THIS VIDEO IS OUTDATED, new updated version: th-cam.com/video/D9Vykw9zju8/w-d-xo.html I hope you enjoyed this very unconventional video. I really enjoyed doing a subject that was as vague and not well defined in lore as this one. Correction: There may have been different types of khajiit in tes games, since every khajiit race looks different in every main installment of the games. DEGENERATES! Oh and to my new arch nemesis mr "Flames of Chaos" first era video is on the way but this one became priority to finish when someone provided me with new sources.
you might have got someone else saying this to you, but I heard somewhere that the high elves live up to 1000 years, and the dark elves live around 400, but feel free to correct my words from the grapevine.
According to a recent interview with an eso developer mer live on average about 300-400 years if I remember correctly with 400 being very old. However mer can become significantly older because they can extend their lives by magical means. For example neloth that we meet in skyrim and morrowind who is wayyy older than 400 years. Fun fact however, some people doubt this devs lore knowledge (since he is eso developer and not mainline tes developer) & claim his statement was false. I personally find his statement to be quite reasonable, however I also feel like it might not go into detail enough about the life spans of different mer races which are stated to be different (dont exactly remember where)
Well no not really. It used to be 37 minutes with the entire thing of me comparing the races to real life cultural equivalents. But I decided to shorten it a lot since that just in the end would be too much speculation for a video I wanted to keep as factual as possible.
Actually Argonians and other races can procreate....with the help of a god. If you did the Shivering Isles expansion in Oblivion, you’ll find out that Sheogorath helped assist in the creation of a Child between an Argonian and a Human who wanted one.
I'm not sure. But I know in the game in one of the cities I literally found 3 dunmer women dancing around poles on pedestals behind a barrier with people watching in a tavern/inn
The mixed race couple on Solstheim actually married when the man was already on the older side. They met when he went on a depressive episode and refused to eat - she was a temple worker and nursed him back to health. I think she's a little older herself, but he's obviously aging faster.
I think it should be noted that even if Argonians have a different reproductive process their reproductive organs are similar to man and mer. At least that’s what the Lusty Argonian Maid suggests.
@@efaristi9737 we can safely assume Crassus Curio has seen Argonian and probably all other female race anatomy. Unless you’re just saying that to be contrarian
@@efaristi9737: If I am not mistaken, I'm pretty sure I remember from the wolf queen books in Skyrim that Emperor Antiochus woke up next to an Argonian girl in a brothel the day the Wolf Queen tried to blackmail him from being coronated. So I assume that Argonians are indeed sexually active somehow....
Well in Morrowind Dibella is described as being the most popular god in Cyrodil with many cults dedicated to her. Actually the point about sex being more open in High Rock/Hammerfell is backed up in a poem book called 'A Less Rude Song' the lyrics describe that at least in High Rock and Hammerfell sex and nudity is casual and common and that Dunmer society is much more conservative in comparison.
Considering that all races minus argonians started out as Elnofey and diversified until Tamriel was unified enough to allow widespread racial diversity in every given province (again, minus black marsh), the Mother’s Race thing is the main reason we still actually have 10 different races at all. Most of them would be gone by now, with all the slavery and conquering and race-wars since the beginning of the first era. Plus, the races wouldn’t be half as cool as they are if you could just mix and match them. They’d be meaningless and boring
@Rill Yeah but they started put as half and half. Only reason Bretons looks slightly more human than Mer is because the original half breed Bretons were only able to procreate with other humans. So Elves and humans and Bretons and humans. This lead to 70% Human and 30% Elf blood. That's basically the explanation. While you share a good point, at the end of the day, it's just that Bethesda doesn't wanna make a ton of mixed races.
@@matthewsteele5229 To be fair, some races shouldn't be able to mix at all, really. Humans yeah, of course can all mix, but the Beast Races like Khajit or Argonian shouldn't be able too at all. While I see your point, even if they kept the mothers race... wouldn't there still be more than 10 races? Having one parent alone remain the one to give the baby it's race still means that either way, the races would still be here/gone by now even if the few who could mix did. Really, I feel it's just Bethesda really wanting to keep the races separate and unique. It's fun to keep 10, and only having the mom's race pass down wouldn't be the only way to do that, it's just a simple way of just keeping the fanbase for asking for mix races
Although the extent by which one can control whom they fall in love with is rather minimal, but NOT nonexistent despite what some would say, I find it perfectly reasonable that an elf would be relunctunt to marry somebody who would die of old age before they are even so much as middle aged. It's just like how, in our own world, people will tend to avoid situations where they could end up falling in love with somebody who they know will most likely die decades before they do. They aren't cruel in this, they merely just avoid what they know to enevitably end in heartache and sorrow. Even from the perspective of the one of the two spouses who is going to die of old age sooner, they have to relyze the emotional anguish that this will eventually put their spouse through, and due to empathy, might be unwilling to put them through that themselves, and so they don't. The elf one of the spouses to be might also decide not to marry because they know that their own offspring, and maybe even their own grandoffspring, will probably die of old age before they do, and no true parent ever wishes to outlive their own children. All of this would explain why, even if the human beings and the elves of Nirn didn't all too often have prejudice against each other so much, marriages between the two species would still nevertheless be quite rare indeed, albeit not as rare as it is with the prejudices in tact.
Dustwarewolf 55 Sure, it's rare. But like he says, if the two are truly in love, they just don't care; damn the Man-Mer prejudices and age differences. Hell, if you know your way around magic, there are life-extending techniques.
In regards to Mer it could be a case of them having longer menstrual cycles and thus more time between their windows of fertility have more time between them.
The reason why the Thalmor haven't attacked again is there population is still rebuilding but the Imperials population have been rebuilt and military is almost and if not fully rebuilt and if the Empires military is rebuilt that would explain why the Thalmor haven't invaded again since they would lose the war
Actually no, it's because (I might be wrong) the White Gold Concordat is still valid and so both in real life and The Elder Scrolls, a treaty prevents nations from going to war during the time the treaty is valid. Nations CAN however break a treaty, but they become unstable when doing so, a tactic forced on them by the international community.
we have seen the result of a very unique coupling that brings up more questions than answers. The arena champion The Grey Prince. Whose mother was an orc and father was a Nobel imperial.... amongst other things?
@@pcpolice2518 No he wasn't. It's very clear that the vampire in his father effected him. That's why he's so strong. That's literally what's stated lmao.
I might be wrong but if I remember correctly an average mer lives about 300 years. Whereas humans about a 100. So, if a mer went with a human for a long term relationship I imagine it'd be when the mer is over a 100 years old. Now, if it was only for fun then the age differences won't matter as much. Which seems to be how Bretons came to be. Slave Masters took advantage of their nedic maids and resulted in children. And I think argonians and cats live to the same age as humans? In one of the lore books, it talks about Talos' dark elf mistress and how he forced her to have an abortion. Their high elf doctor seemed uneasy to do this because according to the doctor, it is harder for elven women to get pregnant. I think it was in the barenziah book? There are also quests throughout TES that involve members of different species trying to hook up. The dark elves seem to be the horniest of the bunch. I get the impression that some elven males have a fetish for human females.
I think that there is a racial purification in High Elf culture, but I think it's more around selective breeding or maybe genetic rinsing using magic. At least that's what I like to think.
On a side note, it'd be pretty difficult to live as a four legged couple. You'd have to depend/rely on other members of your family to do tasks that would normally seem simple. That is unless the whole of Elsweyr as adapted to simplify four legged Khajiit interactions.
I think it’s quite possible that the Argonians were just dumb beasts before the Hist arrived. And them being Daedra they could alter them into what they are now, but only at birth. It is from the Hist that they get their intelligence (or soul so to speak), so without them they just grow to become giant lizards. The Hist obviously would’ve done this to have servants in the world. As all of the powerful Daedra do.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the passage in The Real Barenziah pt 7 "It is her child. Children are few among (dark) elves. No woman conceives more than four and that is very rare. Two is the allotted number. Some bear none, some only one. If I take this one from her, she may not conceive again." Now, this does run counter to what has been confirmed that Mer are more fertile among other Mer, but I'm not sure I recall any confirmed Dunmer who has more than 4 children...It is probable like you suggest with the Altmer, that children are a concern for much later in life and most do not have more than 2...but I know there were a number of people who interpreted this line to mean Dunmer are only physically capable of 4...and even then only rarely.
Nice and informative video. I have experimented a bit in the new mobile game castles. Argonians can strangely procreate with seemingly any other race. It is also seems like the children more often inherit their race from the mother than the father.
Real nice research you did there. I didn't know I was curious about the topic till I found this xD wish it was a bit more covered up in the games or in-game books. It's just biology
You should read up on the Skyrim book racial philologiany and some forum posts about it, I know form post are definitely not official lore but they might mention some things that are confirmed in game
Really interesting to see all this brought together. Thanks! Personally, for both mer only and mer and man couples, I would go with the fertility theory. Or rather; ovulation. Ovulation can simply be much rarer for elves than once a month or the cycle could be much longer, thus making it easy to avoid ovulation with a little bit of planning. A female, of any race (usually), can only get pregnant if there's seed inside the uterus when the egg travels there. (This might be highly different for Argonians.) The egg will only stay there for 24 hours (in a human) before being discarded (Best Before date is highly short lol). For a woman, that's a TINY window. In the case of the male... it depends on how long his seed can survive. Fewer days means you need to have sex closer to ovulation. But if a couple knows when the female ovulates, not having sex at most six days before and not until one day after ovulation (unless you use protection) is enough. And if a female mer's fertile cycle is double or triple the lenght of a human's? That's a LOT of days when you can do whatever you very much like with no risk of pregnancy. And then there's the issue of unovulatory cycles where a female simply pass through the fertile cycle without any chance of pregnancy whatsoever, and they're not super uncommon either. In a male mer and female human couple, the human will still have their usual chances for pregnancy. (And with the Bretons we know it was this kind of combination that was the norm, which makes sense.) What about with a female mer and male human then? It could simply be down to that the different races having different ratios of hormones and enzymes in their natural lubrication and seed, something that promotes the movement of human seed. This doesn't mean one race's seed is less potent than the other, it just means it would take more or longer for it to reach the goal, so to speak. From a biological and logical point of view, I do find that this makes some of the most sense. As for Bosmer, it's possible their ability to have more children comes from not practicing birth control. Or, as they and their lore origin is in most cases tied to the land, might have a faster cycle or similar enzymes/hormone cocktail to humans since, since one origin of the different races argue, the races of man came from the Wandering Ehlnofey which were shaped by (the hardships of) Nirn more than trying to keep Nirn at bay/away (like the other half of their race). As Bosmer apparently "integrated" more with Nirn later (because of their concordat with Y'ffre through the Green Pact), they could have gotten that change as well. It's all very interesting to think about though, so thank you for giving all the ideas. Bonus: TES6 (since it now seems highly unlikely to be set in Elsweyr) could hopefully contain some info on the Khajiit as far as how their subrace is decided. Just one quest. That shouldn't be that hard, right? Or a book.
Altmer probably just pull out to decrease the chance of inception. While not 100% effective irl, it will decrease the chances, especially if the pullout game is strong.
Good to comment specifically on this one but thank you so much for these videos! They help a lot with roleplaying on different platforms with Tamrielic characters c:
i always thought that mer, men, khajiiti and argonians were the species, then dark elves, high elves and wood elves are all races, with imperials, and nords being races, like we have asians and caucasians etc. in real life
True hybrid races in Elder Scrolls aren't gonna happen again in lore because it's a nightmare for the game developers to create every possible combination and sub-combinations can you imagine a half Orc half Khajiit with Altmer traits? lmao Bretons we're made possible because the Derenni elves had so many Nede sex slaves essentially that the Derenni/Nede offspring could mate with each other and they're own offspring would be identical to they're parents. The creation of a new hybrid race could only happen if those circumstances repeated themselves which is extremely unlikely Dunmer and Altmer hate each other and everyone else lmao Argonians and Khajiit also hate each other and basically everyone dislikes the Orcs
@Ethan Oden yeah, I agree. But puberty is a start of adolescent years, during which brain develops rapidly. That's why I took puberty as a starting point and not adolescentcy
Ok,I'll throw this out there beacuse it got me thinking but Do Dunmer and Redguard's get circumcised?? I mean getting Ash or sand under your foreskin would be annoying and could cause Infections so wouldn't be easier to remove it?
In our world, in the old days, circumcision was practiced a lot due to lack of clean water and soap. I assume people like royalty would be able to keep clean so I don't think they practice it. And of course religion and culture plays a part. In the Elder Scrolls world, I assume it's pretty much the same.
8:07 I thought of a reason the high elves would have fewer children. It has to do with their culture, probably that fewer mortal lives means more souls in aetherius. Or it could be a form of eugenics in that they choose not to have more children in attempt to lessen the likelihood devolution of the altmer race would occur
Imperial Knowledge glad I can give ya a laugh and A video idea i don’t think you’ve done it so a indepth look of the leadership of different factions. Like the blades, fighters guild, the mages guild or the companions just a iswa
Two wrenches to be thrown one the bretons they are men-mer or put another way man-elf Or half-elfen multiple times over kind of like the elves of Rivendell in Lord of the Rings But now for the far more serious problem the orc champion of the arena in Oblivion The Gray Prince 1/2 Breton half-orc vampire dunpeal so yeah it's a lot more complicated than claiming they take after the mother's race always I mean minotaurs disprove that And in the Elder Scrolls all minotaurs are descendants of Alycia the slave Queen and her consort Maura House of the man bull in fact the first few true Emperors were minotaurs
Ok, I'll hold it with my two hands... :( I have a question; we all know that skyrim is poorly populated, but what about high rock? I mean, Is a shorter province and bretons have elven blood, so they probably dont procreate so much
Khajits and moons -> maybe actually a hormonal cycle in biology like in the real world (periods/hormones roughly the same length of a moon cycle)??? Interesting lore topic.
Might be! While we don't know what the consequences were, the moons disappeared at some point (Void nights). The Thalmor brought them back, and gained the trust of the Khajiits in doing so. Unsure if it screwed the felines' birth during this period... If there are any reports describing the effects of those nights on Khajiit, then we'd know for sure if it's purely magical or actually hormonal (or in their genes)
Well for the elves it's also possible that due to their long lifespan their fertility is rather low. And the reason it's more in mixed race is because the other race is more fertile.
um Todd Howard anyway how do we explain Neloth he still looks fairly young and he's pre-oblivion crisis witch was 200 years ago he should be old and rinkly by your 300 year limit
my bad you even used Neloth in the example anyway like you pointed out a lot of lorebeards myself included don't take the new lore master too seriously after all similar to most bethesda PR they ignore Arena and Daggerfall lore
THIS VIDEO IS OUTDATED, new updated version: th-cam.com/video/D9Vykw9zju8/w-d-xo.html
I hope you enjoyed this very unconventional video. I really enjoyed doing a subject that was as vague and not well defined in lore as this one.
Correction: There may have been different types of khajiit in tes games, since every khajiit race looks different in every main installment of the games.
DEGENERATES!
Oh and to my new arch nemesis mr "Flames of Chaos" first era video is on the way but this one became priority to finish when someone provided me with new sources.
you might have got someone else saying this to you, but I heard somewhere that the high elves live up to 1000 years, and the dark elves live around 400, but feel free to correct my words from the grapevine.
According to a recent interview with an eso developer mer live on average about 300-400 years if I remember correctly with 400 being very old. However mer can become significantly older because they can extend their lives by magical means. For example neloth that we meet in skyrim and morrowind who is wayyy older than 400 years.
Fun fact however, some people doubt this devs lore knowledge (since he is eso developer and not mainline tes developer) & claim his statement was false. I personally find his statement to be quite reasonable, however I also feel like it might not go into detail enough about the life spans of different mer races which are stated to be different (dont exactly remember where)
Imperial Knowledge
Please do a lore video on Jyggalag and What happened to him after Oblivion, why was Jyggalag not in Skyrim.
In the end you were demonitized on this video
@Imperial Knowledge th-cam.com/video/Kas6akz1jWU/w-d-xo.html ;)
~HB
Wish you put this much effort into our romantic relationship.....
same he is sexy tbh
Ooooooof
M'aiq knows many things some things that he doesn't want to know.
M'aiq has seen many lovers in his days. M'aiq has never had complaints in the past. One such as M'aiq knows the secrets that keep them coming back.
Lol
*It is good the people wear clothing. M'aiq wears clothing. Who would want to see M'aiq naked? Sick, sick people. Very sad.*
*_D E G E N E R A T E S_*
I'm certain Todd knew exactly what he started
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The Damned Profligates belong on a Cross!
purely coincidental that this happened to be one of the longer videos
Well no not really. It used to be 37 minutes with the entire thing of me comparing the races to real life cultural equivalents.
But I decided to shorten it a lot since that just in the end would be too much speculation for a video I wanted to keep as factual as possible.
He goes on to explain it was longer before he edited out bits HAHAHA!!!! It IS just 'purely coincidental'!
hehe ..longer
Actually Argonians and other races can procreate....with the help of a god. If you did the Shivering Isles expansion in Oblivion, you’ll find out that Sheogorath helped assist in the creation of a Child between an Argonian and a Human who wanted one.
Barabel22 well by natural means they can't, a daedra or an aedra could get a nord lumberjack to procreate with a spriggan
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Khajiit/Orc
well that's hardly surprising, i mean, gods...
In morrowind they have a place that's pretty much a strip club
Joseph Cooper Is that were you find that shirtless Imperial?
I'm not sure. But I know in the game in one of the cities I literally found 3 dunmer women dancing around poles on pedestals behind a barrier with people watching in a tavern/inn
@@sxcJOELisNotsexy you mean caius? Nah, he's just addicted to moon-sugar
In Suran? I guess
@Titus Labienus it is suran i stumbled upon it and some guy told me that "ruby is a gem, isn't she"
Well, when two Lusty Argonian maids really love each other...
Out pops an egg
when a lusty argonian maid and a sultry argonian bard love each other very much...
The mixed race couple on Solstheim actually married when the man was already on the older side. They met when he went on a depressive episode and refused to eat - she was a temple worker and nursed him back to health. I think she's a little older herself, but he's obviously aging faster.
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One hand on my phone.
And one hand on my meal cause im hungry.
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@Remove Talos: It sure is thus why i have my hand on it.
Im eating Turkey
"Meal"
Remove Talos Fuck the thalmor.
One Handed reach level 100. LEGENDARY BITCHES!!!!!
I think it should be noted that even if Argonians have a different reproductive process their reproductive organs are similar to man and mer. At least that’s what the Lusty Argonian Maid suggests.
Or maybe the book is just full of the fantasies of the autor and don't have anything concrete regarding Argonians sexuality or sexuals organs?
@@efaristi9737 we can safely assume Crassus Curio has seen Argonian and probably all other female race anatomy. Unless you’re just saying that to be contrarian
@@reunitedagain5005 Just to know, what make you sure he has seen every female race anatomy up close?
@@efaristi9737: If I am not mistaken, I'm pretty sure I remember from the wolf queen books in Skyrim that Emperor Antiochus woke up next to an Argonian girl in a brothel the day the Wolf Queen tried to blackmail him from being coronated. So I assume that Argonians are indeed sexually active somehow....
@@tigervalley62 fair point.
Well in Morrowind Dibella is described as being the most popular god in Cyrodil with many cults dedicated to her. Actually the point about sex being more open in High Rock/Hammerfell is backed up in a poem book called 'A Less Rude Song' the lyrics describe that at least in High Rock and Hammerfell sex and nudity is casual and common and that Dunmer society is much more conservative in comparison.
Going with the mother's race is just an excuse not to have hybrids in game.
Anaru_ Boi yeah
Considering that all races minus argonians started out as Elnofey and diversified until Tamriel was unified enough to allow widespread racial diversity in every given province (again, minus black marsh), the Mother’s Race thing is the main reason we still actually have 10 different races at all. Most of them would be gone by now, with all the slavery and conquering and race-wars since the beginning of the first era.
Plus, the races wouldn’t be half as cool as they are if you could just mix and match them. They’d be meaningless and boring
@@matthewsteele5229 That's really cool and all but Bretons in the lore are stated to have descended from Mer/Man interbreeding.
@Rill
Yeah but they started put as half and half. Only reason Bretons looks slightly more human than Mer is because the original half breed Bretons were only able to procreate with other humans.
So Elves and humans and Bretons and humans. This lead to 70% Human and 30% Elf blood. That's basically the explanation. While you share a good point, at the end of the day, it's just that Bethesda doesn't wanna make a ton of mixed races.
@@matthewsteele5229
To be fair, some races shouldn't be able to mix at all, really. Humans yeah, of course can all mix, but the Beast Races like Khajit or Argonian shouldn't be able too at all.
While I see your point, even if they kept the mothers race... wouldn't there still be more than 10 races? Having one parent alone remain the one to give the baby it's race still means that either way, the races would still be here/gone by now even if the few who could mix did.
Really, I feel it's just Bethesda really wanting to keep the races separate and unique. It's fun to keep 10, and only having the mom's race pass down wouldn't be the only way to do that, it's just a simple way of just keeping the fanbase for asking for mix races
Someone visited Loverslab.
I ALWAYS been courious about this in Elder Scrolls, very interesting video :)
Although the extent by which one can control whom they fall in love with is rather minimal, but NOT nonexistent despite what some would say, I find it perfectly reasonable that an elf would be relunctunt to marry somebody who would die of old age before they are even so much as middle aged. It's just like how, in our own world, people will tend to avoid situations where they could end up falling in love with somebody who they know will most likely die decades before they do. They aren't cruel in this, they merely just avoid what they know to enevitably end in heartache and sorrow. Even from the perspective of the one of the two spouses who is going to die of old age sooner, they have to relyze the emotional anguish that this will eventually put their spouse through, and due to empathy, might be unwilling to put them through that themselves, and so they don't. The elf one of the spouses to be might also decide not to marry because they know that their own offspring, and maybe even their own grandoffspring, will probably die of old age before they do, and no true parent ever wishes to outlive their own children. All of this would explain why, even if the human beings and the elves of Nirn didn't all too often have prejudice against each other so much, marriages between the two species would still nevertheless be quite rare indeed, albeit not as rare as it is with the prejudices in tact.
Dustwarewolf 55
Sure, it's rare. But like he says, if the two are truly in love, they just don't care; damn the Man-Mer prejudices and age differences. Hell, if you know your way around magic, there are life-extending techniques.
Dyveth Fyr of House Telvanni seemed to get it on rather well. Happened to be with reverse sex clones of himself, but he got it on.
Birds and the bees with imperial knowledge
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@@cherub550 Who made you this way?
@@cherub550 how dare you
I hid the body in the river at pines beach
10/10 content. Havent been this hard and learning at the same time since reading the real Barenziah.
In regards to Mer it could be a case of them having longer menstrual cycles and thus more time between their windows of fertility have more time between them.
The reason why the Thalmor haven't attacked again is there population is still rebuilding but the Imperials population have been rebuilt and military is almost and if not fully rebuilt and if the Empires military is rebuilt that would explain why the Thalmor haven't invaded again since they would lose the war
Actually no, it's because (I might be wrong) the White Gold Concordat is still valid and so both in real life and The Elder Scrolls, a treaty prevents nations from going to war during the time the treaty is valid.
Nations CAN however break a treaty, but they become unstable when doing so, a tactic forced on them by the international community.
You always find the weirdest topics.
Never change Imperial.
And this is why you don’t fall asleep on auto-play
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we have seen the result of a very unique coupling that brings up more questions than answers. The arena champion The Grey Prince. Whose mother was an orc and father was a Nobel imperial.... amongst other things?
and a vampire, how does the undead reproduce?
@@justanuff i'm sure he turned after he was born lmao
@@pcpolice2518 yes but how does an undead imperial vampire have the *live* semen required to fertalize a *live* egg?
he likely wasnt undead when he had sex with the thing from your nightmares, plus even if he was if he came ig it works.
@@pcpolice2518 No he wasn't. It's very clear that the vampire in his father effected him. That's why he's so strong. That's literally what's stated lmao.
I might be wrong but if I remember correctly an average mer lives about 300 years. Whereas humans about a 100. So, if a mer went with a human for a long term relationship I imagine it'd be when the mer is over a 100 years old. Now, if it was only for fun then the age differences won't matter as much. Which seems to be how Bretons came to be. Slave Masters took advantage of their nedic maids and resulted in children. And I think argonians and cats live to the same age as humans?
In one of the lore books, it talks about Talos' dark elf mistress and how he forced her to have an abortion. Their high elf doctor seemed uneasy to do this because according to the doctor, it is harder for elven women to get pregnant. I think it was in the barenziah book?
There are also quests throughout TES that involve members of different species trying to hook up. The dark elves seem to be the horniest of the bunch. I get the impression that some elven males have a fetish for human females.
I think that there is a racial purification in High Elf culture, but I think it's more around selective breeding or maybe genetic rinsing using magic. At least that's what I like to think.
Also, all forms of Khajiit can interbreed. It would be normal in Khajiiti culture to see an Ohmes-raht mate with a Dagi-Raht.
On a side note, it'd be pretty difficult to live as a four legged couple. You'd have to depend/rely on other members of your family to do tasks that would normally seem simple. That is unless the whole of Elsweyr as adapted to simplify four legged Khajiit interactions.
Guys we r getting the talk lol
Before thalmor: it was waiting
After thalmor: eugenics
I’ll hold it with My feet, I need both hands...
To hold My coffee
I think it’s quite possible that the Argonians were just dumb beasts before the Hist arrived. And them being Daedra they could alter them into what they are now, but only at birth. It is from the Hist that they get their intelligence (or soul so to speak), so without them they just grow to become giant lizards. The Hist obviously would’ve done this to have servants in the world. As all of the powerful Daedra do.
Those damn elves aint loyal,,,
"these elves ain't loyal"
"Please keep both hands on your phone"
One-Handed Increased. One-Handed Increased. One-Handed Increased.
This video has been instrumental in the "research" for many fans.
yo the real barenzieh in daggerfall hits different
I think I read that the Dunmer have the same procreation rates as the Altmer. The only ones with higher fertility are the bosmer.
Oh look, you're trying so hard to keep out vulgar stuff out of this video.... well guess what
DEMONETIZED
Have you ever heard of the High Elves?!
Who doesn´t
@Pelinal Whitestrake no u
Go kill some elves. Whoever kills more elves is the real Pelinal Whitestrake.
@@gdew5168 and if you accidentally kill hoards of khajiit then there's no doubt about it
I'm surprised you didn't mention the passage in The Real Barenziah pt 7
"It is her child. Children are few among (dark) elves. No woman conceives more than four and that is very rare. Two is the allotted number. Some bear none, some only one. If I take this one from her, she may not conceive again."
Now, this does run counter to what has been confirmed that Mer are more fertile among other Mer, but I'm not sure I recall any confirmed Dunmer who has more than 4 children...It is probable like you suggest with the Altmer, that children are a concern for much later in life and most do not have more than 2...but I know there were a number of people who interpreted this line to mean Dunmer are only physically capable of 4...and even then only rarely.
The references to the Moon could be like a metaphor and the Khajiit kittens or children could be naturally random I'm guessing I don't know
Nice and informative video. I have experimented a bit in the new mobile game castles. Argonians can strangely procreate with seemingly any other race. It is also seems like the children more often inherit their race from the mother than the father.
21 minutes of the elder scrolls sex lore, this will be weird but lore is lore so here we go
This guy just spoiled where baby's come from
Actually something I never thought of (probably because it's totally censored in ES), but a really interesting topic
Same, until that request I had never thought of it
Real nice research you did there. I didn't know I was curious about the topic till I found this xD wish it was a bit more covered up in the games or in-game books. It's just biology
I like to think in the city of Orcs, only the leader can have multiple wives but every man can only have 1
You should read up on the Skyrim book racial philologiany and some forum posts about it, I know form post are definitely not official lore but they might mention some things that are confirmed in game
Really interesting to see all this brought together. Thanks!
Personally, for both mer only and mer and man couples, I would go with the fertility theory. Or rather; ovulation.
Ovulation can simply be much rarer for elves than once a month or the cycle could be much longer, thus making it easy to avoid ovulation with a little bit of planning. A female, of any race (usually), can only get pregnant if there's seed inside the uterus when the egg travels there. (This might be highly different for Argonians.) The egg will only stay there for 24 hours (in a human) before being discarded (Best Before date is highly short lol). For a woman, that's a TINY window. In the case of the male... it depends on how long his seed can survive. Fewer days means you need to have sex closer to ovulation. But if a couple knows when the female ovulates, not having sex at most six days before and not until one day after ovulation (unless you use protection) is enough.
And if a female mer's fertile cycle is double or triple the lenght of a human's? That's a LOT of days when you can do whatever you very much like with no risk of pregnancy.
And then there's the issue of unovulatory cycles where a female simply pass through the fertile cycle without any chance of pregnancy whatsoever, and they're not super uncommon either. In a male mer and female human couple, the human will still have their usual chances for pregnancy. (And with the Bretons we know it was this kind of combination that was the norm, which makes sense.) What about with a female mer and male human then? It could simply be down to that the different races having different ratios of hormones and enzymes in their natural lubrication and seed, something that promotes the movement of human seed. This doesn't mean one race's seed is less potent than the other, it just means it would take more or longer for it to reach the goal, so to speak.
From a biological and logical point of view, I do find that this makes some of the most sense.
As for Bosmer, it's possible their ability to have more children comes from not practicing birth control. Or, as they and their lore origin is in most cases tied to the land, might have a faster cycle or similar enzymes/hormone cocktail to humans since, since one origin of the different races argue, the races of man came from the Wandering Ehlnofey which were shaped by (the hardships of) Nirn more than trying to keep Nirn at bay/away (like the other half of their race). As Bosmer apparently "integrated" more with Nirn later (because of their concordat with Y'ffre through the Green Pact), they could have gotten that change as well. It's all very interesting to think about though, so thank you for giving all the ideas.
Bonus: TES6 (since it now seems highly unlikely to be set in Elsweyr) could hopefully contain some info on the Khajiit as far as how their subrace is decided. Just one quest. That shouldn't be that hard, right? Or a book.
This is really good content. Great job on not saturating the market with the same topics.
I have no doubt that the dwemer would eventualy find a way to cross breed khajiit. If so that means someone would cover it up.
The Hist is a Elder Monstrosities Horror, that fine and uses the Lizard as slaves, and morph them to suits their master need.
We do actually see the practice of BDSM in a brothel in one of the Dark Elf cities in Online.
@MiztarBriteCide
Where and when did this happen?
There also used to be bandage in ESO but they may have removed it
Altmer probably just pull out to decrease the chance of inception. While not 100% effective irl, it will decrease the chances, especially if the pullout game is strong.
I didn't get that 2 hands joke so I picked up my phone then got it
Good to comment specifically on this one but thank you so much for these videos! They help a lot with roleplaying on different platforms with Tamrielic characters c:
The Sexy Scrolls
You just cant make this shit up 🥶🥶🥶
So we are having now REAL conversation
What an interesting topic! You should keep on with these more unknown details on lore. Keep going with the good work!
He was 20 when they fell in love cremessius was. She was about 140.
Where'd you get that info from ?
Dragon Monkey D.
UESP lists him as mentioning that he is 80, and that they met 10 years ago.
One-handed skill 100
Magical birth control, fetus deletus
i always thought that mer, men, khajiiti and argonians were the species, then dark elves, high elves and wood elves are all races, with imperials, and nords being races, like we have asians and caucasians etc. in real life
Men and Mer also generally can't stand each other, barring the Bosmer of course.
2 hands on my phone 🥶
True hybrid races in Elder Scrolls aren't gonna happen again in lore because it's a nightmare for the game developers to create every possible combination and sub-combinations can you imagine a half Orc half Khajiit with Altmer traits? lmao Bretons we're made possible because the Derenni elves had so many Nede sex slaves essentially that the Derenni/Nede offspring could mate with each other and they're own offspring would be identical to they're parents. The creation of a new hybrid race could only happen if those circumstances repeated themselves which is extremely unlikely Dunmer and Altmer hate each other and everyone else lmao Argonians and Khajiit also hate each other and basically everyone dislikes the Orcs
I misread the title as Sex, Relationships & Procastination. My brain must be trying to tell me something...
If elven puberty starts at about 19 years of age, that means 19-20 year old mer has the mental capacity of 12-13 year old human.
@Ethan Oden yeah, I agree. But puberty is a start of adolescent years, during which brain develops rapidly. That's why I took puberty as a starting point and not adolescentcy
Imperial Knowledge: The Divine Tribunal outlawed oral s*x
Me: I guess we know where Almalexia fell in the swallow or spit debate.
now i can lvl up my one handed.
WHEEEEEEEEEZE
Ok,I'll throw this out there beacuse it got me thinking but Do Dunmer and Redguard's get circumcised?? I mean getting Ash or sand under your foreskin would be annoying and could cause Infections so wouldn't be easier to remove it?
I.....I don't know.......and I'm not sure on what to do now.
In our world, in the old days, circumcision was practiced a lot due to lack of clean water and soap. I assume people like royalty would be able to keep clean so I don't think they practice it. And of course religion and culture plays a part.
In the Elder Scrolls world, I assume it's pretty much the same.
This is going to be on my watch history forever, now :(.
8:07 I thought of a reason the high elves would have fewer children. It has to do with their culture, probably that fewer mortal lives means more souls in aetherius. Or it could be a form of eugenics in that they choose not to have more children in attempt to lessen the likelihood devolution of the altmer race would occur
"Devolution" in the sense that they are no longer altmer. ie dunmer or orsimer
*man with one hand
Am I a joke to you
Ik this is a old video but I’m going through and watching them
I got a laugh out of it so its okay
Imperial Knowledge glad I can give ya a laugh and A video idea i don’t think you’ve done it so a indepth look of the leadership of different factions. Like the blades, fighters guild, the mages guild or the companions just a iswa
Thanks for the great lore videos my friend!
I thought Altmer lived up to 1000 years?
I explained my words on this in a comment under the top comment. As there was a recent developer interview on it :)
Thanks!
Two wrenches to be thrown one the bretons they are men-mer or put another way man-elf
Or half-elfen multiple times over kind of like the elves of Rivendell in Lord of the Rings
But now for the far more serious problem the orc champion of the arena in Oblivion The Gray Prince 1/2 Breton half-orc vampire dunpeal so yeah it's a lot more complicated than claiming they take after the mother's race always
I mean minotaurs disprove that
And in the Elder Scrolls all minotaurs are descendants of Alycia the slave Queen and her consort Maura House of the man bull in fact the first few true Emperors were minotaurs
Ok, I'll hold it with my two hands... :(
I have a question; we all know that skyrim is poorly populated, but what about high rock? I mean, Is a shorter province and bretons have elven blood, so they probably dont procreate so much
We dont really know but I did make a video on population of tamriel where I also cover high rock
ok ill check it
Khajits and moons -> maybe actually a hormonal cycle in biology like in the real world (periods/hormones roughly the same length of a moon cycle)??? Interesting lore topic.
Might be! While we don't know what the consequences were, the moons disappeared at some point (Void nights). The Thalmor brought them back, and gained the trust of the Khajiits in doing so. Unsure if it screwed the felines' birth during this period...
If there are any reports describing the effects of those nights on Khajiit, then we'd know for sure if it's purely magical or actually hormonal (or in their genes)
Maybe some info about the other races from nirn like those snake people (I'm sorry I forgot the name of the race).
Tsaeci
So when are you going to do the artillery only challenge?
what did you mean by censored and uncensored books? were there uncensored versions in the actual game?
So a vid about the Dabelline art
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Make a worst npcs in Skyrim video cuz Nivenor is definitely on that list
Well well, bosmer and khajiit are swingers aye? 🤔
"An alfiq is fine too..."
Let's kick off!
Well for the elves it's also possible that due to their long lifespan their fertility is rather low. And the reason it's more in mixed race is because the other race is more fertile.
So there could possibly be a Argonian-Khajiit cross breed out there in Tamriel???
Infidelity is frowned upon in skyrim?! Time to lay off of RDO then.... Sooo many lovers 😏
Nice video! Different style!
Ok cool but why do Argonians have boobs
*Flips table*
The Dunmer are so misunderstood...
What was the name here? At 13:18 to 13:21 ish.
If you're using your PC put both your hands on the keyboard and mouse oh and imperial knowledge high elves live for 1000 years
Not according to a recent dev interview
um Todd Howard anyway how do we explain Neloth he still looks fairly young and he's pre-oblivion crisis witch was 200 years ago he should be old and rinkly by your 300 year limit
I added explanation under the top comment :)
my bad you even used Neloth in the example anyway like you pointed out a lot of lorebeards myself included don't take the new lore master too seriously after all similar to most bethesda PR they ignore Arena and Daggerfall lore