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[Assistant] For the different things in, uhm, for different pieces of Elder Scrolls lore and so on. And you look at the Sword Singers and the whole situation in Yakuta, and it's like, it's like absolutely just a, almost like a just taking Japanese history and putting it there.


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[Assistant] You have like even, so apparently in, in Japanese, the word kensei, I don't know if that's the pronunciation properly or whatever, but K-E-N-S-E-I means sword saint and, and say the Yakudan word means saints of the sword and so on. And these were actual names. And apparently I think, uh, Musashi was actually given that, um, name as well, but.


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[Assistant] Also, if people want to look into it, uhm, they could also check out the video, but there's this whole, uhm,


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[Assistant] There's a period called the Sengoku period in Japan where, you know, you have the emperor as a head of state, but basically the Shogun had the real, um, power in the, in that period. And the similar kind of thing happened with the rise of Mansoul sense in Ikuta.


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[Assistant] Probably actually, it might be easier also just to, before we get too far ahead of ourselves with like comparisons, but like let's actually talk about


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[Assistant] Red Guards and like their origin and so on. So Red Guards is the name is a phonetic corruption of Regata, which means warrior wave, which was basically in, I think it's the 808 or something like that of the first era. So they like the last race really out of the 10 playable races to sort of be on.


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[Assistant] Sinking, uhm, of Yakuda, which was their homeland.


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[Assistant] Um, underwent other periods of war and stuff like that. But an interesting thing about that too is like Yakuta, obviously like any big sinking continent island, like there's, um, correlation to like our mythic stories about, um, Atlantis and so on. But also even the whole idea that there's the Orakalk Tower.


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[Assistant] On Atlantis, there was, on Yakuta, on Atlantis, there is this, uhm, there was said to be, as described by Plato, I think in the Critias or something, uhm, that there was this big, like, uh, big, uhm,


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[Assistant] Well uhm, also just quick, I might actually just verbatim just read this because it actually sums up the history and the comparison pretty well for uhm,


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[Assistant] Yakuta, so this is a previous thing, but it says originally Yakuta, this was my writing from ages ago, but originally Yakuta was united under a single emperor, but this eventually changed and while emperors remained as figureheads, their powers were vastly limited.


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[Assistant] For 300 years, the nation descended into civil wars, fought between provincial lords called Yokata, who lived in their great stone castles of which towns started to grow from. So this is all in Seten-Yakuta.


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[Assistant] This mirrors the Sengoku period in Japan, where the Emperor was officially the head of state, but his real power was fairly low by comparison to the Shogun.


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[Assistant] So uhm, on Yakuda by the year 609 of the first era, a man named Mansel Sesnit, uh, Sesnit, sorry, had fought for eight years to gain almost, uhm, total control of the Yakudan Empire, and he was called the Elden Yakuda, similar to a shogun, a military dictator.


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[Assistant] Year 617, he was assassinated and replaced by a commoner called Randick Torn. Randick continued the work of Mansell and he introduced new laws that made it so only sword singers may carry swords, distinguishing them from the rest of the population.


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[Assistant] This would be known as Torn Sword Hunt. Now, similar to this in Japan, towards the end of the Sengoku period, there was a lord called Oda Nobunaga. He succeeded in uniting much of Japan, but he too was assassinated, uhm, while he was trapped in a temple, uhm, lit on fire during a coup and he committed seppuku, a ritual suicide.


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[Assistant] I'm very clear there. And uhm, then obviously there's the, there's the book, uhm, comparison of the, the Book of Circles by Frander Hunding and, uhm, uh, the Book of Five Rings by Masashi.


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[Assistant] It's funny because like you have all of those Moroccan aesthetics and stuff and the North African kind of like, um, imagery and architecture and, you know, pulls for bits from the Middle East. But like, if you look at like the foundational part of their, like, Yakuta's history and also their culture, a lot of it's actually rooted in Japanese stuff. I just wanted to-


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[Assistant] And for, and just to clarify, that's like comparing the, um, Pankrato sword technique of the Shi-hai, this massive, big, you know, and say sort of sword singing power that destroy the continent. It's one of the explanations for why, um, it's, uh, and I think it's even so that it's said to be split the atom, isn't it? Or something?


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[Assistant] If those sources are 100% believed, much more similar in stature and size, you know, big green and ugly kind of thing.


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[Assistant] Um, and then therefore they could just be conflated and grouped in with the same thing. Whereas the goblins of today are much smaller and so on, but that's where the pair, like the association came about.


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[Assistant] Perhaps, and I mean, you could also say too, it's like, if the, uh, if the Dwemer didn't disappear like a hundred years beforehand or something, it could have been a different story as well.


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[Assistant] Well, to contextualize to a little bit more so we can sort of start talking about culture more and so on.


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[Assistant] Uh, following along with that history. So the regatta come, they wipe out everything there and they basically carve out this sort of isolationist place. Basically they have new Yakuta.


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[Assistant] You know, a little bit of time goes by, but you do get this sort of uhm,


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[Assistant] Fundamental division in Redguard society between the crowns and the forebears and the easiest way to understand this is


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[Assistant] Is that the crowns are basically the closest things to Yakuda culture and religion, just imported straight in. And the Four Bears is kind of like Yakuda light. It's like they get influenced by a lot of the, um, other empires and stuff, especially during the Second Empire of Riman.


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[Assistant] Uhm, when, uh, they got conquered, uhm,


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[Assistant] We'll talk, when we're talking about the pantheism religion, we'll probably talk more about the crowns because that's more relevant stuff because the forebears is that just, but just with


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[Assistant] You know, some Yakuda namings and flavors and some other parts that, um,


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[Assistant] It's like too, there's that, there's that, uhm, the other thing that's sort of probably, there's probably more like practical reasons too that helped cause a further cultural divide. But the big thing is the forebears are more willing to work with foreign.


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[Assistant] Cause that's the thing too, I've mentioned it in other podcasts too, but it's just like, and I think they should.


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[Assistant] Do we want to talk about, uh, maybe get into the religion and stuff because that obviously religion informs a lot of the cultures and stuff of each of the, uh, places. So I feel like it's easiest to start with the Yakudan sort of, um, belief and then you can kind of, we can talk about forebears as a footnote afterwards.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what's interesting about the Red Guards, uhm, generally, you've


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[Assistant] We've talked about this plenty of times before, but there's the sort of Anuic and Padamaic sort of system of belief, like, you know, generally, you know, it's, it, that reflects their view of the Lorkhanic entity, whatever name that might go by. And also like creation and mortality is kind of a whole, generally whether you see, you know, everything, um,


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[Assistant] Mortality and creation as a, as a trick or some sort of like, you know, great and bountiful thing.


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[Assistant] Well, well, let's start with, you've got, um, so the, uh, Anupatami kind of dichotomy is generally how people understand all of the Elder Scrolls mythology and so on, uh, as a general rule in the Redguard mythology, they kind of see this as, as one, um, being called Satakal and sometimes there's,


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[Assistant] In the text and so on, they will go like Satac, which is kind of like Anu and, um,


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[Assistant] Okay, which is basically his hungry stomach and so on. And that basically makes this snake eat itself over and over and over. And there's all these spirits that exist.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, so he, they, and then Rupka basically, so there's this whole concept of like the soul trade or something and basically being able to survive these different kalpas essentially.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and each time Satokal eats himself and then begins anew. But Ruptgar is surviving and he set the stars and stuff to teach other spirits how to do the same thing. Uhm, but eventually he built out of the detritus of old world skins, he created Sep. Uhm, but Sep had the, uh, was kind of


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[Assistant] It was innately kind of corrupted because of the, uh, hunger of the, of the Satakal's stomach.


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[Assistant] So he then, um, try, he tricked a bunch of other spirits into sort of creating this other world. It's like, oh, this walkabout thing, this sort of, sorry, system of, uh, moving. It's, it's too hard. Let's do this instead. But it was a big trick instead to create Mundus essentially.


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[Assistant] The cool thing there too is the idea that the stick is the adamantine style, like the final like stick. I just really, I love when you have different cultural like ideas about it. I don't know. It's just really cool.


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[Assistant] Interesting, interesting motif too, cause you even have like, um, the, the six walking ways of a sentencing and so on, this sort of idea of steps and movement and so on. I mean, it's literally called the walkabout too. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So, um.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, and then, so, and then we end up with the Yakudin gods that we have, so, so if you were to go to like, the varieties of faith in Tamriel breaks it up, uhm, as the, the eight of the crowns, and you have Satakal, which is the kind of god of everything, the big, the big snake, the Ouroboros essentially, and then you have Riptgar, the big chief deity, and also called Tallpapa, right, and,


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[Assistant] You know what he does? Uhm, he's also, you know, time god kind of stuff. Comparatives, you can compare to Akatosh or Oriel or whatnot.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there is Tuwaka, which is the tricky god, the god of souls.


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[Assistant] Um, and I love this, I don't know why, I just really like this. Tuwaka, before the creation of the world, was the god of nobody really cares. When Tulpapa undertook the creation of the walkabout, Tuwaka found a purpose. He became the caretaker of the Far Shores and helped gods find the way to the afterlife.


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[Assistant] Cause I'm writing the god series, like different videos on like different cultures, gods and stuff now, and an interesting like sort of pick up is that


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[Assistant] Generally, uhm, men own, like, RK as an entity really only appears in, uhm,


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[Assistant] I have worshipping a god that venerates somewhat the cycle of life and death. It's kind of antithetical to the kind of desire for immortality that the elves have, which is strange that the Bosmer actually do have Arkay in their, um,


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[Assistant] Going into more detail on that, but it is just interesting that the, the, the RK, the Tuak or whatever is considered, uh,


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[Assistant] I'm writing the Bosma video now, so I won't say why this is too hard, but there are some interesting things that makes me think, I'm like, are the Bosma even like, Anuic? Or do we just assume because they've imported a lot of Somerset influence or something, but like, if you were to read the Ifri story and their, you know, reverence for creation and so on, like they might say like, oh, Lorcan tricked everything and that's how we all got here.


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[Assistant] But they aren't pissed about it. You know, they're pretty happy with creation as it is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and uhm, next we have Zet, god of farms, which people compare to Zenithar, or something like that. It's not necessarily explicit, but uhm, he's a god of agriculture. Interestingly-


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[Assistant] Just another little tadot to tie on there, but uhm, he, it said that Zett renounced his father, Tall Papa, uhm, after the world was created, and that's why Tall Papa makes it so hard to grow food. So it explains, like, part of the arid land.


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[Assistant] We ne- and then next you have Mawar, the teet god, which is also compared to, uhm, Mara, but Yakudan fertility goddess, fundamental deity in the Yakudan pantheon, and favourite of Tallpapa's wives. She's still worshipped in areas of Hammerfell, including Stross Makai,


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[Assistant] Always portrayed as forearms, so she can grab more husbands. There's also statues of her depen- uhm, depicted with uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, they consider her a universal goddess. She's pretty much in every single pantheon. I find it really interesting that Dibella really is, like, a Nordic origin thing. Like, it's not found in, uh, uhm,


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[Assistant] And what is also, if you, uhm, have a look at it there, there is a, uh, in the Elder Scrolls Online Thieves Guild, uhm, expansion. There is a really cool armor that sort of riffs off like, uhm, the Polish Hussars with the big wings at the back, but using that as like a Tarva thing is really cool. Really? I haven't seen that.


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[Assistant] If you just go to the Tarva US page itself, there's a picture down the bottom.


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[Assistant] But uhm, yeaah. And there's that. But then, now this is where you don't, you actually, the comparisons kind of stop with the crowns. You have Onsi, who is a war god, called the Bone Shaver. Notable warrior god of the Yukina Regata. Onsi taught mankind how to pull their knives into swords. Which I really think is, I love sometimes those like, uh,


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[Assistant] Kinda like historical explanations for things, but if you think about how, if you go back to like Bronze Age or when we humans were working with,


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[Assistant] And uhm, next we have Diagna, or a calc god of the sideways blade, a hoary thuggish cult of red guards that originated in Yakuda during the 27 snakefolk slaughter.


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[Assistant] Which, you know, people have compared to, um, say yes, when you hear snake folk, that's what you think of. But Diagonal was an avatar of the Hoonding, the Yakudan god of Make Way. Uhm, and he was instrumental in defeating the left-handed elves and brought orichalc weapons, like, you know, made of orichalcum to the Yakudans, which helped them win the fight. But what's interesting is,


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[Assistant] More interesting really there to talk about is this Hoonding, which is sort of like a, uh, the Yakudian spirit of perseverance over infidels. And in a way, it's kind of...


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[Assistant] It's like a god, but it doesn't seem as personified because it's personified through the avatars. There seems to be a little, maybe comparative, like you could compare to the Riddletha kind of in the way that it's more like a cosmic energy somewhat, or even in the way that Lorkhan is like,


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[Assistant] There is, uhm, yeaah, it's interesting, so it says, in Tamrielic history, it's only happened three times, twice in the first era during the Regata invasion and once during the Tiber War. In his last incarnation, Hoonding was said to either be a sword or a crown or both. And,


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[Assistant] You know, you, people could think like, ooh, a physical crown, but it could actually be a crown, as in, this is interpreted to be Cyrus, you know, the physical, um, he's part of the crowns fighting against Tiber Septim and with the sword and, um, but yeaah.


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[Assistant] But, but it's a cool, uh, a cool concept. Uhm, there's also Lekki. These are sort of your additional, like, red god cults. Lekki, the daughter of Tall Papa, uhm, uh, goddess of aberrant swordsmanship. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And she's basically, their sword masters were known to be skilled in the best known cuts, apparently, and she likely introduced the ephemeral feint. Basically a sword,


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[Assistant] And then Sep we kinda covered as part of it, but it's, it's Lorcan to in the Yakuza mythology.


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[Assistant] But uhm, yeaah, that's them and if, if we did like to, just to quickly touch on the forebears there, it is essentially the eight divines, like they, you'll go from like Akatosh, they have Stendarr and so on, but they'll call Zenithar Zet or Mara Mwarwar and they added, you know, they've got Dibella and so on.


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[Assistant] Uh, but outside of that, it's pretty, it's just basically more Imperial flavored you could and kind of.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's a bit, uh, it's one of those weird things, like I can't really imagine, like, imagine your village is being, like, attacked by a zombie and you refuse to, like, kill it because it came from, like, the local burial tomb or whatever, and it could be someone you know, you know? Touchdown death. Yeah. I don't know if it goes to that level, but, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, um, Raidguards, um, you know, ebbs and flows and, you know, for gameplay reasons in ESO, magic is, is more prevalent, but, um,


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[Assistant] Generally, Red Guards are supposed to be like, they're not, you know, like you said, not, uh, like they're nords, not too big on magic, and uhm.


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[Assistant] You can kind of see, like, because, you know, they are the absolute martial race, you know, and even their magic, which actually I'm surprised we've gotten this long without talking about it, but.


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[Assistant] Their big magic, their equivalent of their version of the thumb almost is this sword singing, which is this idea that you can manifest a she-hai, which is like a spirit sword from like your very soul. Again, this is through a very meditative kind of introspective process.


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[Assistant] Anyway, it's, it's, it's all fine and like in the same way that like I understand why they have like a physical sort of like, you know, final fantasy looking kind of sword versus, you know, the idea that it's like, like a trail of like mist or blinding light, like you can't really like see it even.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it all, it all, it all fits. But uhm, yeaah. But yeaah, so they're, they're, they're like the, uh, also.


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[Assistant] Well they do, uh, there's some miscellaneous things, apparently they have a great affinity for horses. And they breed horses like the Euclidean Charger. Oh, that reminds me.


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[Assistant] In terms of like, mapping with the stars, and the stars have been important to them, and I like how like, you know, uh, it was said that Ryptka set the stars for the spirits and so on, but the stars are what they obviously used to, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, vans they're navigating forward and that's how they got to win. They've got complex star maps and that's how they got to Hammerfell from Yakuta and so on. And it's just another, like they've got a lot of astrologers, um, and so on there too.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, well he tried to invade too, and they get, so then it's stopped at the Banker I pass.


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[Assistant] I like to think it's even a kind of cool idea that like it did sink, but like the tallest mountain tops became like islands and stuff still like, so they're actually up there like.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I, I, I just recently doing some of the religion things, just a touch on Al Maris there is that like,


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[Assistant] The elves, cause we, like, often that's like presented as like, oh yea, that's what happened, but like, elves may be like far more deluded than you actually think about the reality. Like, I no longer really treat the elven thing as, oh, that's likely what happened or anything like that, cause even the concept of Aldmeris,


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[Assistant] Um, like being like that, like they would, I'm sure would believe it to be a very.


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[Assistant] Throw this, there's a lot of shade thrown around everywhere and a lot of inconsistencies and stuff that you can sort of-


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[Assistant] But uhm, I mean we can like, you know, their architecture is built for the heat and they have like, you know, carefully planned ventilation ducts and so on. Red guards and stuff like that. But basically, you know, they've got like, you know, very Middle Eastern, North African sort of architecture and stuff. Very smart stuff built to survive. Very ornate. Like I, I do, I'm a big fan of that kind of architecture. I like everything a little bit more ornate and


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[Assistant] Well, it's arguably practical, but like less practical stuff. I do like- They have a nice combination of-


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[Assistant] We've done an ideal Elder Scrolls 6 Hammerfell where we basically did heaps of theoretical world building and like sort of map making and stuff.


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[Assistant] Well, the companions have a very long history coming all the way from the events, uh, with Isgrimor and the Night of Tears, so just the background on that is you have the snow elves in Skyrim, and you have the men, and they lived in peace relatively, like some people say, they had problems as well.


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[Assistant] But then one, and the, uhm, humans built a, but they built Sarthal, their first city.


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[Assistant] And then, of course, there was the Night of Tears event where the Snow Elves attacked them and slaughtered them all. Nobody knows exactly why. Some people think it's because they feared the Nords' culture was surpassing their own. Other people think it's because the Nords found the Eye of Magnus beneath Sarthal, which you find in the College of Winterhold storyline in Skyrim.


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[Assistant] And then Isgrimor and his two sons are basically the only survivors. They flee back to Atmora, where they tell of the atrocities that happened in Skyrim, rally a bunch of vengeance-hungry Atmorans to come sail back to Skyrim and exterminate all the elves.


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[Assistant] Well, I guess that's why the people often underestimate the Nords, because they don't have the same, uh, innate arcane talents as a lot of elves. Uhm, or the lifespan and so on, but obviously just based on the, their actions and the outcome, they must be pretty powerful, dangerous foes to deal with. Uhm, you know, I think, I think it's a,


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[Assistant] I think it's a pretty cool thing that uhm, the Nords did split up and you kind of ended up with a lot of the rules and customs that went on to make the companions as we have them today.


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[Assistant] For example, eventually there was a thing called the Circle, which was a, like an Isgramor thing, with his most trusted people. Uhm, and, and that kind of wasn't always there, but then it was brought back at some point.


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[Assistant] By uhm, I think one of the harbingers later. There's been many harbingers throughout the game.


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[Assistant] For sure. Uhm, but anyway, so aside from the Yorvuska ship, there were the other ships. So there was the Kau Kaz, the Krillot Lok, the Fallow Fire, the Satan Wraith.


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[Assistant] And so you have the circle of captains who together decided that each ship's crew should go forth on its own accord and make its own legend.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so obviously some went into the Rift, others went to other places of Skyrim, but that's, that's the spreading out.


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[Assistant] Uhm, then, over hundreds of years later, they kind of became more of an established mercenary group.


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[Assistant] Uhm, in Skyrim, doing different things, still with harbingers, but it wasn't until late second era that the circle, or the, like, the captain circle theme, uh, came back.


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[Assistant] So that, that was with, uhm, Kirinil Longnose. Gathered the true hearts of the companions in the wild. Uhm, well actually that's when he kills the usurpers, isn't it? And becomes Harbinger and then founds the circle. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Just, just for clarity as well, when I talk about usurpers, there was supposedly this long line of dishonorable harbingers that weren't true to the companions' ways. And that's why, uhm, Kirinil Longnose went in and kind of tried to, like,


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[Assistant] But yea, they kind of have these values of honor and never backing down from a fight and things like that, but it can get very vague.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's honor through blood, might is right kind of stuff. You know, you don't want to be seen as like a wuss or a whelp.


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[Assistant] As they like to say. Like, you want to prove yourself to be a strong fighter, but that's kind of it. Like, even in Skyrim, you look at some of the radiant quests they have you do, you can be sent to, uhm, go and beat up


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[Assistant] But, you know, if you don't know the context, then you're just a, a gun and letting someone else pay to pull the trigger. Like you, you know, like it could be, I think I said in my problems with the companions video.


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[Assistant] I don't know, doesn't really feel like honor to me. I understand the main principle of like, not backing down from a fight, you know, they brawl each other and put them, put each other through physical tests and now fight to the death by a shield brother or a shield sister's side. That stuff all stands, that's fine. Uhm, but I think a lot of the


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[Assistant] At least we can gather that from, uhm, Codlux Journal.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and obviously as we know in Skyrim, he is pretty anti-werewolf.


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[Assistant] I mean, he did technically agree to become one. It's not like a magic curse where you just get, oh, turned into a werewolf and didn't expect it. I, I can only assume it must have been in his younger years when he was a mercenary and there was the harbinger, I think, uh, a red guard who, um, picked him up and brought him in kind of.


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[Assistant] Don't quote me on the first part, it's like a low chance that any, uhm, Silverhand member has a book. I think it could be like 10%, 7% chance. But if they do, there's like a 73, I think, basically roughly 3 in 4 chance that that book


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[Assistant] And why would they have that? Like you think about the silver hand in their current state, they're made up of, cause you could be like, oh, you know, Skyrim has lots of Nords, Nords could carry those books about Isgrimor for sure. But then you look and you see the silver hands filled with orcs.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm just saying they have it, and they're obsessed with getting the fragments of Wuthrad, even in the quest where you go in, you go with uhm, it's Farkas, right? You go at the start.


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[Assistant] I always confuse their names together. And then you go in there looking for a fragment of Wuthrad because you're tipped off about where it is and the silver hand are waiting for you. That could be a trap that they could set without there actually being a fragment of Wuthrad there. There was no reason for there to actually be one there if it was just a trick.


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[Assistant] And you'll notice that all of the quests involve going and hunting down these fragments of Wuthrad, which they have, and when they finally do, I mean spoilers, but I'm sure you've all played the companions, when they finally do assault Jorvaskar,


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[Assistant] And Kodlak dies. They don't seem to kill anyone else. They quickly escape.


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[Assistant] It does feel silly though, I mean, I understand it just from a cultural perspective, but like, even the new age companions versus the silver hand, if we're saying that they are,


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[Assistant] Real, you know, likers of, or lovers of Isgram or they all want it too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that really, that's the similarities. Interestingly enough, it seems like a lot of the problems that the Companions Guild has run into


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[Assistant] Actually do stem from them using this kind of Isgramor centric view of authority. Like there's this whole idea that the Harbinger isn't actually like a dictator. He's not a leader who says, no, we do it like this. The Harbinger actually serves as like an advisor.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, like a lot of people would say, you know, if Cod lacks in control and he doesn't like the werewolf stuff, why doesn't he just get Skjor and Aayla and the rest of the circle to not make the player a werewolf and to stop doing this stuff?


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[Assistant] He doesn't have control over it. All he does is give advice, but he, they have this, they, they, they focus on free will. If you look into their kind of some of their concepts, it's very much like where the circle, they serve as role models of like good warriors to everyone else, but the harbinger can't actually be like,


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[Assistant] I agree, I mean, you look at every faction in the game, they all have their leader who kind of, at the end of the day, has that veto, call the shots, uhm, power, but if it's all, you know, wazzy, woozy, whatever,


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[Assistant] You can get away with a lot. I mean, if you, like, there's a book, uhm, in Skyrim and the Elder Scrolls Online called Great Harbingers of the Companions, uhm, and it says the companions have never had a true leader since Isgrimor, uhm,


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[Assistant] In the thousands of years the companions have held at Yorveskar, there have been harbingers, both terrible and brilliant, those known for their arm, those for their hearts, and those for their minds.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so you can see they, they almost feel like more of a greatly respected mediator as opposed to someone with like, you know, the stick to be like, nah, if, if they disagree with something.


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[Assistant] Like the Dark Brotherhood have honor in their code, in the sense that they follow their code.


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[Assistant] But the companions don't have a code. They kind of, they kind of protect Skyrim and her people, in a way.


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[Assistant] I mean, like, you know, that it's their job to go out and like, besides the beat up a thug. Yeah, but they go out and they, and they, they, um, deal with giants and threats and things like that, but it's. Yeah. But if you're not going to pay them, they're not.


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[Assistant] I suppose, but I'll just play devil's advocate here and say that nothing's free, just in the sense of like, they gotta eat. It's not like you go into Yoruba score and they're like all walking around with gold chains and like they're all like cashed out. Like they're not exactly, so it could be like kind of like monks where it's like,


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[Assistant] Or not monks, but just imagine they're paid like an extremely low amount compared to like a proper mercenary. I'm not saying this is the case, I'm just saying it could be. Uhm, just because they don't seem to be drowning in wealth.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think at the end of the day, their loyalty is just to themselves. Like they really will sacrifice themselves for each other, but that's about it.


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[Assistant] If you go and ask the companion members, because there's a dialogue option, you can say, why are you here? They all have different reasons. Ranging from, I just love the lifestyle of fighting stuff, to I like collecting coin and drinking. Like, they all have different reasons for being there.


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[Assistant] What they're like, you know, uhm, those two seem to be at odds for whatever reason they have.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but you'll notice all those people are quite rude to you throughout the companion's questline as well. Which just makes it feel like there's definitely not a, uh, an atmosphere of honor.


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[Assistant] Or like respect, like for example, when you first join, you could be like, okay, fine. Everyone's going to call me a whopper, whatever. It's not, it's not built to, um, understand your achievements so far, which is a flaw in of itself.


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[Assistant] But as you progress, you're in the circle, you're a werewolf, like you're almost a harbinger. They still don't respect you. When you finally become a harbinger,


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[Assistant] It's almost like they're a bit neutral. Like they never, they're never like giving you a lot of, a lot of reverence. They can be friendly at the end, but all up until then, not really.


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[Assistant] They love it, like Skor and Aayla specifically, they absolutely love it, and you can tell that they're not exactly looking out for the safety of, uhm, Whiterun, or Skyrim and her people. When, uhm, they turn you into a werewolf, you go absolutely nuts, like in theory, like, we know in the lore, like, werewolf bloodlust can cause you to kill.


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[Assistant] And then she's like, it's time for a celebration. And I mean, if you think about it, like, you know, I appreciate Aayla as much as the next Skyrim fan does, but if you be objective, she's a bit of a crazy narcissist. Like, she, uh, one of the quotes she says is she's like, oh, don't turn into a werewolf around other people.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it's not because, oh, because of bloodlust or because you might scare them, it's because that they can't, like, uhm, stand the side of glory before their eyes or some reason like that and it's like, really?


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[Assistant] Like, okay, and then, you know, you go and skill dies and she's all upset and it's like, well, you are assaulting, the silver hand, uh,


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[Assistant] Whether you're a pro or anti-werewolf, he says, mm, it's more complex than that. Like he keeps referring to...


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[Assistant] This deeper nuance that obviously he never goes into heaps of detail about, but it does make all the silver hand theories ring true about them being a kind of separatist group.


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[Assistant] I just want to clarify it because there seems to be a lot of confusion and I'll get your opinions on it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's this whole idea that Kodlak is dying from a disease.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so he, yeaah, like that's, he's like waning in power and dying from disease. I think it's the prima game guide for Skyrim, which pretty much no one has. But it's saying like, Kodlak is like, has the rot, this disease, the rot, and he's like, diminishing or whatever.


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[Assistant] I can't, I can't prove that. But, but, to me, the only evidence I'm pretty sure that I could see of it in Skyrim is in his journal, where he says, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's apparent to me now that Turfig's choice to turn us was indeed a mistake. Magix and their ilk are not in keeping with the spirit of the companions. We face our problems directly, without the needs of such trickery.


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[Assistant] I can only hope to guide us back to the true path of Isgrimor before the rot takes me. But when I read that, my take was like, that's just his way of saying before I die of old age. Like the rot, I'm dying of old age. But yeah, I'm fairly sure in the Prima game guide, they like more mention it like he has a disease.


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[Assistant] Like, cause another reason I don't like it is they're meant to have like a disease immunity as a werewolf. That's why it's like extra, extra silly to me, but if I just find a disease...


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[Assistant] Oh, I mean, he refers to, uhm, in dialogue, being a werewolf as a disease, but where is this?


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[Assistant] I-I-Rot, I'm like, Ctrl-F-Rot, yeaah.


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[Assistant] In, this is just from, from US, but it's like, in the year 200, Kodlak contracted the rot and his condition had rapidly diminished. He became weak in body and his frustration showed, taking to locking himself behind closed doors, pouring over old documents desperate to cure himself of lycanthroids.


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[Assistant] I dunno, but yea, it says he has some disease, but it's like, I dunno. I feel like in his diary he just meant I'm getting old and I wanna fix this so that I can go to Sovngarde before death takes me, before the rot takes me, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah. That was my take anyway. That's my headcanon. The companion story requires a lot of headcanon sometimes.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you what, I fully agree, and same when you go back and look at some of our earliest builds, which to be fair were filmed on a 360, but for the video I did recently about exploring one of Skyrim's unsolved mysteries with the Temple of Scrib, which everyone should go check out, nice video, that has, um,


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[Assistant] The graphics for that, I checked vanilla skyrim just to check some, some stuff cause we have a lot of mods and I wanted to make sure everything I'm saying was legit.


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[Assistant] By the way, to get vanilla Skyrim, you need a link to it, like you can't search it on Steam, like if you want to buy 2011, I don't just mean unmodded Skyrim, I mean if you want to buy 2011 OG Skyrim on Steam, you need a link. Anyway, I bought it, and uhm,


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[Assistant] The graphics were better than I remember and I wondered if it was because I'm running it on like obviously a 2020 kind of PC with like a good graphics card and all these optimized. If you're running it on ultra and everything compared to the 360. It looks a lot better than some of the old, um, original Skyrim screenshots like you'll see on the wiki. Like it looks much better. I'm not saying it looks...


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[Assistant] Obviously special edition is a big upgrade. It is.


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[Assistant] But having run original Skyrim now on a really good PC, I was kind of like, oh, I kind of relate a little bit more to that crowd who was saying when special edition came out, like, oh, what? It's just like the tiniest upgrade. I'm like, yeah, obviously it's better. Yeah. But like they're, um.


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[Assistant] It does look way better than you remember is basically my point when you run it on a solid PC and not think back to our Xbox 360 days.


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[Assistant] Kodlak was found in Hammerfell when he was working as a mercenary by Asghar, the current harbinger of that time, who maybe wasn't, uhm, a redguard like I thought he might be, but the thing my confusion came from, there was Siroc the Lofty. So this was the first harbinger to be, to not be of ancestral Atmoran blood.


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[Assistant] Um, so this is kind of when all the disputes about purity and the legacy of Isgrimor came in, because Siroc eventually became...


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[Assistant] Harbinger by proving his worth, like he was just so good of a warrior. One of the most, he was the most capable of the shield brothers in the hall, with speed and cunning surpassing any of the old at more in stock.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I guess he kinda set the precedent. Uhm, and also contributed a lot, says his field knowledge of bladework continues to pass to every new companion through their training.


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[Assistant] So you can see around where some of the divergence would have happened if you just look at the list of harbingers and then the


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[Assistant] I think though, that, I mean, giving credit where credit's due.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the saving grace of the companions, like we'll take it for granted now, but you became a werewolf. And as much as I don't like that you were forced to be a werewolf, and that essentially after one, I think, main quest, like not including, not including radiant quests, you became a member of the circle. But uhm, that was so cool, because we'd never had so much fun like that before.


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[Assistant] Like so, I was thinking back on what I was saying about being a werewolf, like, or a werecreature. Cause I'm, yeaah, I'm fairly sure you can do that in dagger 4.


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[Assistant] They may as well have been flying because they're so good at sailing and they're so strong. I mean, that'd be the perfect cardio for any warrior. It's like, yeah, I literally rode a boat here from Atmora. They're strong.


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[Assistant] But anyway, I don't have too much else to say about the companions. I think everything that I would say, I would probably keep for the next podcast, which is going to be an Elder Scrolls 6 discussion on factions. We can talk about some of the flaws with all the factions and talk about what we would want from new factions in Elder Scrolls 6. Yeah. All right. Thank you so much for watching.


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[Assistant] Well I will say this, it's a guild that everybody takes for granted, but uh, things with magic were not always so accessible. You know, I think everyone just-


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[Assistant] doesn't appreciate just how good it is that you can walk into a city and there's your fighters guild and a majors guild and magic is this thing that's open to the public you can buy spells you can learn about different schools of magic


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[Assistant] And the mages guild, they're also involved with alchemy often, like you can learn alchemy from them and buy different ingredients or pois- poisons or potions.


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[Assistant] Um, but things were not always so accessible. Magic used to be a thing for the few. For the elite. Uh, until one man who we'll talk a lot about, Vernus Galerion, decided to change that. But I guess we'll take things all the way back. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And scientists were often like philosophists as well and they had this really like broad way of thinking about the world and trying to discover, you know, things about planets and space and all this kind of stuff. And then nowadays, you know, it's very like separated into like I'm this type of scientist and like here are the different


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[Assistant] Schools of science perhaps, and like we don't really focus on philosophy as much. You can kind of see that with the Mages Guild in a way.


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[Assistant] That they obviously enhanced magic in the sense that they, they made it more accessible and they made it safer by kind of giving you strict guidelines on this is how you cast this spell, it belongs to this school, here's how to learn it and so on.


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[Assistant] At the cost, there's like a rigidity cost, you know, like it's, it's much more rigid, there's less experimentation, unless you're uhm, some kind of high level wizard who goes out and experiments on your own, uhm,


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[Assistant] As far as like the lower tier mages go, it's very like, buy the books, this is how you do it. And regulated. And regulated as well on top of it, uhm, in terms of just laws, as in, for example, you're not allowed to do necromancy, uhm, in some contexts.


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[Assistant] I think a really interesting thing, this is a bit random, but I had a-


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[Assistant] A memory from Oblivion which made me think of the kind of restrictions with magic because


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[Assistant] As we'll talk about, there was necromancy restrictions, right, which was quite controversial when that all happened. However, you can see through the quest, uh, I think it's called Fingers of the Mountain. I know that's what the spell in the book is called. But that's an example in Oblivion where a destruction spell,


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[Assistant] He's kinda just like, banned, or it's not really meant to be there.


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[Assistant] And there's this high elf, uh, her name is Irana.


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[Assistant] And she's been kicked out of the guild before and the guild leader there kind of thinks like, oh, she's a scavenger. She's got no respect for the power of the arcane arts. Uh, whereas to her, she just thinks he's a bit of a control freak and try to control all the power he can. But if you help her, you actually get this, this secret kind of like spell tome.


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[Assistant] And you learn how to cast this crazy strong destruction spell.


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[Assistant] Uhm, which just does shock damage in an area radius and it's really powerful.


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[Assistant] It just makes me think of how, you know, you can imagine them, like, nerfing a lot of things, like, oh, no, you can't have that spell because, uh, it's just too strong.


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[Assistant] You had to get a recommendation from every single guild hall first which was cool. Just going back to what I was saying about that quest, I actually found the quote about the Finger of the Mountain book that the


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[Assistant] I trust that as a member of the guild you would do the right thing and acquire this text before Irana does. Are we clear? And like...


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[Assistant] You know what I mean, you can literally then go to the arcane university and make a more powerful spell that does the same thing at a more efficient magicka cost. Nobody bats an eye.


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[Assistant] But uh, I think that's more of like a gameplay thing. I think in the lore, the finger of the mountain spells are supposed to be super deen.


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[Assistant] The old ways, the old ways are quite interesting. Cause it's another term used to refer to mysticism in general.


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[Assistant] Elder Scrolls Online, sorry, I was gonna say Elder Scrolls Online made Mano Marco's descent into studying necromancy really cheesy though.


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[Assistant] I remember doing this whole like quest walkthrough for when I was doing the video on flesh magic and you see like old uhm, you know when they show the projections?


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[Assistant] Like the magic projections, yeaah. And you see him talking and it ends up getting very like muahahaha type. Yeaah. I am going to be evil.


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[Assistant] At one point it was banned by the guild, but they just turned a blind eye to it.


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[Assistant] It's like decriminalizing something bad. It's like, I mean, even in the College of Winterhold, right? People can do necromancy and cause it's, you know, it's, it's allowed. It's just like, it's just whatever. There's, there's no like super dark twisted connotation to it. Like there is when you play oblivion.


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[Assistant] I mean, you can't even get, uh, reanimation spells, which makes it all the more cool when you do get, uh, the staff, uh, after killing Manamaka, which you- the staff of worms.


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[Assistant] I guess, I guess if it's consensual, then it could, it could be okay. Like, you know, the dark elves, they bring back ancestor spirits to advise them or to give updates to, and the ancestor spirit's happy to go through whatever unpleasant pain is associated with coming back into the mortal world.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because they love their family. You could have a similar thing like donating your body for science, but it's for magic. But I guess the way you could do it...


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[Assistant] The reason it's immoral is because it causes pain because you start messing with souls and spirits of the deceased and the cycle of life and death and their journey to the afterlife and all that kind of stuff, right?


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[Assistant] There is this text which I don't like, but, you know, you could say it's a different way of, uh, reanimating, uh, a body or a skeleton or whatever, but they talk about infusing it with a minor Daedric essence.


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[Assistant] Uhm, when, when doing necromancy, and I suppose if someone chose to donate their body, then their spirit has already gone to the afterlife, and then the, the physical body was reanimated for research purposes using some kind of Daedric essence, then perhaps that would pass the morality test in Tamriel.


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[Assistant] Well, this is the thing. It's all just whatever categories, you know, when does it become necromancy and when is it conjuration? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Like for example, soul trapping a mortal soul into a soul gem is kinda like conjuration, but it's, I mean you can soul trap in oblivion actually.


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[Assistant] It's totally different feel. And I mean, even the advantages, like this is the thing that ended up happening when the Mages Guild was made. Originally there was a lot of protest and, you know, all kinds of different individuals were against it, but what people realized was, was that having a Mages Guild in your city actually brought a lot of benefit. You know, it's like,


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[Assistant] Imagine you have like a, you choose to let a bunch of computer geeks set up shop, and then every time your PC breaks, you're kinda like, well,


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[Assistant] You're the city computer guild, fix my PC please. So there's, there's benefits. They would help with anything relating to the arcane. If something, if some necromancer was out the city, they could investigate it. They could have potions and things for people in the city to use if necessary. It's not, I'm not saying it's free, like they just.


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[Assistant] Because it would just be the, it would just be the priests before, I assume. Like the chapel, you'd have priests there that know some restoration magic. But it's a whole different ballgame when you've got, you know, eight different mages who, who can cast fireballs, even just as a extra defense in case of...


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[Assistant] Invasion or anything like that. Of course, on the flip side, there's the whole idea that as being part of the Mages Guild with certain enemies, you can bring, uhm, hardship upon the town. I mean, for example, look at the Bruma Mages Guild being burnt down in the Elder Scrolls for Oblivion.


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[Assistant] That would be quite scary if you lived in Bruma and you'd be like, oh, these, these damn majors bringing trouble to our city, you know? Uhm, or even like experiments going wrong. Like you, I mean, look at the College of Winterhold and the whole idea that they caused the collapse there. Yeah. Uhm, that people, you know, theorize that it was their fault.


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[Assistant] I mean that's, that's a bad look, and you can imagine those kinds of vibes on a smaller scale existing in different cities where the mages give


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[Assistant] College of Whispers are the more kind of open group who would talk to Daedra and do things like that and I mean I don't know how canon this is but I imagine the Synod are more like heavy into like


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[Assistant] I mean, just what we've seen with different quests and finding powerful artifacts and studying, you know, things like the Eye of Magnus, uhm, that's their way that they would acquire new knowledge and information, whereas you get the impression the College of Whispers would just


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[Assistant] Summon a Daedra and say, hey, how does this work? I do some ritual to bind you to force you to tell me or something like that.


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[Assistant] So, you wouldn't be fond of seeing wizards cast fireball spells when you can remember Dramora casting them at you, nor would you be fond of them summoning the creatures that you saw pour out of oblivion gates. Like, don't summon a scamp. I saw a scamp, you know, come and try and kill people that I care about.


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[Assistant] All that kind of stuff, uh, would just make magic extremely unpopular. I can't think of any type of magic.


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[Assistant] And even the other types of magic that aren't really related to Daedra, but like illusion, who wants that around as a non-magic user? I don't want someone to come up to me and make me like them or feel a certain way because of a spell, it's weird.


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[Assistant] But uhm, isn't that kinda worse in a way? I know this sounds really weird, but what would you rather? People have the ability to summon a Daedric creature, which essentially, just hear me out,


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[Assistant] Is just, uh, a different manifestation of raw power, right? Like why is that different to someone casting electric bolts or fireballs, right? It's something that will do-


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[Assistant] Yeah, like look at the way that Veemina, uhm, was trying to influence King Emrik in the Elder Scrolls Online with these nightmares and trick him into making decisions that would make the Covenant fall apart. Like, illusion is arguably just as bad. Arguably there.


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[Assistant] But arguably making it more accessible is what made the problem, right? Like even if it was super elitist and in the hands of the few, those few didn't tend to run around the streets casting frenzy or charm spells on people.


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[Assistant] Hammerfell could be a really good place for that. Yeah. Uh, because Hammerfell, like Red Guards have often been quite distrustful of magic. Uhm, they particularly don't, like they-


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[Assistant] There's been different periods of time where they're more accepting, but generally speaking, they don't like conjuration and they absolutely hate necromancy.


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[Assistant] So much so that they dislike a group called the Ashaba who hunt the undead and hunt down necromancers who are a threat to Redguard society. So even though they're helping, they're kind of like, uuuh, like you're involved, you're just involved with something that, you know, is involved with the corrupting of life and death.


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[Assistant] Go check out- go check out our ideal Hammerfell video. You'll- you'll like it. And also check out my centaurs video I mentioned earlier. It's a whole video on centaurs.


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[Assistant] Having the Majors Guild around though, it did add a lot of really interesting characters and cool memories because each leader had their own way of running things in their guild hall and like a different


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[Assistant] A different vibe, a different personality to the place. I mean, I can remember in Chadenhall, the guy who was secretly a necromancer was the leader there.


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[Assistant] And like, you can just remember different stories from different places.


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[Assistant] Does it ever just hit you that we're actually getting an Elder Scrolls 6? I don't know why, it's such a concept, but then I was just sitting there and I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm imagining I've just started the game and I'm on the map. Yeah. Open up the map and I can see like, places. I don't know, it's just like, making it real in my head.


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[Assistant] It's sad because I can feel that with cyberpunk too. I mean, we won't get off topic, but I heard the music yesterday and it took me back to this split second reality where my anticipations weren't ruined yet and I'm like, oh yeah, this is gonna be a really good game.


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[Assistant] So anything else to say about the mage's guild? I can definitely say the whole crisis with Umbriel didn't help too, on top of, I don't think we mentioned that, on top of the oblivion crisis and, you know, the distrust of magic in general and all things arcane.


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[Assistant] Especially early days setting it all up, having a group of kind of knights, like the lamp knights.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, basically hired guards, so that if the mage's guild is traveling through dangerous areas, you've got some beefy defense. Especially if you've got some noobs that don't actually know a whole lot about magic yet, that they're walking around in wizard robes, you're kind of a bit of a target.


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[Assistant] Mages Guild in Whiterun in Elder Scrolls Arena.


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[Assistant] That's basically the only way to have a mage character long term who doesn't feel a bit-


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[Assistant] You don't even need to use the spells in your playstyle at the end of it, if you don't want to.


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[Assistant] Doesn't Hannibal, this is a bit random, Hannibal Traven, uhm, he basically offs himself with a ring. I think it's the ring of immolation, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is really weird. Search results returning absolutely nothing on Ring of Immolation. That's what I remember it being called.


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[Assistant] But yeaah. It's so weird that I can't find it though, like the item page online. He definitely does it because I would like... No, I know he does it. I swear he does it.


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[Assistant] Nothing is showing anything. I've got oblivion, traven ring, I've got ring of immolation, oblivion, nothing.


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[Assistant] Alright. Anyway, I suppose that is everything we have to say today about the Mages Guild. Thank you everyone for tuning in. As always, social media links in the description as is a link to our Patreon and merch if you want to support the channel and we look forward to noting out with you again very soon.


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[Assistant] I, I actually quite like, uhm, Morrowind's iron armor. I, it's, it's a bit tin can, like a tin can robot-y, but I like that. It just feels a little bit more alien and a bit more special. Uh, Oblivion's iron armor is a bit,


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[Assistant] I mean, there's nothing wrong with it. It's nothing great. And with Skyrim, I think that it's hard for me to be objective because I've seen the Dragonborn so many times. And uhm, I'm kinda over it, to be honest.


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[Assistant] That's, that's something you have to give Skyrim some credit for is they actually had


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[Assistant] Because we're always asking for more armor variants in the next Elder Scrolls game. Skyrim actually did have a fair few. Uhm, not, you know, not a whole ton, but it was there. I'd love to see a lot more, but more than, uhm, Oblivion for example, like, I think a good example of that is looking at Steel.


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[Assistant] Oh, funnily enough on a side note, I actually watched some armor comparison videos before this podcast.


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[Assistant] And I noticed that a lot of the armors in Skyrim actually look less kind of, uhm,


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[Assistant] Um, if you actually see them in like a middle weight or even a mid to lower end weight, they don't look as, um, over the top. But let's talk about steel. Let's talk about steel. What do I think about steel? I have to say, if I'm not including steel plate from Skyrim, um, I'm a big fan of Oblivion's set.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's, it's very nostalgic for me. I like the classic vibe and I think if you're gonna have a really classic vibe with any armor set, Steel is a good one to have.


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[Assistant] I think pick first, and then we'll decide if whatever we pick is better than Steel Plate.


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[Assistant] I mean, I can really see like, uh, I don't know if it would be fair to say a Dark Souls vibe in the Morrowind Steel. It's just, it's just something a bit, a bit different.


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[Assistant] For me, Steel Armor in Morrowind is, obviously it's different to Iron Armor in Morrowind, but it has that same energy, I guess, in the sense that you're the tin can man.


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[Assistant] It is really cool. And I must say I was not really a fan of leather armor in either, um, Oblivion or Skyrim. I would say I like it more in Oblivion. It's without the helmet. I really, and that's a trend we'll see with Oblivion is that some of the helmets are a bit


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[Assistant] Not my favorite. So I probably would give it to Oblivion over Skyrim. And there's some, definitely some Thieves Guild nostalgia there for me. Like for sure.


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[Assistant] I don't know if everyone shares this opinion, but one of the reasons I didn't like Skyrim's leather was not because it didn't stand out. It was actually because it, for me, it popped off the body a little bit too much.


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[Assistant] Uhm, which might be realistic potentially in terms of...


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[Assistant] I, uh, it is nice. I, I actually think I would go with Skyrim in this case. Yeah. Um, yeah, as you said, I really liked the variants. I had some really cool characters who used fur. Um,


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[Assistant] I just, I just like it. It has more of that kind of rugged look. Oblivion's looks too...


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[Assistant] Uhm, for me at least. I can appreciate it, but like it's too like...


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[Assistant] Like it looks almost like uhm, you know, if they didn't have weapons and they wasn't always bandits wearing it and they didn't have the shield on, you could almost imagine it like some skull kind of group if you chuck the hood on it or something like that. Like it's not.


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[Assistant] And just in terms of variants, I actually, as much as I love making a cool barbarian character, you know, with their bare chest out, swinging their sword, I actually do like Skyrim's fully covered variant of the fur armor and you can really dress it up, you know, you can put like the


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[Assistant] I know this is not what we're ranking, but you can put the kind of Stormcloak bear helm on top.


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[Assistant] With the Stormcloak, Officer boots and gauntlets, with the full set of fur, and it's just, it's just nice, that anyone


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[Assistant] Have you seen the Skywind bone mould with the fur wraps and stuff?


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[Assistant] Oh my, it is, it is so, so cool. Uhm, I'll just, I'll just send it to you. I'll just send it to you. I'm like 95% sure it's from Skywind. If it's from somewhere else, I apologize.


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[Assistant] M-Morrowind's one's cool, I just really- like, I would use this Skywind one. Yeah. Uh, for- for a build. Yeah. Or something. It's funny, it almost has a bit of a Sith- a Sith vibe to it, you could give it a lightsaber and-


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[Assistant] I feel like you could see that on carbon or something.


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[Assistant] Tricky because of the graphics, I think, uhm, makes it a bit difficult. Like, in Morrowind, you...


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[Assistant] I actually don't think Morrowind, ugh, wins for me just because it's, it's so intense, like the boots are these mess, it's very, very anime looking.


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[Assistant] It's so hard for me. Cause there's actually, uhm, there's elements from each armor set that I like more. For example, I really like, uhm, the shield in Oblivion. Yeaah. I really think the shield's nice.


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[Assistant] I think, I think that would be fair to say. Like, I really like the Oblivion one.


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[Assistant] Um, but I understand what the two of you are saying about it and I kind of agree. But I think aesthetically it's really cool. I'd rate it above the Morrowind one. I like them all, but for me the Morrowind one would definitely be on the lower end because it's makeshift.


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[Assistant] The Skyblivion dwarven is cool as well. It's very, very smooth looking, uhm, but I like it still.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think you're gonna get vetoed at all.


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[Assistant] Maybe it was related to Orcs or something. Maybe I'm, maybe I'm wrong because I think the conversation was actually about Oblivion's Orcish versus Skyrim. I think it was. We talked about Morrowind's one, but I like Morrowind's one.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the most. But then I would actually put Skyrim's second just because I-


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[Assistant] I don't know man, I just love that big, brutish, orc vibe that it has. Uhm, I know Oblivion's helmet definitely kills it for me. Yeah. Uhm, and also the fact that the orcs were super cartoonishly green when you see one wearing it, it just looks a bit, you know, shrek-y. But Morrowind's does actually win for me.


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[Assistant] Alright, Morrowind. Now we move on to Kite and Armor.


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[Assistant] Kaidan armor is... Yeah, there's none in Oblivion. It's cool in all games. Uhm, weirdly, I am actually very fond of Skyrim's Kaidan look. I do like it. But I feel like the graphics can carry it a lot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, Morrowinds is more like, you really look like you're wearing kaiten like something.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think I'm gonna go with Skyrims, though I wish it was a little sleeker. Even the heavy set, like just a little- I mean, it's one of those-


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, me too. If we're actually moving onto, uh, elven armor, I guess that's when we have to say that that's not really in Morrowind.


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[Assistant] Can I, can I interject here and say, when you said strong consensus, I was expecting Skyrim. Okay, no. I'm, I'm a big, I'm a big Skyrim fan. Mind you, there is also the light armor variant in Skyrim.


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[Assistant] Um, not that it's particularly cool because it's missing the, the, the pauldrons, which are, you know, really nice.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, I really like Skyrims, I like the, it depends what photo you're looking at, like different shots of it can obviously look a different way and it is hard to separate Oblivion's, you know, uhm,


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[Assistant] I actually do like both of them and it does depend if you're playing a male or a female in Oblivion. Uhm, because the Karas is quite different. And the male one has these lines across.


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[Assistant] Um, obviously not as, like, as large. The elven one's just so, like, rounded. It stands out a lot. Yeah, it stands out a fair bit on both. Like, I like that Skyrim's, sorry, Oblivion's mayor one has this kind of layered, um, lines kind of going diagonal, um, in Oblivion's, but I still think I would give it to Skyrim.


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[Assistant] I wanna give points to Morrowind's, uhm, Morrowind's look. Cause it's, just feels very, part of me likes the blocky kind of look if I imagine it translated into like a,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, I know in Skyrim, I definitely prefer the light, the light version. I think it's really nice. Um, especially with the furs and stuff around the shoulder area.


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[Assistant] I think in Skyrim and Morrowind, Starrim is a very over the top armor. Like it looks almost a bit robotic in Morrowind and in Skyrim it still looks almost like a, I'm the ice superhero character. Like it's very,


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[Assistant] So you like the, the heavy one in Skyrim with the horns coming out? Cause I actually like the horns going up and down. It makes me think of the death brand kind of setup where you get the full armor and the two scimitars and just start slicing. I can't. Yeah, I'm leaning more Skyrim's way now.


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[Assistant] I think there is something to say about Morrowinds as far as it being kind of, uhm, enhanced into new graphics and the shield in Morrowind is, is quite interesting. It feels very like, classic.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's got, it's got this almost like magical look to it. You know, it looks like a piece, like it could be on an amulet if it was small. It's like a little, almost like it would reflect magic maybe.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think you're right. Cause that is cool. Yeah, that is. Cause remember- Yeah, nah, that's true. That's cool. I like that.


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[Assistant] That's, that's, that's fair. Yeah, uhm. It's the light, it's the light variant that sells it to me as well.


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[Assistant] I mean, I can go. You go, go, go. Let me hear you. So I'll just go through each one as I, as I talk about it. So Morrowind's Ebony.


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[Assistant] Is cool. It's obviously like the older armors, it has that.


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[Assistant] If we're looking at the female armor variant, it doesn't look super practical. If you're talking about Boomba, that's the armor stuff.


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[Assistant] I suppose it's not fair for me to say Skyrim but with gold trim because the reality is it doesn't have gold trim and we have to base it off what's there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but then what's, what's your beef with Morrowinds then? Because that has a closed helmet and it's just stylistically like Morrowind if you enhance that. Yeah, I guess theoretically but there's something


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[Assistant] I think there's too much silver on it, cause the legs and parts of the arms and body piece aren't like jet black, you know?


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[Assistant] Uh, Oblivion's a bit, I'll send an image to you too that I think looks really cool. Cause all the images that come up are of Umbra. Uhm, but this just looks a bit thicker. It's just some, I don't know, male warrior character. That looks pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Anyway, alright, we'll give that one to a blooper. Skyrims is just still really cool. I just wish it had some gold trim.


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[Assistant] I guess we could talk about glass armor next. And we've, we've got a bone to pick with Skyrim's glass armor for going against probably what glass armor should look like. It just looks a bit too elven with green tinned.


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[Assistant] What do you think of the oblivion gloss armor that I sent in the chat? Uhm.


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[Assistant] I like Oblivion still. Again, I don't like the helmet. Uhm, but I do like Skyrim's the least, I'd say. Even though it's, it's, it's fine, it's just, it, conceptually I don't like that that's glass armor.


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[Assistant] Well, I guess the thing is though, if you look at Skyrim glass weapons, uhm, they look a bit more like glass. A little bit, like still, it still has the armor look, but.


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[Assistant] To me at least, like especially things like the battle axe and stuff. I can imagine it.


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[Assistant] Glass. And it went to Morrowind. Morrowind. Easily. Daedric!


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[Assistant] I think Oblivion would rank the worst for me when I take the nostalgia goggles off and I think Daedric can easily be given to Morrowind with all the variants and again, it's similar to the glass. It's that super iconic looking.


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[Assistant] It's, it's just nice still, you know, I like as well that it wasn't as, um, bright crimson and red as Oblivion's armor, like it was more of a dark look with the red kind of glow under each piece that was smithed together.


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[Assistant] Yeah, same. I'm curious, what, what don't you like about, uhm, Skyrim's one compared to Oblivion's? Because Oblivion's to me is just a bit like, uh, overlordy? Is that, is that-


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[Assistant] That is an interesting point actually, because I...


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[Assistant] I think for me in my head that a Dramora wearing something more like Oblivion's Daedric makes sense than like a bunch of like with the full helm from Skyrim or running around or wear a Dramora cause you can't. You know, I definitely like the Dramora idea.


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[Assistant] The legend's armor is definitely changing my mind. There's actually a few...


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[Assistant] Although, there is actually some, uh, Legends armor wearing, sorry, Legends art, wearing Daedric armor that's more like Skyrims, but without the helmet, and it does look cool. I'll just, I'll just send it, see what you think.


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[Assistant] I think Morrowind would take it for me no matter what, even if it was just one helmet, but I think we can all agree that Morrowind


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[Assistant] As it is. So let's talk about some dragon made armors, dragon scale.


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[Assistant] And you wouldn't believe it for Morrowinds? No, I think- If that's an Amaset from He-Man?


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[Assistant] Cause I just realised there's a modded Morrowind one that looks really like, I would say that wins, but if we're looking at, I just want to make sure we're looking at the same vanilla. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I dunno, like.


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[Assistant] But, but, but that's not even, again, yeaah, it's just, it's just two pieces of armor, the rest of the body's not. It's hard to say, cause you're not looking at a full set of armor.


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[Assistant] I just don't know if we can give that to Morrowind if they don't have a full- like it's- like you could find a-


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[Assistant] I dunno, it would be like using saviour's hide as Skyrim's fur. I know that's different because it's a Daedric artifact, I'm just trying to get across that it's one piece. It's the only comparison, it's two pieces. Well the helmet, but the helmet is only around the bottom. Look, if you put it this way, if I took the gauntlets


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[Assistant] The cuirass is better in Morrowind, yea.


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[Assistant] I can agree that the actual pieces there are quite nice, especially the chest plate. It's just...


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[Assistant] It's not a full set, it's missing a lot, and it's not like Skyrim where uhm, the middle piece of your armor you wear actually goes down over your thighs, because remember in Skyrim they didn't have greaves anymore, so it really feels incomplete to me when I, when I see it.


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[Assistant] But the stuttered dragon scale is not dragon armor, it's a few bits, isn't it? Like the whole, like, stomach covering, that's just some...


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[Assistant] Well, what do you think? Cause I don't really have a strong opinion. I just think that if the Morrowind one was more, um, complete, I'd probably pick it. Look, I think if you were.


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[Assistant] Pretty like, except Scott are pretty impartial about it.


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[Assistant] But it's, it's greaves and the whole, the whole legs. It's not, it's not just boots and gauntlets, it's greaves and arms.


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[Assistant] Surely Morrowind is just gonna win.


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[Assistant] I guess something as well to clarify because I know you wanted to talk about imperial armors as a separate category but uhm, you know, obviously the guards of the imperial city are wearing imperial armor. So we have to think about are we including them or are we including like the coral guards, bruma guards?


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[Assistant] I know, it's like the shirt that we're all wearing.


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[Assistant] It's, it's hard because, uh, oblivions gods are so associated with oblivions.


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[Assistant] Faces. For me. And the helmet on the guard armor in Oblivion is not fantastic. And so it's always stop you violated the law and it's some, you know, super wide looking head with funny eyes and this little steel cap on the top. Whereas, uhm, I dunno, Skyrims is a bit more...


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[Assistant] Sleek and, and stuff, but I, I do agree that I like, if you take the helmet off, like if you look at some guard captains in Oblivion, uhm, I particularly like, uh, Coral's armor with the kind of, uhm, the tree on the middle of it and on the shield and the, the nice blue, I think that's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] You know what I'll say just real quick is that Skyrim's guard armor didn't really look like, uhm, guard armor if you think about it. Obviously it becomes so associated with it in your head. But there are some cool builds that you can actually make, like we made, uhm,


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[Assistant] I think using the rift and guard armor, cause it's purple, we had a- The wayfarer? Yea, the wayfarer build, and, and she had a crossbow. And also the blood.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and to me, that looks really cool, cause the helmet's not there, it's got a nice colour to it, it's kinda like, you know, cloth wraps around it and stuff, it looks very decorative and nice, and it doesn't feel like a... a gar.


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[Assistant] Wait, what the? What the heck is this? Someone made our build in Hero Forge minis.


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[Assistant] I'm like looking at, I'm like, hold on, that's our build, but, but it's not our build. You'll see what I mean. Here, look at this. You can show that, that caught my attention on the Google image search big time. What did you say the other, uhm, I think it was a blood, blood rider. Blood rider.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's true. They all have the different shapes in Oblivion. I think that aesthetically, I like the Skyrim God armor set more. I just don't like it as a God armor.


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[Assistant] I agree with Scott that it doesn't fit what it's supposed to be as much. And I think the reason it does is because I've seen it thousands of times associated with Skyrim guards. But if I didn't know it was a guard and you showed it to me, it could be any character.


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[Assistant] Which is why you can blend it up and use it with builds in a really cool way. So I think I'm gonna have to give it to Oblivion just based on that.


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[Assistant] That's, that's true, cause you could easily impersonate a god in Skyrim, couldn't you? Just chuck the helmet on and walk in, no one's gonna, gonna question you.


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[Assistant] I even like the coral one with the bow and the little hood with the armor underneath.


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[Assistant] I think it's easy to get mixed up for people in thinking that Morrowind needs the biggest facelift, because it does in terms of graphics, but it's the lore facelift that Oblivion's, you know, stylistic pieces need, like your armor and weapons and cities and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] It looked exactly what I thought. I don't know. You guys hyped it up too much. Let's talk about Imperial Armors.


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[Assistant] Large variety, and obviously the graphics don't do it justice, like if you see some different armor concepts for Morrowinds, like people remake them, and they do look really cool, like I'll send one now. Uhm, that's just one of many. But you can really kinda get a different feel, like I do like the color purple quite a lot.


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[Assistant] I mean Oblivion is just so iconic, and I mean there's the Imperial Dragon armor as well that you get, which has the gold design all over it, over a classic Legion armor look, which, you know,


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[Assistant] It has Oblivion's graphics but you can imagine it looking really special for the, you know, the hero of Kvatch. Main character vibes for sure. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I, I do like the Legion armor. I, I agree that Skyrim's one. As we said in a previous podcast, would probably belong, but like be better off in Hammerfell. You can imagine that light armor being picked because it's, it's not freezing. It's, it's hot.


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[Assistant] Um, and it's easier to travel in and I can probably vibe that more if I imagine it in a desert, but, um.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Panidus Oculatus armor is cool as well, but again, it's just not the main, the main one there. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I-I'm not really about the Oblivion hate, I quite like the Legion guard armor in Oblivion.


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[Assistant] And I like the, I know we're talking about armor, but I like the fact that it's matched with silver weaponry and not this very wide looking, um, sword that they had in Skyrim. That you could say that about a lot of weapons. They could be made a little thinner.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess, uhm. It's hard to say. I will say I don't have a crazy strong opinion about it, but I don't think it would be fair to use the Skyrim closed helmet one because it's rare.


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[Assistant] Fair enough, I guess then Scott and I can just weigh it to Morrowind and, and certainly that way.


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[Assistant] Okay, well, I don't think we're gonna talk about Elder Scrolls Online Armors, nor do I think we're going to talk about, uh, Arena or Daggerfall.


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[Assistant] It's very hard to up the graphics, uhm, in your mind. I mean there are obviously some cool designs in there, without a doubt.


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[Assistant] Have you seen Daedric Armor in the Elder Scrolls Online?


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[Assistant] Because I don't know, there's this Daedric style, uhm. Yea, well the styles is kind of- It's not really like Daedric armor, per se. It doesn't look, there's no redness, I'll say that.


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[Assistant] Look, look at this, uh, just, I'll just send a link and scroll to the bottom where there's like a gallery of like the light, medium, heavy, um, Daedric style. But again, it's style. So it makes me think, like, what is this, like a cultist? Are you saying this is actually Daedric armor pieces?


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[Assistant] No, I know there's an aesthetic, I know that, I'm just saying, is this meant to be stylistic, a piece of forged Daedric?


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[Assistant] Oh, you can tell it's bone mold for sure. It's just a bit too, uhm, dwemmer bronzy looking fancy.


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[Assistant] I'm looking at some arena armor sets right now, giving me massive, massive runescape, uhm, vibes.


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[Assistant] Looks like some, some rune armor, that, that blue. Well, gotta get that. I'm curious.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, that's right, you guys prefer the steel. But I prefer the steel.


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[Assistant] Oh, now I have to count again, I've become distracted. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, tomorrow went.


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[Assistant] I think that's fair. Oblivion needs all the help it can get. And you guys gave Oblivion fur, so, one, two, uhm, and guard armors, three.


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[Assistant] And then Skyrim got, not whole, Dwarven, Kytan, Elven, Starrim, so that's four. And then if we give it dragon scale, it gets five.


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[Assistant] And some, sometimes Oblivion just missed out too, like the Dwarven in Oblivion was pretty cool, but we just, and like Morrowind easily lost that, but if we're just looking at numbers, seven to Morrowind, three to Oblivion, and five to Skyrim.


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[Assistant] What is up, ladies and gentlemen? Welcome back to Far Trap. I'm Scott here with Michael and Drew as always. And today on the Elder Scrolls podcast, we are talking vague. And I mean, really vague. We're talking about ancient gods. So this episode is going to be a bit of a sort of,


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[Assistant] There's Flower King, Nilika and some insect god that's sort of unnamed and not talked about in the new Fargrave DLC. There's these big giant skeletons that fought over this plane of oblivion. And there's basically, you know, there's, there's a lot more, uh, metaphysical room in the Elder Scrolls universe than we think.


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[Assistant] Imagine if, so the current Calpa we're in, you know, there's the 17 dated princes that you know of the most and all of that kind of stuff, but.


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[Assistant] Every single new calphex cycle, basically the gods, you know, are fighting or scraping to basically keep relevance.


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[Assistant] In the new ones, so before Merlach Bow, like, you know, with common themes of like domination, but Merlach Bow was like the, the Dread King sort of chieftain and so on. And then he.


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[Assistant] Well, what I was, like, just to clarify there, too, what I was sort of saying, too, is, like, I agree, and what I was sort of saying is, like, so, say there's a previous kalpa, Molag Baal,


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[Assistant] Shifts his sort of form and stuff and maintains relevancy into the next one. But perhaps, say there's a lot of water on this Tamriel in this like big ocean, say there's a Daedric Prince of Coral, but that Daedric Prince loses its relevance this time around because the dregs have been reduced to nothing and maybe there's a worship. And so basically that becomes like one of the forgotten or sort of ancient kind of.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so I mean, the only thing I can think of is there's like, tads of extra Humeus Moran, Khajiit Pantheon, gets a little of his library under the sea, you know, next to a pineapple, kind of thing, but uhm, but he, uh, and then also, like, Azura goes and visits and so on, sort of connects them, but,


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[Assistant] We can kind of infinitely talk about, I feel like, different, uh, calipers and so on, and this is all, this is where, like, all Elder Scrolls galore gets really, like, floozy wazzy kind of thing, because you can't really...


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[Assistant] When we're talking about most gods and lore and everything, we're talking really in reality from the end of the Dawn era to now and like time, because like even concepts of, um, like Akka, the Akatosh kind of thing. And you've got like, um, Auriel, Akatosh and, um, and Alduin, those sort of like,


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[Assistant] Ideas are contingent somewhat on like kind of the Nordic kind of understanding Akatosh is a dragon conceptually and like, but then again, because it's a god of time, it's like cycles and maybe.


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[Assistant] That's the cycle over and over and over. But then again, you've also got like the red guards who goes, it's a, it's a satical, it's not even this sort of other dynamic. So it all gets really like.


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[Assistant] Confusing. So maybe, um, instead, I mean, unless we can always dip back to it, but maybe it would be a good idea to talk about.


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[Assistant] The most ancient sort of societies that we know of end perhaps their gods as a string together theories and so on without mentioning the things that are, that are pretty much


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[Assistant] As such, but more so there's interesting stuff to talk about more in there, like animal totem kind of stuff. There's the needs and stuff with the star worshiping and then there's some interesting ancient things, but let's go sort of morethic era and backwards further and sort of see, and we could even start with the dawn, which, um,


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[Assistant] Is that kinda weird time where you've kinda got Tamriel as a whole?


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[Assistant] Uhm, which would be, uh, interesting, cause even there we've got...


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[Assistant] Were they called like, Old Elnife, or, or, you know, there was, when all the land was whole, when the elves...


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[Assistant] The, uh, well, sorry, I've got the, just the, uh, what's the opposite of Wandering Elm Affair? I've completely- The Old Elm Affair. It is Old Elm Affair. That's right, it's the same land as the name as the land. But, anyway, uhm.


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[Assistant] They were there, but they would have been, uh, worshipping or practicing their religion or whatever in a very similar way to supposedly how the Sijic order.


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[Assistant] Do it now, because remember even the, the strict idea of sort of like Oriole and, and the eight or the eight or whatever and how they worship of the Somerset Isles today is a deviation from their ultimate roots in a way. It's sort of like a.


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[Assistant] Worshipping of only the, uhm, ancestors of the greatest members of...


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[Assistant] Society, so even back then it would have been different, but there were still elven gods, like Auriel's sort of fight against Shor and, uhm, Lorkhan in that war.


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[Assistant] But then we get to the sundering and stuff, and that's where we kinda get to the more interesting stuff, because it sort of seems like at least Uldmer or...


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's a few things that have been added to the lore that make you question that, especially the Bosma origins and the Khajiit origins, both of which sort of assume that elves were always there in Tamriel and that the High Elves story isn't as, you know, concrete and perfect. So I don't know, it makes me think.


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[Assistant] Uhm, done off. I did have like one, here's one interesting thing maybe to spin some conversation, but working out of that, that sort of analogy of like, you know how the Nords basically say that they were


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[Assistant] Basically there's an idea that you could have, uhm,


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[Assistant] They were breathed onto the world and created as nords and stuff to fight against the elven gods and stuff, but then basically they then get trapped on the other side.


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[Assistant] Of, of that more away and then the sinking happens. So then when they actually do return, it is a return to the place that they were actually created there. And there's some funny, interesting like interactions between the gods where you have.


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[Assistant] In the Nordic pantheon, we know that there's Kain is the wife of Shor, they're sort of main one, but then also Mara, um, being the, uh, concubine, concubine for sure. But in Auriel.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's a lot of interesting, um, interplays like that and connections. It's fun to try and actually make it, um, like a chronological tale of everything. But, um, we know that time can be a little crazy in the Elder Scrolls. But one thing to actually, we can isolate, like further isolate discussion is,


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[Assistant] We can look at the gods, so the elven gods are like fairly preserved, the sort of like oriel kind of stuff, but the Nordic gods are...