I think for the last 30 years, the staples of being a Sci-Fi fan, is being attracted to Blue chicks from either a different realm or Galaxy. So same. 😂
I should have clarified that they believe in stages of death, but no ultimate afterlife. So they probably regard being a ghost (and being in sovngarde) as a stage of death before the ultimate end after which there is nothing. Should have clarified that sorry!
Maybe even it's like diskworld; it is only the belief that there is a soul and an afterlife in the conscience of the people of tamiel that gives these spirits the power to roam the mortal realm. Silly and out there but why not!
@@jbeausang5329 There's a theory that there are technically no gods in TES. The people just believe in them so hard that they make them real. There's several arguments against this though.
@@walnzell9328 The world is a disc, the story a dream. Never heard from the dreamer and chim. Ask vivec, so it doesnt really matter if they are real or not
Its moreso that they believe everything returns to nothingness eventually. This actually lines up with the concept of Anu sending out the fragments of his soul to learn about themselves before returning to him in Aetherius, with the return to Anu being seen as the "nothingness at the end of everything" by them.
I always figured that Kirkbride’s post was more metaphorical than literal. Atmora is both literally frozen and is metaphorically frozen in time because no one lives there, and Yokuda is the past because while there are people living there, they refuse to interact with outsiders. Similarly, people from Akavir have traveled to and influenced Tamriel, but there’s no record of anyone from Tamriel going there and returning. So in a way, Akavir is the “future” because of the possibility of another group coming to Tamriel again in the future.
@@Nephritesword kirkbrides post Bethesda “work” is the result of him tripping balls and posting about it on Reddit to inflate his hubris filled ego online.
@SLP0101 Love em or hate em, he was one of the better creatives at Beth. His stuff was unique and interesting. It's all downhill from here though, honestly.
U were right up until the yokuda theory yokuda sunk a long time ago thats how the redguard ended up in hammerfell so it no longer exists so being the past wouldnt count for yokuda all the other theories does make more sense tho
@@jayl5032 yep tes went down the shit can at that shit stain if a game oblivion. He is a creative writer but he’s not part of Bethesda now and really went off the handle a bit too far.
Another thing about the unofficial post is that it calls Akavir the future when there was a physical invasion and attempted conquest of Akavir. And also the regular invasions from Akavir
@@cjmarion6350 There's also that dwemer machine that plucks people and things across time (iirc). Though I'm pretty sure Akavir is an actual location and not timey-wimey headaches.
With Elder Scrolls being set in Hammerfell hopefully we'll get more lore on the Redguards and Yukoda. Maybe we could visit the island remnants in a DLC Add-on similar to Dragon born or the Shivering Isles
@@RichardJohnson-vy6qq another boring human location. Todd playing it safe with this one. Plus we already had hammerfell and high rock in Daggerfall. Only unimaginative people are afraid of elsweyr / black marsh / valenwood / summerset etc etc Hammersuck is just going to be black people Skyrim 2.0 playing it safe. It’s prob gonna be booty cheeks like starfailed
@@LostHorizons0 So your issue sounds like it's with black people 🤣 I'm European Scandinavian so I can only imagine some black guy took your gf from you and now you have a problem 😂....Plus we never even delved into Redguard pantheons on ESO....id like to see more about Tall Papa....Leki...etc....Bosmer is my favorite race so id love to see The Great Hunt in action but im more interested in what happened to Yokuda with a whole continent being erased.... call be boring then 🤣
@@RichardJohnson-vy6qq no issue with black people im just saying it’s gonna be Skyrim with black people same mechanics same overall cliche story. Replace nordic with desert. Also 8 years happily married. They prob didn’t delve into it in eso yet because it’s been planned for this boring 6th mainline installments what a snoozer. At least eso they did elsweyr, and other more interesting areas. Humans are a snooze fest.
Personally though the idea about the Yokudas coming from a different kalpa was based on the "Walkabout" and the Yokudas not being decedents of the Nedes. Given the texts talking about how a spirit can move between different worldskins. This is also the first time I ever saw that reddit post from Michael Kirkbride. I'm on the same point as you. The idea of having the Yokudans and Sinster-elfs coming from a different timeline is a lot more interesting then them just being from a island during the merethic era. And that's probably why the theory is still very prevalent, and why I also want it to be true.
Fun fact: At 6:10 you mentioned that they crafted tools with something called “Chrysocolla” (Pronounced Chris-uh-cola). It’s actually a real substance, but just like Malachite or Ebony, it’s not a 1 to 1 with it’s real world counterpart. Just like malachite, it’s a crystal with copper in it, which gives it a greenish color like oxidized copper. While Malachite is a darker green, Chrysocolla is more of a bluish-green color, and since both crystals are similar to each other IRL, I think it might be safe to assume that their Chrysocolla weapons and armor likely looked and functioned very similarly to Glass weapons and armor, just with more blue in them like a cyan or aquamarine color than the vibrant green of malachite. Kinda makes me wonder if Chillrend is actually a Chrysocolla weapon instead of a malachite based glass one since it’s unusually blue for a glass sword. I know it gets upgraded with malachite in Skyrim, but I’m assuming it would be pointless to add an entire new crafting material for a single base game unique weapon. And in case y’all are wondering, no you can’t forge stuff with chrysocolla or malachite irl, they’re crystals with trace amounts of copper in them, not solid workable metal.
This is awesome info, my guy. Thank you. Also, Chillrend potentially being made by a desert dwelling culture where nothing would be adapted to defend against cold damage makes its frosty nature even more _cool._
@@SuperGman117 Dunmer is Ashen skinned with black hair or silver hair and red eyes. The lefthanded elves were bronze skinned or brown with red hair and golden eyes
Michael Kirkbride is known to describe things in ways that only he can understand. Meaning the way he describes the continents should not be taken as literal.
Came here to ask about the art but unlike so many others you actually have links to the art yo used. Absolutely stellar, I will be following because I love TES and that's something I want to see more creators do.
there is no making taht war criminal talos great again..... there is no making yokuda great again. the yokudan/redguard war crimed the mer and nedes that lived in hammerfell and not to mention they war crimed their own homeland too.
Ya know what, just for the hell of it, theory: the sinistral elves are the maormer! The yokudans drove the sinistral elves _into the sea,_ and where do the maormer live? In the ocean. Also, they both happen to venerate serpents. Coincidence?! Just to be on the save side, this is a joke, it's not serious.
You know… jokes aside, your theory isn’t all that bad. The Sinistral likely could’ve integrated with the Maormer in the early days of their civilization and *POSSIBLY* even evolve into the Sea Elves themselves.
My name is professor nwah nificant of the topal university of pyandneas Paleolagy department. We have reason to believe that the left handed elves left aldmiris before topal. And infact represent a completly different genetic pool of mer to our current pool. Current expeditions to the yokudan sea have tuned up bones including skulls. With higher cheek bones and slightly bigger eye sockets. The closest mer to them are infact the aldmer. But by a long shot. Its possible they may also have been indigenous to thras and the upper isls of summerset. (Archological digs ongoing) If this is true then this could change how we view history in not only tamriel and its surrounds but nirn as a whole.
Now, if Akavir is the future and Tamriel is the present, that means that in the future Tamriel, Uriel V will arrive to conquer his own continent as he tried to conquer Akavir in the past. "Wait, it's all Tamriel?" "Always has been"
On the idea of traveling east being going to the future and west to the past, that would technically be how traveling feels. In our world, to the east would be later (due to time zones and how the world turns) and to the west would seem like the day is standing still. So technically it isn't all too false. But I don't think that post would be accurate to the timelines. Especially since Akavir had invaded Tamriel and Tamriel had invaded Akavir at times. Basically meaning that they must be in the same timeline and would not be separated.
Personally I don't think they'd be pale grey/dark skin I'd feel they'd look more like in between the current Dunmer & Altmer reminiscent of the Yokudan/Redguards rather than just being red-headed dunmer. I think a dull gold perhaps even copper look would make them look more distinct to the other elves To be clear, I'm not suggesting they share a strong heritage with the Altmer & Dunmer, more a suggestion to how they'd look based on how existing the existing Mer look. I do rly like the red hair colour...
Considering how common elves were prior to humanity in Tamriel I figured there was an elf group in Hammerfell before they were ran off. The left handed elves were one group making my fan version of Hammerfell elves the Mysmer able to fit into lore and they are major Dibellan devotees who's foundations was a blend of Ayelied elves and nymphs with magic to maintain their elven image. Ah the unreliable narrative that makes Elder Scrolls what it is.
Being left handed is indeed quite a strange thing in The Elder Scrolls. I don't think any NPCs have ever been left handed, and the player has only been able to wield weapons in their left hand effectively in, I think, Daggerfall. Maybe in Arena. Also maybe Battlespire.
Obliterating entire races of elves is just an average Tuesday for humans apparently. I think the only extinct elven race that wasn’t destroyed exclusively by men was the Dwarves, and even then, the Nords had a part in their downfall when they assisted Neravar and the Chimer in their war against the Dwemer. No wonder the Thalmor hate humans so much lmao
@@cosmo9925Well seems like enslaving humans is just an average Monday to some elves. I really can't feel a whole lotta sympathy for them. The Dwemer didn't enslave humans (that I know of), but they did enslave the Falmer. So perhaps they deserved whatever mysterious fate befell them.
A solid theory is that they even arent from the Kalpa in TES time. Think about it, they make weapons like nuclear bombs and the old yukudan humans learn from them, and thats the reason Yokuda sunk, would also fit into the "Past" yokuda continent. Also the name "left - handed, its either sinister or not from this "side".
I still like the idea that Aldmeris and Yokuda are the same place and therefore the sinistral elves are the ancient Aldmer. But I definitely see some issues there. Addendum: maybe an odd faction of Aldmer, definitely not the orthodox position. Plus, there are objectively afterlives in TES, so it’s interesting that they reject the idea.
You're imply there can't be any time-traveling, * cough * what the Elderscrolls did to Alduin * cough *. I like the idea that Yakuda and Akavir are different timelines/culpas and Altmeris and Atmora are like spiritual/ancestral realms of magic. Not completely what the post said I know but it kinda leans into the fan theory that magic is waning as the eras pass, generally a lame cope for progressively more boring games, but with this it's pretty cool. Akavir the Culpa of the future is young and full of magic and exotic creatures (dragons and strange beastmen). While Yakuda the Culpa of the past is old and full of advanced technology (black powder and cannons) Pretty neat, going into the head canon.
Thank you. I'm so sick and tired of Kirkbride's post-leaving stuff getting treated like canon. Remember, according to his fanfiction, the eye of Magnus is a prison to house a sapient asteroid mining robot from the future who had already escaped by the time of Skyrim.
Look, Michael Kirkbride is clearly a super weird dude. I know he and Todd Howard had a bit of a falling out because he refused to confirm what *really* happened between Nerevar and the Tribunal, preferring to claim that all of the theories were true because of a dragon break. And then he claimed that the PC from Oblivion never replaced Sheogorath, despite that being the canon ending of the Shivering Isles expansion. At this point, he's basically an ex-boyfriend who keeps liking your girl's Instagram posts and getting furious when she says something about liking pineapple pizza because he *knows* she only eats pizza with sliced mangoes. There's no reason to take anything he says seriously.
The Kalpa argument for Yokuda having not existed doesn’t even make sense, by the nature of Dragonbreaks, even a timeline where Yokuda never existed means that there’s also a timeline where it did. The Redguards also had to have come from somewhere.
I think there is more reason to suspect Yokuda is not supposed to be here. Neither should redguards. Like .. Aldmeri noted ALL their kind migrating and diversifying into various groups. How would they forget then entire ethnic of Yokuda ? Second Redguards are humans yes, as were Yokudans. Yet Yokudans and Nedes do NOT share ancestry. Every other human race can trace itself back into one another, except for Redguards - they have no connection to other human races whatsoever. So we have time, where neither Sinistrals nor Yokudans are related to anybody .. and nobody knows anything about them whatsoever. Yokudans definately did NOT recognized Nedes as their kind, consider conquest of Hammerfell where they were kicking/killing out Orcs, Giant Goblins, Nedes and Ayelids alike. Redguards to this day do not share any kinship with Nords, Imperials or Bretons. They are always 'outsiders' there. They are humans unrelated to all other humans, and lived with elves unrelated to other elves. How ?? All other races can easily track down one another in origins and relations, heck even khajiit could point out they started as Woodland Spirits as well as did the bosmer. But not redguards. Another thing is the supposed technology and spellwork that Yokuda had. Yokudans were masters of enchanting. So much so that their enchantments are still not topped by anybody ever. Then we have mystery of Sword-Singing itself. Redguards also in their lore .. well there is no other way to put it - they somehow know much more then they should. I know ESO lately bumbled and entangled Fargrave with Mirrormoor - which Fargrave is NOT, as Mirrormoor is Deadlight - but exsitance of Fargrave itself which is undeniably yokudan in origin, calls into question several things about powers of Yokudans and their relations with Dieties. And then we can ponder on purpose, as why did Yokudans back in Merethic era at earliest (given that Fargrave must have dais of portal to Deadlight) created a city, just to make massive amounts of portals and then rip it out from Yokuda by some means .. and get carried over by massive daedra-like creatures on their journey to establish portals everywhere in universe. And we talk about yokudan mages living in it too. Yokudans are not known for mages. And it HAD TO be ripped out from Yokuda, there is no way it was in Hammerfell as no way nobody would note how entire city was just poof gone, carried over by some big monsters (one look at Bearer might give hint how it looked like while alive .. those massive fang-like teeth ..) into space. Beyond that architecture matches Hew's Bane which was said to be build in very early Ra Gada so in yokudan style. And then we have stone used to build Fargrave, which honestly mostly resembes to me Morwha's Statue antiquity, which was confirmed to be made IN Yokuda from Yokuda's stone. Also modern redguards would know how to open all portals, if it was this recent. They don't and given Fargrave surroundings of desert, and all that water in skies .. yeah ZOS sneakily put hint in DC plot how water and memories share similarities, they can be turned into one. Now you can think where knowledge of Yokudan mages about all the portals and secrets of city went after city completed it's journey. I have suspicion that "The Pearl" in myth is just portal stone to Fargrave. Speaking of Dieties, while we can put Alessia and her followers to just copy-paste Altmer pantheon because they were uneducated slaves for most of part .. we somehow should not ignore that Redguard pantheon is pretty much matching what current Altmers believe with minor changes. And biggest mystery here is that Ruptga IS Auri-el. A champion of elves, main elven diety .. yet somehow, someway on Yokuda the very same pro-elven diety turned against the elves and championed humans. And still champions them, given that Ruptga is Warrior constellation .. and how did Warrior manifest himself in Tamriel in ESO ? As Yokudan warrior. Redguards detest Lorkhan, they are only race of humans that does it. I believe that destruction of Yokuda, which wasn't natural at all could be happening in some Dragon Break fashion. I remember some describes of it, and .. it sort of sounded like fabric of time was shattering itself. Part of me seeing all lore, does believe that Redguards simply shouldn't be here. At all. They are living fossil. Either Yokudans shouldn't be here, or somehow entire rest of Nirn slept through countless times while Yokuda advanced in history - both on recording of other races and their history AND technology/spellwork advancements. There is just too many holes in here.
Some people are too attached to Kirkbride’s writing and need to let it go. Yes, he gave TES a lot in his time. But he also gave a lot of coked up nonsense that doesn’t fit with the atmosphere of the franchise at all.
uh-oh someone hasn't played skyrim and payed attention to dialogue with the geybeards and paarthurnax about kalpas red alert on your sources of information
Nowhere do I deny the existence of kalpas or anything like that. I refer specifically to Yokuda and other continents not being part of that discussion. That’s it.
Fanart from thumbnail link:
ARTTAiR Sinistral elf Concept (video & thumbnail): www.deviantart.com/arttair/art/Sinistral-Elf-Concept-727687764
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That’ll conclude this round of vigorous testing, same.
I think for the last 30 years, the staples of being a Sci-Fi fan, is being attracted to Blue chicks from either a different realm or Galaxy. So same. 😂
Mmhmm
The left handed elves really never saw a single ghost if they think the afterlife didn't exist.
I should have clarified that they believe in stages of death, but no ultimate afterlife. So they probably regard being a ghost (and being in sovngarde) as a stage of death before the ultimate end after which there is nothing. Should have clarified that sorry!
Maybe even it's like diskworld; it is only the belief that there is a soul and an afterlife in the conscience of the people of tamiel that gives these spirits the power to roam the mortal realm. Silly and out there but why not!
@@jbeausang5329 There's a theory that there are technically no gods in TES. The people just believe in them so hard that they make them real.
There's several arguments against this though.
@@walnzell9328 The world is a disc, the story a dream. Never heard from the dreamer and chim. Ask vivec, so it doesnt really matter if they are real or not
Its moreso that they believe everything returns to nothingness eventually. This actually lines up with the concept of Anu sending out the fragments of his soul to learn about themselves before returning to him in Aetherius, with the return to Anu being seen as the "nothingness at the end of everything" by them.
I always figured that Kirkbride’s post was more metaphorical than literal. Atmora is both literally frozen and is metaphorically frozen in time because no one lives there, and Yokuda is the past because while there are people living there, they refuse to interact with outsiders. Similarly, people from Akavir have traveled to and influenced Tamriel, but there’s no record of anyone from Tamriel going there and returning. So in a way, Akavir is the “future” because of the possibility of another group coming to Tamriel again in the future.
@@Nephritesword kirkbrides post Bethesda “work” is the result of him tripping balls and posting about it on Reddit to inflate his hubris filled ego online.
@SLP0101 Love em or hate em, he was one of the better creatives at Beth. His stuff was unique and interesting.
It's all downhill from here though, honestly.
U were right up until the yokuda theory yokuda sunk a long time ago thats how the redguard ended up in hammerfell so it no longer exists so being the past wouldnt count for yokuda all the other theories does make more sense tho
Did you watch the video and hear the part where he talked about Hunding priests in Yokuda post-“sinking”?
@@jayl5032 yep tes went down the shit can at that shit stain if a game oblivion. He is a creative writer but he’s not part of Bethesda now and really went off the handle a bit too far.
Every time I hear about an unplayable race in Elder Scrolls, I want to make them playable. They all sound interesting.
I wanna play as the maomer (sea elves)
Another thing about the unofficial post is that it calls Akavir the future when there was a physical invasion and attempted conquest of Akavir. And also the regular invasions from Akavir
to be fair time isnt exactly a solid linear thing at all times in tes (dragon breaks)
@@cjmarion6350 There's also that dwemer machine that plucks people and things across time (iirc). Though I'm pretty sure Akavir is an actual location and not timey-wimey headaches.
With Elder Scrolls being set in Hammerfell hopefully we'll get more lore on the Redguards and Yukoda. Maybe we could visit the island remnants in a DLC Add-on similar to Dragon born or the Shivering Isles
@@dagothur2666 boring
That sounds awesome!!! Only boring people would find this boring 🤣
@@RichardJohnson-vy6qq another boring human location. Todd playing it safe with this one. Plus we already had hammerfell and high rock in Daggerfall. Only unimaginative people are afraid of elsweyr / black marsh / valenwood / summerset etc etc
Hammersuck is just going to be black people Skyrim 2.0 playing it safe. It’s prob gonna be booty cheeks like starfailed
@@LostHorizons0 So your issue sounds like it's with black people 🤣 I'm European Scandinavian so I can only imagine some black guy took your gf from you and now you have a problem 😂....Plus we never even delved into Redguard pantheons on ESO....id like to see more about Tall Papa....Leki...etc....Bosmer is my favorite race so id love to see The Great Hunt in action but im more interested in what happened to Yokuda with a whole continent being erased.... call be boring then 🤣
@@RichardJohnson-vy6qq no issue with black people im just saying it’s gonna be Skyrim with black people same mechanics same overall cliche story. Replace nordic with desert. Also 8 years happily married.
They prob didn’t delve into it in eso yet because it’s been planned for this boring 6th mainline installments what a snoozer. At least eso they did elsweyr, and other more interesting areas.
Humans are a snooze fest.
Dude they became the sea elves! "Driven to the sea" "used snake symbolism"
Personally though the idea about the Yokudas coming from a different kalpa was based on the "Walkabout" and the Yokudas not being decedents of the Nedes. Given the texts talking about how a spirit can move between different worldskins. This is also the first time I ever saw that reddit post from Michael Kirkbride.
I'm on the same point as you. The idea of having the Yokudans and Sinster-elfs coming from a different timeline is a lot more interesting then them just being from a island during the merethic era. And that's probably why the theory is still very prevalent, and why I also want it to be true.
Fun fact: At 6:10 you mentioned that they crafted tools with something called “Chrysocolla” (Pronounced Chris-uh-cola). It’s actually a real substance, but just like Malachite or Ebony, it’s not a 1 to 1 with it’s real world counterpart. Just like malachite, it’s a crystal with copper in it, which gives it a greenish color like oxidized copper. While Malachite is a darker green, Chrysocolla is more of a bluish-green color, and since both crystals are similar to each other IRL, I think it might be safe to assume that their Chrysocolla weapons and armor likely looked and functioned very similarly to Glass weapons and armor, just with more blue in them like a cyan or aquamarine color than the vibrant green of malachite. Kinda makes me wonder if Chillrend is actually a Chrysocolla weapon instead of a malachite based glass one since it’s unusually blue for a glass sword. I know it gets upgraded with malachite in Skyrim, but I’m assuming it would be pointless to add an entire new crafting material for a single base game unique weapon. And in case y’all are wondering, no you can’t forge stuff with chrysocolla or malachite irl, they’re crystals with trace amounts of copper in them, not solid workable metal.
This is awesome info, my guy. Thank you.
Also, Chillrend potentially being made by a desert dwelling culture where nothing would be adapted to defend against cold damage makes its frosty nature even more _cool._
I kept thinking the opening line was "Hello Djiub" and felt a little silly to realize he's been saying "Hello TH-cam" all this time.
the red hair and dark skin is probably inspired by the gerudo/ganon from zelda lol :3
not the dunmer?
I mean... That's a great inspiration.
@@SuperGman117 Dunmer is Ashen skinned with black hair or silver hair and red eyes. The lefthanded elves were bronze skinned or brown with red hair and golden eyes
@@zintosion there are red-haired dunmer
Dunmer can indeed have red hair! It's kind of like how ginger hair works in the real world @@zintosion
Michael Kirkbride is known to describe things in ways that only he can understand. Meaning the way he describes the continents should not be taken as literal.
Came here to ask about the art but unlike so many others you actually have links to the art yo used. Absolutely stellar, I will be following because I love TES and that's something I want to see more creators do.
@@WarlockCD i also asked the creator for permission
So, Versidue-Shaie was a time-traveler from the future. Now everything makes even less sense than it did before.
We're gonna make Yokuda Great Again!
We're gonna make Red Guard Great Again!
We're gonna make Talos Great Again!
Build a wall to keep the lefthanded elves out
@@ImperialKnowledge
Yea, like some Chinese great wall perhaps? Lol
@@ImperialKnowledge Gonna send them back to previous Kalpa and the High Elves pay for it!
there is no making taht war criminal talos great again..... there is no making yokuda great again. the yokudan/redguard war crimed the mer and nedes that lived in hammerfell and not to mention they war crimed their own homeland too.
Ya know what, just for the hell of it, theory: the sinistral elves are the maormer!
The yokudans drove the sinistral elves _into the sea,_ and where do the maormer live? In the ocean. Also, they both happen to venerate serpents. Coincidence?!
Just to be on the save side, this is a joke, it's not serious.
You know… jokes aside, your theory isn’t all that bad. The Sinistral likely could’ve integrated with the Maormer in the early days of their civilization and *POSSIBLY* even evolve into the Sea Elves themselves.
My name is professor nwah nificant of the topal university of pyandneas Paleolagy department. We have reason to believe that the left handed elves left aldmiris before topal. And infact represent a completly different genetic pool of mer to our current pool. Current expeditions to the yokudan sea have tuned up bones including skulls. With higher cheek bones and slightly bigger eye sockets.
The closest mer to them are infact the aldmer. But by a long shot. Its possible they may also have been indigenous to thras and the upper isls of summerset.
(Archological digs ongoing)
If this is true then this could change how we view history in not only tamriel and its surrounds but nirn as a whole.
Your work is entriguing and really makes me think... thank u professor nwah
Now, if Akavir is the future and Tamriel is the present, that means that in the future Tamriel, Uriel V will arrive to conquer his own continent as he tried to conquer Akavir in the past.
"Wait, it's all Tamriel?"
"Always has been"
Tamrielian: "Guys‚ did we seriously just went around the continent?"
Akavirian: "By the divines‚ is the [equivalent to the Ren fair] happening early?"
On the idea of traveling east being going to the future and west to the past, that would technically be how traveling feels. In our world, to the east would be later (due to time zones and how the world turns) and to the west would seem like the day is standing still. So technically it isn't all too false. But I don't think that post would be accurate to the timelines. Especially since Akavir had invaded Tamriel and Tamriel had invaded Akavir at times. Basically meaning that they must be in the same timeline and would not be separated.
Love the concept art in the thumbnail but it would be cool if the lhe were jet black
Personally I don't think they'd be pale grey/dark skin
I'd feel they'd look more like in between the current Dunmer & Altmer reminiscent of the Yokudan/Redguards rather than just being red-headed dunmer.
I think a dull gold perhaps even copper look would make them look more distinct to the other elves
To be clear, I'm not suggesting they share a strong heritage with the Altmer & Dunmer, more a suggestion to how they'd look based on how existing the existing Mer look.
I do rly like the red hair colour...
It would be great to see a refreshed video on Aldmeris like the ones on Atmora and Yokuda
When kirkbride says something metaphysical, he means in a Buddhist sense of both real and allegorical
Like when he spoke of Lig, he implies it is still on Nirn, but metaphysically it is from a different Calpa.
Was really hoping for an explanation for the name Left-Handed Elves
Considering how common elves were prior to humanity in Tamriel I figured there was an elf group in Hammerfell before they were ran off. The left handed elves were one group making my fan version of Hammerfell elves the Mysmer able to fit into lore and they are major Dibellan devotees who's foundations was a blend of Ayelied elves and nymphs with magic to maintain their elven image.
Ah the unreliable narrative that makes Elder Scrolls what it is.
Pelinal Whitstrake would be proud
Being left handed is indeed quite a strange thing in The Elder Scrolls. I don't think any NPCs have ever been left handed, and the player has only been able to wield weapons in their left hand effectively in, I think, Daggerfall. Maybe in Arena. Also maybe Battlespire.
You can be left handed in Skyrim too lmao
@@cosmo9925 Not effectively. You can't block.
Nords: Elven genocide?
Redguards: What elves?
Nords/Redguards: 😂🤜🤛😂
Seen any Elves?
Obliterating entire races of elves is just an average Tuesday for humans apparently. I think the only extinct elven race that wasn’t destroyed exclusively by men was the Dwarves, and even then, the Nords had a part in their downfall when they assisted Neravar and the Chimer in their war against the Dwemer. No wonder the Thalmor hate humans so much lmao
@@cosmo9925 Look up what the dirennis did with humans in high rock and the reach, or ayleid slavery, or literally just saarthal
HAHA!! This is freaking hilarious! 🤣
@@cosmo9925Well seems like enslaving humans is just an average Monday to some elves. I really can't feel a whole lotta sympathy for them.
The Dwemer didn't enslave humans (that I know of), but they did enslave the Falmer. So perhaps they deserved whatever mysterious fate befell them.
Very interesting Video. One of the Reasons i keep coming here is that you properly research stuff before you publish it.
Wonder where Pyandonea would fit into Kirkbride's time theory.
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A solid theory is that they even arent from the Kalpa in TES time. Think about it, they make weapons like nuclear bombs and the old yukudan humans learn from them, and thats the reason Yokuda sunk, would also fit into the "Past" yokuda continent. Also the name "left - handed, its either sinister or not from this "side".
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I've never heard of the one, where they brought Yokuda from a previous Kalpa. Only the one, where the people did, by walking in strange ways.
Left handed elves, I wonder what they do with their right hand
Wipe their butts.
I still like the idea that Aldmeris and Yokuda are the same place and therefore the sinistral elves are the ancient Aldmer. But I definitely see some issues there.
Addendum: maybe an odd faction of Aldmer, definitely not the orthodox position. Plus, there are objectively afterlives in TES, so it’s interesting that they reject the idea.
You're imply there can't be any time-traveling, * cough * what the Elderscrolls did to Alduin * cough *.
I like the idea that Yakuda and Akavir are different timelines/culpas and Altmeris and Atmora are like spiritual/ancestral realms of magic.
Not completely what the post said I know but it kinda leans into the fan theory that magic is waning as the eras pass, generally a lame cope for progressively more boring games, but with this it's pretty cool.
Akavir the Culpa of the future is young and full of magic and exotic creatures (dragons and strange beastmen).
While Yakuda the Culpa of the past is old and full of advanced technology (black powder and cannons)
Pretty neat, going into the head canon.
Thank you. I'm so sick and tired of Kirkbride's post-leaving stuff getting treated like canon. Remember, according to his fanfiction, the eye of Magnus is a prison to house a sapient asteroid mining robot from the future who had already escaped by the time of Skyrim.
Look, Michael Kirkbride is clearly a super weird dude. I know he and Todd Howard had a bit of a falling out because he refused to confirm what *really* happened between Nerevar and the Tribunal, preferring to claim that all of the theories were true because of a dragon break. And then he claimed that the PC from Oblivion never replaced Sheogorath, despite that being the canon ending of the Shivering Isles expansion.
At this point, he's basically an ex-boyfriend who keeps liking your girl's Instagram posts and getting furious when she says something about liking pineapple pizza because he *knows* she only eats pizza with sliced mangoes.
There's no reason to take anything he says seriously.
GYAT! I - i mean great vid...
The Kalpa argument for Yokuda having not existed doesn’t even make sense, by the nature of Dragonbreaks, even a timeline where Yokuda never existed means that there’s also a timeline where it did. The Redguards also had to have come from somewhere.
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Finally, we get Stormcloak Knowledge...
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Stormcloak Knowledge? Are you mad? (Austin Powers) haha Even his art on Yokuda looks like Skyrim 😁 (no hate, just jokes)
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I think there is more reason to suspect Yokuda is not supposed to be here. Neither should redguards. Like .. Aldmeri noted ALL their kind migrating and diversifying into various groups. How would they forget then entire ethnic of Yokuda ? Second Redguards are humans yes, as were Yokudans. Yet Yokudans and Nedes do NOT share ancestry. Every other human race can trace itself back into one another, except for Redguards - they have no connection to other human races whatsoever.
So we have time, where neither Sinistrals nor Yokudans are related to anybody .. and nobody knows anything about them whatsoever. Yokudans definately did NOT recognized Nedes as their kind, consider conquest of Hammerfell where they were kicking/killing out Orcs, Giant Goblins, Nedes and Ayelids alike. Redguards to this day do not share any kinship with Nords, Imperials or Bretons. They are always 'outsiders' there. They are humans unrelated to all other humans, and lived with elves unrelated to other elves. How ?? All other races can easily track down one another in origins and relations, heck even khajiit could point out they started as Woodland Spirits as well as did the bosmer. But not redguards.
Another thing is the supposed technology and spellwork that Yokuda had. Yokudans were masters of enchanting. So much so that their enchantments are still not topped by anybody ever. Then we have mystery of Sword-Singing itself. Redguards also in their lore .. well there is no other way to put it - they somehow know much more then they should.
I know ESO lately bumbled and entangled Fargrave with Mirrormoor - which Fargrave is NOT, as Mirrormoor is Deadlight - but exsitance of Fargrave itself which is undeniably yokudan in origin, calls into question several things about powers of Yokudans and their relations with Dieties.
And then we can ponder on purpose, as why did Yokudans back in Merethic era at earliest (given that Fargrave must have dais of portal to Deadlight) created a city, just to make massive amounts of portals and then rip it out from Yokuda by some means .. and get carried over by massive daedra-like creatures on their journey to establish portals everywhere in universe. And we talk about yokudan mages living in it too. Yokudans are not known for mages. And it HAD TO be ripped out from Yokuda, there is no way it was in Hammerfell as no way nobody would note how entire city was just poof gone, carried over by some big monsters (one look at Bearer might give hint how it looked like while alive .. those massive fang-like teeth ..) into space. Beyond that architecture matches Hew's Bane which was said to be build in very early Ra Gada so in yokudan style. And then we have stone used to build Fargrave, which honestly mostly resembes to me Morwha's Statue antiquity, which was confirmed to be made IN Yokuda from Yokuda's stone. Also modern redguards would know how to open all portals, if it was this recent. They don't and given Fargrave surroundings of desert, and all that water in skies .. yeah ZOS sneakily put hint in DC plot how water and memories share similarities, they can be turned into one. Now you can think where knowledge of Yokudan mages about all the portals and secrets of city went after city completed it's journey. I have suspicion that "The Pearl" in myth is just portal stone to Fargrave.
Speaking of Dieties, while we can put Alessia and her followers to just copy-paste Altmer pantheon because they were uneducated slaves for most of part .. we somehow should not ignore that Redguard pantheon is pretty much matching what current Altmers believe with minor changes. And biggest mystery here is that Ruptga IS Auri-el. A champion of elves, main elven diety .. yet somehow, someway on Yokuda the very same pro-elven diety turned against the elves and championed humans. And still champions them, given that Ruptga is Warrior constellation .. and how did Warrior manifest himself in Tamriel in ESO ? As Yokudan warrior.
Redguards detest Lorkhan, they are only race of humans that does it.
I believe that destruction of Yokuda, which wasn't natural at all could be happening in some Dragon Break fashion. I remember some describes of it, and .. it sort of sounded like fabric of time was shattering itself.
Part of me seeing all lore, does believe that Redguards simply shouldn't be here. At all. They are living fossil. Either Yokudans shouldn't be here, or somehow entire rest of Nirn slept through countless times while Yokuda advanced in history - both on recording of other races and their history AND technology/spellwork advancements.
There is just too many holes in here.
Please do Prisoner video
Look like the gerodos from zelda
The red hair is a reference to wheel of time the Aiel people
Some people are too attached to Kirkbride’s writing and need to let it go. Yes, he gave TES a lot in his time. But he also gave a lot of coked up nonsense that doesn’t fit with the atmosphere of the franchise at all.
fuuuuuuuuuuuck the Apocryphal works of michael kirkbride
uh-oh someone hasn't played skyrim and payed attention to dialogue with the geybeards and paarthurnax about kalpas red alert on your sources of information
Nowhere do I deny the existence of kalpas or anything like that. I refer specifically to Yokuda and other continents not being part of that discussion. That’s it.