TIL: Today I Learned

[Arakhor]

It's Kirkbride, without a G. If he's a secret Daedroth prince, then he's likely to be Clavicus Vile or Sheogorath.

 

[Snerk]

Let's not go to the Kirkbride world; 'tis a silly place.

We're Knights of the Round Table Nine
We dance when we're able

 

[Phrossack]

It's Kirkbride, without a G. If he's a secret Daedroth prince, then he's likely to be Clavicus Vile or Sheogorath.

Those princes have clear senses of humor, though. It's hard to tell how much Kirkbride stuff is meant to be silly and how much is just a quantum theory, non-linear-time, multiverse theory mind-[fornication].

The parts I love about TES are the history parts of it--in-universe historians trying to make sense of available evidence, and then real TES fans trying to make sense of that. And I love the stories of the movements of peoples, finding out about the native inhabitants of different lands and what happened to them, and so on. I was fascinated with the whole situation in Skyrim with the Reach and the Forsworn. But once I get to the bits about time-traveling cyborgs, spaceships, and non-linear time, things jump the shark with me.

 

[Arakhor]

Then he's probably Hermaeus Mora instead.

 

[Lohrenswald]

But once I get to the bits about time-traveling cyborgs, spaceships, and non-linear time, things jump the shark with me.

When does that happen?

 

[Arakhor]

Pretty much any time MK imbibed too strongly whilst writing, I would have thought.

 

[Phrossack]

When does that happen?

Pelinal, Kalpas, the Adamantine and Orichalc Towers, zero-summing, and other things. If you're a TES fan who's never heard of these things, don't look them up.

Anyway, we probably should have a TES thread or group to avoid hijacking threads with my ramblings

 

[Lohrenswald]

Well I knew about the adamintine tower and the whole DraGOn BrEAk thing, but like cyborgs and spaceships was new to me

maybe I'll look it up, maube not

 

[Lexicus]

Phrossack, is the spaceship that Dwemer thing that crashed on Solstheim?

 

[Phrossack]

Phrossack, is the spaceship that Dwemer thing that crashed on Solstheim?

From what I've gathered, that was an airship that crashed prior to the events of an expansion for TES III: Morrowind.

But allegedly the Adamantine Tower is the spaceship that dropped the ancestors of mer and men onto Norm or something. I don't know.

 

[Ajidica]

It's Kirkbride, without a G. If he's a secret Daedroth prince, then he's likely to be Clavicus Vile or Sheogorath.

I'm going with him being Azura: the Lady of Dawn and Dusk, the Anticipation of Sotha Sil - father of Mysteries and Creation.
Given a legitimate interpretation of the events of Morrowind is Azura playing a long-con to get back at the Tribunal for the abuse of Kagrenac's tools, Kirkbride's recent fevered ramblings could just be yet another long con for the Lady of Dawn and Dusk.

Phrossack, is the spaceship that Dwemer thing that crashed on Solstheim?

From what I've gathered, that was an airship that crashed prior to the events of an expansion for TES III: Morrowind.

Yep, an airship assembled by the Mages Guild. Whether or not it was originally a dwemer design or just something the Guild put together using Dwemer technology is unclear. Given the Dwemer were capable of manipulating the laws of nature and creation; I'd suspect it was just leftover tech the Guild scavenged.

 

[Lohrenswald]

But allegedly the Adamantine Tower is the spaceship that dropped the ancestors of mer and men onto Norm or something. I don't know.

Oh man that's pretty far out.
like I've always figured there was like fantasy religions going on, like spirits creating the world and whatnot (Especially since the daedric lords evidently exist, and act fully as like fantasy gods and not spacemen).

Is this something like revealed in TES2?

 

[Phrossack]

Oh man that's pretty far out.
like I've always figured there was like fantasy religions going on, like spirits creating the world and whatnot (Especially since the daedric lords evidently exist, and act fully as like fantasy gods and not spacemen).

Is this something like revealed in TES2?

I'm not sure, and have no desire to find out. Generally, the more I learn about a thing, the more I come to appreciate it. But this doesn't hold true for two things I can think of: the Nords, and virtually anything Kirkbride touches. TES is cool until you find those things he came up with; then it just gets so absurd it makes me want to abandon TES entirely, so I ignore as much Kirkbride stuff as I can.

 

[Arakhor]

It's mostly just Kirkbride being zany and giving the rabid fans something to debate endlessly.

 

[Phrossack]

It's mostly just Kirkbride being zany and giving the rabid fans something to debate endlessly.

Once he opined that there is no such thing as TES canon, though, all debate regarding TES becomes pointless even within the context of the TES universe (if Kirkbride is to be subscribed to). I mean, a good discussion over the origins of the Rieklings or the current state of the Sea Elves is good fun, until it turns out that someone can say that the Sea Elves are really just Czechoslovakian Jedi rhinos and that Tamriel is really just a metaphor for ducks and be considered as valid as any reasoned argument with evidence. Then it stops being interesting at all.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Tamriel is fiction created by Sheogorath and actually the Shivering Isles are more real than Tamriel

 

[Bootstoots]

TIL that there's a town in far northern Ontario called Moose Factory. This is now my second-favorite Canadian place name, after Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Moose Jaw has been demoted to bronze, and Medicine Hat no longer medals.

 

[Phrossack]

TIL that there's a town in far northern Ontario called Moose Factory. This is now my second-favorite Canadian place name, after Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Moose Jaw has been demoted to bronze, and Medicine Hat no longer medals.

Along with Uranium City and the Great Slave Lake, there's something...odd about northern Canada.

 

[Takhisis]

Why? There's an entire people we call slaves.

 

[Arakhor]

Maybe it's because the panserbjørne aren't wearing their armour.