A while back, there was talk of a http://eatwise.us/quiz/mountain%20dew.jpg that allegedly did that as well.

You gotta admit the grand soul gems look like condems.

I dunno. I thought all the reproduction was a big part of the whole "subgradients" thing, with each generation getting bigger in numbers but each part becoming weaker.

But it isn't really a subgradient as it is a transgradient. As in, not a lesser (under) gradient, just (across) the same gradient. It's not like the character/creature is dividing itself into two parts, as it is just growing a body (in the same gradient) to plop a soul into.

First one to break the string of awesome euphenisms in this thread.

No!!! not the euphenisms!!!! pleeeease!!!!!

I need them in my life

Birth control in Tamriel is easy. Just make a chastity belt mandatory for all young Dunmer females til they're at least a couple of centuries old.

It already is!
haven't you played oblivion?

If you're basing this on the ancient world then I can perhaps be of use.

Given the lack of medical knowledge, even amongst medical 'experts', there was limited understanding of the human body. Some experts believed that fertilisation occurred because the male seed rotted inside the female and a baby grew like a tree might grow out of fertile ground. Limited medical understanding also lead to high infant and maternal mortality rates, and because of this children were seen to belong not to the human realm, but the realm of the gods. As far as sources suggest there wasn't a great deal of attachment to children, hence why they exposed them.

The most documented method of pregnancy prevention was the old withdrawal method. Failing that, the woman was to shift her body so the male seed might not reach her own. Obviously this wouldn't work too well. There are examples of suppositories being used as a barrier method, these being made of everything from crocodile poo to honey, but they are not widely documented.

Most preventative measures occurred after intercourse when the female would either drink something cold and sneeze or she would jump up and down whilst kicking her heels against her bum.

Let's just say it was magic lest Bethesda should start implementing suppository shops in the next game...

I'd like to add to my ever growing list of stupid theories.

I don't think any woman in Tamriel is safe from miscarriages if http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tm1lS3YLe4 guy is going around harassing the general female populace like that.

What spell is that?

Drain Health

quoted from the description of the video
"I have been asked several times about the spell I used. So, I will give the same answer as always:
It's the Supreme Magicka mod replacement for the Telekinesis spell. "

What, it rips out embryos or something?

Not exact. It's like a really big force punch or something. Sends NPCs flying.

So how many times has Barenziah been impregnated so far? Four?

Lets see. The first was Tiber Septim's seed. The next was Helseth, then Morgiah from Symmachus. And...yeah there was 4. The last was Jagar Tharn's. I wonder what happened to the 4th.

I've been wondering that as well. If I recall, it is stated in The Real Barenziah that she did give birth to the child, but I can't find any mention of her exiling the child or anything either.

No, just read the last part of The Real Barenziah and I couldn't find any mention of her given birth to Jagar Tharn's kid, only that she was 6ish months pregnant by the time she left to Wayrest.

Haha, brilliant.

I can solve this really quickly.

Mages should stop using fire spells on male warriors

:mellow:

Funnily enough, this is something I was thinking about the other day. Physiology, alchemy and magic are all elements we have to take into consideration. As has already been mentioned, elven fertility seems to run on a very different clock to humanity.


This is something I find very insightful, and a point I hadn't really considered. When you think about how women's liberation has come on in leaps and bounds since the advent of the Pill, it's fascinating to consider how Tamriel's gender politics must have developed from a far more level playing-ground. Tamriellic Women's Studies; I love it.

Bump. This thread is too good.