Tamriel is an island right. Would be funny if they just moved across the sea.
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Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 1 week agoAlso the last living Dwemer. Motherfucker was in a different dimension when the Dwemer vanished
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
It is, sorta. But there wasn’t an exodus. The disappearance happened within recorded history, meaning the Dwemer (who are elves) had interactions, war, and empires alongside the living races. Then, suddenly, the vanished. A sudden cessation of communication and existence.
Current consensus is that their chief engineer, and thus leader, Kagrenac, utilized tonal magic (which the dwemer invented) to transcend the mortal plane, Mundus.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I mean they never fully resolved it though. If I recall the other theories are kinda the dwarves being a) all dead (many theories) b) elsewhen (time displacement), implying they return or were responsible for other time displaced phenomena in the past. c) something else entirely happened at the same time.
The fact they can’t be reached via portal kinda suggests they’re essentially dead.
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I really wish they had explored this at all. They set up something neat, then let it languish.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Last living one we know of, at least.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Which in all honesty leaves a lot open for Bethesda to bring them back in some capacity. Between Dragon Breaks, Chim, and literal time travel there’s a lot they could do not even getting into the other metaphysics and metamagics in the setting.
For those who haven’t deep delved EUSP I shall list what the three things I listed implies.
Dragon Breaks, a dragon break is what happens when time becomes non linear the fun thing is that it can be both retroactive and postactive. The ending of Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall is sometimes theorized to have caused a dragon break so massive that it basically rewrote the setting with its shockwave. This is admittedly just an in universe way of explaining retcons.
Chim, basically a character in the setting achieves awareness that they are infact fictional and becomes effectively a god. Tuber Septum achieved partial Chim caused a dragon break and removed the jungles of Cyrodil from history. Also Vivec achieved Chim and Dagoth Ur fucked up the process without removing himself entirely.
Time travel, basically what it says on the tin. Fun fact Pelinal Whitestrake was from a different timeline and was basically the Terminator.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Notably these are called Dragon Breaks because the god of time Akatosh is represented as a dragon and a Dragon Break is essentially time and causality just sort of having a stroke for a bit. Multiple versions of events that could have happened did, regardless of being mutually exclusive and some combination of their outcomes is what sticks when things are over and normality resumes.
I kind of suspect TESV: Skyrim will get referred to as a dragon break later in the timeline, with things like exactly who won the civil war being one of those things where there are clear memories and clear records of both sides winning, where two different people were the Jarl of each hold, etc. How that lands afterward when things settle I don’t know. Hopefully in the least helpful possible way for the Thalmor.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
It can also refer to when the Alessian order tried to remove the Mer aspect of Akatosh and basically drove him insane which also broke the dragon. It’s probably why Alduin is his own entity and not just Akatosh at the end of time, with there being three main aspects of the Dragon god that being Auriel, Akatosh, and Alduin the beginning, middle, and end.
Personally I don’t think Pelinal Whitestrake and Marukh went far enough, remove all mer.
BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
CHIM isn’t really meta like that. It is a state of enlightenment achieved after coming to terms with the fact that the Elder Scrolls setting exists within the ‘dream’ of a godhead. The godhead is a mysterious and high order entity, think Lovecraftian gods, which isn’t really sleeping and dreaming in the way we normally think of it.
Typically when one comes to understand the nature of the dream they inhabit, they vanish, becoming one with the dream in a process known as zero-summing. It essentially means coming to the conclusion that all things within the dream are one and the same, that the individual is an illusion.
CHIM is achieved by facing this fate and asserting that, though all reality is a dream, your existence as an individual with thoughts and feelings and agency within the dream matters and is valid. Some suggest this state confers great power, such as the ability to reshape the landscape or perform miracles, like when one lucid dreams. However, I find this position poorly supported. Rather, CHIM seems best viewed as one form of enlightenment, a state achieved through great wisdom and insight but which brings with it no particular power. Vivec can be slain, after all, and relies on his connection to the Heart of Lorkhan to exercise divine power.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
This is unironically a great overview and simplification of CHIM within the Elder Scrolls setting. One in which I am fundamentally incapable of making because I have been utterly corrupted by Morrowind shitposts around the concept, IE a photoshop of Astolfo from Fate with Dagoth Urs head asking if that is CHIM.