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this is so dumb 😭 but my biggest pet peeve about ESO is its trouble connecting the world together. With all the DLCs released, the vestige has the ability to essentially meet every single NPC, but there's no weight to any of it. It's crazy considering one of the biggest complaints people have about modern TES games is that the player's actions don't affect the world in a meaningful way.

SPOILERS FOR SEASONS OF THE WORM CULT !!

This is made so evident with the Season of the Worm Cult chapter, if you've played most of the DLCs, hell even just the main quest and alliance stories, you have met all the squad members. Like, your vestige knows Raz, Walks-in-Ash, Gabrielle, Azah, and Skordo, but they talk to you like you're missing exposition. (This is just a larger issue with the games dialogue because it acts like you the player have no deductive reasoning skills and need to be talked to like a child)

I get that it's an MMO and ZOS needs to account for players missing out on plot lines and characters due to not wanting to overpay for DLC, but it makes the game feel so lifeless sometimes. This irks me so much because I genuinely love the lore added by ESO, I genuinely love the stories within it and the characters it has given us, and I would love for the writing to not be so trash.

I'll give an example, but first I want to say, I wish we could just leave Darien's character in Summerset, he's already a little bland and not fleshed out, like just let him rest atp. Regardless, Gabrielle brings him up multiple times on solstice as if your character wasn't present in the Crystal Tower... like? Girl, you weren't even there, who told you about him "serving" Meridia? If this was a stand alone, mainline game, I have faith Bethesda would make our relationships with these characters important to the plot, but ESO's plot lines are constructed with the idea that your character must be able to start playing at any point, regardless of whether or not you've met certain characters before.

Anyway I don't have much else to add, I just had this rattling around in my brain since I started the DLC :/

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Idgaf if she's the Doctor for 1 episode or 1 decade she should've NEVER been cast. I'm TIRED of his constant glorification of white blonde femininity at the expense of Black characters. 🌹stans hunted Martha for 40 days and nights for saying this but she's 100% correct. MOVE ON!

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pinkpantheress ‘tonight’ artwork

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i apologize in advance for this post but it’s just been on my mind for too long

being a woman who is a fan of bethesda games is so funky because of the way casual male fans gender essentialize everything. They post memes like:“Men after hearing about the Oblivion Remaster” or “Boys, it’s finally here, we’ve come a long way since 2005” and to clarify, i understand that “boys” could be gender neutral, I use words like “guys” in that way.

It’s so early 2000s, like games aren’t just a masculine interest. Especially because i’m such a lore goblin, like i know more than you, you think I’ve never played a fallout or tes game??

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Some main characters from the artbook. it is 4.8 gigabytes by itself, larger than the original game was.

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Ok this isn't real until someone finally finds M'aiq and shares his updated model!!

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you're laughing. Pope Francis is being reincarnated as the Oblivion Remake and you're laughing

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One of UESP's own got into the game. Character creation now has origins. These include:

Orc: Stronghold, Orsinium

Dark Elf: Vvardenfell, Mainland

Breton: Systres, High Rock

Nord: Eastern, Western

Khajiit: Anequina, Pellitine

Argonian: Arnesia, Thornmarsh

Wood Elf: Reaper's March, Grahtwood

Imperial: Colovia, Nibenay

Redguard: Dragontail Mountains, Alik'r Desert

High Elf: Auridon, Summerset

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!!!!

With the date for the remaster finally dropping and me posting a lot of HoK lately now's a good time to remind everyone that you should not waste your money on the remaster, both because it looks bad and because of the Microsoft boycott which is significantly more important. I promise you the original game still runs good, still looks beautiful, and if you can't settle for that, Skyblivion is right around the corner.

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Pope Francis dies

Oblivion Remake comes out within days

Uriel Septim VII dies

Oblivion gates open within days

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COINCIDENCE???

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ayo edebiri like/reblog ✨

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technically i’d be born under the mage, which in the personality aspect makes sense, but i would say the steed fits me better as a whole.

I don't want to know what your Transphobia (Hogwarts) house is. I want to know what Elder Scrolls star sign you'd choose for yourself.

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What do you think about this? I mean they are just nominating everyone except the black people. I personally don’t understand why MG or John Cena are even listed. Don’t they have 5 minutes of screen time in total. Are they just nominating everyone if so where is Ebra. At this point, I hope they lose every award against hacks.

Cause season 3 was a fucking joke and they know they're not going to win shit for it. Might as well go ahead nominate the talentless irrelevants nepofriendships to further prove that no one wants them there.

Ebra had like 30 seconds of screen time and 5 lines of dialogue. The whole point of season 3 was to show that it does not work. Clairecarmy does not work. Sidelining Syd and Marcus (who a lot of the racist dumbass reddit dwelling people hated and still hate after S1E7 cause they think they're entitled and Carmy can't do anything wrong and is justified in being a little bitch cause he has some pretentious awards) does not work. Focusing on just the food does not work. Obsessing over the Fak's does not work.

Chris knew it was going to be for the arts and not the charts and be his own little ego project. He wants so badly to pull a gotcha on the audience in the end with a twist, but at this point who is gonna be the audience?

He dragged Claire, the worst plotline of the entire series, into its third season just to try and be subversive and will they won't they about sydcarmy. If that wasn't bad enough they dragged it into real life too with that stupid ass failationship which really just made that season even more unwatchable if that was even possible.

He's gonna focus again on the people actually cared about from Season 1 in Season 4 like Sweeps and Ebra, but at what cost? The damage that happened is so deep they have so much work to do with not a lot of time.

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I feel like the genderless-ness (or gender fluidity) of Daedric Princes is so underutilized in TES.

Like I want to see masc depictions of Nocturnal, Mephala, Meridia, Namira, Azura, etc. and femme depictions of Hircine, Sheogorath, Molag Bal, Mehrunes Dagon, Sanguine, etc.

Boethiah Statue

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls: Online

Art by Alexander Lawrence

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I did not know he was like this omg

elijah wood as bacchus at 2004 mardi gras. if you care

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The lore that Skyrim added to early Skyrim. It hurts my head trying to piece together the Nord/Atmoran and Falmer conflict with the whole dragon cult rule. Can someone explain how these bits of lore fit together in the timeline?

What's your least fav thing in Elder Scrolls lore?

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Appreciate that even the railroad in fo4 does leftist infighting over what to prioritize; Our tradition truly transcends.