Elder Scrolls Universe EXPLAINED - How It Started, And How It Will End
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- The Elder Scrolls Universe Explained - How it Started, and How It Will End. In this video I aim to explain the Elder Scrolls Universe in the most understandable way possible, covering all the necessary topics to allow for a comprehensive understanding.
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Inception of the Universe: 1:27
The Dream and Amaranth: 3:10
The Creation: 4:24
Kalpas: 6:58
The End Times: 7:49
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Elder Scrolls lore in a nutshell: cycles. WIthin cycles. Within cycles. Sprinkled with extra cycles on top. Oh, and don't forget Sheogorath.
"real life" is the same, lad.
Rowan Rowboat Real life is a glitch was never supposed to happend. Someone somewhere fucked up man now they have 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000×
100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 power years to complete it.
Rowan Rowboat
ayy lmao. Here come all the militant materialists.
Just because some Gnostic on LSD made a universe where this applies doesn't mean it applies to the real one.
Ah, the daedric God of Fishy Sticks
Will the circle... be unbroken~
by and by... by and~by
... sorry, wrong universe.
Hear me out: The Godhead represents the game developers who fabricated all of the Aurbis and the lore. If they were to stop making games and "wake up," the dream representing the universe they created would cease to exist. The Psijic Endeavor is something we players/our player-characters can achieve by learning more about the deep lore of the Elder Scrolls and coming to the realization that the Godhead is the devs, which leads to Chim. Chim is what a player who has learned how to mod the game has achieved. As a modder, I can do more in an Elder Scrolls game and understand how and why things happen because I have a deep understanding of the inner workings of the universe/game. I can alter the reality of the universe/game just like Talos did by "deleting" the jungles of Cyrodiil. Finally, a player who reaches Amaranth has decided to make their own game. They sacrifice their freedom to play other games/dreams because they've made their own. And if they were to stop "dreaming," the universe they created would cease to exist.
*Mind = Blown*
I'm writing this at 3am so it may not make sense:
The Godhead = Todd Howard
The Aedra = The developers
Magnus = Michael Kirkbride
The Daedra = Modders
Mortals = Players
I really hate the anti-lore faction. Especially when they talk about the lore.
Tiber Septim was the first mod-maker.
Assuming this is true, that would also confirm the "Fallout and Elder Scrolls are set in the same universe" theory. You can mod Fallout in the exact same way you can mod TES games, so doesn't that mean you can achieve Chim in Fallout as well? Maybe the Fallout universe is just set in a different Kalpa where magic wasn't widely discovered (except the magician guy in Nuka World), and where technology was used instead. As for the Et'Ada, maybe they went by different names or never revealed themselves to humanity? Sure, there are a lot of holes in this theory, but it's just a thought.
@@noob19087 I actually theorized that once, that Fallout and the Elder Scrolls are either in the same Universe but a different Kalpa, or that perhaps Fallout is the dream of a different Godhead, explaining why it is so fundamentally different with no Aedra, Daedra or magic.
If the Godhead woke up, the first he/she will hear is:
"Hey You, You're finally awake!"
ralof just has the godhead in a cage
Woah there, easy now...
This is underrated
Fun fact, the Redguards and the Hist are from previous Kalpas. I don't know how the Hist survived But the Redguards survived the last Kalpa because their ancestors, the Yokudans managed to escape it before it was devoured.
Ruptga, the chief God of the Yokudans, knew that Satakal (Alduin from the previous Kalpa) was going to devour the world. But Ruptga wanted to save his Yokudans. So instead of fighting Satakal, Ruptga and his Yokudans sidestepped through time and moved to the new Kalpa.
Think of it like this. Imagine you're on a train track and you see an oncoming train. Instead of letting yourself get hit by the train, you simply step over to the empty train track. The tracks being Kalpas and the train being Satakal/Alduin.
Glynn Tarrant Wonder if they used an Elder Scroll to do it?
Left handed elves are supposedly from the last kalpa too
Now I want a Hammerfell game dealing with this badass lore in game!
Isaac Nash yeah, the Sinistral Elves are also from a different kalpa.
Could the Sinistral Elves be the Dwemer? Could be fascinating. And they also had cities in Hammerfel, so if a game is set there you coul have all that delicious lore to.
I really liked the graphic that shows oblivion as a sphere surrounding mundus, which is then surrounded by the sphere of aetherius. Really cleared things up.
@6:45 The Ehlnofey didn't only become Earthbones or fade away. They also split into two groups: the Old Ehlnofey and the Wandering Ehlnofey which were the descendants of mer and man, respectively.
Very true.
There were one Et'Ada who followed Y'fre (or however you call him) and turned them into Bosmer
m'aiq the liar is probably the godhead but found a way to exist in his own mind so for centuries hes been walking around the world seeing what became of his reality.
That is a very good theory.
As I understand it, this kalpa is special for one specific reason: Akatosh. "Anu" the soul of order and the time god is insane and split into many parts, most notably Auriel (the elven time god) who is the beginning of time, and Alduin (the Nordic time god) who is the end. These two kept the kalpic cycle going, because Anu is fundamentally opposed to the more chaotic Lorkhan; he likes cycles and patterns, and when he gets his way, the kalpas reset and all the progress anyone might have made to realizing the truth of the Godhead is reset. In the First Era, though, a human supremacist cult created Akatosh in a ritual, creating a new time god who was infused with aspects of Lorkhan - in other words, they created a *sustainer* of time. Akatosh is the source of the Dragonborn whose destiny it is to delay Alduin forever, pushing this kalpa well beyond the point it was meant to end, all so that more people can discover the truth.
Imagine the savegame bloat after billions of years
man i find cycles to be boring and pointless i rather find how to break cycles and change things for the better
Doesn't state Paarthurnax and Alduin himself that Alduin is the first born of Akatosh?
Bruh, akatosh is one of the Devines, he is one of the original beings, an aedra. I don't think anyone created him lol.
Also, how would a cult of humans, emphasis on humans there, create an actual God? The dwemer did it using lorkhan's heart, but how would humans do it with nothing?
Doesn't make sense.
@Adrian Avraham but the cycles that involve around pain and killing have to be stopped and cuz it's not real.
I think we know who the god head is........ Todd Howard
The Toru Yano Fan
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Tarlo The Boar He's right
The Toru Yano Fan Godd Howard
The Toddhead.
You spelled Micheal kirkbride wrong
The godhead is the original floppy disk the first ES game was on
From the side it a tower from above it is a disk with 18 sectors, spokes in the aurbis. When the ga.e is turned on the dream is alive, when turned off poof there is nothing.
Thats one of the theorys on who the or what the godhead is, other than that its either micheal kirkbride, you the player, or (my theory the yokuden god that walked sidways with the yokudens at the end of the last kulpa)
The Dragonborn is literally a debt collector sent by Akatosh to teach Alduin a lesson.
Yo that's finna woke
That’s lit squadfam
Fun fact, the Yokudans/Redguards are from the Kalpa before the one we've been playing through. Their god Ruptga figured out a way to persist from kalpa to kalpa by basically sidestepping into a new timeline before the one he was in ended. He decided to bring the Yokudans with him this time.
And the red elves hitched a ride
Arubis = The Real World
Mundus = The Game
Lorkhan = The Game's creative author
Magnus = The Main coder (who quit midway during the project)
Magna Ge = The developers who quit with the Main Coder
The Aedra = The rest of the developer team
The Daedra = The Modders
Basically, it's a massive game development project, but the employees were massively overworked and underpaid, so some of them quit
Meridia? Former developer who quit but then became a modder;
Lorkhan? Was pushed out of the project due to personal conflicts with the rest of the team;
Magnus? Got tired with Lorkhan and Auriel's bull---t and quit;
Malacath/Trinimac? Was heavily disliked by his peers and was pushed out too, but became a modder later;
Jyggalag? The game's most famous modder who quit the community after a heated feud with the other modders, returned later under the pseudonym of Sheogorath and nobody realized it yet;
Talos? A player and big fan that joined the dev team and helped with the sequels/later game versions;
The Thalmor? A very toxic part of the fanbase that hates the new dev and the direction the series is going towards;
The Tribunal? Modders that joined the dev team for a while before leaving/being kicked out;
The Kalpas? Each game version/sequel of the game;
*sits up in bed*
"well that was a weird dream.."
I think everything is real, just in different ways.
An author for example won't just pull stories out of his behind, those stories are real inside his head and he only writes down what he experiences in that world.
The Elder Scrolls however are the reality inside a dream of a fictional character, who's also real in his creator's head.
Thought space / idea space is an interesting concept. While real numbers and imaginary numbers are both infinite, there are infinitely more imaginary numbers and you can still use them in real math. If reality has a similar structure every story every lie splits off a tiny imaginary universe the exists at least as someone remembers the story or lie. Terry Pratchett uses L-space in his books to represent every book ever written alone with every imaginary book that might have been written and even a section for books that no one could have written.
Lies are statements that are purposefully false though, it's not a reality you share when you lie. Imagination and lies are two very different things.
Very deep.
The very life, at this particular moment, could be a universe merely established by a thought. If a world can be imagined, it can be real...
We are the authors of a life, that was potentially the creation of a sheer accident, or an intentional consequence of an ambitious mind...such as the one we, as humans, classify as a creator (God?).
Knowing that numbers are infinite, the notions of 'Time' are a social constructed phenomenon, meant for people to gain control/order of an environment, which we adapted to...And us people, who have the ability to create our own lives through arduous effort, gain experiences; Ones, which can be passed down to future generations, through writing, or making videos, for example.
Information, that can be valuable to others. In essence, we, as authors, share our reality, with those of similar interests, or thought-patterns...Thus, creating society, or a "world", forged by thought, and multiple individuals, willing to endorse that idea of 'thought'...
We are creators, as long as we can overlook/overcome limiting belief systems, which may hinder our potential..
If you imagine a world you can't consciously affect anything happening in that world, you create it subconsciously and only serve as an observer. That's very different from what most religions see as a "god".
You could also say that time is really the only thing that is unlimitedly real, how it is experienced and how fast it goes can change, but it'll always keep going.
Godhead is still in Aurbis, no one can travel beyond a universe because no entities exist in the multiverse, or can ever exist.
People tend to forget the Bethesda makers have always been big fans of Lovecraftian horror.
To put it simply the Godhead i quite literally Azathoth, the dreaming idiot God whom if he wakes the world ends.
Lorkhan is almost like Nyarlathotep/Old One in that respect, manipulating the world and everything around him using CHIM and getting his ass kicked and sealed away on nirn permanently.
Uh sure, totally ignore the Gnostic and Buddhist influences in favor of your nerdy pulp fiction!
Dude Bethesda are obsessed with Lovecraft and have made numerous references to his work in all of their games, even outright taking the names of places and slapping on their own property.
As for religion it borrows tonnes from all of them across the planet, Skyrim being Norse/Gaul, Morrowind being Hindu, Cyrodiil being Greek/Roman. So yes Buddhism is a theme within the elder scrolls, but not the only one. So by your logic I could call you a religious nut.
FYI: In case it went over your head, the elder scrolls are also nerd fiction, you hypocritical snowflake.
except ethesda didn't write the elder scrolls
Great job man. I haven't seen any other ES videos that go this in depth.
Very well produced! Thank you for this gem.
3:51 Godhead creating the universe in his dream reminds me of H.P lovecarft Cthulhu mythos where Azathoth who is dreaming up all of our existence in that verse.
This is like something straight of A HP Lovecraft Book. I get very Lovecraftian vibes from this theory.
Tarlo The Boar it isn't a theory it is stated in the lore which makes it either factual or fiction. I agree with you though, very lovecraftian
General Willy Oh thanks for correcting me on that.
Tarlo The Boar Elder scrolls is inspired by the books like the lord of the rings and alike.
I don't see how any of this is Lovecraftian at all, the closest thing to the mythos is Hermaeus Mora and even then his knowledge doesn't come at the cost of sanity. All of MK's lore was inspired by Gnosticism.
I get more norse vibes from it... Oh wait, it is basically norse mythology with an extra coat of paint
As a wise man once said, "IT WAS ALL A DREAM!"
Ik it’s been 4 years but… I USED TO READ WORD UP MAGAZINE
Who else vaguely knew what he was talking about, because they've heard. It before then learnt something new
It's been a year playing Skryim I absolutely love it the cosmology, gods interests me the most can't wait to check out more of your videos on these topics.
Subscribed, i started playing Skyrim recently and your video has clarified a bunch of things i didn't even know about the ES lore.
(Sory for my bad english, portuguese it'snt my primary language)
Avari, you mentioned that kalpas can arise in almost infinite amounts of ways. I want you to create your own scenario where a kalpa begins with different means. Instead of chaos and order have something that is different in a sense. Also choose a race or two from the elder scrolls games to escape the end and enter the next kalpa as the redguards ansestors the yokudans did. Include important charaters who are known to have achived chim to like talos and possible vivec, who have an important role. You might be able to include a few of the daedric princes who escape complete destruction. Please if you do find this comment take it into consideration, it is something I would like to be seen done. You mentioned it in your video. I would like to see your own version of a kalpa or your own imagination.
I LOVE this video.
I just wish it was 30 minutes longer.
The idea of the godhead seems very metaphysical which leads me to believe the player him/herself is the godhead. It wouldn't be the first time the series has dipped into "fourth-wall-breaking" concepts, so to speak. As an example, Morrowind explicitly stated how the player essentially has the power to save and load the game whenever they please because we are able to manipulate time and space.
the godhead could be the devs, the computer running the game, or the player who is immersed into the game and the lore. or none of that, this meta stuff does kinda ruin it a bit.
This freakin' god that dreams TES is Bethesda.
i genuinely will never understand how so many people will continue to play and be fans of a series that explicitly has "playing our games is pointless and nothing you do matters" encoded into its lore.
You don't have to take everything they say so seriously. Each playthrough has your own lore mixed into it, making it something other than the "main" lore.
@@Tasorius never saw this comment sorry.
the problem i have with this mindset is, that it relies on you to ignore cannon for the games to be enjoyable or to find worth in them. every time chim appears in the game now, for instance the temple of chim in eso, you have to actively tell yourself its not real or rationalize it into your own story. it takes you out of the game whenever you come across it, like someone standing over your shoulder whispering "its just a game" periodically.
@@DimentioMOD ESO doesn't really count as canon. I also don't count the "it's not real" theory of how you achieve CHIM. It's more like you are saying that reality isn't fixed, and that you can change things. And even then, it's not really known how it happened.There are lies, legends and beliefs mixed in with the truth.
@@Tasorius how does ESO not count as canon? it a game in the main line series isn't it? also while i do like the reality isn't fixed idea, one of the main facets of chim is that if you realize the world isn't real and cant maintain your sense of importance since nothing is real you disappear form the universe and everything you ever did is erased along with you.
@@DimentioMOD I don't think it was made by Bethesda...
And I don't agree with the "it's all a dream/not real" idea.
In the next kalpa I'll be the Cheese God... CHEESE FOR EVERYONE
After watching this video I started moving at weird angles.
For those wondering how to sum it up: it’s made up with the basis of European Polytheism with several aspects of Hinduism (which is related to the polytheisms) and also it seems like Todd Howard read a bit of Lovecraft. Cycles of life and death along with things beyond time and comprehension.
I told Azathoth and Vishnu to dream a world, AND THEY DID IT THE MAD BASTARDS
I actually think that kalpas are based on ragnorök where in norse the realms are destroyed (and sometimes eaten) and in skyrim alduin eats the realms. In both norse and skyrim after these events the world starts on anew and seeing that skyrim has a very norse feel to it this would make sense
I think The Dragonborn just delayed Alduin
Tarlo The Boar Can the Dov really die?
Flames Of Chaos Not exactly, no
Alduin delayed himself by suddenly deciding to conquer the mortals instead of doing his job and destroying the world. By "killing" Alduin, the Last Dragonborn returned Alduin to his right path, therefore setting up for the day that the two of them fight again at the end of time/the current Kalpa; a fight that Alduin will win this time.
Austin Exactly. All The Dragonborn did was set him on the right path
Tarlo The Boar
Yeah Alduin was just going through a rebellious teen phase
Supposedly, from what I've read, the Dragon Break from Tiber Septim's conquest of Tamriel will bring an end to the Kalpa, once Numidium returns to Tamriel due to the fluid nature of time in a Dragon Break. This is supposed to happen sometime in the Fifth Era, which could be in the distant future, or it could be very close, if my theory holds true.
My guess is that the Elder Scrolls VI is going to take place in the Fifth Era, only a couple years to a decade after the events of Skyrim. With Titus Mede II dead, the Altmer take advantage of the chaos of the Skyrim Civil War and invade Cyrodil once again. This time, they are completely successful, and reinstate the enslavement of the Imperials as the Ayleids did to the Nedes, bringing in the Fifth Era, or the Final Dawn. During this time, they take control of all of the Elder Scrolls stored inside White-Gold tower, and uncover the prophecy of Landfall from the Moth Priest slaves, which foresees the destruction of Nirn and the eradication of the Altmer. This sets in motion the main questline of Elder Scrolls VI, where the PC, a prisoner of war from the Second Great War, is tasked by the Aldmeri Dominion's government to stop Landfall from happening, as the PC fits the description of the Last Shezarrine, the N in the Shezarrine Prophecy that spells the last letter of Lorkhan's name, in reference to the "new men" of Masser.
Remlap Was Taken one thing wrong with this, it is mentioned that at the start of the 4th era all the elder scrolls in the white gold tower were scattered across tamriel (or nirn, cant remember) so they cant really know these prophecies.
Question: If the Universe is structured like a wheel, and can be referred to as such, what does it mean exactly in the Dragonborn prophecy when it says "And the Wheel turns upon the Last Dragonborn"?
Different wheel. Cycles within cycles
It could mean the dragonborn becomes the world-eater or brings about the end by defeating Alduin. It could also just simply mean it is time for him to fulfill his destiny.
"I don't want it to end at the fifth era, I at least want to go to tenth era" - me, 2020
dont get too trigger happy with the god head, its never really been offically confirmed ( as far as I know it was written by MK outside of the games, essentally making it non canon besides maybe one book in ESO)
God head sounds like the writer of the games. Tower is the building he spends his livelihood dreaming of the elder scrolls universe. He after all, created the very events in elder scrolls
Sounds like gnosticism but with a lovecraftian twist lmao.
This seems like a creation myth created by the inhabitants of nirn
Nice video, well put together & accurate as far as I can tell. The only errors were very minor (i.e. using apostrophes for pluralisation rather than possession) and did not detract notably from the information presented.
I wonder, what is your opinion on the theory that characters who achieve CHIM or are otherwise enlightened can access gameplay mechanics that aren't otherwise mentioned in the lore (e.g. save/load; the Creation Kit)? I personally subscribe to it simply because I find it so interesting, and there is a lot of evidence for it, especially in Morrowind.
I hear the save/load thing is a Akatosh thing.
This is very good, but if I could make a suggestion I would suggest that you add sources to the video while speaking. This is very interesting lore, and it would be helpful to know where I can look it up. Other than that, this is solid stuff. I love it!
I think the All-Maker is the Godhead, it would make sense.
Huh, when you says that The Elder Scrolls universe is just a dream, this reminds me of my theory that Skyrim could be The Lone Wanderer's coma dream after the events of Fallout 3's story
"it's fake, but that doesn't mean it's not real....!"
You sir, have my attention.
So if someone went into a coma when the lore was starting to be written and they’re still in that a coma today does that mean they could be the godhead
Praise Tolfdir
Avarti : it's a dream
Multiverse theory : are you sure about that
Atomic Owl can not other dreams exist as other worlds in the mind of the dreamer
What if anu and padomay were once mere mortals who achieved chim in the last kalpa and the original spirits were those who did not achive chim but did succeed enough to be given immense power. Talos and vivec might play a serious role in the next kalpa, perhaps as fundemental forces like anu or padomay. Also the high elf who are descended from the aedra. Their ansestors might have existed in the last kalpa, who either one, a select few or many achived godhood. The dragons themselves could have came from a past kalpa.
I know a while back there was the whole theory about elder scrolls and fallout being in the same universe. That was shut down almost immediately, but Avarti you sparked a good question. What if instead of elder scrolls and fallout being in the same universe, elder scrolls was just a dream state that one of the vault dwellers had during the fallout.
Note: none of that is probably true, just thought it was an interesting theory at least.
How does a day cycle work in the Elder scrolls universe? Does Nirn circulate around it's axis or what it's called like the real world or does the sun circulate around Nirn?
one problem i have is that you just assert that the world of the elder
scrolls is real but also a dream. with out explanation how can it be both? by logic shouldn't it be only
one but not the other?
For those who are still confused, a Kalpa is your save game file
Superb video!
Can we just talk about how complex this dudes dream is like who dreams of a whole universe
Yeah that can also explain why none of the characters have a background
Rather glad Amaranths aren't canon. I never liked the idea of Amaranth. I mean, it struck me as pointless. The ultimate state of being is effectively ceasing to be and another universe coming to be. You can't do anything with it, it's just there and if something manages to wake you, it's gone.
Nicholas Morgan
Exactly. All of this is horrendous garbage.
Just play the games and enjoy the lore that doesn't read like a bad acid trip.
Shit this like that one episode on rick and morty. Where they keep going yo another person dream of a dream .
Todd Howard is obviously the godhead and I’m not joking
This explains the inconsistent lore of TES through Dragon Breaks and how Talos turned Cyrodil into plains in a weird manner and timeline
I think that the Dovahkiin slaying Alduin Is not a delaying of the End of Times but a "reset" of Alduin.
Alduin conquered the world as a Dragon and was sent ahead in time (and the whole Helgen thing happened)
But It wasn't time for the Universe to reset yet
Since Alduin wanted to conquer to world still.
But now Alduin has become One with Akatosh once again thanks to the Dovahkiin Who has served his purpose
Now the next time that Alduin will be born he will come back as the World Ends and will do Is job properly.
Yeah none of this is canon, this is all from Novels written by a guy that did work on earlier elder scrolls games, but not after Morrowind. None of this is confirmed as canon by any other person that has worked on an elder scrolls game. This is basically just fan fiction.
It's been adopted by Bethesda though. Just because your Lord and savior Todd doesn't whisper in your ear that it's canon, doesn't mean that it isn't.
What a great video !
you deserve way, way more subs
Talos achieved Chim, correct?
Most likely yes.
Yep. You know the priest in Whiterun? "I breath now in royalty and reshape this land" CHIM is the secret letter of Royalty.
great stuff!!!
Love your videos and your voice . What part of GB are you from ???
No its real getting sick of this everythings a dream stuff twin peaks walking dead(sucks by the way) these things are happening
Clearly you either don't understand or didn't watch the video. I bet its the latter
Something about Sovngard doesn't make sense.
According to my understanding Sovngard is on the surface of Aetherius. The sun and stars in the elder scrolls universe were created when Magnus and the other Aedra left for Aetherius, ripping holes through Oblivion. So my question is, why do you see the sun and stars in Sovngard, when it is part of Aetherius?
Alpha Maxus i think that might just be BGS being a bit lazy
Pronkman666 it definitely could be. I guess I had higher expectations. It’s a minor detail that really doesn’t make a difference. Sovngarde still looks awesome.
I’ve always wondered if there is a way to wake up the godhead.
That means the fallout universe too is a dream because there is a bunch of evidence showin that fallout and skyrim exist in the same universe
Fun fact: in actuality, C0da and the godhead is not cannon
What if the Thalmor assume the role of World Eater by destroying reality?
Asking Micheal kirkbride if Fallout, Starfield and The Elder Scrolls are connected and instead of giving a plain answer he replies with "One can only *Dream* "
How much do you want to bet that “the One”, the Towers, Chim, and the Elder Scrolls themselves are all connected? It seems to me that there much be some connection between all these things.
It is interesting to consider that there may be some reality behind the Elder Scrolls series that is similar to that of the various real world religions. The One is like God, the Elder Scrolls are like the Word of God/the Holy Scriptures, and Chim is like enlightenment, theosis, or ascension to heaven. The towers are harder to say, but I’d say either they are metaphorical representations of mortals ascending to divinity, their connection with the divine, or less likely they are metaphors for centers of religious pilgrimage.
The Godhead is Todd Howard (or maybe rather Michael Kirkbride) :P
I think Michael Kirkbride got really high one day, saw a wagon wheel, then pointed at it and said "...that".
Basically it's the Elder Scrolls version of Azathoth from the Cthulhu Mythos
The real godhead is clearly the adoring fan.
Is your picture of Lorkan a Qunari from the dragon age games?
i believe this is based off the belief of Svarog who is a Slavic god sleeping and the whole world is a dream and when he wakes up the world ends
The godhead, at least how I see it, isn't a person. A better term might be "universal mind". It is the ultimate consciousness of the universe. It and the universe are the same and every soul is a microcosm of this consciousness. Every person is an aspect of the godhead and every action ultimately is the will of the godhead. The godhead fights itself and loves itself. It dreams the dream of the mortal plain because only in such an environment can something change and evolve. It wishes to experience life and lives it through every soul.
What I'm saying is... Lorkhan did nothing wrong.
6:30 Giving me some Aboriginal Dream-Time vibes..
I don't think it's been confirmed that it's actually a dream tho has it?
Yeah, as far as I know, it isn't confirmed, but it's a convincing theory.
c0da makes it can0n
i mean that's your opinion and you're entitled to it. even if it's fucking wrong.
No! You will adhere to my opinion whether you like it or not, for my opinion is the truth!
Yes.
Its a game createt from the Big Dreamer of the Company Bethesta on Planet Earth.
I just happen to be studying Hinduism right now, so all of this is so familiar.
So, how much left for kalpa we're playing through?
Maybe Aldrin cant be permanently killed by the dragonborn , but by defeating him, once he's come back he'll return to his actual purpose
I love the intro "The Elder scrolls universe is fake, but that doesn't mean it's not real" thanks for the laugh dude
It would be cool as fuck if there was a quest to become a god head and escape the universe
3.38 Lol Todd Howard is the God Head 😂😂😂
Holy fuck my brain hurts from tryna comprehend this
Can a vampire achieve chim?
The All-Maker did it all, just ask the Skaar
What about the pieces of Magnus and Lorkan that were left behind on Nirn that Kagrenak and the Dwemer tried to exploit.?
So the godhead is basically The Elder Scrolls's version of Azathoth
What do you mean by saying that death is cyclic?
I was thinking if the Dwemer isn't actually banished to void, but maybe they were able to step into a new kalpa. Imagine this, having someone able to tap at Lorkan's heart, allowing it to achieve CHIM and bring his whole race to another kalpa. Perhaps they created their own Amaranth, those dreamers created their own realm / universe in which they resides.
In case you might be wandering, "It'll be cool to have TES set into a next Kalpa were Dwem-"
Nope, it wasn't technically a TES, it might be a new game but definitely no TES at all except from Dwemers who came from the kalpa of TES.
VITTXRIO if u search up where did the dwemer go, there’s a lot of ppl talking about how became the skin of numidium(don’t really understand it but hey, something to read up on)
I personally think they all just zero-summed. I read/heard somewhere they could telepathically communicate with one another and i just assumed that Kagrenac mass relayed just before he zero-summed
That is a good theory, in Morrowind, the remnants of the Dwemer's attempt to create their own god with Kagrenak's tools and the heart of Lorkan would seem to support that theory in a way.