Consider your lucid dreams, if you've been lucky enough to have ever had one. On the sexual dimorphism between male and female bosmer (12/20/07). Did he do it through a Dragon Break? Ushnad_gro-Udnar: Damn late to the party! How do Hist-worshiping Argonians and Green-Pact-following Bosmer get along? What does the name Buoyant Armiger mean? Is he 'canon'? None shall survive.". The mariners on this voyage would send back for the rest of their House when they had found whatever this "face" was. (04/02/08), “Sure. On the planned sequels to Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard (09/08/14). Even now, Dres slavers often refer to their cattle-Guar as Tigers. Sounds like a scroll case. Lorkhan and his avatars, from a thread on the Six Walking Ways (02/14/04), 1. (02/23/15), What's up with Seyda Neen's lighthouse? He never said) and we were good. The Nedic peoples are hardly mentioned in the PGE, which tried to hide the existence of Humans in Tamriel before the coming of the Nords. Reducing the Dwemeri belief system to technofetish or atheism is missing the point by a kalpa. Another little known fact is that the Imperials often refer to Guars as 'Tigers'. And just plain wrong to even try. Oct 26, 2017 1,240 . I may say lots of things, but Lord Indoril Nerevar the Hortator was my beloved from the get go during my tenure as MW's Art Director. "It's difficult to accuse someone of being wrong for asking the theoretical question "Is it possible, as is the case throughout this game, that some of the writings we find are exaggerated"? Children of liberty without end, and then the music lives forever as a pirate radio tuned against the rules of Heaven and the vulgarities of Hell. I could hardly offer a better contradiction to this notion than that of my friend-in-exile, Severus Reva: [Text of Frontier, Conquest, and Accommodation follows], "The Aedra aren't supposed to be able to change, but perhaps there is a loophole" (10/03/03). a rake that has not been enchanted/cursed/used by a famous magic user nor host to a demon, god, or hero? TheNerdler: Who exactly is Nir? He is Michael Kirkbride, if you understand what I mean. I just asked the creator of the two dragons in question and got the answer. Was also... technically difficult. On Ruma Camoran & Michael Kirkbride. (08/26/14), 'Velothi, your skin has become the pregnant darkness. The initial outline art is already too gorgeous to behold with your stupid human faces. If you get it (or care to) then mull it over until it punches the back of your eyeballs. Ex. But to make a better existence? There's been a rocketship in High Rock since we wrote the PGE. And thousands of years of Good Coming From Bad, and/or whitewash, ignorance, shame, his Song being read by the Knights merely as fancy rather than right record, etc, might explain the Order's reluctance to villify or apologize for him. Oblivion has been synoymous [sic] with Hell in the TES 'verse for nearly ten years now (see Redguard). Imperials would be all "See? GOTTA RUN, BUT WE'LL DO IT AGAIN. It’ll be an ongoing splatterfest of obscure texts revisited in graphic form until the upper case “C0DA” arrives in Q1 2014, a 64-page digital comic that answers All the Things that I’ve wanted to say about Morrowind for some time now. (07/29/05). Undated. Gamespeak: Ebonarm, as I recall, is a Yokudan deity, or group of deities that share the same designation. Only Todd's very wise decision to leverage the success of DF that Redguard even got a greenlight but, even then, nothing like the PGE was mentioned. That said, when I started writing Redguard I really thought about how unique the black people of Tamriel were: they came in and kicked ass and slaughtered the indigenes while doing so. Which is a long way of saying: panther-love. He wrote them while taking mushrooms and LSD, locking himself in his room for a week only to be discovered by Todd Howard who took this image. Eye of Magnus: I'll just say I'm a fan of that idea. He would permit himself some pride if that emotion occurred to him; instead, he tests his locust wings on the wind, permitting himself to glide into the first steps of Salvation. That shit is embarrassing. 3) To the close dreamers, don't forget the Amaranth. Unless it just peters out. Shor, CHIM, Aless, Perrif, Orlyan, Shonni-Et. He performs the verse to a crowd of secret Talos worshipers. C0DA's background is introduced in the text Loveletter From the Fifth Era, The True Purpose of Tamriel, which brings some insight into a few aspects of C0DA's lore, most importantly the concept of the "Amaranth." Most Human (Imperial) cultures regard the Daedra as separate from the Gods of the Eight Divines, true. Is there something beyond CHIM? Michael Kirkbride is a former designer for Bethesda Softworks and still very active in the Elder Scrolls community, despite leaving the company during Morrowind's development. Everyone here does know that the Ministry of Truth was Lord Vivec's biggest turd ever, right? The final painting would be a 2D explosion. Especially when there's a hole just ready to fill. (03/27/15). I've noticed that a lot of your work has sci-fi undertones in it. There *is* one step beyond CHIM, but you're right in that it is not godhood. I think you have eras confused with Empires, but that’s understandable. Tiber Septim conquers Tamriel at the end of the second era, and begins the Third Empire (and the third era). It's Dagoth Ur, forced into the dirt by the mass-altering abilities of the Tools. They are arthropods. The stilted and/or plain sound of The Left-Handed Elves or The Left-Handers strikes me as far for Yokudan. Editing the 36 Lessons of Vivec (06/03/08). Some Mirror Logicians of the Altmer fight it still in chrysalis shells that phase in and out of Tamrielic Prime, and their brethren know nothing of their purpose unless they stare too long and break their own possipoints. [First shape] was untranslatable, which was good to us, but difficult (which was also good to us). Who conquers Tamriel in the Second Era? So if I avoid any questions about anything related to the above, it’s because the answers are already forthcoming. Edit: to Lorus, that's his bonewalker version, lost to the annals of most Tribune histories. Vivec's gift of "my head for an hour" wasn't an innuendo. So then I went, Hmm, all future stories told about Cyrus need to be careful not to use him solely for that utility, or risk him becoming a gimmick. I was drunk, so I cannot describe the courier, but I can verify that it is, indeed, from the Fifth Era (!) The ASSN is strictly Last Ditch technology, however. Period. Now let us say that I saw a number of cliff-racers that was more than three but less than ten. Although their tapered ears bear a resemblance to that of mer, some scholars believe they actually share an ancestral relationships with the Nords, through the Atmorans. The Alessian Order was a hugely influential religious sect in the First Era which preached strict monotheism. It seems strange that the Hist would even need a political party to exercise control since they have control over Argonian minds. More Talos despair. It has nothing to do with dumbing down anything. That's just shoddy scholarship from a bygone regime. Belief-engines, properly called the “Auxiliary Semi-Shockpoint Nilgularity”, provide energy for short dream-sleeve jumps in case a Vehkship’s main ego is damaged, allowing the C0DA Paravant to potentially get to the safety of a voidyard orbital. None of my in-game books were ever edited with the exception of a few lines in The Song of Pelinal (one removing Morihaus' erection, another stating that Pelinal was homosexual). The Wild Hunt is a manifestation of the Elder powers, practiced only by the Bosmer. Well, okay, really big birds made out of the sun. On Ruma Camoran & Michael Kirkbride. At its root, you might be on to a very cool idea. The reptilian Argonians alone among the tribes of Black Marsh are immune to the plague, leading to speculation, not entirely discredited by modern researchers, that a genocidal Argonian mage created the plague for his people. What's the origin of their name? * (Witnessing Shield-thane who goes blind or is maimed and thus solidifies the wave-form; blind/maimed = = final decision). 6. That said: Is there anything you wish you could've gone back and changed in Morrowind? Your point of view on his insane work does not matter. (02/14/15). On the mainland, and specifically the Deshaan Plains, Guars are striped. I can't help but feel this is being misconstrued from some weird amalgamation of people reading that little blurb you posted in-character a long time ago that everyone quotes about "unbinding the Dragon and erasing the upstart Talos from the mythic" right after reading Nu-Mantia Intercept and how the Towers are fortifications of mortal existence, a subject that never seemed like it was being written with the intention of portraying a bunch of Altmer fundies as the villains. It’s often deemed as too dangerous for its own good, because it works on the rarified principles of Phynaster’s Inversion, a set of mathematics that doesn’t exist in our own dimension. The paint would crack and move. Limiting the term "object" to a normally non-sentient physical item or tool normally considered mundane? Hell naw, they're just too damn pretty to die. Was also radical. “If the ultimate tower were to really exist, then that means that the exact number of cliff-racers that flew by has been recorded by the stars that support it. GrimGrimoire: Thanks so much for doing this AMA, and thanks more so for creating what you've done, unique and amazing lore. N, Are "Akatosh" and "Tosh Raka" etymologically related? Is Trinimac/Malacath a mirror-brother of Arkay/Tu'whacca, specifically the aspect of the death god who was cast out after the Aldmer had learned of his purpose through Boethiah? It's hard to pinpoint when, exactly, but after the RG plot of civil war and this Emperor guy coming in to profit from it all started to develop... well, someone asked, "What's the name of the Empire, again?" It was the first time I had encountered the idea of "black imperialism"...and it struck me big time, as something 1) new, 2) potentially dangerous if taken as commentary, and 3) potentially rad if taken as commentary. Think of the mystical power of Reenactment. Mon Feb 01, 2016 12:05 pm. The Amaranth deserves its own topic, really. turned into "hold up the train, wait, ALL of these disparate cultures worship the same gods? That was (and is) easy enough to do if you have the experience and discipline to do it. It was literal: Vivec's damn head took off and flew away; it had stuff to do, yo. guy231: Could you elaborate on what useful teachings Azura provides to the Dunmer? In anticipation of another argument, let me say that Oblivion is not regarded by any culture as necessarily an "evil" place; neither is Aetherius a "good" one. It has made The Elder Scrolls into perhaps my favourite universe, and influenced the way I look at lore. Then think again before you dismiss the the idea of Divine Hypnagogia. numinit: Who -- or what is the Underking? And something pretty close to the famous theft of a famous thing. Cyrus "just" lives in Tamriel and, while he can get confused, baffled, angry at, or one-upped by its magical nature, he's not adventuring to test those boundaries or, hell, even find them. Thanks for doing this AMA Mr. Kirkbride. The Hero is literally the scribe of the next Elder Scroll, the one in which the prophecy has been fulfilled into a fixed point, negating its precursor. In fact, they were created by Vivec to hunt Dreughs during a time-lost campaign against the Altmer of the sea. What weapons/capabilities is a Warspore usually equipped with? 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