TES Unit of Weight

Post » Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:24 pm

I imagine this question must have come up before over the years, and likely even has an official answer. Still, Google turned up nothing for me:

What do you call the unit of weight used in Tamriel/The Elder Scrolls games? In my mind, I say "pounds" because I'm American, "feathers" because of the icon (at least in Oblivion), or "stones" because it sounds old-timey British ("kilograms" sounds new and modern, so that's out). And every time I do, I doubt myself. Inquiring mes want to know.
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Post » Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:19 pm

I imagine this question must have come up before over the years, and likely even has an official answer. Still, Google turned up nothing for me:

What do you call the unit of weight used in Tamriel/The Elder Scrolls games? In my mind, I say "pounds" because I'm American, "feathers" because of the icon (at least in Oblivion), or "stones" because it sound old-timey British ("kilograms" sounds new and modern, so that's out). And every time I do, I doubt myself. Inquiring mes want to know.

Some thing was mentioned in the book about Orcs, called, The Pig Children
...Orcs are thankfully easy to recognize from other humanoids by their size -- commonly forty pertans in height and fifteen thousand angaids in weight -- ...

Angaids seems to be weight, and pertans in height. ALthough I have no idea what these translate too.
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Post » Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:46 pm

Some thing was mentioned in the book about Orcs, called, The Pig Children

Angaids seems to be weight, and pertans in height. ALthough I have no idea what these translate too.


That's certainly closer to an answer than I could come up with, though it seems doubtful that the body weight of even an orc is 93 *times* greater than a full set of Daedric armor.
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Post » Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:58 pm

That's certainly closer to an answer than I could come up with, though it seems doubtful that body the weight of even an orc is 93 *times* greater than a full set of Daedric armor.

Hmmm.... True. I don't know if there is any dialogue in game that hints at what it is. It may just remain a mystery.
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Post » Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:35 am

I'm not sure if this counts as canon, but in Arena and Daggerfall, kilograms were the system of weight, in the character creation I noticed it said: "Carry Weight: ___ Kilos."
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