Fell back into another Fallout and Elder Scrolls kick. What are the craziest stories or pieces of lore that you know of? For instance, I think one of the wildest things is all the weird experiments that occurred in the Vault courtesy of Vault-Tec, and how each one seemed to have some unique and horrific backstory.
I don’t think it gets any crazier than CHIM in Elder Scrolls. It’s the knowledge that you are a fictional character dreamed up by the Godhead, the entity who created the TES universe (Bethesda’s writing team). And instead of accepting the meaningless of an existence where you have no say in things, where you disappear from existence–Zero Sum–you decide to take control of this lucid dream and achieve CHIM.
It’s just one big metaphor for the player having console commands and mods. The Godhead are the Bethesda writers, but you, the player, are the lucid dreamer who achieves CHIM and wrests control from the Godhead, reshaping the world as you see fit. TES canonized console commands and mods.
And it’s time for another Morrowind playthrough.
My favorite bit of wacky lore from Elder Scrolls is that the sun is just a giant hole in the sky and the stars in the night sky are millions of tiny holes. There’s some real neat lore explaining why this is but I just think it’s goofy and love it because of that.
Definitely the different vault experiments, like the one with drug addicts and the two with gender biases
And of course the vault with 999 women and 1 man was vault 69
I’ve always been rather fond of the books, especially The Lusty Argonian Maid and The Thief of Virtue.
Elder Scrolls wood elves. Turns the nature-loving vegetarian stereotype on its head. “We live in harmony with The Green. We’d never harm a plant… but you, you’re back on the menu boyo!”
Watch this, every time someone brings this up people go crazy.
Kid ghoul in fridge.
That was a fun quest. Selling the kid, just to shoot the guy and get both rewards by taking the kid home lol
Reman Cyrodiil (the founder of the Second Empire) was conceived when his father, King Hrol, fucked a literal hill containing the spirit of St Alessia, the founder of the First Empire. Hrol died after ejaculating, as did all of the witnesses, with the exception of one who managed to write “AND HROL DID LOVE UNTO A HILLOCK” on a rock before dying. 9 months later Reman appeared on top of the hill with the CHIM EL ADABAL (a giant soul stone that makes the centre of the Amulet of Kings) embedded in his skull.
For me, it’s the fact that Daggerfall had like 3 or 4 drastically different, mutually exclusive endings with giant ramifications for how they would shape the world going forward. They are all canon.
For me it’s the disappearance of the entire dwemer race after trying to tamper with the heart of lorkan and to this very day we have NO idea where they are, if we accept what falion said when you ask if he’s an expert on vampirism he’ll say the following “I know many things. I have studied things beyond the reach of most humans, traveled the oblivion planes, seen things one should not see. I have met daedra and dwemer and everything in between” it could very well be the dwemer are in an plane of oblivion we just don’t know where
For Elder Scrolls? Sheogorath for sure.
Fallout? The whole Vault Tec angle. And the monstrosity it brought.
But Sheogorath is the plane that it resides. What you are ever in contact with is the Avatar of Sheogorath. That’s why he’s able to transfer the avatar to the Hero of Kavatch, while the avatar of Order is able to become a separate entity. The plane changing to Order is what created the avatar out of the avatar of Sheogorath.
- How vampires were made in the Elder Scrolls always stood out to me cause of how shocking it was.
- The Lovecraft inspired stuff in Fallout was also always interesting and is a lot different than the main feeling of fallout and leans into more mystical aspects.
The Lovecraft inspired stuff in Fallout
Lovecraft isn’t just in Fallout, the Daedric Prince Hermaeus Mora is basically just Yog-Sothoth in Elder Scrolls haha. Direct inspiration
Our lord and saint AllInAll, for the uninitiated.
Look up an iceberg video from either series - Fallout has pre-war ghoul conspiracies and mid-excavation Eldritch beings with modern cult worshipers; The Elder Scrolls has a theory of waning magical power in the world, plus the multiple deities who actively influence living people in the world
“Greetings. Fisto is programmed to please.”
“Is that all you’ve got robot?”
The entirety of elder scrolls is the dream of some slumbering god…or something like that