I know that pronouncing his name is not my strongsuit unfortunately. Introduction to TES Lore: th-cam.com/video/6jCNpkRjaXo/w-d-xo.html Video on the Elder Council: th-cam.com/video/qsmEg65Qzt4/w-d-xo.html Video on the Direnni Elves: th-cam.com/video/CZPQ22APE4s/w-d-xo.html Video on the ESO Main Quest: th-cam.com/video/eSEGyTbbKBo/w-d-xo.html
Laloriaran Dynar is a fitting name indeed. And through his final sacrifice, he made sure Nirn would not be made to suffer what he did. It's neat to see such an example of a "good", albeit tragic, high-ranking Ayleid.
It honestly impressive how you managed to make the final death of the Ayleids, some of the most cartoonishly evil bastards in the Elder Scrolls poignant and tragic.
What I love about Elder Scrolls’ universe is that the characters, races, and cultures aren’t as black and white as most other fantasy universes. The Ayleids may have been human enslaving sadists but they were still people with hopes, dreams, and ambitions. Some probably didn’t even own slaves but we’re still caught in Pelinal’s psychopathic rampage. And to have thousands of regular Aylied men, woman, and children wiped out in the blink of an eye is truly a tragedy
To be honest, I doubt the accounts of Aeylieds and their cruelty are totally accurate. I mean, the very nature of the Alessian Order throws everything they state about history and their enemies into question. I wouldn't be surprised if the Ayleids were much better or worse than the Dunmer.
@@thenewguyinred They were evil. No humanizing them required. Some of their individuals may have been good people, however I don't find their destruction any more tragic than how they viewed their treatment of Humans.
hearing his last words at 11:54 got me emotional all over again. initially, idk why i got so attached to his character (i started with eso) but now knowing more about the lore and more about what the Ayleids did to the Nedic people, i understand why. He genuinely stood for what was right and helped Alessia in the fight for their freedom. We love Laloriaran 🫶🏽
@@akaakaakaak5779 He is real to us, and judging by how vile, mindlessly shallow, and needlessly toxic people are nowadays, more real than a lot of 'real' people.
@@TheSmolPrinceand the nords exterminated the Snow Elves and were quite the problem for the dunmer. Nords are the Gigachads of Elder Scrolls. They mad beefy bro.
I'm honestly curious what Cyrodiil would have been like if the Ayleids were never driven out but instead created a power dynamic between man and mer in Cyrodiil and the Empire.
At around 9:30 you mention that the Ayleid's came across goblins gnawing at the remains of their kin. The implications of this are fascinating since a prevalent theory on goblins/falmer/reiklings is that they're all corrupted elves (Ayleid/snow elves) driven underground by humans, slowly evolving into the goblins we see in the 3d and 4th era. I find the theory convincing but this has implications that a) Ayleid evolution to goblins was rapid or b) goblins are not descendants of Ayleids. The third option c) is that Bethesda's storyboard isn't very concerned with consistency or didn't really give this much thought
I am working on some zone stories, but the alliances (As far as I played them) seem to have seperate stories for each zones. They are somewhat connected, but I am more interested in the seperate stories as some of them are quite interesting. Although I have only played parts of the DC and AD questlines. So I am not sure whether the EP or the zones of the DC and AD get more connected. I find the DLC questlines to be more fun and engaging mostly so I have mostly been doing those, so they are most likely to get covered first.
Keep making these Brother! With the way technology is advancing and video games are evolving. We’ll finally be able to live and play in these fantasy worlds we enjoy so much
It has been argued that the Marukhati Selective did not worship Akatosh, but essentially Shor, since Akatosh is basically a fusion of Auriel and Shor, or that they worshipped the Godhead itself
There is literally a live Ayleid in the main quest of Daggerfall. Myniseria, I think. And it's fully possible that both Jagar Tharn and Mankar Cameron either are Ayleids, or descendants of them. They both deal with daedra. And Umbacano is likely to have some heritage, even though he's a high elf. Not all Ayleids died, and they looked a lot like High Elves, so they likely mixed in with them. And might even be the force behind the Thalmor who made a coup in Summerset during the Oblivion crisis.
My father humiliated by the Empress Nenalata as a vassal-state to the Empire of Cyrodiil Wrenching transition to a slave-less economy Forced adoption of Alessia's Eight Divines I don the Crown of Nenalata Rising sense of futility and doom SOOOONG EEEENDS
Just finished coldharbor questline, and Laloriaran Dynar dying in the last moment was quit a surprise to me. eso really has many great lore sad only few youtuber make videos about eso lore compared to wow.
Maybe someone mentiomed it already but I think Umbacano in Oblivion is the last living Ayleid as far as we know and if his plan had worked, becomes the new Ayleid king since he seems to be the heir of the last king of Nenalata. His literal last words are:" Arise, my people! The restoration of Tam Riel begins today!" , if you gave him the crown of Nenalata, which only he can wear since he is the rightful heir of Nenalata.
2:07 Give the Ayleids some credit, they arnt all evil selfish pricks, that's what Laloriaran proves in the first place -- I always assumed a few Ayleid kingdoms and their leadership recognized that slavery and wanton violence against humans is, in fact; bad, and wanted to put an end to it. People ought to appreciate that the morals of massive civilizations in TES arnt at all straight-forward and are very contradictory, the Alessian Empire was assisted by sympathic Ayleids who they then in the following years committed genocide against, Most the Imperials in Morrowind come the 3rd Era are the descendants of Slaves but dont raise a finger against the Slavery the Dunmer center themselves around, the Thalmor used to be peaceful and isolationist until Talos slaughtered their freinds and families, stirring them into a vengeful rage. Things like "The Empire" or "The Stormcloaks" or "The Thalmor" are not a single entity, they're groups made up of hundreds of people who do not think alike beyond a rarely aligned goal, there are good Thalmor, good Imperials, and good Stormcloaks. And to cap off my self indulgent rant; broadly -- there is nothing we know about the Ayleids and their culture not shared by the Dunmer, they are cruel and gorey Slavers, they hate Altmer, they worship the Daedra and the Aedra. And yet you wouldnt kill a random Dunmer you saw on the street, maybe that's because they have redeeming qualities and just seem like people when you talk to them? Well good luck talking to an Ayleid casually after the Alessian's commited all kinds of warcrimes on them. All we know about the Ayleids comes from history books, history books funded by written by and published by the Empire; a corrupt and failing government founded on blood spilled in the name of Talos' pride and vanity, Gods damn the Empire.
There are no evil races in the elder scrolls, just evil civilizations and cultures. Different races in TES have different proclivities from each other, but people still have free will and can become good or evil beyond the context of their heritage. We see it all the time in Skyrim, which has immigrants and refugees from all over Tamriel and many of them live very different lives than what is stereotyped for them. The Alessian order genociding the Ayleid vassals would be like the Allies massacring every German man, woman and child in Europe after WWII just because Germany lead the Nazi regime.
The Ayleids deserved everything they got, but King Laloriaran was different. The Alessian Order should've been destroyed before they were able to rise.
More Ayleids lived in Valenwood. He wasn't the last of their kind. However these Ayleids probably lost their culture, Dynar might have been the last Ayleid to grow up in its culture.
It'd be neat but it's super unlikely that there's an Ayleid city, but there is definitely some Ayleid blood in the Bretons, Bosmer, and maybe Imperials.
He’s actually a snow elf, or falmer, which is a different species of elf. Those decrepit Nosferatu monsters in Skyrim are what remains of Gelebors peoples.
Oh right right my bad. I totally forgot that the Ayleids are their own race apart from most Falmer and Snow Elves. For some reason I thought Ayleids *were Snow Elves*. It just now hit me. lol
How about just lore of each character now? Rather than MOST "important". Just some background of common characters atleast mentioned in 2 or more games.
While Laloriaran's tale is tragic, the Mer of Tamriel - exceptions excluded - deserve the very worst of what they have gotten, and deserve even more of what they haven't gotten. From the earliest times, in which the Wandering Elhnofey were rejected by the Old Elhnofey after greeting them as brothers, to the cruel experiments of the Dwemer and their enslavement of the Falmer, to the supremacist tendencies in Aldmer society (of which the Thalmor is only 1 result). Clan Direnni of High Rock was free to rape any human they encountered with impunity by their laws. The Dunmer are blatant rascists and xenophobes, Daedra worshippers and enslaved and slaughtered the Argonians for centuries. The Ayleids with their sickeningly sadistic gut-gardening and flesh-sculptures. Perhaps only the Bosmer and the Falmer can be looked upon with some sympathy (although the Falmer also had their own "Kristallnacht" at Saarthal).
I know that pronouncing his name is not my strongsuit unfortunately.
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Laloriaran Dynar is a fitting name indeed. And through his final sacrifice, he made sure Nirn would not be made to suffer what he did. It's neat to see such an example of a "good", albeit tragic, high-ranking Ayleid.
His story is so sad that he waited 2000 years to be rescued only to die right after being rescued
It honestly impressive how you managed to make the final death of the Ayleids, some of the most cartoonishly evil bastards in the Elder Scrolls poignant and tragic.
I mean, these specific Ayleids who Laloriaran led were the “good guys” and their downfall was kind of tragic. At least his story is pretty tragic.
What I love about Elder Scrolls’ universe is that the characters, races, and cultures aren’t as black and white as most other fantasy universes. The Ayleids may have been human enslaving sadists but they were still people with hopes, dreams, and ambitions. Some probably didn’t even own slaves but we’re still caught in Pelinal’s psychopathic rampage. And to have thousands of regular Aylied men, woman, and children wiped out in the blink of an eye is truly a tragedy
To be honest, I doubt the accounts of Aeylieds and their cruelty are totally accurate. I mean, the very nature of the Alessian Order throws everything they state about history and their enemies into question. I wouldn't be surprised if the Ayleids were much better or worse than the Dunmer.
@@thenewguyinred They were evil. No humanizing them required. Some of their individuals may have been good people, however I don't find their destruction any more tragic than how they viewed their treatment of Humans.
hearing his last words at 11:54 got me emotional all over again. initially, idk why i got so attached to his character (i started with eso) but now knowing more about the lore and more about what the Ayleids did to the Nedic people, i understand why. He genuinely stood for what was right and helped Alessia in the fight for their freedom. We love Laloriaran 🫶🏽
Two lore videos so soon after each other, yes its possible!
According to the new Necrom DLC you can actually find living Aylieds in Apocrypha. More specifically the Disquiet Study.
I was an honor to fight beside you, Laloriaran Dynar
hes not real
@@akaakaakaak5779 He is real to us, and judging by how vile, mindlessly shallow, and needlessly toxic people are nowadays, more real than a lot of 'real' people.
Laloriaran Dynar showed us players that there were also good Ayleids, they weren't only daedra worshipping slave masters!
Well, the Nedic rebellion would've never won if not for the other rebel Ayleids.
@@mark5222 Not accurate. Once the Nords and Pelinal arrived, the Ayleids were doomed.
@@TheSmolPrinceand the nords exterminated the Snow Elves and were quite the problem for the dunmer. Nords are the Gigachads of Elder Scrolls. They mad beefy bro.
@@PhthaloGreenskin Lorkhan's chosen Men 💪
Oh Merid-nunda, why has your light forsaken us?
I'm honestly curious what Cyrodiil would have been like if the Ayleids were never driven out but instead created a power dynamic between man and mer in Cyrodiil and the Empire.
Such a thing would’ve been interesting to see between the Falmer & Nords as well.
At around 9:30 you mention that the Ayleid's came across goblins gnawing at the remains of their kin. The implications of this are fascinating since a prevalent theory on goblins/falmer/reiklings is that they're all corrupted elves (Ayleid/snow elves) driven underground by humans, slowly evolving into the goblins we see in the 3d and 4th era.
I find the theory convincing but this has implications that a) Ayleid evolution to goblins was rapid or b) goblins are not descendants of Ayleids. The third option c) is that Bethesda's storyboard isn't very concerned with consistency or didn't really give this much thought
I suspect c
I would like to see a video retelling the story of the alliance zones in ESO, just like you made one for the Main Quest. That would be cool.
I am working on some zone stories, but the alliances (As far as I played them) seem to have seperate stories for each zones. They are somewhat connected, but I am more interested in the seperate stories as some of them are quite interesting. Although I have only played parts of the DC and AD questlines. So I am not sure whether the EP or the zones of the DC and AD get more connected. I find the DLC questlines to be more fun and engaging mostly so I have mostly been doing those, so they are most likely to get covered first.
@ImperialKnowledge AD are connected until you get to Reaper's March. DC are separate. EP are partly connected
Keep making these Brother! With the way technology is advancing and video games are evolving. We’ll finally be able to live and play in these fantasy worlds we enjoy so much
Funny you mention the Alyied kingdoms in Black Marsh. You can play as these kingdoms in Elder Kings 2.
Nice to have one during the week !
This is truly a bittersweet story.
It has been argued that the Marukhati Selective did not worship Akatosh, but essentially Shor, since Akatosh is basically a fusion of Auriel and Shor, or that they worshipped the Godhead itself
Rest well king
Whoa, that is a pretty cool elf. His entire life could be a movie or a tv show
aylied culture is dead but i'm pretty sure wild elves still exist currently in valenwood and perhaps isolated areas of cyrodiil
Laloriaran Dynar was the only character from ESO that made me feel bad about his death 😔 and he was an ayleid, not less
I'm convinced that the Thalmor are a group of surviving aylieds
Uhr... I just got the shivers!
What a epos, what a hearo! ❤
Such an interesting topic!
There is literally a live Ayleid in the main quest of Daggerfall. Myniseria, I think. And it's fully possible that both Jagar Tharn and Mankar Cameron either are Ayleids, or descendants of them. They both deal with daedra. And Umbacano is likely to have some heritage, even though he's a high elf. Not all Ayleids died, and they looked a lot like High Elves, so they likely mixed in with them. And might even be the force behind the Thalmor who made a coup in Summerset during the Oblivion crisis.
Ayleids are just high elves
My father humiliated by the Empress
Nenalata as a vassal-state to the Empire of Cyrodiil
Wrenching transition to a slave-less economy
Forced adoption of Alessia's Eight Divines
I don the Crown of Nenalata
Rising sense of futility and doom
SOOOONG EEEENDS
Just finished coldharbor questline, and Laloriaran Dynar dying in the last moment was quit a surprise to me. eso really has many great lore sad only few youtuber make videos about eso lore compared to wow.
Really nice work, dude
Turned out he made his race proud once again.
Maybe someone mentiomed it already but I think Umbacano in Oblivion is the last living Ayleid as far as we know and if his plan had worked, becomes the new Ayleid king since he seems to be the heir of the last king of Nenalata. His literal last words are:" Arise, my people! The restoration of Tam Riel begins today!" , if you gave him the crown of Nenalata, which only he can wear since he is the rightful heir of Nenalata.
2:07 Give the Ayleids some credit, they arnt all evil selfish pricks, that's what Laloriaran proves in the first place -- I always assumed a few Ayleid kingdoms and their leadership recognized that slavery and wanton violence against humans is, in fact; bad, and wanted to put an end to it.
People ought to appreciate that the morals of massive civilizations in TES arnt at all straight-forward and are very contradictory, the Alessian Empire was assisted by sympathic Ayleids who they then in the following years committed genocide against, Most the Imperials in Morrowind come the 3rd Era are the descendants of Slaves but dont raise a finger against the Slavery the Dunmer center themselves around, the Thalmor used to be peaceful and isolationist until Talos slaughtered their freinds and families, stirring them into a vengeful rage.
Things like "The Empire" or "The Stormcloaks" or "The Thalmor" are not a single entity, they're groups made up of hundreds of people who do not think alike beyond a rarely aligned goal, there are good Thalmor, good Imperials, and good Stormcloaks.
And to cap off my self indulgent rant; broadly -- there is nothing we know about the Ayleids and their culture not shared by the Dunmer, they are cruel and gorey Slavers, they hate Altmer, they worship the Daedra and the Aedra. And yet you wouldnt kill a random Dunmer you saw on the street, maybe that's because they have redeeming qualities and just seem like people when you talk to them? Well good luck talking to an Ayleid casually after the Alessian's commited all kinds of warcrimes on them.
All we know about the Ayleids comes from history books, history books funded by written by and published by the Empire; a corrupt and failing government founded on blood spilled in the name of Talos' pride and vanity, Gods damn the Empire.
There are no evil races in the elder scrolls, just evil civilizations and cultures. Different races in TES have different proclivities from each other, but people still have free will and can become good or evil beyond the context of their heritage. We see it all the time in Skyrim, which has immigrants and refugees from all over Tamriel and many of them live very different lives than what is stereotyped for them. The Alessian order genociding the Ayleid vassals would be like the Allies massacring every German man, woman and child in Europe after WWII just because Germany lead the Nazi regime.
To be fair, they couldn't outlaw slavery in Morrowind due to that being part of the deal that prevented war against the Tribunal.
What a fucking G.
You could make a really fucking epic duology on this story. Do it really well. And it would be epic as movies…😮
I love this character. I was sad that he didn't survive the events of the Planemeld.
The Ayleids deserved everything they got, but King Laloriaran was different. The Alessian Order should've been destroyed before they were able to rise.
I use his sword because it looks cool lol
Where do you find him !?
Lay-Lore-Ee-In is how it's said in ESO i think, even tho it's not spelled that way. So confusing.
Even in eso it seems the different npcs pronounce it differently
@@ImperialKnowledge something something "unreliable narrator" lol. Great video!
@@kiewiesto be fair sometimes people just cannot spell different names right. Makes the world more realistic 😅
More Ayleids lived in Valenwood. He wasn't the last of their kind. However these Ayleids probably lost their culture, Dynar might have been the last Ayleid to grow up in its culture.
Can you kill him and end an entire race?
I think that there is still some ayleid Blood or maybe even one City that no one ever has found
It'd be neat but it's super unlikely that there's an Ayleid city, but there is definitely some Ayleid blood in the Bretons, Bosmer, and maybe Imperials.
@@jextra1313 There could also be a similar thing like with Serana and it could be the a part of a future plot of a new game, mod or dlc
the dude has -1000 luck, everywhere he goes, disaster happens....
Compared to the rest of his people it's more like +1000 luck
I thought Gelabor from the Dawnguard DLC was the last known living Ayleid?
He’s actually a snow elf, or falmer, which is a different species of elf. Those decrepit Nosferatu monsters in Skyrim are what remains of Gelebors peoples.
Oh right right my bad. I totally forgot that the Ayleids are their own race apart from most Falmer and Snow Elves. For some reason I thought Ayleids *were Snow Elves*. It just now hit me. lol
Laloriaran or Lalorian. Whichever you prefer. Lol even the NPC voice actors mispronounce it 'Lalorian.'
How about just lore of each character now? Rather than MOST "important".
Just some background of common characters atleast mentioned in 2 or more games.
🐻🐻🐻
:)
OK that was a cool video, but if you’ve ever use the necklace he has an ESO. It’s the worst mythic set there is.🤣
While Laloriaran's tale is tragic, the Mer of Tamriel - exceptions excluded - deserve the very worst of what they have gotten, and deserve even more of what they haven't gotten. From the earliest times, in which the Wandering Elhnofey were rejected by the Old Elhnofey after greeting them as brothers, to the cruel experiments of the Dwemer and their enslavement of the Falmer, to the supremacist tendencies in Aldmer society (of which the Thalmor is only 1 result). Clan Direnni of High Rock was free to rape any human they encountered with impunity by their laws. The Dunmer are blatant rascists and xenophobes, Daedra worshippers and enslaved and slaughtered the Argonians for centuries. The Ayleids with their sickeningly sadistic gut-gardening and flesh-sculptures. Perhaps only the Bosmer and the Falmer can be looked upon with some sympathy (although the Falmer also had their own "Kristallnacht" at Saarthal).
What about the in game theory about the ayleid aren't fully extinct rather devolved into feral tribes?
Like another commenter said its possible that for example the goblins are what became of the Ayleids. Im not sure, but it is possible
@@ImperialKnowledge Other TES Lore channels have already made videos about the goblins are for the elves what the chimps are for real world humans.
@@davidfrancisco3502 wild elves still exist in valenwood and balfiera as regular tanned blue eyed elves until bethesdha retcons them