Are all the Guar dead? : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 4:05 pm

This is in no way official, but I heard a rumor from an aged Redguard legionnaire that the Daedric Prince named Hircine keeps a sizable population of every single animal and monster hunted by the mortal races in his realm.

Creatures such as the Alit, Kagouti, Nix Hounds and Guar live in an ashen mountainous region which encircles a great forest.

It was just the ramblings of an old drunk who had supposedly gotten lost inside an Oblivion Gate once during the whole Mehrunes Dagon ordeal and ended up in the complete wrong realm. No such data appears in any of the great libraries of Tamriel, but it seems a feasible scenario, so I bought the old fellow another round for his wonderful story and wished him well.

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 10:46 pm

If it makes you feel better, I kept a large collection of animals native to Vvardenfell in my Telvanni tower on Vvar...oh crap, I FORGOT THEM! Damn it! I knew my nerevarine forgot something on his trip to Akivar.

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:46 am

I'm going to miss Scribs the most.

Aye. Those were too cute.

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 1:25 pm

I'm going to miss Scribs the most.

Seconded-the scribs were my friends.

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 12:59 pm

Seconded-the scribs were my friends.

Though I'm betting that a good quantity lived underground, and the Kwama colonies are probably still going in the less-geothermal areas of Morrowind. There scribs are probably still kicking

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» Sat Jul 17, 2010 5:28 pm

You know, when Jiub drove the Racers out of Morrowind, didn't he thereby save them?

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 1:50 pm

Not entirely dead.

Should be some alive somewhere. Exprted from morrowind,

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 2:05 pm

You know, when Jiub drove the Racers out of Morrowind, didn't he thereby save them?

Wow, that's a really good point. High-five to you! :jammasterjay:

Watch there be cliffracers in Skyrim now. I mean, where better to drive them out to than into the land of those idiot Nords that are always attacking your borders - payback's a [censored], with a beak...

:turtle:

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 9:51 pm

Oh bless your heart....you haven't heard the bad news, have you?

There is no Vvardenfell anymore.

WHAT?!?!?!

What happend? dont tell me lol, is this in the new book The Infernal City or what ever?

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:47 pm

WHAT?!?!?!

What happend? dont tell me lol, is this in the new book The Infernal City or what ever?

It's still there, just only as an island covered in hardening magma and boiling water.

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 4:12 pm

It's still there, just only as an island covered in hardening magma and boiling water.

http://www.imperial-library.info/maps/vvardenfell_map.jpg

Not too far off, geologically speaking.

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:24 pm

Wow, that's a really good point. High-five to you! :jammasterjay:

Watch there be cliffracers in Skyrim now. I mean, where better to drive them out to than into the land of those idiot Nords that are always attacking your borders - payback's a [censored], with a beak...

:turtle:

Maybe they got driven to Akavir. Let's see them repel that.

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 9:22 am

Maybe they got driven to Akavir. Let's see them repel that.

= INSANE IMMORTAL VAMPIRE SNAKEMEN?

For what it's worth - and I hope some dev or Greg Keyes will make a better stab at it:

Captain's Log of the Imperial Trader Wanderer
Sun's Rest year ...

We were coasting into the lee of Vvardenfell when my lookout awoke us all to the danger or we would have died today. This is what happened:

Lookout calls: "Ahoy there Capn - movement six points off the starboard bow - 2 miles distant and closing!"

I rushed to the bow and watched intently for some minutes through my spyglass as a vast, dark tide spread towards us accross the strangely calm sea from the not so distant coastline.

Then my mate Raffy, a sharp-eyed Bosmer, called out: "It's a white guar! He's leading them."

And the nine bless me if that wasn't exactly what it was - straight out of the Tales of the Nerevarine my dunmer mother used to tell me - Saints preserves us.

I looked again and saw that the tide was made from every sort of creature you had ever heard of inhabiting that war-torn Island. And then all the hair on my head stood up as if in a great wind. There was a huge flash of light and several seconds later a monstrous report.

"ALL HANDS ON DECK!" I bellowed. "MAN THE LINES AND SET FULL SAIL, BE READY TO RIG FOR A BIG STORM! TIE DOWN OR JETTISON ANYTHING LOOSE, CHECK THE CARGO IS SECURE AND MR RAFFY, FOLLOW THAT WHITE GUAR!"

by raggidman

move to rp or whatever if you like

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 5:45 pm

Well, that was random.

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 1:52 pm

The White Guar needs a comic book.

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 9:41 am

And did all this stuff come from the new book they made?

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 8:51 am

And did all this stuff come from the new book they made?

No, The Elder Scrolls Five has been out for 2 years. Most of the new lore is from that. You should go to the shop and buy it.

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:23 pm

And did all this stuff come from the new book they made?

Mirelurk21 Posted Jan 16 2010, 12:41 PM
Well, that was random.

Weeell that little story (which is not random ... was written in response to the expressed concern of Guar Lovers (also based off MK's post) came from the Provincial Library (see my sig) - oops, there is no more Provinces and no more Empire ... does that mean the Imperial and Provincial Libraries must now change their names or will we see a new Empire ruled by Guar? ^^

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:32 pm

Weeell that little story (which is not random ... was written in response to the expressed concern of Guar Lovers (also based off MK's post) came from the Provincial Library (see my sig) - oops, there is no more Provinces and no more Empire ... does that mean the Imperial and Provincial Libraries must now change their names or will we see a new Empire ruled by Guar? ^^

Somehow I like the concept of the white guar leading other animals to safety. But what are they doing, walking on water?

There's still an Empire; Titus Mede rose from warlord to Emperor a number of years or decades after the Oblivion Crisis. The novel "The Infernal City" is set around 4E40.

Reminds me of Melville a little. "All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event ? in the living act, the undoubted deed ? there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale [guar] is that wall, shoved near to me . . . "

» Sat Jul 17, 2010 9:19 pm

Somehow I like the concept of the white guar leading other animals to safety. But what are they doing, walking on water?

There's still an Empire; Titus Mede rose from warlord to Emperor a number of years or decades after the Oblivion Crisis. The novel "The Infernal City" is set around 4E40.

Reminds me of Melville a little. "All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event ? in the living act, the undoubted deed ? there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale [guar] is that wall, shoved near to me . . . "

Walking on water is not a bad idea if some God or Daedic Prince is involved eh? Hircine comes to mind as you can't hunt dead animals or Azura recovered. Or even the Ashlanders ... But hows about swimming? Maybes with assistance from the Narmatees (non-lore mamalian sea-dwellers coming to a mod near you as soon as they are re-textured).

Right - so I guess there are Provinces too ... though maybes not all of them?

Wow - that Melville quote is way above and beyond the level the story is at - basically it is intended to be very simple, but honoured anyways.