Well very basic question, does anyone have a good knowledge of what each race has as a fighting style and what they call it. I know the Khajiit do, they have a couple actually but I can't remember what there called. But if there's anyone that can help me with this, all I want are like names and what kind of real world martial art it's based in.

Here are some sword ones:

Zero Sum Interrupt.

Havoc Canol.

Tempest Attrition

And last and certainly not least, the Pankratosword.

I will say that these are either styles or techniques. I'm sure that most of them are styles except for the Pankratosword.

The Dissident Priest practice the unarmed, unarmored martial arts traditions of the Marshmerrow, Salt Rice, and Golden Reed patterned on the 'Rain-of-Sand' fighting styles from Elsewyre.

The Khajiit have Goutfang, Whispering Claw, and Rawlith Khaj.

The Redguards have Shehai, or "The Way of the Spirit Sword".

It's nitpicky, I know, but that's more of a way of living to me rather than a style; compare to Bushido.

While the text that I got those styles from didn't explicitly state where the styles originated, I bank on the Ra Gada creating them, especially the Pankratosword.

Cool :hehe: any others?

Hack-n-Slash.

Just about every adventurer.

I think we've had most of them now. The Monks from Morrowind, the Khajiit and Redgaurd are the only people who have some form of martial arts in the traditional sense. The Nord have their Thu'um but that's more magic then martial.

I thought I heard about some Dunmer styles. Perhaps that's just a result for desperate hoping...

The Prayers of Baranat list at least two named fighting styles; a Khajiit style called Goutfang and a Redguard style called the Cycle of Blood.

Given that the Cycle of Blood and Pankratosword are both said to be unstoppable and uncounterable, I would suspect that the Redguards tend to exaggerate somewhat.

Excluding the Pankratosword, which I understand to be what destroyed Yokuda.

Think it's safe to say that atom cutting is unstoppable. But of course I'm just guessing...

Perhaps, but the Redguards (excluding the occasional hero-type) haven't been portrayed much as being unstoppable, or else they'd still be independent. And the fact that we don't know if Yokuda was destroyed by a nuclear explosion, or by the destruction or depowering of Oricalc Tower.

I quote:



If that isn't an explicit enough revelation, then someone needs to retell me how to read the lore. And text in general for that matter. Because I've apparently been doing it wrong...

I'm well aware of that, but at the same time, it could have always simply destroyed the stone that powered Oricalc Tower (of course, that'd still make it pretty powerful). At the same time, if they believed in nuclear reactions, that would suggest that Magnus and the stars are actually big burning balls of plasma.

We don't know. We always don't know.

To CP: What text gives you this idea?

Well, http://www.imperial-library.info/obscure_text/cosmology.shtmldoes not support the idea that nuclear reactions are what powers Magnus and the stars, or that there is any study of nuclear fusion or fission. Whether or not its actually true, it seems to be the established view in Tamriel.

Aside from that, there have been discussions on this forum about how Yokuda was exactly destroyed, and one of the possibilities, and seemingly the most feasible given one to explain the sinking of an entire continent (given that the USA has nuked small islands and didn't sink them), would be the destruction (or depowering) of Oricalc Tower.

Perhaps the Pankratosword technique/style destroyed/nullified Orichalc.

Makes sense to me.

[censored], you said that. Nevermind that.

For the Bladesmen: Hack 'n slash.

For the bluntskulls: Thwack 'n thrash.

For the mages: Zap 'n flash.

For the thieves: Grab 'n dash.

For the cloak 'n daggers: Slit 'n gash.

From http://www.imperial-library.info/obscure_text/viveccyrus.shtml:


I don't think that the "atomos" should be read as being the atoms of our world. It's just a word with another meaning, metaphor for something that cannot be cut. Or rather, "cutting the atomos" is the metaphor for doing so. Therefore, as it has nothing to do with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom we can also leave out the idea of it causing a "nuclear reaction".

When they "cut the atomos" they did something undoable, perhaps messing with (or messing up) the Earthbones. It has been done before, hasn't it? Just without the same grave consequences.

There are as many Nuclear reactions as there are Terminator robots in Tamriel, which is to say yes but conceptually.

The to cut the atmos is to cut the inseparable. The Marakuthi Selective tried to cut Akatosh from Auri-El and that didn't really work out because they are one and the same. It threw Cyrodiil into a Dragon Broke for 1008 years. The spore dream has a foot note that describes what seems to be the same event, where people are vaporizing by proximity.

Chaos and destruction from high up a tower. http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/sites/Images/Trinity_Site.jpg.

Then you have the fanatic Yokudans with their stone magic blowing up whole Islands.

http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/images/ae42.jpg.

It isn't the same, but the imagery is.

Cutting a single atom does not destroy a continent. It's impossible. You can say that it's fantasy, but this course of overly-literal, faux logic precludes that excuse.

Atomos simply means 'uncuttable.' Since we are apparently so helpless and ignorant, and "can't be sure," the connection of this to a nuclear holocaust is far too tenuous to comtemplate. You can't have it both ways.

The association from Cutting the atomos to the destruction of Yokuda, to the Stone Magic of the Ansei that did it, to the towers and to the Marakhuti who danced one trying to cut Akatosh from Auri-El, to the destruction they caused works.

It goes even further with the Numidium another tower that covered a part of Rimmen in glowrock and was later on used to batter a highly organized and dedicated opponent into submission.

The nuclear explosions are there for the imagery. Not because that is what happened because that is what evaporation by radial madness would look like. It is much more then that but the Aurbis runs on concepts and there is no better concept for total destruction then Nuclear Holocaust.

I don't know really, impact events can exceed that by tremendous magnitude.

Fine fine. Total destruction in a limited area. If you want to destroy the whole world, we're talking about Land Fall. :meh: