All About Elseweyr

Post » Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:09 am

The more I get into the lore of cultures, the more I find myself interested in Elseweyr and the culture of the Khajiits.

I watched some gameplay on the Moonpath to Elseweyr mod and it really peaked my interest.

Evidently there are more than one subspecies of Khajiit? There are those tiger things? And what up with those HUGE cats? lol

I'm really curious. Especially since so far the only in-game depiction of Elseweyr was in Arena, and well, that really didn't even scratch the surface (oh dear... no pun intended... lol).

Any Elseweyr/Khajiit buffs want to enlighten me? Cause I'm finding the whole culture to be fascinating. But I don't really know where to start to learn about lore, besides this forum.

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Jessica Thomson
 
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Post » Tue Jul 16, 2013 12:29 pm

Not much to say about them considering they are yet another less than fleshed out people. Basically there are a small bunch of books that mention some khajiit.

Basically they are the "do all" race, They have some of the best warriors, smiths, mages, and thief's.

Here are there forms though

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/khajiit-physiology-phases-and-forms

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Post » Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:53 am

The subspecies of khajiit are tied to the cycles of the moon.

The individual subspecies range from what appear to be common housecats to hulking tigerlike khajiit.

Some good references:

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/words-clan-mother-ahnissi-her-favored-daughter - creation myth

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/pocket-guide-empire-first-edition-elsweyr-confederacy

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Louise
 
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Post » Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:59 am

Oh wow! Thanks for those links!

Question on the subspecies info: It says that the most common form is the most human-like (the ones from Arena). That list doesn't mention the one's from Oblivion and Skyrim. Are they the Suthay-Rhat? The same ones from Redguard and Morrowind?

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Post » Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:49 am

Also check out Infernal City, it has some http://www.imperial-library.info/content/infernal-city-lore-notes#Elsweyr. The http://www.imperial-library.info/content/pocket-guide-empire-third-edition-sugar-and-blood-cats-south and http://www.imperial-library.info/content/ahzirr-trajijazaeri should also be useful.

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