't think it looks bad. It's just kind of generic to me. I don't know. Yeah, but some I feel like should-


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[Assistant] You know, ash or something or something like that, but it's like very much connected to the, to the theme. For example, like if, if you made like Mephala's realm, asparagus game, if you made it not like Webby and spiders and towers and stuff outside of that, if you made it some like,


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[Assistant] Like having a little like lore passage about what it looks like is sometimes cooler and more mysterious. Like Malekath's realm. Yeah, but like you could even find, I'm sure you could find descriptions of cold harbor from before, like you're saying with the perfume stuff and the floor is sludge and all of that kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] To me, it at least sounds cooler than even what it looks like. I don't mind how it looks now, I think it's pretty decent.


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[Assistant] Uhm, sometimes there's a power to mystery and like to make the world seem more expansive rather than necessarily showing it cause it won't.


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[Assistant] And some of it's been sent in by the viewers on Twitter. And if you don't follow us on Twitter, I'd highly recommend it. So I know I've got a bunch of tabs open with, uh, different suggestions from different people, as well as some of the things that I think are personally spooky, which I'm sure we'll have a lot of crossover with Scott and Drew.


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[Assistant] And I guess we also want to say a massive thank you for 1 million subscribers on fudgemuppet. It happened! It happened recently.


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[Assistant] We're all super grateful. It was, it was pretty interesting. Um, interesting feeling to see it tick over and, um, yeah.


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[Assistant] And then shout out to all the meme people who were trying to like unsub and resub and be- You should have seen it! I was sitting there watching the thing and it's going 999- a million 999998 and just like hovering back and forth. The second it got too far over, then it just piled through because everyone gave up.


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[Assistant] But we didn't want to not say it. Uhm, we gotta announce that, so thank you again very, very much. So I guess, we need to get spookier. Uhm, nothing spookier than The Undead if you want to be really on brand for Halloween.


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[Assistant] And it's actually quite interesting that Veemina seems to be involved, uhm, with that, at least she used to be. Because there's that part in Morrowind where you do a cure for vampirism, which is the quest to cure vampirism, believe it or not. And Merlak Baal basically, uhm, pries it from Veemina. Uh, after some dot dot dot discussion.


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[Assistant] So, so it makes me think, like yea, you're having dreams and stuff and he talks about getting the cure from, from her.


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[Assistant] That she may have something to do with it, or at least it used to be implied nowadays, not so much. If you've seen our recent video that I made on Veimina, um, it seems especially in the Elder Scrolls Online that there's a lot of vague stuff and I really want to see her given the love she deserves in Elder Scrolls 6.


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[Assistant] Ten plots that require a lot of patience.


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[Assistant] You know, and I mean, as a vampire, if you're living forever, you do have a lot of patience. I mean, there's also the Yaketh in, if we're speaking of Bosma clans, who swallow men whole, which I suppose is quite scary. I don't, what would that even look like? Some kind of snake. Well, some people pay for that.


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[Assistant] And I suppose if it was a child in your own family, that would definitely be, you know, create quite a concoction of a hormonal response in terms of fear and other things. We've, we've done, um, a lot of, uh, vampire talk in other podcasts.


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[Assistant] Uhm, is there anything else that we should dive into with vampires specifically? We know there's all kinds of different clans, they feed on blood.


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[Assistant] Did Crassus Curio write this? I can't tell if this is just one big metaphor. You're talking about... Am I the only one who hears it?


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[Assistant] I was gonna say, uhm, Mr. Bellamont from Oblivion has a pretty disturbing tale, uh, from the Dark Brotherhood.


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[Assistant] The Tracer who keeps, uh, Mother's head in the basement of the lighthouse that he's living in and writes his creepy, creepy diary, which probably doesn't deserve a reading.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because it's, it's just very cringe.


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[Assistant] I'd like to hear it word for word, to be honest. It's too long, but there's a lot of like, kill him, kill him, kill him, and then, mummy, mummy, as you lie, the dark man comes and makes you die, my daddy's hands are red with guilt because he killed the life we built, and a whole book


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[Assistant] Uhm, of this kind of stuff. And then, he writes backwards at the end, uh, Lucian Lachance will die.


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[Assistant] Like, the idea of cannibals is not, like, everyone knows what a cannibal is, and okay, a cannibal cult is gross, but, you know, murdering someone violently is also gross. Eating them is, you know, a further step, which is much worse, but there's something so messed up about keeping your mother's head.


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[Assistant] This is a Twitter thing, but the force is unknown, observing you kill, uh, in Oblivion when you murder someone for the first time. Yeaah. Uhm, do you think that comes back to the Night Mother and, and, uh,


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[Assistant] Wraiths are a, uh, interesting, I guess, undead creature that we should probably talk about a little, but I'll get the, um,


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[Assistant] So, Lorgren is the necromancer who you find has been living under the house you purchased in Bannerus Manor.


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[Assistant] I shall use the souls of the departed to prolong my own life. The tome is very specific. I must have more bodies. Yes, more bodies. Now just for clarity that, do you remember that tome? Like that tome is really cool. You go through the, um,


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[Assistant] You need a bannerist to open this portal type thing. It's a very nice aesthetic design on the brick wall in the basement and it all opens up with like a mechanical device.


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[Assistant] They intend to meddle in powers they can barely comprehend. They call me an old fool and shun me. The dare, the young dare each other to step one foot in my yard. I have become the stuff of old wives' tales and campfire stories.


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[Assistant] They dismiss me as an oddity, but soon they will see. When all of Anvil lies in waste around me, when their corpses litter the streets and their blood dampens the earth, only then will my true power be known and feared.


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[Assistant] So this is a guy who basically, he ended up getting done for, uhm, digging up all these corpses, I think, in the cathedral.


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[Assistant] In the basement, being a spooky spooky Halloween skeleton.


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[Assistant] And I suppose just on the topic of Sithus from before to Deep Scorn Hollow, someone on Twitter was talking about just the shrine is worthy of bringing up just for mention. Um, just for aesthetic.


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[Assistant] It does look extremely cool with all these like people in their hands reaching, um, you know, out from the walls and going down with spikes to this huge Sithish shrine with a big opening, um, where the heart kind of would be showing the spine. It's really, really, really cool stuff.


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[Assistant] You do find, I'm pretty sure as well, like a destroyed, uhm, like a cart with like dead people and Fauma arrows.


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[Assistant] Like sticking out of things. I mean, if you were a bandit though, wouldn't that be the perfect crime? Just loot some Falmer arrows from, you know, from a ruin and use them to commit crimes and now just get blamed on the Falmer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there are some, there are some very creepy people. I know there's a Dramora in Morrowind we can't even mention really because, uh, this video will get taken down.


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[Assistant] And I suppose let's talk about ghosts and wraiths and this type of thing for a bit because


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[Assistant] There's some vague areas, but I guess that's what makes it interesting. But basically there's this idea that wraiths can be created, uhm, or formed naturally.


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[Assistant] People who die, who like still have something left to do, like some important work that they didn't fulfill. Some errands. Some errands to run. As well as uhm, some who have suffered some great injustice. You know, the classic like cursed, I mean like Witcher does this a lot with a lot of monsters.


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[Assistant] Where you have some kind of like demonic being who, I don't know, was uhm, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Speaking of Wraiths, there's actually some really cool art, uhm, if you go looking for it.


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[Assistant] There's some, like, really, like, Wrath of Sithus, uhm, like, is just, there's this really cool piece of art where he just looks absolutely terrifying. And when you fight the Wrath of Sithus in Oblivion, I remember he's, like, much faster than a normal wraith. Like, the way he moves backwards and forwards and...


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[Assistant] And things like that. They're quite creepy. And I also like that they have, uhm, I think it's wraiths. It could be based on the arena description, but I like these little details. Uhm, but they can, it could be the same for ghosts in general too, but they can see invisible foes. Like they have this kind of vision to see.


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[Assistant] Well speaking of Lovecraft, uhm, which Bethesda seems, you know, quite fond of.


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[Assistant] A Hactor is another very unsettling kind of a place in Oblivion. And obviously the quest there has you go and rescue Dahmar, who has gone missing while delivering a shipment for her mother. And she's been taken captive in this basically, um, big.


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[Assistant] Uh, network of caverns underneath the ground. And down there are the afflicted brethren who...