The implications of the plot of TESO

Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:32 pm

Could it be that we will see, firsthand, the event where spears were compared and bitten?
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Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:49 am

Could it be that we will see, firsthand, the event where spears were compared and bitten?
No...because Vivec wrote that book ages ago. And there's a good chance that the spear biting didn't really actually happen.

And finally, I think Zenimax would get in trouble for putting gay porm in an MMO.
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Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:39 am

The spear biting did happen, it just that it was in the history the Triune created for themselves after their ascension.

Everything Vivec writes should be taken literally, and metaphorically. And mystically.
Hes just a hoopy frood like that.
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Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:04 pm



I think Zenimax would get in trouble for putting gay porm in an MMO.
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Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:22 am

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Youre thinking too literally.
This event has several layers.
There is the act itself. Then there are its implications. There is a metaphorical viewpoint and also a mystical one.
All these come from the base act, but to describe it as gay porm is to focus solely on the act, while ignoring the mystery.
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Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:47 am



Youre thinking too literally.
This event has several layers.
There is the act itself. Then there are its implications. There is a metaphorical viewpoint and also a mystical one.
All these come from the base act, but to describe it as gay porm is to focus solely on the act, while ignoring the mystery.

One might as well ask what the Song of Songs is doing in the bible.
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Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:37 pm

Youre thinking too literally. This event has several layers. There is the act itself. Then there are its implications. There is a metaphorical viewpoint and also a mystical one. All these come from the base act, but to describe it as gay porm is to focus solely on the act, while ignoring the mystery.
Try telling that to the ESRB. Seriously - try it, and film it. It'd be HILLARIOUS!
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Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:21 am


Try telling that to the ESRB. Seriously - try it, and film it. It'd be HILLARIOUS!

That's all right, I'd rather chainsaw sentient beings in half for the sheer visceral thrill of it. It's a far more wholesome pastime.
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Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:39 am

Try telling that to the ESRB. Seriously - try it, and film it. It'd be HILLARIOUS!

If I could find the family guy censorship song Id link it..
Also, what Muertos said.
Im not a fan of censorship in principle, and I believe the people that rate videogames, movies and the like have their priorities (and morals) wholly askew.

Anyway, Im sure that at some point Ill don a priest robe in the MMO and recite Sermons on some public square.
The Fourteenth wont be mysteriously absent.
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Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:48 am

Anyway, Im sure that at some point Ill don a priest robe in the MMO and recite Sermons on some public square.
The Fourteenth wont be mysteriously absent.

Please put it on youtube. I'd like to see the general reaction of people.
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Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:42 am

Youre thinking too literally.
This event has several layers.
There is the act itself. Then there are its implications. There is a metaphorical viewpoint and also a mystical one.
All these come from the base act, but to describe it as gay porm is to focus solely on the act, while ignoring the mystery.
I'd say that gay porm in and of itself is mystical and mysterious and has magic powers.
In all honesty, I was just trying to be snarky.

The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Vivec lay with Molag Bal for eighty days and eight, though headless. In that time, the Prince placed the warrior-poet's feet back and filled them with the blood of Daedra. In this way Vivec's giant-form remained forever harmless to good earth. The Pomegranate Banquet brought many spirits back from the dead so that the sons and daughters of the union had much to eat besides fruit.
The Duke of Scamps came while the banquet was still underway, and Molag Bal looked on the seven pennants with anger. The King of [censored] had become necessary and therefore troubled for the rest of time. His legions and Kh-Utta's fell into open war, but the children of Molag Bal and Vivec were too elaborate in power and form.
The Duke of Scamps therefore became a lesser thing, as did all his own children. Molag Bal said to them: 'You are the sons of liars, dogs, and wolf-headed women.' They have been useless to summon ever since.
The holy one returned at last, Vehk, golden with wisdom. His head found its body had been tenderly used. He mentioned this to Molag Bal, who told him that he should thank the Barons of Move Like This, 'For I have yet to learn how to refine my rapture. My love is accidentally shaped like a spear.'
So Vivec, who had a grain of Ayem's mercy, set about to teach Molag Bal in the ways of belly-magic. They took their spears out and compared them. Vivec bit new words onto the King of [censored]'s so that it might give more than ruin to the uninitiated. This has since become a forbidden ritual, though people still practice it in secret.
Here is why: The Velothi and demons and monsters that were watching all took out their own spears. There was much biting and the earth became wet. And this was the last laugh of Molag Bal:
'Watch as the earth shall crack, heavy with so much power, that should have been forever unalike!'
Then that stretch of badlands that had been the site of the marriage fragmented and threw fire. And a race that is no more but that was terrible at the time to behold came forth. Born of the biters, that is all they did, and they ran amok across the lands of Veloth and even to the shores of Red Mountain.
But Vivec made of his spear a more terrible thing, from a secret he had bitten off from the King of [censored]. And so he sent Molag Bal tumbling into the crack of the biters and swore forever that he would not deem the King beautiful ever again.
Vivec wept as he slew all those around him with his terrible new spear. He named it MUATRA, which is Milk Taker, and even the Chimeri mystics knew his fury. Anyone struck by Vivec at this time turned barren and withered into bone shapes. The path of bones became a sentence for the stars to read, and the heavens have never known children since. Vivec hunted down the biters one by one, and all their progeny, and he killed them all by means of the Nine Apertures, and the wise still hide theirs from Muatra.
This thread is now about anolyzing the scene in question.
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Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 7:25 am

Anyway, Im sure that at some point Ill don a priest robe in the MMO and recite Sermons on some public square.
The Fourteenth wont be mysteriously absent.

Please do.
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Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:00 am

So, the meaning of Molag Bal having Vivec's head: I take it to simply mean that Vivec was really dang infatuated with Molag Bal. Or that Molag Bal dominated Vivec's mind/thoughts somehow. After all, when you read all the relevant sermons together, it seems (in my opinion) that Molag Bal was just struttin his stuff, dressed in bling and whatever, and Vivec was all like "Dude, how beautiful you are that you do not join us. You and me, measure spears, now!" By which I mean they wanted to bite spears. By which I mean I imagine Vivec tattooing MUATRA on his spear. By which I mean that my interpretation tends towards the crude and reductionist.
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Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:50 pm

So, the meaning of Molag Bal having Vivec's head: I take it to simply mean that Vivec was really dang infatuated with Molag Bal. Or that Molag Bal dominated Vivec's mind/thoughts somehow.
I like the idea of Vivec being in love with Molag Bal. Even though they would be a horrible couple. Bal would be the moody boy and Vehk would be his perky girl hermaprodite. It's cute, until Bal has a nervous breakdown and raqes everyone else and ViVi(ec) gets angry with him for cheating on him/her/itVEHK.
After all, when you read all the relevant sermons together, it seems (in my opinion) that Molag Bal was just struttin his stuff, dressed in bling and whatever, and Vivec was all like "Dude, how beautiful you are that you do not join us. You and me, measure spears, now!" By which I mean they wanted to bite spears. By which I mean I imagine Vivec tattooing MUATRA on his spear. By which I mean that my interpretation tends towards the crude and reductionist.
And back to my point. That sounds like it just came out of a gay porm/slash fic. Please ignore my snark.

I think we should discuss the Duke of Scamps. The Sermon would imply that Scamps were cursed/dominated into being lesser daedra by Molag Bal. Thoughts?
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Post » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:02 pm

I'd say that gay porm in and of itself is mystical and mysterious and has magic powers.

Cant argue with this.
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