Glasses? : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:18 pm

Would eye glasses be an established piece of Elder Scrolls lore? Just a quick question.

» Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:36 pm

There's a monocle in Redguard, and spectacles have been kicking around the real world for a while, so I don't see why not.

Edit: Probably prohibitively expensive, though. Or very uncommon.

» Sun Jun 20, 2010 4:35 am

edit: Nevermind. Never played Redguard; didn't know.

» Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:02 pm

Cool.

» Sun Jun 20, 2010 1:27 am

In real life, the first glasses appear in italy in the XIIIth century - convex lenses. Reading lenses appeared earlier, arount 9th century. The first hints at concave lenses (correcting myopia) are from the 15th century

Whcih means glases are well within Tamriel's ability, though corecting myopia is proably stretching things a bit.

» Sun Jun 20, 2010 12:34 am

I'd have thought it would be within the reach of the Dwemer. Although whether that makes it established considering their rarity, is a different question.

» Sun Jun 20, 2010 2:17 am

probaly pretty good eye surgeons in tes, so they don't need glasses

» Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:02 am

I'd imagine eyeglasses would be something the Dwemer would have had, judging by their other technology.

» Sun Jun 20, 2010 2:58 am

I'd imagine eyeglasses would be something the Dwemer would have had, judging by their other technology.

How does steam technology relate to glasses?

» Sat Jun 19, 2010 4:36 pm

How does steam technology relate to glasses?

I'd think that, if anything, steam technology would inhibit the creation of glasses. Fogs up the lenses, afterall.

» Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:24 pm

probaly pretty good eye surgeons in tes, so they don't need glasses

Restoration magic would do the trick, no doubt.

» Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:09 am

How does steam technology relate to glasses?

What about the great big telescopes some of the dwemer ruins have? Surely if they can build those, glasses wouldn't be out of their league.

» Sun Jun 20, 2010 4:00 am

Someone would probably just go to the temple for a priest or to one of the mages guild and "see" if they can get their eyes fixed.

» Sat Jun 19, 2010 4:30 pm

if you can use magic to see in the dark and breath then I'm sure they can use it to see if they have eye problems.

» Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:02 pm

What about the great big telescopes some of the dwemer ruins have? Surely if they can build those, glasses wouldn't be out of their league.

:meh:

» Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:27 pm

if you can use magic to see in the dark and breath then I'm sure they can use it to see if they have eye problems.

Which would kick glasses in the nads.

» Sun Jun 20, 2010 4:34 am

water breathing and nigh-eye are temporary effects, glasses provide a permanent (at least until your vision worsens again <_< ) solution to the problem.

» Sun Jun 20, 2010 12:11 am

And way more convenient than learning restoration magic or having a healer/pile of scrolls around. Ilussion might be able to do something too - as it's about changing perception maybe in can provide some vision enhancement.

» Sat Jun 19, 2010 4:10 pm

I don't want there to be glasses. It's too modern for TES.

» Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:33 pm

Yeah right. You must not know how long glasses have been in existence.

Glasses themselves ain't that advanced....they're (can be) literally pieces of glass...

And Albides did say that there is a monocle in Redguard, which takes place in 2E

» Sun Jun 20, 2010 4:36 am

Well, yeah, it takes place in the Second Era, but it's so late that it might as well be the start of the Third Era, making it only a little over 400 years before Oblivion. Just saying.

Besides, a whole lot of what governs the level of technology we see in TES is the http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool; monocles are cooler than normal glasses (sometimes); therefore, the percentage of monocle appearances will be much greater than the percentage of normal glasses appearances, even if those glasses are era-accurate, simple spectacles.

» Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:03 pm

edit: Crap, double posted... sum'[censored]...

» Sun Jun 20, 2010 4:25 am

Eh, I suppose.

Though I personally would have found pince-nez Morpheus-esque glasses a bit cooler than monocles.

But whatever. I'm a [censored]. I'm sure I represent a very miniscule minority