Lyg - What Is It Like? Elder Scrolls Lore
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- Lyg is perhaps the most mysterious continent within Elder Scrolls Lore. Is Lyg even a continent, or is it a 'realm'? In this video, I explore the history of Lyg and it's impact on Tamriel. Elder Scrolls Lore Lyg. Elder Scrolls Continents
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My videos on the other continents:
• Pyandonea th-cam.com/video/DebZvlyYcWw/w-d-xo.html&t
• Yokuda th-cam.com/video/Au_lIB1cM1g/w-d-xo.html&t
• Akavir th-cam.com/video/t3NrKi3Kbi8/w-d-xo.html&t
• Atmora th-cam.com/video/rzngjhh8UWE/w-d-xo.html&t
• Thras th-cam.com/video/JrzqpURl8H8/w-d-xo.html&t
Maybe is Lyg somewise more like Shadowfell or Feywild in D&D, a sphere under the reality, a mirror...
Y’know how you can clip out of Whiterun in Skyrim into that void empty version of the world. What if that is Lyg?
Imagine if Lyg is just a normal place and the people there talk of Tamriel how Tamriel talks of Lyg
It’s quite possible
More like Lygma am i right
jebi ga lygma balls
it's a shame steve jobs died of lygma
Lmao, how has it taken me a year to find this joke
BLK MN I swear to god. I’ve never had a comment get as much attention and of course it’s a fucking ligma joke a year since it’s been funny
@@thomkinrade9314 Steve Jobs? Pretty sure you mean Joe
I slide in non-cardinal directions every day. It's not that difficult.
My head hurts
Wait so Molag Bal was a mortal once? Then the hero of Kavach wasn't the first mortal to become a deadric prince?
Weston Walker When Sheogorath explained mantleing to The Hero of Kvatch he seemed to imply that is wasn't the first time mantleing had been done.
kai magnus “When one walks so much like the other it becomes impossible to tell where one begins and the other ends”
This does beg the question, what race was Molag Bal before he was a deadric prince?
Considering that this was ancient history it's likely that he was an Aldmer.
Terminator That is a possibility, though we don't know what races live on Lyg. He could be a member of a race that we have never seen before or even a humen maybe? Talos was a humen before he became a divine.
So Meridia, Molag Bal, and Mehruns Dagon all became Deadric Princes in Lyg and are basically co-creators/owners of said plain.
kai magnus I've been sliding in noncardinal directions all day and haven't gotten to Lyg yet.:(
Are you sure they're non-cardinal? And have you been sliding or just kind of shuffling?
Not necessarily Mehrunes was made there by the Magna Ge but was banished from the mortal plane. Meridia was a star orphan and who really knows about Molag Bal. No daedra have claim to Mundus. It is metaphysically impossible for any one deity to control the grey maybe.
Pet My Bushwookie The video pretty much said Lyg isn't a physical location on Nirn. But who knows where or what it is without a game or book set place there. Sounds to me like Lyg is a pocket relm of Oblivion the same way Sovenguard is a pocket relm of Aetherius.
I honestly don't like the idea of Lyg existing on Nirn, Coldharbour is one thing but a continent with the whole "parallel universe" concept going on with it should not be only a few thousand miles away from it's twin.
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them floating trees tho
that's Lyg for you
Fun Fact: The capital city of Lyg is called "Sugma".
If Tamriel left an imprint of itself when nirn folded up, doesn't that mean that there may be some kind of parallel Akavir? Maybe even parallel versions of all the other islands in Nirn? And this might sound crazy, but maybe, if Aldmeris truly exists, it may be a parallel version of Atmora. I may not have understood exactly what is meant with parallel in this context, but I can definitely see some parallelisms between Atmora and Aldmeris now that I have started to think about It:
-while Atmora is known to be just up north from Tamriel, Aldmeris is usually depicted in maps directly south of Tamriel (yes, i have heard the non-cardinal directions thing, but come on, wtf does that mean. And even if it is that way, I have two more ways to relating Aldmeris and Atmora :) )
-This one may not be such a strong point, but while Aldmeris is an idyllic place, Atmora is known to be quite the opposite, a harsh, cold and inhosptitable island
-Finally, the relation I find to be the most important is that men originated on Atmora while mer are supposed to be native to Aldmeris.
Let me know what you think of my theory and of any ways it could be improved if you are so kind :)
Ok the topic of Nirn “folding”, could that mean that Nirn is actually a flat planet?
They are also equally racist. High elves being closer to Aldmeris and Nords being closer to Atmora are both typically racist as far as we seen in the games. with every other race in between being more or less indifferent to other races. Also we already have Flat Earthers now we got Flat Nirners lol.
@@RustedBuddy5192 The Dunmer are far worse when comes to racism, especially toward the Khajiit and Argonians.
Also, the Redguards were responsible for wiping out the indigenous Nedic tribes of Hammerfell. I dont think racism is a proper gauge here.
Maybe all the Dwemer got sent to Lyg
That might explain the aftermath of the quest in Skyrim too. The guy attempts to replicate Kagranak's use of The Heart of Lorkan and, like the dwemer, goes poof. But considering you can Summon his spirit then it stands to reason he didn't Zero Sum or he'd be erased from existence entirely. Could also explain how Falion met the Dwemer too. Lots of sliding in non cardinal directions.
that would explain a lot, i really like that theory
kai magnus who Falion, sounds like Talion from SoW
Antoine Petitjean Court Wizard, Morthal I think. Cures Vampirism. Pretty sure I spelled his name wrong though.
It would explain alot, as if they zero summed their ruins and works wouldn't exist
That's some fucked up shit. Some confusing stuff...
NCR Elite Riot Officer My thoughts exactly
Noone:
Absolutely noone:
Not a single soul:
The Greedy Man: aight lemme hide inside this nonexistent mountain
He's literally a pattern screamer
I would love for Elder Scrolls games to explore the other continents on nern. Having games completely taking place on other continents it would just be so epically awesome!
TheLadyAsellus I'd love to take a shot at Akavir
Not it would not be awesome, you're an idiot if you think Bethesda would EVER do that sort of thing. It's NEVER going to happen so shut the fuck up and stop dreaming.
I don't have to be an executive producer for The Elder Scrolls Franchise to know that it's never going to happen. I can list the reasons of why it won't happen here but I it's really not worth the time. If you want we can talk on discord about it and I can tell you why.
Edit: As far as the dick eating thing, I prefer sucking them, I'm not a cannibal.
Morogoth Corporate 101: If they'll buy it, then you sell it.
There's nothing stopping them from making a spin off in Akavir or anywhere else. Heck ESO is prime territory for an Akavir expansion in particular. Most fans don't care either way, a good amount would like to explore outside Tamriel, and then there are puratists that will kill the series before they accept anything different.
Don't be in the third camp man. The first camp has WiFi.
You're right. I was talking about the Main Elder Scrolls games, like Elder Scrolls 1 - X. I thought that TheLadyAsellus was talking about having for example Elder Scrolls 6 in Akavir for example, now on reading his comment again he didn't specifically say the main games. And I agree, I would want a spin off game located in / about the Isle of Artaeum.
This lore is so interesting
This is some game changing shit
Lyg? More like, "Lygma".
D4NK 4F why
I N T E R E S T I N G
Here's the literal, real world origin of Lyg (albeit written allegorically in the same drug addled affectation as some of the lore): teslore.wikia.com/wiki/On_The_Origin_of_the_Name_Lyg
In summary, according to Michael Kirkbride, "Lyg is a backwards coffee stain of Tamriel"- literally- created during a developer meeting. The "newest king" is Michael Kirkbride, his "elder brother king" is probably Kurt Kuhlmann, and "Uncle" is almost certainly Ken Rolston.
Andrew Vanhorne Finally someone gets it. The whole deeper TES lore is just a matophor for something.
Actually Lyg was literally a build of Morrowind Bethesda had written down early in development but then an office fire destroyed nearly everything.
You are beginning to creep up into the ELITE Elder Scrolls crew Avarti. Keep it up!
When you've only started playing Skyrim a few weeks ago and have no idea what the hell is going beyond the most basic lore
I think Lyg is really cold harbour; both are described as inverted versions of tamriel.
I didn't understand almost anything but nice vid bro
great vid, great channel.
Thanks!
ur welcome :)
If Dagon and molag bal became deadra after creation and weren't original deardra and basically turned into deadric princes like malicath then why do the other deadra not shun them like they do malicath?
Amazing channel
Cheers!
Avarti I thought I was a walking elder scrolls wiki but u proved me wrong
Nice Work on the continents
It sounds like if we ever get an Elder Scrolls that includes all of Tamriel, it could be comparatively easy to make a DLC (Or just part of the game) where they reuse Tamriel but then make adjustments from there, maybe even moving assets around in a way that makes it so it looks the same or similar on a surface level but is "wrong", plus different weather systems, color filters, altered textures- Could go as far or as little as you'd like.
+Avarti "Noncardinal directions" implies that Lyg exists parallel to Tamriel. If you could travel along the proper axis (like going 'left' or 'right' in time), you could reach it, but you can't get to it by travelling through space. Mundus, as represented in the lore, isn't a planet so much as it is a plane that's been folded in on itself. It's composed of more strange layers and dimensions than the 3+time we're used to. I'd argue that Lyg is real in the same sense that Tamriel is real, not allegorical, but rather explained in allegory because there isn't really a way to communicate it's nature to folks who can't even begin to understand the context it exists within.
that explains how molag bal"s realm is a dark reflection of tamriel
Good point to the poster. Not good point with molagbal other reply.
Why does so much Elder Scrolls lore require you to ingest ungodlily amounts of acid in order to comprehend?
Talking about Daedric princes attempting to kill Alduin by overfeeding him just makes me imagine Alduin getting fat.
Just think about that. A fat Alduin.
Well looking at the word cardinal it has quite a few meanings but the most applicable seems to be the the adjective which means means "of the greatest importance; fundamental" and has synonyms for words like basic, root, rudimentary and main.
So based on that I would surmise moving in a non cardinal direction would be moving in a more complicated direction something more, so a movement in the non physical sense. Given that Lyg is often referred to by terms like a coffee stain leeching through from the other side of the paper the person reaching Lyg would essentially be leeching through the paper to the other side in the opposite direction while never actually moving.
A coffee stain is on the exact same place on both sides of a piece of paper, it doesn't move the page does.
Wait so the inhabitants of lyg built towers to stabilise creation? - isn't that what tamriel did? Does that mean the towers prevent alduin from eating the world? (Amongst other things).
I honestly don't like the idea of Lyg existing on Nirn, Coldharbour is one thing but a continent with the whole "parallel universe" concept going on with it should not be only a few thousand miles away from it's twin.
I think Towers could be some sort of Aetherial energy antennae, or more abstractly have some connection between Mundus and the Aetherius, that help manipulate the physical world. My basis for saying that is a). Towers can be built by mortals to ascend to power in the world and b). every single event involving Towers revolves around using some sort of energy beyond the scope of mere mortals. It definitely has connection to the tonal architecture of Mundus, i.e. the "programm code", so perhaps they are "interfaces " where those "codes" are easier to access.
Towers are made to maintain the separation between the mortal plain and Oblivion. They prevent daedric influence, but not dragons
Drafonni no that's the dragon fires in the imperial city the towers keep mundus stable when all the towers are destroyed so does mundus completely disappears from Aethirous. what Alduin does is resets the world and doesn't destroy the towers
Would be cool if they make a game on lyg too bad I’ll be gone before it releases lol
Is it on nirn or in another relm
nirn
This may be the most obtuse creation story for a place ever.
Mysterious id suggest!
Love the vid and the music, more videos on things like continents or islands not tamriel or Akavir would be amazing! :)
This is interesting, and quite complicated.
Why is Alaska sticking out of Lyg?
Colombia and Venezuela also stick out
And Denmark to the north
The Cardinal Directions are the three dimensions of space: Up and Down, Left and Right, Front and Back.
The Non-Cardinal Direction could either be time itself (So you need to timetravel to reach Lyg) or Extra spacial dimensions that are not visible and traversible by mortals and other 3d beings (So to reach Lyg, you need to"Slide" through the 4th dimension of space and reach the parallel world where Lyg is Tamriel's counterpart)
Or maybe it's both, considering that The Elder Scrolls universe exists within a Kalpic Cycle, maybe if you travel back/forth in time far enough, you'll reach another Kalpa, that is by all intents and purposes, a parallel universe
Isn't non cardinal directions a 4th dimension concept?
Chim bruh; Don’t gotta explain shit, lmfao.
Lygma
Damn Elder Scrolls lore sounds like a nice of crazy physics and Hinduism...
Nirn could literally fold if it were flat #flatnirnsociety
so, the upside down but tamriel?
Tamriel got Lygma
Does anyone know what a kalpar is?
cool story bro but I, by principle, dont believe the fanfics of vivec to be canon
Maybe you can reach it by holding a wooden plate and sprinting with it against a wall
There's a third continent?!?!
The bottom left of Lyg is literally just the state of Alaska
Haha noticed that too.
6:00 It means moving across a 4th dimensional axis.
i like how alaska can be seen in lyg
I always loved how Elder Scrolls lore wasn't scared to be weird, bizarre or ridiculous. I thought that in a way that made it more believable because it was like real life mythology, where there are seemingly no limits to how strange things can get, except in Elder Scrolls, it's ALL or at least MOSTLY actually true.
Lyg? I must have missed a lot of content because I don't even remember hearing of it.
I have no idea what I just watched. Thanks Avarti
And do you think there's enough content to make a video on Imperial Mananauts?
You've commited crimes against skyrim and her people, what say you in your defense?
Lyg is also known its unique disease called Lygma
Lyg-Molag Bal(s). lol.
The fuck is a calper??
the continent of Lygma
0:27 Wait, how's it perverted??? O_o
What's a Kalpa?
6:19 Again, how's it 'perverted' in any way???
If you still haven't found your answers, by perverted he doesn't mean sexually but instead that Lyg is an odd corrupted version of Tamriel. And a kalpa is a period of time. The elder scrolls exists in a kalpa and all of it's events. At the end of the kalpa (or the end of time) the kalpa will simply reset meaning all events that have ever occured on mundus are erased and begin with different outcomes and events.
Lygma
How huge is Nirn? Is it even a planet?
About the size of two earths
I always assumed Lyg was the ‘’upside-down” version of Tamriel.
Trinston was here
I feel this video would benefit greatly from subtitles, no offense. The way you pronounce a lot of things, mostly words exclusive to TES, are incomprehensible. I shouldn't have to have such a hard time watching this.
Imagine trying to overfeed a being that is prophesied to consume the entire universe.
The "non-cardinal directions" means it isn't simply traversing through space. It's traversing through space-time.
This was absolutely awesome
Almost sounds like a mirror image. The same just opposite. So say the dwarves disappeared on nirn. Over there they would.....theory 104 on where the €&$@ are rhe dwarves
Where did you find that map?
Apparently Arkay was once mortal.
I love videos hitting obscure lore like this. Thanks!
So Lyg is basically the elder scrolls equivalent of the backrooms? Neat
Too bad Bethesda's current writing team isn't capable of actually doing something good with this lore.
I think Lyg is like The Upside-Down in, “Stranger Things.”
It just fits so perfectly that Molag Bal(s) is from Lyg if you know what I'm saying.
Lyg sounds a hell of a lot like the Bermuda Triangle of the TES universe. What if our Bermuda Triangle is actually a portal to Lyg? Making the Elder Scrolls Universe real?? That would mean some nasty copyright issues for Betheseda.
Oh my god and here we go again, gonna put another 1000 hours in skyrim.
Sounds like it is a plane of reality from the last cycle just out of step with Nirn in the current cycle. It is not part of the time line or any other oblivion plane. It is the 6th dimension.
And I thought Warhammer 40k lore was confusing
So what you are saying is that Alduin created Dagon by punishing him damn that’s fascinating
Omg I was wondering when you where going to cover this
So if cold harbour is lyg then does that mean that eso is the most important elder scrolls by the fact Tamriel won’t exist anymore
0:18 Lyg's left side is alaska? :D Looks identical
Doesn’t really make sense. Pretty vague to people who don’t know too much about the lore lol.
Aldmeris is the past, Tamriel is the present and Lyg is the future. They are all there at the same time but they dont exist to each other at the same time. You cant go to Lyg by any cardinal direction because to Tamriel it doesn't exist on the map, you have to go forward in time to reach Lyg.
Hexxagone I thought akavir was forward in theory. That direction.
I am both amazed and so fucking confused this is making my brain hurt
At the pace Bethesda makes elder scrolls. I dont think we will be alive to explore that area.
The corner to the south west of Lyg kinda looks like Alaska.
Lyg is the Mundus version of the back rooms
The Ruddy Man is the son of Molag Bal and Vivec, although he is the son of the two he is said to resemble a Dreugh and is said to be an aspect of Molag Bal. Molag Bal was not the one made on Lyg, that was Dagon, as in Mehrunes Dagon. There's a few other mistakes but those are the main ones I had a problem with!
GhostShadow1030 true. Also many magnagee helped make Dagon to topple the Ruddy Man. Meridia was punished for communing with Daedra thus becoming a Daedric Prince
MossyGolem The Magna-Gi indeed helped him, as they made him. However it was said that Lord Vivec was the one to eliminate the Ruddyman as stated in various in-games book and sources but that is one of many things that BGS and ZOS have made that goes into conflict with previous and existing lore.
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What if lyg is cold harbor conquered by molar bal.
It's a waste how much thought they put into places we'd never see.
I think lyg is just elder scrolls backrooms
wait... if there was an Elder Scrolls game set in another continent that ISN'T Tamriel... Would it even be an Elder Scrolls game? Aren't they all in Tamriel?
It'd still br on Nirn though which Tamriel is on Nirn
Could it be that the dwemer are in lyg?
It almost sounds like you said they hid all of the calipers
“What ever that means” it means to move 4th dimensionaly