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Reminder: you can only kill yourself once so make sure to save it for something special like being mildly inconvenienced or having a tummy ache

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fire and war

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You found Tallahassee, Florida.

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The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered Review

Rating: NOT RECOMMENDED

Game’s good but I can’t believe I still cannot make sweet sweet love to Martin Septim

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fundamentally, I think the theology of The Elder Scrolls is at its most interesting when you assume that every single religion is wrong. mortals are making wild guesses based on rather limited information, and the Divines or Gods or whatever you want to call them—who were metaphysically nerfed in the creation of Mundus—are screaming the way that middle-aged dads scream at their favorite sports team on the television. whatever higher powers exist up in Aetherius, they have been suffering in agony for the last four ages because their little guys on the ground are making shit up as they go along and fighting whole wars about it.

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Mantling

My favorite concept in all of the Elder Scrolls' lore is Mantling.

Mantling, poetically described as "walk like them, until they must walk like you" is, in my opinion, the coolest method of achieving apotheosis I've ever seen in fiction.

The concept that acting like someone/something and BEING that someone or something is just so filed with irony and cool possibilities.

Did Martin embody Akatosh enough to summon him, or to BECOME him?

Does the HoK embody Sheogorath, or are they Sheogorath?

"My first question is: Are you really Nerevar reborn?"

Are you? Is the Nerevarine truly, really, the embodiment or reincarnation of Nerevar? I often RP as such, that my beastfolk, Imperial guild member, outlander N'wah truly is Nerevar. Serves the racist, xenophobic Dunmer right that their Messiah is all that they hate.

But on a more lore-brained, and less commonly discussed level, does it matter?

Prophecy is all about the will of mortals anyway. The failed incarnates claim that the fact that they failed means the prophecy is more believable, but it seems that prophecy is more often a mix of vague, mystical mumbo-jumbo with a helping of Determined mortal will. So being the prophesized savior or not is less important than having the capacity to fulfill the duties imposed on the savior.

So, what other examples of Mantling do I especially enjoy?

Well, surely the many Shezarrines are a fan favorite. Pelinal and Arctus or Talos or Ysimir or all three.

Micheal Kirkbride seems to favor Cyrus, who mantled the HoonDing, together with Crown Prince A'tor.

Then, if we bring in other, unconfirmed cases, the Ruddy Man seems to allow others who wear him to Mantle some form of Dreugh-based interpretation of Molag Bal.

And then, the most controversial of my takes: the Tribunal are mantling the Three Good Daedra.

Vivec claims to have achieved CHIM, but how this was done is shrouded in mystery. Certainly, the use of Kagrenac's tools on the Heart of Lorkhan seems to have been a factor. Understanding, however, that CHIM is merely one of the Six Walking Ways, all used to achieve Apotheosis, or Mantling, there must be a "them" to walk like.

So the Tribunal almost certainly mantle their own Anticipation, without fully attaining their powers, and thus replacing them, as the HoK does, nor disappearing in the process, as Martin did.

Their wish was to remain closer to mortality, and to their beloved people.

The ending of the words is ALMSIVI

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Hey! Do you have any photos of the food in Oblivion Remastered? Thank you

Heres some!

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We are very pleased to report that the abnormally large objects in the basement of the Imperial Palace made it into the remastered version.

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You cannot sleep while enemies are stabbing you.

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Dark brotherhood in Skyrim and oblivion:

Hey, wanna join our spooky murder cult?? It'll be fun!!!

Dark brotherhood in Morrowind:

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I know this is a hot take but, Peryite is like, one of the best princes to speak to.

The others fighting for your soul in Skyrim? Nah, take the shield and scram. Oh you don't wanna even though you summoned him? Meh fair enough, he'll be there if you change your mind. Or find someone else. Whatever.

This man has a job. He loves his pet rats. It's said Kyne gives him the souls of Skeevers when they die.

Peryite is the embodiment of a "natural" or "necessary" evil. Much like sickness.

You can hate it. You can hate him. But he's there. It's there. Always will be. He has no want to take over. Despite being the ""believed weakest"" prince, he could probably wipe out tamriel the easiest.

But he doesn't want to. Because that's not what he is.

He is the natural order. As things will be, whether you want them to or not.

Anyway Peryite is my favorite daedric prince, and in this essay I w-

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meow!!!

they are here too but eehhhhhg

specifically;

- Sheogorath is a Turkish Angora

- Haskill is a Orential Shorthair

- Syl is a Sphynx

- Thadon is a brown tabby shorthair (FAT!!)

- Relmyna is a Russian Blue

- Dyus is a Persian (dirty, stinky—fwoop)

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Official Bethesda art for various TES anniversaries by Roddy E.

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You suspect that this isn't Applebees.

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If this feels like too many oblivion posts I apologize but it's either this or I disembowel myself and see how long it takes to pass put

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Nerevarine, ripping a line of cocaine moon sugar: "Hey Creeper, here's 50 bajillion Restore Fatigue potions that cost me barely anything to make because my buddy Ajira will readily sell me the ingredients for fuck all. I see no way in which selling these to a literal daedra could possibly cause issues."

[6 years later.]

Hero of Kvatch, with a dozen scamps crawling all over him in a perfect recreation of the cover art of Doom: "DON'T YOU BASTARDS EVER GET TIRED‽‽‽"